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Plano, Texas, Wants to Spruce Up Avenue by Banning Light Industry.

By Lee Powell, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 15--PLANO, Texas-The city wants to give a stretch of Avenue K a makeover - on the zoning map, anyway.

City planners hope to make the street a more attractive entrance into downtown by limiting the types of businesses allowed in a corridor along the road from the Bush Turnpike to the DART-owned Cotton Belt Railroad line. Changes could take effect in a few months.

Light industrial uses - warehouses and truck sales, for example - would no longer be allowed. A switch

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