O-79-628 - 9/13/1979TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. Z Y
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE TITLE OF CHAPTER 11, OF
THE CODE OF ORDINANCES TO "PLANNING AND ZONING; "
CHANGING THE PRESENT SECTION 2 TO SECTION 3, AND
ADOPTING A NEW SECTION 2 TO PROVIDE FOR THE GENERAL
PLAN OF THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK,
I.
That the title to Chapter 11, of the Code of Ordinances,
City of Round Rock, Texas is hereby amended to read "PLANNING
AND ZONING."
II.
That Chapter 11, Section 2, of Code of Ordinances, City of
Round Rock, Texas, be renumbered to read Section 3.
III.
That a new Section 2, Chapter 11, of the Code of Ordinances,
City of Round Rock, Texas, be adopted to read as follows:
Section 2; GENERAL PLAN
A. The purpose of this General Plan,
This general plan is adopted as a present statement of policy
by the City of Round Rock and as a guide for future land -use and
fiscal decisions within the City, The policies contained herein
are intended as a guide for and to be implemented by the Capital
Improvement Program expenditures and the land - development processes
of the City, and by other programs including cooperative efforts
with other governmental entities and the private sector. The
specific current plan implementation methods are described in the
Round Rock Development Guide. Annually in conjunction with the
review of the Capital Improvement Program, the Planning and Zoning
Commission shall review the General Plan, and the Commission
shall submit an annual report together with recommended changes,
if any, to the City Council. This General Plan shall also be known
as the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Round Rock.
B. Policies.
(1) General.
(a) The City shall endeavor to the fullest extent practicable
to maintain the current high levels of air and water quality, and
otherwise to preserve the natural and man -made resources of the
Community.
(h) The City shall continue to support the development of
a wide variety of commercial, industrial, and residential land
uses with an equally strong commitment to each category.
(c) The City shall continue to strive to provide for a
wide variety of housing types and life styles through the support
of residential land use development.
(d) The City shall continue to be committed to the preser-
vation and enhancement of residential neighborhoods regardless of
housing type.
(2) Annexation.
(a) Annually in conjunction with the review of the Capital
Improvement Program, the City shall also review a proposal for
territory to be annexed, if any, and for territory to be studied
for possible future annexation.
(h) The City shall to the fullest extent practicable
consider annexation and original zoning of new territory in a
coordinated manner, and the City shall adopt original zoning for
new territory as soon after annexation as practicable.
(c) Where the City has annexed territory without consent
of landowners or residents, the City shall to the fullest extent
practicable schedule the provision of proper urban services to the
annexed territory in the next Capital Improvement Program.
(d) Where the City intends to provide municipal services
to territory adjacent to the corporate limits, the City shall first
insure that such territory is scheduled to be annexed.
(e) The City shall endeavor to the fullest extent practicable
to establish the boundaries of its extra - territorial jurisdiction
along property lines or recognized service area dividing lines.
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(3) Urban Services.
(a) The City shall regard necessary improvements in the
urban services system to existing residential neighborhoods, busi-
nesses and industries as a priority of the very highest magnitude.
(b) Annually in conjunction with the review of the
Capital Improvement Program, the City shall insure that improve-
ments in the urban services system are scheduled for the coming
five year period and will be sufficient to properly serve the anti-
cipated service demand, and that to the fullest extent practicable
such improvements shall be scheduled to be made in such a timely
manner as to preclude deterioration of service quality anywhere in
the City.
(c) The City shall extend urban services to new develop-
ment in such a manner as to attain for the respective new develop-
ment and to preserve for development already served the prevailing
high level of service quality,
(4) The City shall to the fullest extent practicable
endeavor to insure a source of water supply sufficient to serve
existing and anticipated water needs,
(e) The City shall to the fullest extent practicable
endeavor to insure the proper provision of wastewater treatment
facilities sufficient to serve existing and anticipated wastewater
treatment needs.
(f) The City shall to the fullest extent practicable
endeavor to insure the proper provision of solid waste disposal
service sufficient to serve existing and anticipated solid waste
disposal needs,
(4) Thoroughfares.
(a) The City shall insure to the fullest extent prac-
ticable that new development occurs in such a manner as to preserve
the primary function served by major thoroughfares and collector
streets in relation to traffic circulation.
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along major thoroughfares and are in the process of conversion
from low intensity to medium or high intensity land use.
(6) Parks and Recreation.
(a) The City shall insure that an adequate amount of
open space and parkland is made available for public use.
(b) Annually, in conjunction with review of the Capital
Improvement Program, the City shall review and assign priorities
for the development of existing parkland, acquisition of new park-
land, and development of new parkland.
(c) The City shall endeavor to provide an optimum mix
of recreational facilities consistent with State guidelines.
(d) The City shall locate and develop parkland in recog-
nition of specific site characteristics, both beneficial and adverse.
(e) The City, in cooperation with the Round Rock Independent
School District, shall encourage the following:
(i) Location of neighborhood parks to share a common
boundary with elementary schools.
(ii) Coordination of facilities and activities in such
a manner as to minimize duplication, thereby increasing the diversity
of facilities and activities offered.
(f) The City, in cooperation with other political sub -
divisions of the State, shall encourage the establishment of a
regional park system.
