Mobile Mechanic & Auto Detailing in Plano, TX

Plano's highway page: four major highways, maintained by NTTA and TxDOT

Plano's highway-updates page names four major highways through the city: the Sam Rayburn Tollway, the President George Bush Turnpike, the Dallas North Tollway and US 75. It says responsibility for construction and maintenance on them belongs to the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

NTTA describes the Sam Rayburn Tollway as 26 miles long, running from Business 121 near the Dallas/Denton county line to US 75 in Collin County. It opened in phases between 2008 and 2011 and gained a fourth travel lane in each direction in 2021. The President George Bush Turnpike is a 52-mile toll road connecting communities in Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties. Its first section opened in 1998 between Midway Road and Preston Road, and it was expanded during projects from 2016 to 2022.

The history section of the city's comprehensive plan mentions US 75 too. It says Plano remained a largely rural community, incorporated in 1873, until Central Expressway (US 75) was extended in the late 1950s, and that rapid population growth began in the 1960s.

Plano's comprehensive plan: over 210,000 jobs and about 299,000 people

The comprehensive plan puts Plano's 2025 population at approximately 299,000, the ninth most populous city in Texas. It describes the city as a major employment center in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, with over 210,000 jobs and three Fortune 1000 companies.

The city's Q2 2026 list of leading employers starts with JPMorgan Chase at 11,133 employees, then Bank of America at 7,266, Capital One at 6,218 and Toyota Motor North America at 5,143, which the list describes as an auto manufacturing North American headquarters. Further down are PepsiCo Foods North America at 3,759, Ericsson at 3,346 and Medical City Plano at 2,332.

Downtown Plano and the DART Red and Orange lines

The comprehensive plan says that in the early 2000s Downtown Plano re-emerged as the city's civic and historical core, with transit-oriented development around the DART Red and Orange light rail lines, and that the Legacy area became one of the city's first major mixed-use centers.

The Visit Downtown Plano website's About page, dated January 2024, calls the historic downtown a compact 80-acre area where more than 1,100 urban apartments had been built or approved.

What Plano's home occupation handout covers

Most of Plano's housing units are detached houses. The Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates count 73,397 single-family detached homes among 120,096 housing units in the city, about 61 percent. As a survey estimate, it carries a margin of error.

The city's Building Inspections Department publishes a Home Occupations Regulations handout, marked REV. 01/16/20, that summarizes Section 15.700 of the Zoning Ordinance. It defines a home occupation as any activity carried out for gain by a resident that provides goods or services as an accessory use in a dwelling unit. Among its conditions are no outdoor storage of materials, goods, supplies or equipment, and no repair or servicing of vehicles, internal combustion engines, large equipment or large appliances. The city's Common Violations page for Property Standards also lists Home Occupations among its topics.

The handout is about a resident running a business from their own dwelling, and it says it is informational and should not be relied on in place of official regulations. This page reports what the handout says and does not say how it applies to any particular business. For a question about a specific address, ask the City of Plano.

Where to read Plano's codes yourself

The city's Codes and Ordinances page sends readers to the City Secretary's Office and to Municode, which it describes as the full list of codes and ordinances in Plano. The handout, marked REV. 01/16/20, says copies of the adopted codes and Zoning Ordinances can be found on plano.gov or at the Municipal Center at 1520 K Avenue.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. Confirm any rule with the City of Plano, and with your HOA if you have one, before you act on it.