Plano City Council meets at 7 p.m. Feb. 28 and March 14. Meetings are held at 1520 K Ave., Plano, and can be streamed online. 972-941-7000 • www.plano.gov Plano ISD board of trustees meets at 6 p.m. March 1 at the PISD Administration Center, 2700 W. 15th St., Plano. 469-752-8100 • www.pisd.edu MEETINGSWE COVER NUMBER TOKNOW Hill said. The increase from the previously reported $188 million is due to changes in estimated tax collection, state revenue and student attendance. $213M CITY HIGHLIGHTS payment for the 2021-22 school year, Chief Financial Officer Johnny PLANO City Council voted Jan. 24 to continue the city’s curfew for at least three more years. The curfew only applies to unsupervised minors between the ages of 10 and 17 in public spaces. It starts at 11 p.m. Sundays to Thursdays and at 12:01 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays and runs until 6 a.m. each day. That will be Plano ISD’s recapture
Report forecasts gradual enrollment rebound for district
BY WILLIAM C. WADSACK
bounce back as much as we thought,” consultant Rocky Gardner from Zonda Demographics said. “[PISD] declined by about 800 students [this year]. We really expected it to come back a little stronger than that, [and] we’re not sure exactly where some of these students are now.” Gardner said the lack of available homes at affordable price points was a factor in the projected future decreases of expected students. “We are projecting [enrollment] to continue to bounce back gradually,” Gardner said.
ENROLLMENT FORECAST
PLANO ISD Following a student decline of nearly 5% between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years, a demography report presented to the Plano ISD board of trustees Feb. 8 shows the district’s enrollment figures are expected to decrease by around 1% per year through 2027-28. After that, the report predicts min- imal decreases of enrollment each year until 2031-32, when the district is expected to see a 0.3% increase. “We expected a pretty good bounce back [this year, but] we did not
Plano ISD’s enrollment is forecast to decline for the next several years.
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*PROJECTION SOURCES: PLANO ISD, ZONDA DEMOGRAPHICS/ COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
Medical City Plano to seek zoning changes for renovationwork
BY ERICK PIRAYESH
modifications to their campus at the northeast corner of Coit Road andWest 15th Street.” The commission agreed to set a future public hearing to consider the zoning request. According to city staff, the hearing will likely be held in the next fewmonths. City documents show renovations would include additional building height, more patient rooms, added garage space, relocated helipads and more.
PLANO Medical City Plano intends to file a zoning request with the Plano Planning Department with the goal of adding more patient rooms and garage space to its hospital campus. According to a letter from hospital representatives prese- nted at the Feb. 7 Plano Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, the zoning change request is to allow “needed
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