City of Bastrop, Texas In 2019, the City of Bastrop, Texas implemented new land-use regulations to establish a street grid as a framework for growth. The main driver for this change was flood mitigation and overall resilience following five floods and three significant wildfires in the decade leading up to plan implementation. The city created the “Bastrop Building Block (B3) Code” by the following City Council purpose statement, “Create a fiscally sustainable community through land-use standards that are authentically Bastrop and geographically sensitive.” This code, as well as the Authentic Bastrop Pattern Book and the Bastrop Building Block Manual, are standalone documents and are adopted by reference in Chapter 14 of the Bastrop Code of Ordinances. The City also created a Transportation Master Plan that establishes a street grid in both undeveloped parts of the city and in extraterritorial jurisdiction (Figure 32). The Bastrop Master Transportation Plan and Thoroughfare Master Plan establish the foundation for the mandatory street network, and the provisions of B3 build upon that foundation in greater detail. The B3 Code is organized in a hierarchal structure from the highest scale, city wide planning, to the smallest scale, lots and buildings. The city uses seven Place Types (which are similar to transect zones) to distinguish areas with distinct characteristics: P1 – Nature, P2 – Rural, P3 – Neighborhood, P4 - Neighborhood Mix, P5 – Core, EC - Employment Center, CS - Civic Space, and PDD - Planned Development District. These place types relate to intensity of development and building types and determine how the code can be applied. Table 25 is an example of how Place Types are used to guide the design and development of the street network.
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