2020 Major Thoroughfare and Freeway Plan CITY OF HOUSTON
Amendment Request PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
RECOMMENDATION REPORT
F: Street A
APPLICANT: LJA Engineering
PRECINCT: Harris County Pct. 2
JURISDICTION: City of Houston ETJ COUNCIL DISTRICT: None
PROPOSAL:
LJA Engineering – on behalf of Castlerock Communities, L.P. – is requesting the realignment of Minor
Collector Street A on the Major Thoroughfare and Freeway Plan.
APPLICANT’S JUSTIFICATION and HISTORY:
Street A is currently unbuilt and is proposed as a Minor Collector with a 60’ ROW from Crosby Town
Center Road to the west and FM 2100 to the east. The current alignment runs along property lines of
Crosby High School and seven single family residences and would require all of the adjacent
properties to dedicate ROW. The applicant proposes to shift the proposed collector roughly 500’ south
to align with Spence Lane to the east. The applicant believes this would improve the connectivity of
the undeveloped tract at the south end of Crosby Town Center Road while improving roadway spacing
avoiding the encroachment on existing structures.
PROPOSED ALTERNATIVE:
Realign Minor Collector Street A along Hurta Road (adjacent property owners to be notified).
RECOMMENDATION:
APPROVE staff recommendation to realign Minor Collector Street A along Hurta Road.
Justification:
Staff is in support of a general realignment of Street A due to the constructability challenges presented
by the recently constructed school complex. However, the applicant’s initial proposal of Spence Lane
would result in the acquisition and potential condemnation of at least one single-family residence.
Comparably, Hurta Road has sufficient right-of-way up to the undeveloped tract to the west of the
neighborhood.
Property owners adjacent to these portions of Hurta Road will be notified in the coming weeks before
consideration at a later meeting of Planning Commission.
STAFF ANALYSIS
Population & Employment Projections:
A demographic analysis using projections provided by the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC)
was conducted for the MTFP amendment proposal area. According to the H-GAC data, the population
of the surrounding area is projected to increase by 63 percent, at a faster rate than the City of
Houston, but inline with the ETJ. Job density is projected to increase by less than 1 percent.
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2020 Major Thoroughfare and Freeway Plan CITY OF HOUSTON
Amendment Request PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
RECOMMENDATION REPORT
Population
Density Job Density
Year Population (Persons/Acre) % Change Jobs (Jobs/Acre) %Change
2015 136 0.1 547 0.5
2020 167 0.2 22.8% 549 0.5 0.4%
2025 198 0.2 18.6% 549 0.5 0.0%
2030 187 0.2 -5.6% 549 0.5 0.0%
2035 232 0.2 24.1% 549 0.5 0.0%
2040 229 0.2 -1.3% 549 0.5 0.0%
2045 222 0.2 -3.1% 549 0.5 0.0%
Change (2015
to 2045) 86 0.1 63.2% 2 0.0 0.4%
COH Change
(2015 to
2045) 919,984 2.1 40.2% 548,987 1.3 30.5%
COH ETJ
Change (2015
to 2045) 1,532,230 1.3 58.9% 635,399 0.5 73.1%
Source: 2015-2045 Demographic Projections by H-GAC
released in 2018
Data represents population, jobs, and households in 1 Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ) encompassing approximately 1,104 acres around the
proposed amendment
Land Use and Platting Activity:
Land use along the existing alignment of Street A is single-family residential, undeveloped land,
institutional and commercial. Commercial property largely exists along FM 2100. The requested
alignment (Spence Road) runs through an existing single-family residential subdivision and
undeveloped land.
Platting activity near the amendment is concentrated to the north, with smaller activity east across FM
2100 and south along Beaumont Highway. The most recent platting activity is listed below.
PC Action Property
GP or Subdivision Plat Name Land Use Lots
Date Size (acres)
Crosby High School GP 08/21/14 General Plan 374.276 -
Pecan Estates GP 10/25/18 General Plan 193.594 -
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Amendment Request PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
RECOMMENDATION REPORT
Pecan Estates Sec 1 01/31/19 Single Family Residential 33.731 148
Unrestricted Reserve, Restricted
Crosby High School Sec 1 09/04/14 74.371 -
Reserve-Landscape/Open Space
Commons at Crosby 08/08/13 Unrestricted Reserve 5.35 -
Crosby Meadows Housing 03/30/17 Unrestricted Reserve 4.85 -
Crosby Hospitality 08/20/15 Restricted Reserve-Commercial 1.5023 -
Dove Crosby 09/05/13 Unrestricted Reserve 5.614 -
Family Dollar Crosby 09/03/15 Unrestricted Reserve 0.8123 -
Reserve at Highway 90 01/18/18 Unrestricted Reserve 2.305 -
Alaniz Plaza 10/16/14 Unrestricted Reserve 4.387 -
Right of Way (ROW) Status:
Street A is a proposed minor collector with two lanes and 60ft right-of-way. It is nearly a mile in length.
It is currently aligned along property lines. Spence Lane is a proposed minor collector with two lanes
and 60’ right-of-way. Approximately 1,800ft of the proposed Spence Lane exists with 25ft pavement
width.
Spacing:
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