Plano, Texas Plano, Texas City of Plano Flag of Plano, Texas Flag Official logo of Plano, Texas Location of Plano in Collin County, Texas Location of Plano in Collin County, Texas Location of Plano in the adjoining United States Plano (/ ple no / play-noh) is a town/city in the U.S.
The town/city of Plano is a part of the Dallas-Fort Worth urbane area.
The city's populace was 269,776 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth most crowded city in the state of Texas and the 70th most crowded in the United States. The town/city is an well-to-do core for many corporate headquarters, such as Alliance Data, Cinemark Theatres, Dell Services, Denbury Resources, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Ericsson, Frito-Lay, HP Enterprise Services, Huawei, J.
6.5 Fire Department (Plano Fire Department) 6.6 Police Department (Plano Police Department) See also: Timeline of Plano, Texas Plano, Texas in 1891.
European pioneer came to the region near present-day Plano in the early 1840s. Facilities such as a sawmill, a gristmill, and a store soon brought more citizens to the area.
A mail service was established, and after rejecting a several names for the nascent town (including naming it with respect to then-President Millard Fillmore), inhabitants suggested the name Plano (from the Spanish word for "flat"), as a reference to the small-town terrain.
In 1872, the culmination of the Houston and Central Texas Railway helped the town/city to grow, and it was incorporated in 1873. By 1874, the populace had grown to more than 500. In 1881, a fire raged through the company district, destroying most of the buildings. The town was rebuilt and company again flourished through the 1880s.
Also in 1881, the town/city assumed responsibility for what would eventually turn into Plano Independent School District (PISD), ending the days of it being served only by private schools. At first, the populace of Plano interval slowly, reaching 1,304 in 1900, and rising to 3,695 in 1960. By 1970, Plano began to feel some of the boom its neighbors had experienced after World War II.
In 1970, the populace reached 17,872, and by 1980, it had exploded to 72,000. Sewers, schools and street evolution kept pace with this massive increase, largely because of Plano's flat topography, grid layout and planning initiatives.
Plano is surrounded by other municipalities and therefore cannot grew in area, and there is little undeveloped territory remaining inside the town/city limits.
There was an epidemic of heroin abuse among young citizens in the 1990s. The Plano authorities created an anti-drug campaign with the name "Operation Rockfest". Area - Vibes ranked Plano at the top of the list of U.S.
Another chart, Best Places to Live in 2013, also has Plano ranked number 1.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Plano has a total region of 71.6 square miles (185.5 km2).
Plano Plano, Texas Plano is about 17 miles (27 km) from Downtown Dallas. Plano is in the humid subtropical climate zone.
As of the census of 2010, Plano had 259,841 citizens , 99,131 homeholds and 69,464 families, up from 80,875 homeholds and 60,575 families in the 2000 census.
Map of ethnic distribution in Plano, 2010 U.S.
As of 2009 Plano has a higher concentration of Asians, while easterly Plano has a higher concentration of Hispanics and Latinos. In 2007, Plano had the highest median income of a town/city with a populace exceeding 250,000 in the nation, at $84,492. As of 2010, Plano has a median income of $103,913 annually.
According to crime statistics, there were four homicides in Plano in 2006, the lowest homicide rate of all U.S.
Plano, along with Houston, has one of the state's two primary concentrations of Chinese Americans. The 2010 U.S.
Enumeration stated that there were 14,500 ethnic Chinese in Plano.
Out of the metros/cities with 250,000 and more residents, Plano has the sixth biggest percentage of ethnic Chinese, making up 5.2% of the city's population.
Charlie Yue, the executive vice president of the Association of Chinese Professionals, stated that he estimated that about 30,000 Plano inhabitants are Chinese and that many "don't participate in government activities, like the census." Chinese professionals began to settle Plano by 1991. As of 2011 the Chinese restaurants in DFW catering to ethnic Chinese are mainly in Plano and Richardson. Most of the DFW-area Chinese cultural organizations are headquartered in Plano and Richardson.
