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Planning and Zoning Commission approves preliminary and final plats for West Bastrop Village Phase 1 Section 5
Summary
The Bastrop Planning and Zoning Commission on March 27 approved a preliminary and final plat for a 5.1-acre section of West Bastrop Village that will create 27 single-family lots; utilities will be provided by the local MUD and electricity by Bluebonnet.
The Planning and Zoning Commission on March 27 approved both a preliminary and final plat for West Bastrop Village Phase 1 Section 5, a 5.1-acre parcel in the City of Bastrop’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.
The preliminary and final plats, presented to the commission as agenda items 3d and 3e, cover a parcel described as 5.1 acres out of the Nancy Blakely survey, Abstract 98, west of FM 20. Commission members were shown a proposed layout the presenter said would produce 27 single-family lots and that “all the utilities are provided water and sewers through the MUD, the streets [are] maintained by the MUD, and Bluebonnet’s electric services power to it.”
City staff said the parcel sits between existing houses on Weaver and Gorda and a school site under construction identified in the meeting materials. Staff explained that Weaver Lane will extend to the school site and transition from a public street to a school driveway and emergency access; Bloom Street was identified as the route providing emergency access to State Highway 71. Staff also said most lots are about 0.1 acre in size.
Commissioners asked for clarification about how Weaver Lane ties into the school driveway and about lot sizes; staff responded that Weaver dead-ends into the school site and becomes the school’s driveway and fire/access lanes. The presenter said the elementary school on the adjacent lot is under construction "as we speak." The commission also noted the project lies within the city’s statutory extraterritorial jurisdiction.
After brief discussion the commission voted to approve the preliminary plat (agenda item 3d) and, later in the meeting, approved the final plat (agenda item 3e). The approvals were taken by voice/roll call and commissioners present voted in favor.
The plats proceed as part of a larger, multi-phase West Bastrop Village development; staff said the developer has coordinated utilities and infrastructure through the applicable municipal utility district and that the master development’s utilities and road layout supported processing both preliminary and final plats on the same night.
Plans and final engineering details for connections to adjacent streets, school access, drainage and other infrastructure will proceed during permitting and final acceptance processes managed by city staff and the MUD. The commission did not attach additional conditions to the approvals during the meeting.
Commission members present unanimously approved both motions; one commissioner (Patrice Parsons) was absent from the roll calls recorded in the meeting packet.
The commission will record the approved plats in the city’s final plat records and the developer will continue infrastructure work before lot-by-lot permits are issued.
