Strategy 1: Encourage Middle Market Housing
Key Players City of Pearland
Time Frame
Key Players City of Pearland, Chamber of Commerce
Time Frame
Chapter
ID
Action Item
Chapter
ID
Action Item
Placemaking
8.1
Develop or update design guidelines that require the implementation of established placemaking in key place type areas and the use of natural areas and sustainable resources in the design of Pearland neighborhoods and amenity areas.
Short- Term
Housing
6.1
Implement cluster development to provide additional density, with incentives for providing middle market housing types and additional neighborhood amenities. Update the UDC to allow a more diverse housing stock. This should include a combination of allowing smaller lot sizes and related development standards, allowing certain types by right in specific zoning districts (mixed-use and multifamily development in retail and office zones and ADUs within certain zoning districts), and providing applicants with tools for more efficient implementation.
Ongoing
Housing
6.2
City of Pearland
Short- Term
Mobility
9.9 Update the UDC with specific pedestrian realm requirements in areas with middle market housing, including shade, wider sidewalks, refuge, benches, trash receptacles, etc.
City of Pearland
Short- Term
Strategy 2: Update the UDC
Housing
6.3 Establish a database to evaluate if middle market housing units that are being developed are accomplishing the City's goals 6.4 Establish pre-approved patterns for building type where appropriate, using the City of Bryan’s Midtown Pattern Zoning as a reference; add to the OpenCounter or Zoning Check tools and inform applicants in pre-development meetings. 6.6 Expand the City’s Zoning Portal with an online interactive map that contains a database that allows the users to see if a specific parcel of land can develop middle market housing.
City of Pearland
Mid-Term
Key Players City of Pearland
Time Frame
Chapter
ID
Action Item
Housing
City of Pearland
Mid-Term
Land Use
4.1 Review the Conditional Use Permit and zone change criteria to determine if projects are incorporating the values of the comprehensive plan. 4.3 Examine lost development opportunity from required detention and provide credit toward additional units and density within designated areas. Required detention = Y Y/minimum lot size = X X = incentive within BP-288, town center, etc. for live-work, non-garden style multifamily, etc." development-related ordinances with the vision expressed in this comprehensive plan, accommodate the FLUP, include more flexibility for development standards, and make the document more reader-friendly. 4.4 Update the City’s UDC to align the
Short- Term
Land Use
City of Pearland
Short- Term
Housing
City of Pearland
Mid-Term
Housing
6.8
Create a focus group as the City is developing new regulations for middle market housing; City Council appointed focus group with each Councilmember appointing one appointee to develop recommendations for Middle Market housing. Middle Market housing consists of a range housing options that is not a single-family home or a large apartment complex, examples include multiplexes, carriage houses, townhouses, and courtyard apartments.
City of Pearland
Short- Term
Land Use
City of Pearland
Short- Term
PEARLAND COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2040
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