FRISCO, Texas, Aug. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --Dallas-based Snell Motor Companies was recently awarded the Jaguar Frisco franchise to add to their existing Land Rover Frisco dealership in Frisco, Texas. The addition makes it the second dual-brand location for Snell Motor Companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with their Jaguar Land Rover Dallas dealership 20 miles south of Frisco. "This is an extraordinary milestone for the luxury automotive sector in Frisco," stated Mike Mykeloff, General Manager of Jaguar Land Rover Frisco. "The addition of the Jaguar brand to our existing Land Rover franchise will allow Jaguar Land Rover Frisco to offer this rapidly growing community our elite fleet of vehicles while delivering the superior customer experience our patrons have come to expect," continued Mykeloff. The Jaguar brand has received many accolades over the last year, including the Jaguar F-PACE being deemed World Car of the Year and Jaguar being designated as one of the fastest growing automotive brands in 2017. "We couldn't have received this brand at a better time. The New Generation of Jaguar has completely revolutionized the Jaguar line-up. With the additions of the Jaguar XE, award-winning F-PACE and the highly anticipated electric Jaguar I-PACE, we are poised for instant growth at Jaguar Land Rover Frisco and are confident the brand will continue its radical progression," stated Mykeloff. While sales at Jaguar Land Rover Frisco are expected to grow, management is also committed to its continued philanthropic and civic efforts that support the Frisco community.Jaguar Land Rover Frisco is an active contributor to Frisco and Collin County communities through partnerships with nonprofit organizations such as Frisco Family Services, ManeGait Therapeutic Horsemanship, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of North Texas, The Family Place, Frisco Association for the Arts, and many others dedicated to arts, family and education. As a proud member of the Frisco Chamber of Commerce, Jaguar Land Rover Frisco participates year-round in their hosted events. Jaguar Land Rover Frisco is a leader among Jaguar Land Rover North America earning the coveted Pinnacle Award for outstanding sales and service. The dealership will officially offer Jaguar vehicles on August 14, 2017. Jaguar Land Rover Frisco will undergo a major renovation including a state-of-the-art facility with 38 service bays, a 14-vehicle showroom, expanded customer services and is expected to be completed in mid-2018. Currently, Jaguar Land Rover Frisco employs 54 team members and will create additional jobs as the brand expands. Jaguar Land Rover Frisco is located at: 5935 Preston Road and store information can be found at JaguarFrisco.com About Snell Motor Companies Snell Motor Companies is comprised of Land Rover Austin, Land Rover Dallas, Land Rover Frisco, Jaguar Austin , Jaguar Dallas , Jaguar Frisco, Snell Select Pre-Owned and Snell Collision Centre. Family owned and operated, the Snell family began serving the Dallas community in 1973 with Snell Buick. They were one of the first and continue to be one of the largest Land Rover dealerships in North America. Between Land Rover Austin, Land Rover Dallas and Land Rover Frisco , they have earned more than 17 Pinnacle Awards and countless accolades for sales and a commitment to excellence in customer service.

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Erin Patchell checks out a new light fixture in her Heights home with her sister, Holly Fedora on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Erin Patchell checks out a new light fixture in her Heights home with her sister, Holly Fedora on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Erin Patchell holds up a new light fixture in her Heights home as she seeks advice from her sister, Holly Fedora on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Erin Patchell holds up a new light fixture in her Heights home as she seeks advice from her sister, Holly Fedora on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Mark VanDoren, owner of APD Design, has designed homes and additions int he Heights area for 25 years

Mark VanDoren, owner of APD Design, has designed homes and additions int he Heights area for 25 years

Mark VanDoren, owner of APD Design, has designed homes and additions int he Heights area for 25 years

Mark VanDoren, owner of APD Design, has designed homes and additions int he Heights area for 25 years

A home on Arlington listing that it has been historically renovated in the Historic Heights neighborhood on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

