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Ordinance No. 12,206ORDINANCE NO. 12,206 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF 'I HE CITY OF BAY-1-OWN, TEXAS, AMENDING THE BAYTOVVN 2025 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO UPE3ATE THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN MAP; ANI3 PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF. WHEREAS, the Baytown 2025 Comprehensive Plan (the "Plan ") assists City officials, staff and citizens in making sound decisions affecting the future growth and development of the City and the surrounding area; and WHEREAS, the amendment of the Plan to update the Future Land Use Map contained therein has been reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Commission (the "Commission "); and WHEREAS, on February 21, 2013, the Commission voted unanimously to recommend that the City Council approve the amendment of the Plan to update the Future Land Use Map; and WHEREAS, on March 14, 2013, a public hearing was conducted at which the public was given the opportunity to give testimony and present written evidence regarding this amendment of the Bavtown 2025 Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS, after receiving the Commission's recommendation as well as the input received at the public hearing, the City Council desires to amend the Baytown 2025 Comprehensive Plan to update the Future Land Use Plan Map to better reflect future development within the boundaries City; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS: Section 1: All matters and facts set forth in the recitals above are found to be true, and are approved as the processes and procedures which the City Council of the City of Baytown undertook and completed prior to the adoption of this ordinance. Section 2: That the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, hereby amends the Baytown 2025 Comprehensive Plan to update the Future Land Use Map. A copy of said map is attached hereto, marked Exhibit "A," and made a part hereof for all intents and purposes. Section 3: The comprehensive plan as amended herein shall serve as a frame of reference for future actions of the City officers, staff, and citizens. This adoption recognizes that each individual action referring to the plan must be a stand -alone action based on all factors known at the time the action is taken. Section 4: This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage by the City Council of the City of Baytown. INTRODUCED, Rl`'AD and PASSI."D by the affinnative vol,, "' oaf , tile Cily ("Oullcil of tile City or naytown this Me 14, day or NhucIt, 2013, APPROW'D ASTO FORNI: SR- t ate Attorney STFI)IJ4,`:N H. DONCARLOS. Mayor R TawmAINVO, dm: Exhibit "A" Land Use Narratives Low Density Residential (Yellow) • Includes rural residential to conventional single - family residential on larger lots. Large tracts and undeveloped land with limited public utilities. Uses including places of assembly, schools, parks, and other community facilities such as libraries with pedestrian links to residential. Low - Medium Density Residential (Peach) • Includes a range of existing residential uses from rural residential to limited multi- family residential. • Primarily conventional, single- family detached dwellings and manufactured housing on platted lots; smaller lots are satisfactory if common open space is provided. • The scale and mass of any multi - family development should be reviewed and considered for compatibility to neighboring uses. • Uses including places of assembly, schools, parks, and other community facilities such as libraries with pedestrian links to residential. • Commercial that serves neighborhoods — not regions, such as office buildings, and neighborhood services to support and compliment residential area. • Small- scale, neighborhood commercial located within a convenient walking distance of residences and buffered when adjacent to a residential use. • Appropriate area for pedestrian and bicycle- friendly streets. • Medium density development along perimeter of neighborhoods and generally along collector streets. Higher- Density Residential (Orange) • Provides for detached and attached residential development including patio homes, duplexes, town homes, apartments and condominiums. • Development with multiple buildings and internal driveways. • Neighborhood and community commercial within a convenient walking distance of residences. • Optional first -floor retail, offices, and services integrated horizontally or vertically as accessory uses within multi - family buildings and developments. • Development should have adequate connectivity and be located near frontage roads, on arterials and collectors, in the downtown, or as part of a livable center. Business/Education & Arts District (Brown) • Comprises "Old Baytown" and the central, historical business district with a mix of uses. • Concentration of small -scale commercial and office uses with specialty retail, restaurants, and cultural