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July 10, 2011

City Council looking west

By BRAD KELLAR Herald-Banner Staff

GREENVILLE — Local residents will have one more chance Tuesday to look over a proposal for how to develop a wide region of Greenville, before the City Council votes to formally add the recommendations to the city’s future plans.

The Council will host a public hearing before taking a final vote on the Small Area Plan during Tuesday’s regular session, starting at 6 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 2821 Washington Street. Wendy Shabay with Freese and Nichols, the consultants who drafted the proposed plan, will offer a presentation to the Council during a work session starting at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

The Planning and Zoning Commission voted last month to recommend approval of the plan to the Council, which intends to take the final vote to accept the plan.

The Small Area Plan is designed to guide future development along the western edge of Greenville and along the Interstate 30 corridor. The plan covers some 27,000 acres, which the consultants have said should see significant growth as the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex expands eastward.

One of the ideas which the consultants believe should be implemented first is the creation of an overlay zoning district and mixed use  zoning classifications for the region along both the Interstate 30 corridor and the Monty Stratton Parkway.

The districts would be used to regulate signage, site designs and architectural elements for future developments in the area.

The plan also touches on transportation needs for the region and connectivity to and through the potential creation of the Walton Development Municipal Utility District, which has been proposed to someday include more than 21,000 units of housing.

The district has passed the Texas Legislature and will now be up to voters in November.

The outlying western regions of the Small Area Plan would remain primarily rural, with the density of residential and commercial development increasing eastward along Interstate 30 and U.S. Highway 380 into the city limits of Greenville.

The area around what is currently the Greenville Industrial Park and Park West would be expanded under the plan, in the hopes of creating an inland port in the decades ahead.



Copies of the draft document of the Small Area Plan are available for viewing at the W. Walworth Harrison Public Library, in the Municipal Building and in the Community Development office, as well as on the City of Greenville Web site at www.ci.greenville.tx.us.

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