Plano has six Chinese churches. Rent-A-Center command posts office building in Plano, Texas The Shops at Willow Bend, Plano's upscale shopping mall According to the Plano 2011 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in Plano are: 9 Medical Center of Plano 1,750 10 Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano 1,670 Approximately 80% of Plano's visitors are company travelers, due to its close adjacency to Dallas and the many corporations headquartered in Plano.
Plano has made a concerted accomplishment to draw retail to its downtown region and the Shops at Legacy in an accomplishment to boost revenue tax returns.
Some of the country's biggest and most recognized companies have their command posts in Plano.
The following companies have command posts or primary county-wide offices in Plano: command posts will move from Torrance, California in the Los Angeles urbane region to Plano. In 2015, Liberty Mutual also announced their plans to build a new corporate ground just a several blocks east of Toyota, bringing an estimated 5,000 jobs to the community. In January 2016 JP Morgan Chase and mortgage enormous Fannie Mae announced they would be moving county-wide operations to Plano, bringing a combined 7,000 new jobs to the community. Although Plano is titled for the flat plains of the area, large trees abound in the city's many parks. One such tree, estimated to be over 500 years old, resides in Bob Woodruff park near Rowlett Creek on the city's east side The two chief Open Space Preserves, Bob Woodruff Park (321 acres) and Oak Point Park and Nature Preserve (801 acres), are connected by biking trails making the green space one large uninterrupted park space that is larger than Central Park in New York City (840 acres).
The Plano Master Plan has the acreage burgeoning to 4,092.63 when complete. The City of Plano also owns and operates three performing arts venues under the auspices of the Parks and Recreation Department.
See also: List of mayors of Plano, Texas Plano is governed by the council-manager form of government, with a part-time town/city council that sets town/city policy and a town/city manager who is responsible for town/city operations.
The Plano City Council consists of eight members propel by prominent on a nonpartisan basis in staggered odd-year elections every other May.
All council members, including the mayor, serve a maximum of two consecutive four-year terms. The mayor and town/city council members could serve for a maximum of three consecutive three-year terms until voters allowed shifts to the town/city charter in 2011. The 38th and current Mayor of Plano is businessman Harry La - Rosiliere, who was propel as the first black mayor of Plano in May 2013. Plano propel its first black city council member, David Perry, in 1990. The town/city of Plano is a voluntary member of the North Central Texas Council of Governments association, the purpose of which is to coordinate individual and collective small-town governments and facilitate county-wide solutions, eliminate unnecessary duplication, and enable joint decisions.
Plano is part of the North Texas Municipal Water District headquartered in Wylie, Texas.
Plano's Water Distribution System: Fire and EMS services are provided by the Plano Fire Department.
Dallas' wealthy northern suburbs are overwhelmingly conservative and Plano, the biggest of these suburbs, was ranked as the fifth most conservative town/city in the United States by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research in 2005. Cathie Adams, a long-time conservative activist and past chairwoman of the Republican Party of Texas is from Plano.
In 2014, Plano's City Council passed an expansion of the city's Equal Rights Policy that encompassed anti-discrimination for gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals. The ordinance drew the ire of conservative groups such as the Liberty Institute, which argued that the ordinance infringed on the theological rights of company owners. Many civil rights organizations also were not supportive, such as the Human Rights Campaign, which argued that the policy's exclusion of transgender individuals rendered the ordinance not worth defending. Plano is split between the 66th and 67th Districts in the Texas House of Representatives, and is wholly contained in Texas Senate District 8.
Republican Congressman Sam Johnson has represented Texas's 3rd congressional precinct since 1991 (although Plano has only been in the precinct since 2003).
Plano is represented in the United States Senate by Republicans Ted Cruz and John Cornyn Fire Department (Plano Fire Department) The Plano Fire Department consists of 326 full-time firefighters who operate out of 13 stations.
Police Department (Plano Police Department) The Plano Police Department is an accredited agency and is the principal law enforcement agency serving the City of Plano, Texas.
Rushin, a former FBI agent, with over 34 years of law enforcement experience. The Plano Police Department has about 600 sworn officers and civilian employees. The department is a member of the North Texas Crime Commission and utilizes the Crime Stoppers program In 2010 and 2011, Forbes.com ranked Plano the "Safest City in America" for metros/cities with populations over 250,000. Plano is persistently recognized and awarded by the National Association of Town Watch (National Night Out Awards), the National Sheriff's Association, and the U.S.
