Comprehensive Master Plan - City of Alvin

Growth StrategiesGOAL 5.3: Logical sequencing and timely provision of adequate publicfacilities and services.Objectives and Actions‣ Utilize the provision of facilities and services to guide the timing andsequencing of future development.1. Consider amending the subdivision regulations during the process ofpreparing a unified development ordinance to incorporate provisionsrequiring the availability of adequate facilities concurrent withproposed new development. Of particular importance in the outlyingareas of the ETJ is the condition of existing roadways and their abilityto safely support increased traffic volumes. An advisable approach isto use traffic sheds, which quantify the volume of traffic that may beaccommodated on the abutting roadway(s) and limiting the amountof development that can occur commensurate with the roadwaydesign capacity. This approach allows the allowable density to bespread across the traffic shed, rather than on a first‐come/first‐servebasis as allowed by a concurrency management approach.2. Adopt and incorporate into a unified development ordinanceprovisions allowing transfer of development rights (TDR) within aspecific area, such as a defined traffic shed. Such code allows aproperty owner to transfer their proportional density allocation toother landowners within the same area/traffic shed thereby allowingthem to capitalize on the development value of the land.3. Amend the subdivision regulations to allow development clustering,which enables the allowable density to be grouped in a small portionof a larger parcel thereby allowing for continued development asinfrastructure improvements are completed.4. Utilize and supplement as necessary the Brazoria County MobilityPlan to gather information about existing roadway conditions,including property ownership patterns; right‐of‐way and pavementwidths; pavement type; existence of shoulders; drainageimprovements (ditches or curb and gutter); and design encumbrancessuch as creeks, floodplains, and other topographic features. Suchstudy may be used to determine the design capacities of eachroadway thereby allowing quantification of allowable developmentdensities within the shed areas abutting these roadways.TransferableDevelopment Rights – Aprogram, either voluntary orin some instances mandatory,that can relocate potentialdevelopment from areas whereproposed land use orenvironmental impacts areconsidered undesirable (thesending area) to another site(receiving area) chosen on thebasis of its ability toaccommodate additional unitsof development beyond thatfor which it is zoned, withminimal environmental, socialand aesthetic impacts.Page 5-17