A home on Arlington listing that it has been historically renovated in the Historic Heights neighborhood on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Home on Arlington and 11th Street that needed approval for renovation in the Historic Heights neighborhood on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Home on Arlington and 11th Street that needed approval for renovation in the Historic Heights neighborhood on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Erin Patchell holds up a new light fixture in her Heights home as she seeks advice from her sister, Holly Fedora on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Erin Patchell holds up a new light fixture in her Heights home as she seeks advice from her sister, Holly Fedora on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Erin Patchell holds up a new light fixture in her Heights home as she seeks advice from her sister, Holly Fedora on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Erin Patchell holds up a new light fixture in her Heights home as she seeks advice from her sister, Holly Fedora on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )

Erin Patchell holds up a new light fixture in her Heights home as she seeks advice from her sister.

Erin Patchell holds up a new light fixture in her Heights home as she seeks advice from her sister.

Part of the motivation for the city's set of design guidelines and approval process is to keep larger homes from overwhelming smaller ones with different aesthetic features in the historic Heights.

Part of the motivation for the city's set of design guidelines and approval process is to keep larger homes from overwhelming smaller ones with different aesthetic features in the historic Heights.

Proposed Heights guidelines would restrict renovation, new construction

Tina Nelkin's friends urged her to get a home security system when she moved to the Houston Heights 30 years ago. The neighborhood, she says, was notable for sagging front porches on tiny old wooden homes with broken refrigerators and furniture strewn in overgrown front yards.

"It was like going to grandma's house," Nelkin recalled Monday. "That's what people move to the Heights for."

It's since become a sought-after inner-city neighborhood where home prices average about a half-million dollars. Most of the original small homes, most of them built around the turn of the century, were buried beneath super-sized additions or demolished and replaced. The activity drew the attention of city planners who designated the region a historic district and waged a yearslong struggle to regulate how homeowners there could alter their historic homes.

"You can't do anything here without a permit," Nelkin said. "And we love that."

Now, for the first time, the city is preparing to publish a 225-page set of guidelines for building and modifying homes in the historic Heights, listing in explicit detail what can and cannot, should and should not be done. Until now, officials say, the process for permit approval has been subjective and reliant on substantial guesswork.

"If you are altering or building something new, these are the criteria you must meet to do that," said Margaret Wallace Brown, deputy director of the city planning department. "It will eliminate the guesswork that everybody has been operating under for the past several years."

A final public meeting will be held Sept. 28 at the United Way Building on Waugh, and the draft of the new guidelines then will be sent to City Council.

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If approved, the new guidelines would specify regulations on the size, height and footprint of additions to the historic buildings, as well as detailed stylistic guidance on everything from window frames and doors and siding, chimneys and porches.

Some disillusioned by efforts

The document represents a major change in Houston's uneven push for historic preservation. Since the passage of Houston's original preservation ordinance in 1995, planners have worked to strengthen the rules and provide means of enforcement to prevent alteration of particular buildings.

The Heights would become by far the largest historic district brought under neighborhood-specific design guidelines. While the city considers it a major achievement, some designers and builders fear the rules infringe on property rights and could stifle development.

"How can we have this kind of control over someone's property rights? This is Texas," said Mark VanDoren, owner of Heights-based APD Design. "You don't tell us what to do with our property in Texas."

VanDoren has watched the preservation effort unfold for more than 25 years, as he designed new and remodeled homes in the Heights. Initially he took part in a citizens' land-use committee to protest construction of tall townhomes rising amid the squat bungalows.

Yet he grew disillusioned by the preservation effort by what he saw as politics and power play.

"Things have gotten way out of hand," he said. "They're going to make it more and more restrictive."

Any modifications to historic structures in the historic district currently require city approval and a "certificate of appropriateness."

Erin Patchell has confronted some of those restrictions. Two years ago, she and her husband bought a lot with two structures on it at 12th and Arlington. They drew up plans to adjoin the two structures, but the city historical commission denied them. The commission didn't like their use of brick siding, the planned height of the addition and the shape of the roof line, Patchell said. Months later, their amended plan was approved, but only after a tie-breaker vote.

