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Spring Branch Management District Comprehensive Plan 2015 - 2030 REIMAGINE SPRING BRANCH SPRING BRANCH MANAGEMENT DISTRICT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2015 - 2030 AUGUST 2015 SPRING BRANCH MANAGEMENT DISTRICT COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING COMMITTEE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2015 C. David Schwab Position 1: C. David Schwab Thomas Sumner Position 2: Thomas Sumner Victor Alvarez Position 3: Catherine Barchfeld-Alexander Dan Silvestri Position 4: Sherri Oldham Patricia Maddox Position 5: Victor Alvarez Jason Johnson Position 6: Mauricio Valdes Rino Cassinelli Position 7: Dan Silvestri John Chiang Position 8: Patricia Maddox Position 9: David Gutierrez SPRING BRANCH MANAGEMENT DISTRICT STAFF Position 10: Jason Johnson David Hawes Position 11: Rino Cassinelli Josh Hawes Position 12: Vacant Kristen Gonzales Position 13: John Chiang Gretchen Larson Alice Lee SPRING BRANCH MANAGEMENT DISTRICT PLANNING CONSULTANTS SWA Group DHK Development Traffic Engineers, Inc. 2 CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 9 1.1 District Vision + Purpose 11 1.2 Comprehensive Plan Components 12 1.3 How to Use this Comprehensive Plan 13 2.0 Infrastructure 15 2.0 Introduction + Methodology 16 2.1 Existing Conditions 20 2.1.1 Roadway Quality 20 2.1.2 Public Utilities 22 2.1.3 Drainage 28 2.2 Known Proposed Interventions 31 2.2.1 ReBuild Houston 31 2.2.2 Capital Improvements 32 2.3 Future Unknown and Recommendations 33 2.4 Strategies for the Future 35 2.4.1 Advocate for Projects 35 2.4.2 Engage with Development 37 2.4.3 Drainage Partnerships 38 2.4.4 LID/Green Infrastructure 39 Spring Branch Management District Comprehensive Plan 2015-2030 3 3.0 Land Use 41 3.0 Introduction + Overview + Methodology 42 3.1 Existing Conditions 46 3.1.1 Current Land Use 46 3.1.2 Residential 50 3.1.3 Commercial 52 3.1.4 Industrial 54 3.1.5 Institutional / Education 56 3.2 New Development 58 3.2.1 Known Proposed Projects 58 3.2.2 Opportunity Sites 60 3.3 Growth Trends 62 3.3.1 Development Growth Path 62 3.3.2 Land Use Patterns of Change 64 3.3.3 Corridor Use 72 3.4 Land Use Scenarios 74 3.4.1 Land Use Opportunities + Constraints 74 3.4.2 Land Use Decision Tree 76 4.0 Mobility 81 4.0 Introduction + Methodology 82 4.1 Existing Conditions 85 4 4.1.1 Streets and Roadways 85 4.1.2 Transit 90 4.2 Known Proposed Interventions 94 4.2.1 Streets and Roadways 94 4.2.2 Transit 96 4.3 Future Unknown and Recommendations 98 4.4 Strategies for the Future 100 5.0 Public Realm 107 5.0 Introduction + Methodology 108 5.1 Parks 110 5.1.1 Existing Conditions 110 5.1.2 Strategies for the Future 116 5.2 Off-Street Trails [Off Street Trails+Tributaries+CenterPoint Easement] 118 5.2.1 Existing Conditions 118 5.2.2 Strategies for the Future 120 5.3 On-Street Bike Lanes 122 5.3.1 Existing Conditions 122 5.4 Esplanades + Sidewalks 126 5.4.1 Existing Conditions 126 5.5 Proposed Public Realm Plan 130 5.5.1 District + Regional Connectivity 130 Spring Branch Management District Comprehensive Plan 2015-2030 5 6.0 Implementation 133 6.0 Introduction + Methodology 134 6.1 Action Priority 136 6.1.1 Infrastructure Improvements 138 6.1.2 Community Stabilization + Enhancement 140 6.1.3 Economic Development Tools 142 6.1.4 Long Point Corridor Transformation 146 6.1.5 Street Network Multi-Modal Design + Capacity 148 6.1.6 Transit 150 6.1.7 Bikeways 154 6.1.8 Parks + Trails 156 6.2 Implementation Steps 160 6.2.1 Infrastructure Improvements 162 6.2.2 Community Stabilization + Enhancement 163 6.2.3 Economic Development Tools 164 6.2.4 Long Point Corridor Transformation 165 6.2.5 Street Network Multi-Modal Design + Capacity 167 6.2.6 Transit 168 6.2.7 Bikeways 170 6.2.8 Parks + Trails 171 6 7.0 Appendix 7.1 District Vision Statement 7.2 Economic Baseline Summary 7.3 Precedents Initiatives Analysis 7.4 Comp Plan Community Engagement Strategy 7.5 SBMD Past Accomplishments (2006-2015) 7.6 Workshop + Community Meeting Summaries 7.7 SBMD Inventory Mapping NOTE: Data sets, tables and illustrations The Planning Team started the process of creating the Comprehensive Plan in 2012, and developed its components over the two and a half year duration of the planning study, which concluded in mid-2015. The information presented in the Comprehensive Plan is a combination of public domain and proprietary data. It has been updated to 2015, where updated data is available. For the purposes of future updates, it should be assumed that the Comprehensive Plan’s data baseline is 2015, unless otherwise indicated. Spring Branch Management District Comprehensive Plan 2015-2030 7 8 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 DISTRICT VISION + PURPOSE 1.2 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMPONENTS 1.3 HOW TO USE THIS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Spring Branch Management District Comprehensive Plan 2015-2030 9 1.0 INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW As the Spring Branch Management District (the District) initiates its engaged