Rockwall City Council denies specific use permit for drone delivery service for now

A drone or “Zip” leaves its docking station at the Walmart Super Center in Greenville to make an ice cream delivery. The Rockwall City Council recently denied Zipline’s request to build a drone delivery hub in the Rockwall Crossing shopping center for now, and asked for more information about the service’s flying radius, no-fly zones and noise levels. Travis Hairgrove Photo Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rockwall residents wanting to try drone delivery will have longer to wait as city officials continue to ask for more information from Zipline – an autonomous drone delivery company that is seeking a specific use permit to build a delivery hub at the Rockwall Crossing shopping center at 909 E.

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