"While I support historic preservation, I will never go through this process again," she said. "And this is before the new guidelines."

Her plan would not be approved under the proposed new guidelines, she said. She worried that the burdensome restrictions would discourage anyone from buying historic properties, leaving them to decay.

'Borderline insane'

Such experiences aren't particularly rare. Rob Hellyer, presidents of Heights-based Premier Remodeling and a member of the city historical commission, said he's seen homeowners brought to tears at commission meetings, frustrated by the slow and seemingly fickle process for design approval.

He said that "absolutely" the guidelines are needed.

"There just aren't real clear guidelines right now. A lot of it is based on subjective judgment," he said.

City approval in the district is required for replacing doors, windows, siding or any historical materials, adding new rooms, carports or awnings and any new construction. The new rules specify size and height restrictions for any add-ons.

That's a point that VanDoren fears could hurt development in the area, making additions not worth the investment. In one recent project, he said, a homeowner wanted a 1,000-square-foot addition to a $459,000 house. Restrictions allowed him to increase the size by only 40 percent to the home footprint. He bid that work out for $248,000, far more than the value the addition would add to the house.

So instead, VanDoren fast-tracked a much larger second-story addition, knowing it would be prohibited by the time the new guidelines passed.

Under the guidelines, he fears that additions will become cost-prohibitive for the smaller bungalows, which will be left to decay beside $1.5 million homes.

"What the city is doing is borderline insane," he said.

The Houston Heights Association said it had no opinion on the design guidelines.

'You have to protect it'

For others, the guidelines represent progress in Houston, which has a notoriously poor record on preservation. This city adopted its first preservation 32 years after Los Angeles did so, said David Bush, acting executive director of Preservation Houston.

He said the new Heights guidelines bring Houston one step closer to the standard practices in big U.S. cities.

He called the restrictions necessary to maintain a unique character, preventing historic neighborhoods from becoming strip malls.

"You can always build new," he said. "You can't build old. You have to protect it."

The Heights posed a particular challenge in crafting cohesive design guidelines, though, because the neighborhood grew in several phases, with large homes for wealthy people in the early days, followed by smaller bungalows as the area grew less affluent.

The city plans next to develop similar development documents for seven more historic districts: Woodland Heights, updates to the Old Sixth Ward, Norhill, Market Square, Freeland and Glennbrook Valley.

"You shouldn't just take a special place and turn it into Anywhere, USA," Nori Minster, who owns a home on Harvard Street, said. "Sometimes I worry."

Correction: This article has been update to note David Bush's title with Preservation Houston is acting executive director.

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Walking the halls of Poquoson Middle School was a trip down memory lane for many of the people who toured the building after a joint meeting between the School Board and City Council Tuesday night.

They had walked these halls as preteens or teenagers some when the building was still the high school.

City Attorney D. Wayne Moore pointed out the old band room and a space under the current music room risers that once contained locker room showers. He drew laughs when he said he drove the school bus in high school, making a handsome wage for a teenager in the late 1950s.

Despite the light feel around the tour, its subject was a pending decision that Mayor Gene Hunt said would shape the citys education for a generation. It might be the most important work that we as School Board members have ever accomplished on our term, added School Board Chair Steven Kast.

At Tuesdays meeting, the council and the board reopened discussions of school consolidation, going over the enrollment decline the schools have faced for years, the shrinking of state funding and some infrastructure challenges in the school buildings.

Hunt implored the council and the board to approach the consolidation discussions with an open mind. He said the primary driver of any decision should be doing whats best for students, adding that any money saved by consolidating would stay in the schools.

Since 2006, Poquoson school enrollment has dropped by 522 students. The enrollment in fall 2016 was 2,080, leaving the school 649 students short of its functional capacity. Superintendent Jennifer Parish noted that the enrollment and capacity gap is distributed across the citys four schools.