There are 70 enhance schools, 16 private schools, two campuses of the Collin County Community College District (Collin College), and six libraries in Plano.
Plano West Senior High School The Plano Independent School District serves most of the city.
Plano has a unique high school system, in which grades 9-10 attend a high school and grades 11-12 attend a senior high. There are three senior high schools (grades 11-12) in PISD; Plano East, Plano, and Plano West. In Newsweek's 2012 list of best nationwide high schools, Plano West was ranked as 63rd, Plano Senior as 108th, and Plano East as 243rd. Small portions of Plano are served by the Lewisville Independent School District, Frisco Independent School District, and Allen Independent School District.
Plano schools graduate more of their students than comparable districts.
In 2010, 93% of Plano Independent Student District students graduated from high school, 18 percentage points more than Dallas ISD's rate. In 2012, Plano Independent School District announced that 128 seniors were chose as National Merit Semifinalists. Plano has given $1.2 billion in property tax revenue to other school districts through the Texas "Robin Hood" law, which requires school districts that are designated as well-to-do to give a percentage of their property tax revenue to other districts outside of the county. In 2008, PISD gave $86 million.
In the 2013 14 school year, Plano ISD has opened two 4-year high school Academies, one focusing on STEAM (STEM education plus Media Arts) and the other on community science.
Additionally, the precinct has modified its existing International Baccalaureate program to allow freshman and sophomores in the program to be homed at Plano East Senior High School. In addition to Catholic major and middle schools, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas operates John Paul II High School in Plano.
Non-Catholic private schools in Plano include Great Lakes Academy, Spring Creek Academy, Yorktown Education, and Prestonwood Christian Academy.
Entrance to the Spring Creek ground of Collin College in Plano, Texas Plano is the home to two campuses of Collin College, one at the Courtyard Center on Preston Park Boulevard and the larger Spring Creek Campus on Spring Creek Parkway at Jupiter. SMU-in-Plano, formerly SMU-in-Legacy, a branch of Southern Methodist University, is a graduate college serving the needs of 3,000 working professionals. Its academic programs include business, engineering and computer training, education and closing education.
It also features The Guildhall at SMU, which offers a masters program in video game development. DBU North, a satellite ground of Dallas Baptist University, is positioned in West Plano, and offers undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as homes admissions and academic counseling offices. The Plano Public Library System (PPLS) consists of the W.O.
Many Chinese parents in Plano enroll their kids in supplementary schools, where they get additional mathematics education and/or Chinese language education. Plano is one of 12 suburbs of Dallas that opt into the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) enhance transit system.
During most of its membership in DART, Plano was lightly served by bus lines, but in 2002, the Red Line of the DART Light Rail universal opened stations in Downtown Plano and at Parker Road, which furnish access to commuters traveling to work elsewhere in the Dallas area.
The Cotton Belt Rail Line is also prepared to run through Southern Plano.
Two DART park-and-ride bus facilities, separate from the rail lines, are inside Plano: Jack Hatchell Transit Center and Northwest Plano Park & Ride.
Plano was the first town/city in Collin County to adopt a master plan for its road system.
Plano is served directly by a several major roadways and freeways.
Central Plano is bordered to the east by U.S.
Plano is the biggest city in Texas without an Interstate Highway.
Plano opened a new interchange at Parker Rd.
Plano is positioned roughly 30 miles northeast of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport; it is the major airport serving Plano inhabitants and visitors.
Jake Arrieta, Cy Young Award-winning pitcher for Chicago Cubs, Plano East alumnus Matt Shaheen, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Plano; former Collin County precinct commissioner Jonathan Stickland, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Tarrant County; born in Plano in 1983 Van Taylor, incoming Republican state senator from Plano; former state representative; Iraq War officer Plano has six sister metros/cities designated by Sister Cities International.
This program's existence is seen in Plano ISD schools, where delegates from sister metros/cities often meet and tour.
Plano Station, Texas Electric Railway (1908) For a more thorough list of Plano's history see this link Plano Conservancy's Historic Plano Tour Plano Star Courier.
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