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CITY OF COLLEGE STATION
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
1101 Texas Avenue South, PO Box 9960
College Station, Texas 77842
Phone 979.764.3570 / Fax 979.764.3496
MEMORANDUM
November 6, 2006
TO: P&Z Commissioners
FROM: Molly Hitchcock, Planning Administrator
SUBJECT: UDO AMENDMENT- DEVELOPMENT PLATS
The TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE (Chapter 212 Subchapter B "Regulation of Property
Development") allows municipalities to require a development plat for properties that are
developing, but not required to final plat. This gives a city the opportunity to acquire easements,
rights-of-way, etc. and identify existing conditions on properties that otherwise would not have
had to plat. The City of College Station elected to be covered by this Section and require
development plats with the adoption of the UDO in 2003.
The ordinance has now been in effect for over three years. In the limited number of times the
development plat has been required for a submittal, it has been for the development of a large-
acreage single family home and the plat has effectively served no purpose. The strength of the
ordinance essentially lies in its requirements for commercial and multi-family developments,
discouraging development on properties that do not meet the City of College Station's standards
for a lot.
The proposed amendment is to exempt from the development plat requirement tracts over 10
acres that otherwise would not have to plat and that are developing for homestead and/or
agricultural purposes.
Attachment: Ordinance Draft(redline)
cc: Case file#05-00500209
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