She also went over declining state funding and the city having to meet the schools funding gaps, increasing its contribution year to year. Kast said the state does not provide money for capital projects, leaving the burden of construction on the city.

In 2012, a consolidation committee appointed by the School Board decided against closing any of the citys four schools but said the city and schools should revisit the discussion in 2016 if enrollment decline continued. The committee said Poquoson Primary School made the most sense to close because it could be used for other purposes for some financial gain and made for the easiest instructional transition.

Parish outlined a 2012 facility study by school staff and a contractor that offered several possibilities for the middle school, ranging from fixing it up to demolishing it and building a new one.

The contractor listed the architectural and mechanical work the building needed. The contractor found the school had undergone 11 phases of work, leading to some disjointed operating systems, like running about a dozen different HVAC systems. The contractor said despite renovations and additions, much of the building was out of date, adding that the schools out-of-date systems were grandfathered due to age and were not up to current code.

Steve Pappas, the schools executive operations director, led the tour of the middle school, highlighting signs of age and patchwork repairs.

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School Board, City Council and school division and city staff members look over an out dated music room during a tour of Poquoson Middle School on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. Poquoson Middle is the oldest school in the city and is being considered for closing the school because of declining enrollment, down by about 500 in 10 year.

School Board, City Council and school division and city staff members look over an out dated music room during a tour of Poquoson Middle School on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. Poquoson Middle is the oldest school in the city and is being considered for closing the school because of declining enrollment, down by about 500 in 10 year. ((Aileen Devlin/Daily Press) /)

In the auditorium, he stood by a pillar that was warped from moisture with paint bearing scars of water damage. He took the group upstairs to one of the biggest rooms in the school what Moore said was the old band room and said the room only had two electric outlets. Lack of connectivity in some places inhibits the use of new technology in classes, Parish said.

Down the hall, Pappas pointed out a window to the other second floor across the roof the two upstairs wings arent connected, but were different additions made over the years. And even though there are two second floors, the building has no elevators.

In one utility room of pipes and electrical panels, Pappas showed a line about four cinder blocks tall the high water mark from Hurricane Isabel. Some electrical panels in the room were lower than the water line. In an outdoor utility room, Pappas invited the group to look up at a gash in the roof through which you could clearly see the sky.

He pointed out a computer lab as one of the lowest rooms in building. He said they stack all the equipment any time a big storm is expected. The room was also cooled by a window air conditioning unit, a sign of the disparate HVAC systems.

The shop class area showed a different sort of HVAC a piece of machinery hanging from the ceiling that looked like some antique car part. Pappas said hot water runs through it, and a fan blows out the heated air.

Toward the end of the tour, as if on cue, a leak sprung as Pappas passed through a first-floor doorway.

Kast said the School Board hopes to make a consolidation recommendation to the City Council in November. Hunt said he hopes the council can make a final decision in December.

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Three Baldwin County schools have new additions that officially opened Monday, August 14, 2017. The additions add 38 new classroom and eliminate several portables from each campus. These are the first completed projects from the school systems pay-as-you-go capital improvements plan.

Elberta Elementary, Elsanor School and Baldwin County Middle School will start a new school year with a huge facelift. Each school has brand new additions to welcome students next week. Most broke ground last October, the first of a list of projects in phase one of Baldwin County Schools pay-as-you-go plan.

Right now, youve got five schools identified, the three we just identified and Fairhope High School with 20 classrooms and Perdido with an additional 16 classrooms, explained Baldwin County Schools superintendent, Eddie Tyler.

Fairhope and Perdido additions will be completed later in the school year. Those that are moving in by the start of school are grateful and excited for what the new wings will offer to both teachers and students.

The excitement here is justwere exploding, said Elberta Elementary principal, Jenny Breazeale. To have a pre-K through sixth school for this community is going to be such a blessing because a pre-K through sixth school truly is a community school.