arts facilities. • Major institutional and government facilities including Lee College, Sterling Municipal Library, and City Hall. • Additional residential uses to support service and retail activities. • Pedestrian and transit - friendly network of sidewalks, trails and greenways interconnected with surrounding neighborhoods. Commercial Corridors (Red) • May accommodate all types of commercial activity, including "big box ", medical services, restaurants, entertainment, offices, and large multi - family development. • Corridors of commercial activities with variable depths along or near major arterials and freeways. • Improved traffic mobility by discouraging continuous commercial strips with numerous driveways along major streets. • Commercial corridor proposed along the east side of Wade Road, south of IH 10, as a buffer between existing rail yards west of Wade Road and proposed residential use to the east toward Goose Creek. Commercial Nodes — Neighborhood /Community (Brown Circles) • Future and existing commercial uses (retail, offices and services) concentrated at the intersections of major collectors and arterials. • Two types of nodes to reflect their intended service area. Smaller neighborhood nodes comprise generally less than 20 acres and may support the local area. The larger community nodes comprise approximately 20 -40 acres or more and may support regional needs. • Higher- density residential is appropriate at or near intersections of arterials and collectors. • Includes the regional commercial center of at the intersection of IH 10 and Garth Road, inclusive of San Jacinto Mall and environs. • Most appropriate area for highest density residential uses, highest intensity nonresidential uses, and mixed use developments with medium to high -rise buildings. • Large -scale developments shall have access to transit. Business Park (Purple) • Accommodates business activities in planned campus -like settings with interdependent and complementary uses. • Preferred uses and forms include office buildings of various heights, research and development facilities, light manufacturing, high -tech industries, warehousing, and distribution. • Includes a mix of light industrial and retail uses, along with indoor and outdoor commercial activities. • Development should have adequate access to freeways, major arterials, rail, and /or navigable waterways and be of variable depths along or near major arterials and freeways. • Excludes heavy industrial uses. Industrial (Blue) • Accommodates the full range of industrial activities: Petrochemical, manufacturing, assembly, processing, warehousing, distribution, and maintenance of products. • Includes three existing, major industrial employment areas: ExxonMobil facilities on Spur 330, ChevronPhillips facilities on IH 10 at Cedar Bayou, and industrial corridor along FM 1405. • Industrial area north of FM 565 along FM 2354 with business park type land use and buffers along the Grand Parkway. • Business park type land use preferred on perimeter parcels adjacent to categories other than industrial and along the Grand Parkway. • Limited, ancillary commercial development. • Minimal or no adjacency to residential uses; may necessitate landscape buffer zones. • Development should have adequate access to freeways, major arterials, rail, and /or navigable waterways. Industrial Buffer Zone (Green) • Protects open space greenbelt that buffers the adjacent heavy industrial use. • Generally located on the east and west borders of ExxonMobil's Baytown facilities along Bayway and State Highway 146. Bayou /Creek Conservation (Light Green and Hatch Light Green) • Provides protection of critical floodway and flood plain areas along Cedar Bayou, Goose Creek, and Spring Gully to provide flood control and recreational opportunities (solid green areas). • Important open space and woodlands near Cedar Bayou, Goose Creek, and Spring Gully to be protected from typical urban development by providing site design standards that preserve more open space and woodlands in exchange for greater development rights (hatched green areas). • Controlled urban development patterns along bayous and creeks to enhance waterway access and visibility. Residential lots should be in front or on the side of the waterway instead of backing up to it. • Linear parks to be established along bayous and creeks with interconnected hike and bike trails. • Obtain conservation easements and natural vegetative buffers for recreation, open space, or public use in the ETJ, including partnerships with Harris and Chambers Counties. Waterfront (Light Blue) • Preferred uses include compatible commercial, residential and recreational development that engage the waterfront and provides public access and visibility. • Baytown's extensive waterfront along the San Jacinto River, Ship Channel, and bays: A unique community asset that should be protected and enhanced. • Environmentally sensitive areas to be identified with appropriate levels of protection to be established.