Comprehensive Master Plan - City of Alvin

Land Usefacts & figures3. Development patterns should provide for transitions andbuffering between various land use intensities. Where landuses of imcompatible intensities abut, there should be adequatebufferyards to separate them.4. Potential adverse impacts on adjacent land use types should beconsidered in the City’s development review process(including factors such as noise, odor, pollution, excessive light,traffic, etc.).5. New development or redevelopment on “in‐fill” parcels inestablished developed areas should maintain compatibilitywith existing uses and the prevailing land use pattern in thearea.6. The City’s land use pattern should focus new development andsignificant redevelopment where adequate public services andutility capacity are already in place or projected forimprovement, including streets, water, wastewater, anddrainage infrastructure.7. Land uses with heavier traffic generation should be located onhigher‐capacity roadways to ensure safe and appropriatetransportation access and circulation.8. Future development and redevelopment should be plannedand implemented with appreciation for the physicalA performance based buffering approachenvironment and natural features of the community and withoffers several options to achieve arecognition of potential physical constraints to ensurerequired standard of opacity.appropriate siting of various types of development.Urbandevelopment should not encroach into floodplain areas unless there iscompliance with stringent floodplain management practices tomaintain adequate capacity for storage and conveyance of floodwaters.9. Floodplains and other environmentally sensitive or valuable areasshould be reserved as natural areas and “greenbelt” preserves forwildlife and recreation whenever possible and used as open spacebuffers between incompatible land uses whenever appropriate.Page 3-43April 1, 2005