The addition of 10 classrooms at Elsanor School was long overdue. Kayla Buchanan teaches second grade and was putting finishing touches on her classroom Monday. She moved from a small room in the historic schoolhouse to a brand new classroom and says she cant wait to welcome the kids.

The younger kids are just so excited, Buchanan said. These kids deserve the best and so Im just so excited for everything to be new and clean and just more exciting that it normally would.

Central Baldwin Middle School got 14 new classrooms. The wing will be the new home for the eighth grade class. Principal, Phillip Fountain said theyve been looking forward to this day since they broke ground 10 months ago.

Theyre going to spend a lot of their time every day right here in this wing and quite frankly, its beautiful, Fountain said. Whats not to like about it? When you have things that are nice, brand new, the anticipationthe excitementit really builds.

The total budget for improvements to five schools in phase one of capital improvements is almost $16 million dollars.

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Residents encounter different pests as the weather cools. Multicolored Asian lady beetles and brown marmorated stink bugs begin to find their way indoors. Large numbers of the pests can be found congregating on and around windows and doors, then stay throughout the winter. Rodents and spiders are also found in homes trying to escape cold winter weather. Spiders annoy homeowners when they build webs in crawl spaces, attics, and basements, while rodents are known to contaminate food stores, damage electrical wiring, and transmit various diseases.

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The 518 is full of amazing athletes with great stories. From the middle schools to High Schools to the Colleges and even Rec leagues, people are playing great and doing good in the community. Thanks to our friends at Catseye Pest Control we get to take a few minutes each week to celebrate these athletes and recognize them on the show.

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She is 20 years old and only 5ft tall and shes the Canadien weightlifting Champion and she lives her now and two weeks ago she won the American Open in Orlando. Her dream is to compete in the 2020 Olympics and her coach thinks she definately will. She bakes cupcakes to support her funding for the competitions and they are sooooo delicious! Please look her up on FB. Look for Jessica Jean and look her up on Instagram. She posts lifting videos and pictures. Look for Jessica_lifts. Youll be amazed!!! She really does need exposure so hopefully she can come in and tell you her story. Shes very humble. She was born in St. Lucia. Thank you so much and I promise youll be blown away by her and her heart warming story of what shes been through to get to this point. Thank you so much, Mike Corazzini

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Jessica Haywood shelled out plenty of her hard-earned money to open Cotton Candy Kids Boutique in downtown Gastonia in May.

Now, shes one of two new business owners asking the city for help through a program aimed at fostering and strengthening downtown commerce.

Gastonias IDEAL program was founded in 2009 and stands for Investment in Downtown Economic Assistance and Livability. It allows for the distribution of grants to businesses that have paid for building improvements, facade upgrades or architectural services in the course of opening or improving an existing commercial venture.

All funds for the grants come from a municipal service district tax paid solely by downtown property owners. No property tax revenue is involved.

In terms of a financial commitment, the IDEAL program isnt what it once was. For the current budget year, City Council members reserved only $45,749 for qualifying applicants. Thats far below what the city was pumping into the initiative during the first few years of its inception.

But it continues to be a resource that can be tapped to provide a little extra monetary cushion for entrepreneurs on and around Main Avenue.

Members of the Central City Revitalization and Housing Committee endorsed the two latest proposals during a meeting Wednesday. They recommended giving $648 to Cotton Candy Kids Boutique for faade improvements made to the building at 111. E. Main Ave.

Committee members also recommended awarding $11,130 in faade upfit funds and $1,500 for an architectural services grant to Greg Simpson, the owner of Guilty Pleasures Bakery and Catering. He recently moved his nine-year-old business from Garrison Boulevard to its new location at 201 E. Franklin Blvd.

Simpson actually requested a total of $30,500 in IDEAL grant funding to help pay for a portion of what he spent improving the building at his new location. Haywood herself turned in receipts showing she spent $1,300 to put up a new sign and repaint her storefront.

But the city determines eligibility in part by calculating the square footage of the space being leased by the business, among other factors. The amounts recommended by the Central City committee represent the maximums the two businesses were capable of receiving.

