Dallas Strip Clubs: Drilling Industry Reps Not Thrilled With Latest Dallas Task Force Recommendations
This week’s MasterPlan missives also address the drilling task force’s thorough discussion defining set-back distances from drill sites to structures that are not classified as protected uses, which fall under the 1,000-foot set-back requirements. But if they’re not protected uses, yet they house people for long periods of time throughout the day, what are they? Or how should they be classified?
That was the question that took up a significant portion of both of the last two meetings, delineating what constitutes a “habitable structure,” what uses should qualify for protection and where to draw the line. The group zeroed in on setting a minimum distance to protect structures that have certificates of occupancy. Turns out, people can occupy lots of things.
A structure that requires a certificate of occupancy could be an office building, a landfill, a rock crushing facility, a parking lot, a strip club or a cell phone tower — some, of course, are more commonly inhabited and consequently more worthy of protection, according to both Cothrum and several task force members.