Ordinance No. 12,472ORDINANCE NO. 12,472
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, AMENDING THE BAYTOWN 2025 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO
UPDATE THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN NARRATIVES CONCERNING
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (OIL AND GAS),
NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH; AND
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 Plan narratives
concerning natural resource management (oil and gas), neighborhood protection and economic
growth has been reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Commission (the "Commission"); and
WHEREAS, on January 2, 2014, the Commission voted unanimously to recommend that
the City Council approve the amendment of the Plan to o update the Future Land Use Plan
narratives concerning natural resource management (oil and gas), neighborhood protection and
economic growth; and
WHEREAS, on January 23, 2014, 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 Baytown 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 narratives concerning natural resource
management (oil and gas), neighborhood protection and economic growth; 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 Plan narratives concerning
natural resource management (oil and gas), neighborhood protection and economic growth. A
copy of said update 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, READ and PASSED by the affirmative ote of the City Council of the
City of Baytown this the 13th day of February, 2014.
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Exhibit "A"
Baytown 2025 Plan (Comprehensive Plan)
Below are the narratives addressing city policy for each of the land uses described
by the Future Land Use Plan, as amended by Council in January 2013. This
section adds clear language supporting drilling, oil and gas operations, as well as
the protection of neighborhoods, people, shorelines, and flora and fauna.
Land Use Narratives
Low Densi 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.
• Lo density neighborhoods are unsuitable for oil or gas production.
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
lot�ls; 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
• Low -medium density neighborhoods are unsuitable for oil or gas production.
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.
• Higher- density neighborhoods are unsuitable for oil or gas production.
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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.
• Old Baytown and surrounding residential neighborhoods are unsuitable for oil or gas production
Neighbor commercial and general commercial
• Neighborhood commercial and general commercial are unsuitable for oil or gas production.
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Light and Heavy Commercial neighborhoods
• Light Industry is not suitable for oil or gas production. Light industrial neighborhoods are not
intended for the production or use of hazardous materials
• Heavy Industrial neighborhoods may be suitable for oil or gas production as long as all the
standards required of the user are met through the Special Use Permit.
Overlay Districts setting forth specific standards for oil or gas production, for the protection of residential
neighborhoods, and the protection of water, flora and fauna are acceptable locations for the consideration
of oil or gas production.
• Oil and gas production support the city's goal of a strong economy with continuing growth
potential and jobs.
• Oil and gas production are a valuable resource to Baytown especially when the corporations
protect residential neighborhoods, water as well as flora and fauna.
• The zoning regulations should reflect the policy goals set forth in these comprehensive plan
narratives.
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 al l erials 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 4Blue)
• 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,
Chevron Phillips facilities on IH 10 at Cedar Bayou and industrial corridor along FM 1405.
• Industrial area north of PM 565 along FM 2354 with business park type land use and buffers
along the Grand Parkway.
• Business park typ..; 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.
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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.
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