City Council members will consider the recommendation later this month.

The city most recently awarded $32,000 in IDEAL grants late last year for Sleepy Poet Antique Mall, Cavendish Brewing Co., and the owner of the Merit Building on Main Avenue. Since 2009, the city has paid out a total of nearly $189,000 for the grants to 33 businesses, some of which have since closed.

Cotton Candy Kids Boutique offers new childrens clothes, toys and jewelry, along with gently-used secondhand clothing in quality condition. Haywood signed a three-year lease on her building this year.

Guilty Pleasures is a full-service caterer and bakery that has expanded to include a larger tasting area, kitchen and retail space. It also now offers pre-cooked, take-home frozen meals.

You can reach Michael Barrett at 704-869-1826 or on Twitter @GazetteMike.

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United announced it will join Alaska Air in operating passenger service from Paine Field in Everett.

United Airlines plans to begin commercial passenger service from Paine Field airport in Everett in fall 2018 with six daily flights to its hubs in Denver and San Francisco, the airline is announcing Thursday.

United follows Alaska Air Group in committing to scheduled flights out of the Snohomish County airport, ensuring that the planned passenger terminal will operate almost at full capacity as soon as it opens next year.

The airport will offer air travelers north of Seattle an alternative to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport when flying to some popular Western U.S. destinations.

Dave Hilfman, Uniteds senior vice president of worldwide sales, said in a statement that North Seattle and northwest Washington area travelers will now have easy access to our hubs in Denver and San Francisco and to opportunities to connect to business centers around the world.

Snohomish County Executive Dave Somers welcomed the prospect of daily connections to Uniteds hubs with international service.

United offers connecting flights to about 120 destinations from those two cities.

In May, Alaska Air Group said it will begin passenger service, also in fall 2018, with tickets going on sale early next year for nine daily departures to destinations along the West Coast from Oregon to California.

The planned services by Alaska and United combined should almost fully occupy the two airport gates planned at the new terminal.

Propeller Airports, which is owned by New York-based private equity firm Propeller Investments, is developing and will operate the terminal, which had its groundbreaking in June.

With typical turn times, the terminals two gates mean a peak capacity of roughly 16 passenger flights per day, or 32 takeoffs and landings.

As far as capacity goes we are getting pretty close, said Propeller Chief Executive Brett Smith. Our focus is now entirely on getting the terminal built and open.

Paine Field, named in honor of hometown hero Topliff Olin Paine, an Army Air Corps pilot during World War I, was constructed during the Great Depression to create jobs and economic growth in the region by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1936, eight years before Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

In 1939, United operated the first commercial airplane flight out of the airport, a courtesy flight carrying Snohomish County commissioners and members of the media.

In those early days, Boeing Field in Seattle was the main regional airport.

Paine Field initially served as an alternate landing site on days when weather prevented commercial flights from landing in Seattle, as well as a hub for small private airplanes.

After Boeing in 1966 chose Paine Field as the location for building its first widebody airplane, the 747 jumbo jet, the site became a major center of Boeing production and today produces the 747, 767, 777, and 787 jets.

According to data provided by Paine Field, airport traffic in 2016 included an average of 7.6 takeoffs or landings per day by newly rolled out Boeing aircraft or by the Dreamlifter jets that bring in large pieces of the 787 Dreamliner.

Last year, the airport also saw an average of three takeoffs or landings per day by other big jets, mostly those undergoing maintenance at the ATS aircraft repair and modification facility.

However, 96 percent of the flight operations out of Paine Field today are by small private aircraft.

Paine Field is known as a regional tourist attraction because its the site of Boeings widebody-jet plant tour, the Future of Flight exhibition center and two big collections of historic airplanes.

Bill Dolan, deputy director at the airport, said the arrival of passenger service will make the airport more widely known to travelers.

Citing noise and traffic concerns, nearby residents in the city of Mukilteo, which adjoins the Paine Field runway, long opposed commercial flights at the airfield.

