HomeMy WebLinkAboutIR 9530 INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS No. 9530
b6j%LT&11,% To the Mayor and Members of the City Council December 18, 2012
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SUBJECT: DRAFT 2013 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMMUNITY MEETINGS
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The purpose of this report is to provide the City Council with the results of Comprehensive Plan
community meetings held this fall (See Exhibit A). The draft 2013 Comprehensive Plan is an
alternate-year partial update and includes only the three trend chapters and the appendix items,
including the Future Land Use Maps, Capital Improvement Program and Annexation Program. A
full update of the Comprehensive Plan will be completed for 2014.
Since August, City staff has met with more than 300 people at 15 separate meetings. Staff did
not receive any substantive recommended changes to the draft plan, but staff did hear from
several residents that street and facility projects need to be completed faster. Staff also
responded to several requests for street construction updates. The community meetings focused
on the Capital Improvement Program development process and solicited feedback on
infrastructure needs. A City Council Planning Workshop is scheduled for January 9, and staff will
provide updated status and recommendations on potential future projects including comments
received at the public meetings.
The Planning and Development Department encourages public participation in the
Comprehensive Plan update process by publishing articles in City News and posting notices on
Facebook and Twitter, as well as posting update information and the draft plan on the City's
website. Staff meets individually with interested business organizations and neighborhood
associations at their request.
Staff also held three annexation meetings in Far North Fort Worth where approximately 90
citizens were briefed on the annexation program for their property. Approximately 15 people
attended the meeting for areas in Districts 2 and 7. Attendees expressed some concern about
being annexed, but mainly asked questions about the process and how they would be affected.
About 50 people attended a special meeting for enclave Area 10-1 in District 7 adjacent to Haslet,
which the City Council would add to the three-year annexation plan for annexation consideration
in 2015. Area 38 in District 7 along Jacksboro Highway also had a special meeting, since the
enclave is proposed to move from the long-range program to the five-year program. About 30
people attended the meeting for Area 38. At both special meetings, the comments ranged from
strong objections to minor concerns about being annexed. The City Council will consider nine of
the areas in the five-year annexation program for annexation in 2013.
The next steps in the update process include a public hearing on January 23 with the City Plan
Commission followed by a public hearing with the City Council on February 12. Staff will ask the
City Council to adopt the 2013 Comprehensive Plan on February 26.
ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER FORT WORTH, TEXAS
INFORMAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS No. 9530
�%LT&'1'% To the Mayor and Members of the City Council December 18, 2012
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SUBJECT: DRAFT 2013 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMMUNITY MEETINGS
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Should you have any questions, please contact Randle Harwood, Planning and Development
Director, at 817-392-8180.
Tom Higgins
City Manager
EXHIBIT A
2013 Comprehensive Plan Community Input Meetings
Date Organization Attendance
August 28 Fairmount Neighborhood 40
September 4 Central Meadowbrook Neighborhood. 28
September 10 Fort Worth South, Inc. 24
September 13 Berkeley Place Neighborhood 10
September 24 Wedgwood West Neighborhood 30
October 11 Summerfields Neighborhood 9
October 18 Far South Fort Worth Neighborhoods 48
October 20 North Fort Worth Alliance 30
October 24 Stoneglen at Fossil Creek Neighborhood 16
October 30 Inner District 2 Alliance 5
November 3 NorthWest Community Alliance 60
November 8 Greater Fort Worth Real Estate Council 20
November 12 Fort Worth Art Commission 15
November 13 Fox Run/Poynter Crossing Neighborhoods 2
January 3 Hispanic Leadership Breakfast
TOTAL 307
ISSUED BY THE CITY MANAGER FORT WORTH, TEXAS