the District’s Board of Directors, key business leaders new fifteen-year service plan in 2016, it is well prepared to address and stakeholders, and the community as a whole to formulate an the future of the area it serves. Over a two year period, the District integrated set of strategies that together comprise a flexible action has been hard at work to reimagine Spring Branch through a plan to guide Spring Branch in the future. This document is the comprehensive planning process. The process has been led by the product of and summarizes the two-year effort. Going forward, the Comprehensive Plan Sub-Committee of the Spring Branch Board document will serve as a ready reference tool and provide actionable and has engaged a broad constituency of the community. A series strategies for near term and long term economic development of workshops, town hall meetings, and extensive interviews have initiatives to be carried forward by the District. Esplanades in Spring Branch as a means of branding the District 10 1.1 DISTRICT VISION + PURPOSE DISTRICT VISION The District’s vision for the future reflects the opportunities and typically provided by management districts in Texas, including challenges of this vibrant and expansive area. The vision seeks to security, identity, and beautification (see Appendices for the District’s capitalize on the strengths of Spring Branch, both in its history as accomplishments). In the up-coming service plan for SBMD 2016 a vibrant community in proximity to a big city and its present and – 2030, the Board of Directors determined that it could and should evolving future as a community ringed and served by major job continue with these core services but should also expand these centers that are robustly mixed-use, and distinctly urban in character. with important economic development initiatives. This document, The vision recognizes the market dynamics that are and will continue “Reimagine Spring Branch,” informs and provides the details for shaping the District. More importantly, it recognizes the opportunities the up-coming service plan for the District. In most respects, this the District has to proactively partner with private and public entities document can be viewed as an appendix to the new and forth- to address and enhance the economic development and quality of coming Service Plan 2016-2030. life of the Spring Branch community (see Appendix 7.1 District Vision Statement). NOTE: Data sets, tables and illustrations PURPOSE The Planning Team started the process of creating the Comprehensive Plan in 2012, and developed its components over the two and a half year duration of the planning study, The Comprehensive Plan’s primary purpose is to provide a blueprint which concluded in mid-2015. The information presented in for action. As stewards and advocates for Spring Branch, the Spring the Comprehensive Plan is a combination of public domain and Branch Management District occupies a unique position to preserve, proprietary data. It has been updated to 2015, where updated data is protect and enhance the assets of the District through insight available. For the purposes of future updates, it should be assumed and forethought. While the District has some fiscal limitations, it that the Comprehensive Plan’s data baseline is 2015, unless possesses the means, the opportunity and the ability to leverage its otherwise indicated. resources to target critical objectives to effect positive change in its service area. The Comprehensive Plan is intended to provide Spring Branch Management District with the blueprint for these actions. A secondary purpose of the Comprehensive Plan is to provide Spring Branch Management District (SBMD) with the inputs for statutory compliance. As a management district created by the State of Texas, SBMD is required by law to have in place a service plan to guide the activities of the District and that the service plan be periodically up-dated. The District has excelled at providing the core services Spring Branch Management District Comprehensive Plan 2015-2030 11 1.2 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMPONENTS The use of the term “comprehensive plan” for this document speaks alone or in partnership with other entities. These functional areas of to the broader mandate the Spring Branch Management District influence include (ordered alphabetically): Infrastructure, Land Use, Board seeks in its new service plan. It should not be confused Mobility, and Public Realm. The sections that follow in this document with the type of comprehensive plan that is routinely produced by describe each of these functional components in detail, including municipalities in support of promulgated policies to comply with state existing conditions and opportunities for the future. “Section 6 law. The planning components that are included in this plan include Implementation” sets out the priority actions to achieve the key those critical functions where Spring Branch Management District opportunities represented by each component.
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