However, local elected officials in Everett and Snohomish County and as well as officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) fully backed the project.

Mukilteo Mayor Jennifer Gregerson told the Seattle Times in May that Propeller has agreed to limit the number of commercial flights to a maximum of 22 per day and to restrict commercial air operations to the hours from 7 a.m. to 6p.m.

On Thursday, she conceded this was not the case there is no such agreement with Propeller. Instead, she said its the Snohomish County permitting process and environmental impact analysis that imposes limits on the hours of operation and number of flights.

However, the document Gregerson cited, the countys Mitigated Determination of Nonsignificance, does not impose such limits.

To assess the environmental impact, that document estimates the maximum number of daily passenger flights at 16 (or 32 take-offs and landings), based on the logistics of operating only two gates.

But that number is not a limit.

Deputy airport director Dolan said that Propeller would need further permission to construct additional gates, but if they instead worked out a way to have faster turnaround and higher throughput of airplanes at the initial two gates that would not trigger additional review unless it was deemed to add a substantial new negative impact.

In addition, nighttime flights are not prohibited.

Instead, the countys environmental review asks Propeller to seek voluntary agreements with the airlines using the airport to limit their nighttime flights (after 10:00 p.m.) to no more than four in any 24 hour period.

Information in this article, originally published on the morning of August 10, 2017 was corrected later that morning. A previous version of this story, using information provided by Mukilteo Mayor Jennifer Gregerson, incorrectly stated that Propeller had agreed to limit the number of flights and hours of operation at Paine Field.

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Deltone Moore, founder of Popcorn Monkey, says that the latest outpost of his family-owned, gourmet popcorn shop, opened in Manassas last month, is a homecoming. Moore noted that he long had an eye on owning a business in Manassas, but with the citys 95 percent commercial occupancy rate, it was a matter of waiting for the right space to become available. Eventually, he found what he wanted in 9407 Main Street, a corner building in the historic downtown district.

Moore said that a new location meant familiarizing himself with building codes for the City of Manassas, and finding the best way to display the shops colorful array of products in the older, narrow building.

The process to get a business started was incredibly swift. The city is efficient and just business friendly, said Moore, who added that his architects knowledge of local regulations was helpful too.

Sean Porter [of Loveless Porter Architects] knew what we had to do to get licensed and running. He was able to adjust design plans based on permitting to meet our target date of opening by First Friday. He stopped what he was doing, and got it done, said Moore. He noted that Porter also maximized the available space so that customers could see everything that the store has to offer.

Sean flipped my entire design, making it even more efficient than I imagined. That has a positive impact on customer experience and the bottom line, said Moore. Loveless Porter really listens to what you have to say. It was very easy working with Sean. He made what I envisioned come to life.

Being able to quickly see what is on the shelves is particularly important given Popcorn Monkeys ever-changing inventory, Moore explained. The popcorn is made fresh, with different flavors on rotation based on client suggestions and online voting. In addition to small-batch popcorn, the shelves are stocked with a colorful assortment of unusual soft drinks, candy and branded popcorn tins.

Moores daughter, Jewell Moore, manages the Manassas location. For store hours and the latest popcorn flavors, visit Facebook.com/popcornmonkeyllc.

Based in Manassas, Loveless Porter Architects, LLC has provided full architectural and engineering services throughout the DMV since 1975, maintaining a reputation based on thoroughness and responsiveness. Good design grounded in practical knowledge of construction and detailed construction documents are hallmarks of the firms work for a diverse array of clients, including government, breweries, retail, commercial, and institutional projects include medical facilities, churches, schools, and manufacturing facilities. Learn more at lovelessporterarchitects.com.

Quality, flavor and memories is what the Popcorn Monkey is all about. The family-owned company focuses on utilizing the finest ingredients and producing it one small batch at a time, offering freshly popped corn and rotating flavors. Learn more at popcornmonkeyllc.com.

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