Comprehensive Master Plan - City of Alvin

Land Usefacts & figuresaccounting and legal offices andsmaller specialty retail shops. Thereare also several locations wherecommercial development hasoccurred, such as the intersection ofSouth Street and Kost Street, F.M.528 and Business 35, and SecondStreet and Sealy Street, amidstresidential neighborhoods, whichcould be appropriate andcompatible given adoption ofcertain performance standards.Industrial development isinterspersed throughout thecommunity, with the more intensiveconcentrations along the railroadcorridor that parallels S.H. 6,Industries such as Blue Bell Creameries, Inc. are interspersed throughoutnorthward along Business 35 andthe community, some abutting or in near proximity to neighborhoods.the S.H. 35 bypass, along Mustang Road south of Alvin CommunityCollege, and along F.M. 2403 north and south of F.M. 1462. In manyinstances, these industrial areas directly abut or are in near proximity toresidential neighborhoods with little or no separation or screening tobuffer or mitigate their associated impacts.Residential development is primarily located south of S.H. 6, althoughthere are several pockets of homes (site built and manufactured)interspersed among and adjacent to properties developed fornonresidential use north of S.H. 6. The original town neighborhoodsextending outward from Downtown are increasingly changing from whatwere once stable residential environments to areas now witnessing theencroachment of incompatible uses and, hence, declining property valuesand visible signs of disinvestment. The newer neighborhoods havedeveloped in the southwest quadrant, generally north of F.M. 1462 andsoutheast along Mustang Road. A significant portion of the current andongoing residential development is occurring outside the City limits insubdivisions of typical lot sizes, as well as – and even more so – incountryside and estate residential developments, as displayed in Figure3.1, Existing Land Use Character.Page 3-3April 1, 2005