HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 03.11.1986 - Development PlanL)
Resolution No.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS
OF FACT AND ADOPTING THE "DEVELOPMENT PLAN" AS
THE GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF THE LAND USE,
THOROUGHFARES, AND PARKS AND OPEN SPACE ELEMENTS
OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN.
WHEREAS, the City Council recognizes the need for a
plan to guide, regulate and manage future physical development
within the corporate limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction
of the City of Georgetown,_ and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to ensure the most
appropriate and beneficial use of land, water and other
natural resources, in order to preserve, promote, protect
and improve the public health, safety, comfort, order,
convenience and general welfare; to prevent the over-
crowding of land and avoid undue concentration or diffusion
of population and urban land uses; to facilitate the adequate
and efficient provision of transportation, water, wastewater,
school, park and recreation facilities and housing and
employment opportunities; to conserve, utilize.. and
protect cultural resources, consistent with the public interest,
and
WHEREAS, the City Council acknowledges the efficiency
and utility of a graphic representation of desired types
and locations of urban development within the corporate
limits of the City of Georgetown and the City's extraterritorial
jurisdiction;,and,
WHEREAS,the graphic exhibit titled "Development Plan",
dated March, 1986, a photograph of which is attached hereto,
presents a graphic composite of the recommendations of the
City of Georgetown's Comprehensive Planning Studies prepared
by Samuel L. Wyse and Associates regarding land use,
public thoroughfares, and parks and open space, and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds the above described
"Development Plan" concisely and efficiently presents
the desired types and locations of land use, thoroughfares,
parks, and open spaces to be preserved and developed
within the corporate limits of the City of Georgetown
and its extraterritorial jurisdiction,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Georgetown, Texas
THAT the "Development Plan" as described herein is
hereby adopted as the graphic :representation of the Land
Use element, the Parks and Open Space element, and the
Thoroughfares element of the Comprehensive Plan of the City
of Georgetown, and
THAT the "Development Plan" shall be considered by the
City Council, the City staff and all City boards and
commissions as a guide to their respective investigations,
analyses and actions regarding proposals by any party(s)
for the development or redevelopment of land, aIld
THAT the "Development Plan" shall be available for
inspection by the public at the offices of the Planning
Department of the City of Georgetown,
Approved by the C' y Council
Texas this 11-.d y of March
ATTESv
Pat Caballero, City Secretary
pproved as to form:
Stump & Stump City Attorney
of
the City of Georgetown,
19 86.
Carl Doering, major
Attachment to resolution
approved 3/11/86 by the
Georgetown City Council
adopting the graphic
Development Plan.
DEVELOPMENT
Georgetown,