The City of Pfugerville has identfed the Wilbarger Creekside District as a potental site for residental and commercial actvites that can absorb antcipated populaton growth. The District is outside of Pfugerville city limits but stll within the city’s extraterritorial jurisdicton. The District is anchored by Wilbarger Creek, a 42-mile creek with a 116,000 acre watershed […]
University Department: Urban and Regional Planning
Broadhead Marketing Analysis: Business Inventory and Research
The City of Brodhead set out to begin a study of its local market. Some reasons for the analysis include: • Several vacancies in downtown. • A more measured growth rate. • Understanding of how Brodhead is doing overall. Brodhead is pursuing a market analysis to better understand the retail, service, and business needs of […]
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Gonzales Comprehensive Plan
The 2012 State of the Community Report is a critical component in identifying where the City of Gonzales currently stands. It provides a baseline by which different facets of the community can be looked at piece by piece, revealing each of their strengths and opportunities as well as weaknesses and potential challenges. However, that portion […]
Gonzales Comprehensive Plan
The 2012 State of the Community Report is a critical component in identifying where the City of Gonzales currently stands. It provides a baseline by which different facets of the community can be looked at piece by piece, revealing each of their strengths and opportunities as well as weaknesses and potential challenges. However, that portion […]
Gonzales Comprehensive Plan
The 2012 State of the Community Report is a critical component in identifying where the City of Gonzales currently stands. It provides a baseline by which different facets of the community can be looked at piece by piece, revealing each of their strengths and opportunities as well as weaknesses and potential challenges. However, that portion […]
Gonzales Comprehensive Plan
The 2012 State of the Community Report is a critical component in identifying where the City of Gonzales currently stands. It provides a baseline by which different facets of the community can be looked at piece by piece, revealing each of their strengths and opportunities as well as weaknesses and potential challenges. However, that portion […]
Land Use Scenarios for Leander
Sustainable Land Use Planning classwork focused on two curricular units, each informing the development of land use scenarios for the City of Leander. The first part provided background information on the history, institutional frameworks, purpose, principles and values inherent in land use and comprehensive planning today. The second part covered the background analytic and participatory […]
Pecan Street Corridor Design
Students in the Transit Planning course were tasked with identfying key crossings and future land uses that could beneft from pedestrian and bicycle transportaton infrastructure. Given future transportaton needs, current best practces for pedestrian and bicycle transportaton, and budget constraints, students have proposed a unifed concept for mixeduse transportaton along and across Pecan Street Read […]
Understanding Homelessness (1/2)
In recent years, there has been a perceived increase in homelessness in Apache Junction. The 2017 Point in Time (PIT) count tallied 43 sheltered or unsheltered homeless individuals in the city on a single night in January. Apache Junction’s services for such individuals are limited and divided by county lines that bisect the city. Further, […]
Green Retrofitting
Students in the Energy Modeling & Design and Introducton to Engineering Design & Graphics courses evaluated a number of city buildings to provide the City of Pfugerville with energy efciency and water use improvement projects. They developed general concepts around energy and water conservaton and provided some optons for existng city-owned building. In completng this […]