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Bastrop council approves revised future land use map with narrow downtown commercial footprint
Summary
The Bastrop City Council adopted a revised comprehensive plan map that narrows the downtown commercial designation, reclassifies several areas as residential conservation, and includes a staff-accepted amendment shrinking one proposed neighborhood-commercial area to match an existing farm parcel.
The Bastrop City Council on May 27 approved the second reading of an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan updating the Future Land Use Map and related text in chapters 2 and 5.
The vote implements a smaller downtown commercial core, converts peripheral mixed-use areas back to primarily residential designations and adds new definitions to protect rural and conservation estate areas. The council approved the measure unanimously after accepting a friendly amendment to reduce the size of a proposed neighborhood‑commercial area to the footprint of the existing Eden East Farm parcel.
The change narrows the Lavender “Downtown Bastrop” designation to concentrate commercial uses in the core downtown and reclassifies much of the former mixed-use area as single‑family neighborhood residential with pockets of neighborhood commercial where staff and council…
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