(Mark through the following alternative that is not applicable)
Alternative: 1.
By motion duly made, seconded and passed with an affirmative
vote of all the Council members present, the requirement for
reading this ordinance on two separate days was dispensed with.
READ, PASSED, and ADOPTED on first reading this 7:5 day
AOLA.2A1AA I , 1979.
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(b) The City shall endeavor through the Capital Improve-
ment Program and land development processes to acquire additional
street and road right -of -way sufficient to serve the expressly
:identified traffic circulation requirements.
(c) The City shall endeavor to improve and augment inter -
state frontage roads through the general area.
(d) The City shall consider the following roads and
highways as major thoroughfares, and the City shall endeavor through
the Capital Improvement Program and land - development processes to
upgrade these major thoroughfares as needed and in a timely manner:
(i) IH 35 Facility.
(ii) U.S. Highway Business No. 81.
(iii) U.S. Highway No. 79.
(iv) Sunrise Road - Greenlawn Boulevard.
(v) FM 1460.
(vi) RM 620.
(vii) FM 1325 -- County Road 170.
(viii) Gattis School Road,
(ix) McNeil Road.
(x) Chandler Road .. Proposed RM 1431.
(xi) Westinghouse Road (east of the IH 35 Facility)
(xii) Proposed FM 3406.
(e) The City shall establish through the Capital Improve-
ment Program and land.- development processes new streets and roads
for the following purposes;
(i) Linking Sunrise Road with Greenlawn Boulevard by
extending Greenlawn Boulevard west and north as a major thoroughfare.
(ii) Linking Greenlawn Boulevard with County Road 170
by extending Greenlawn Boulevard south as a major thoroughfare.
(iii) Linking County Road 170 with U.S. Highway No. 79 by
generally following the abandoned Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
R.O.V. by rerouting County Road 170 north as a major thoroughfare.
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(iv) Linking proposed FM 3406 with FM 1325 by ex-
tending FM 3406 south as a major thoroughfare.
(v) Linking Logan Drive with the proposed extension
of County Road 170 by extending Logan Drive as a collector street
east from Greenlawn Boulevard,
(vi) Linking Bellview Avenue with FM 1460 by extending
Bellview Avenue east and north as a collector street.
(vii) Linking Deepwood Drive with RM 620 by extending
Deepwood Drive to the north as a collector street.
(viii) Linking Bowman Drive with FM 1460 by extending
Bowman Drive east from Sunrise Road as a collector street.
(ix) Linking Sam Bass Road with U.S. Highway No. 79
by realigning Sam Bass Road such that an extension of Sam Bass
Road as a collector street meets with U,S. Highway No. 79.
(x) Linking the platted Chaparral Drive with the
proposed FM 3406 by extending Chaparral Drive as a collector
street north_ to FM 3406.
(xi) Connecting proposed FM 3406 with proposed RM 1431
by an extension of Chaparral Drive to be developed to major
thoroughfare standards.
(xii) Connecting RM 620 with Sam Bass Road by either
estahlishing an altogether new collector street or by extending
an existing collector street (molted).
(xiii) Connecting County Road 172 with South Mays Street
by establishing Nester's Crossing Road as a new collector street.
(xiv) Connecting County Road 172 with the IH 35 Facility
by extending Chisholm Valley Drive as a collector street.
(xv) Connecting Chisholm Valley Drive with FM 1325 by
extending 'Frontier Trail as a collector street.
Owl) Connecting Gattis School Road with County Road
170 by extending Oxford Boulevard as a collector street.
(xvii) Reconstructing Chisholm Trail Road north from
Sam Bass Road as a collector street.
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street.
(xviii) Reconstructing County Road 172 as a collector
(f) The City shall encourage and support efforts to
establish a public transportation system.
(g) The City shall encourage and support efforts to
establish pedestrian routes and other non - motorized transportation
systems.
(5) Land Use and Development,
(a) The City shall require that the particular categories
of new land use shall be located in areas as described hereafter:
(i) High intensity land uses shall generally locate
along either existing major thoroughfares or established industrial
collector streets, but in no case shall new high intensity land
uses locate in an area which is completely surrounded by existing
or proposed low intensity land uses.
(ii) Medium intensity land uses shall locate for the
most part along major thoroughfares, and may from time to time
also locate along principal collector streets, but in no case
shall medium intensity land uses locate where the only frontage
is on a residential street.
(.iii) The City shall insure that low- medium intensity
land uses shall locate along the periphery of low intensity land -
use areas and generally along either a collector street or a
major thoroughfare; to the fullest extent practicable the low -
medium intensity land --use category shall serve as a physical separ-
ation between medium and low intensity land uses,
(iv) The City shall insure relative to low intensity
land use that except where otherwise provided for by ordinance,
an area which has either developed as or been platted for ex-
clusively single - family dwellings shall contain only single - family
dwellings and expressly authorized accessory uses and buildings.
(b) The City shall endeavor as soon as practicable to
settle the future land -use pattern for those areas which are located
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Alternative 2.
and APPROVED on first reading t day of
day of
ATTEST:
READ - APPROVED and ADOPTED on s- = reading this the
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L. NN, Mayor
City of Round Rock, Texas