Less than one year after Richardson approved an Amazon Prime drone delivery center, city leaders are rethinking their votes.
The Amazon drone-delivery home base, located just south of the Methodist Richardson Medical Center, has fulfilled 13,000 online orders since opening. A majority of that traffic has been directed over one neighborhood due to a no-fly zone that covers the hospital, and the hundred-plus daily drone flights have begun to cause ire amongst neighbors.
Last December, the Observer reported on one Richardson resident’s frustrations, which had begun to mount after frequent drone deliveries over his home created nuisance noise. At the time, the neighbor speculated that because the program was relatively new, his neighbors had not yet begun to fuss about the “headache” caused by the incessant buzzing…