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Council reviews first sections of 2025 comprehensive plan draft; staff to correct figures and add updated permit data
Summary
Council heard a presentation from consultant Freese and Nichols on the draft 2025 comprehensive plan (community snapshot, principles, land use, transportation and housing). Members requested corrections to figures, up-to-date building permit and traffic counts, and clearer linkage between public-input findings and recommended priorities.
The Granbury City Council on Feb. 4 received a presentation and discussion of the draft 2025 comprehensive plan prepared by consultants and staff. The review covered the community snapshot, guiding principles, goals, future land use, transportation and housing sections (the first portion of the draft). No council action was required.
David Jones of Freese and Nichols summarized data sources, noting heavy reliance on American Community Survey (ACS) five-year estimates and stated the consultant team would cross-check city permit data and other sources to update the draft. Council members and staff identified multiple areas for correction or elaboration: figure cross-references that did not match paragraphs, the need to incorporate the city's most recent building permit records and 2024 traffic counts, distinctions between city limits and extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) on maps and analyses, and better weighting of public-input comments so that single-comment suggestions do not read as citywide priorities.
Councilmembers debated housing characterizations in the draft. Several members asked the consultant to clarify terms such as "missing middle" and "small-lot single-family," to add locally sourced real estate price data (for example, median/mean home price) and to examine how ETJ development and annexation patterns should be depicted given state law constraints on annexation. Staff and consultants agreed to provide clearer definitions, incorporate updated permit counts, and add a version of the future land use map that shows city limits and the ETJ separately.
Council also discussed economic and commuting patterns: staff and the consultant noted that many residents commute out of Granbury for work and that economic development strategies should consider the industries that draw residents out of the city. Members asked staff to verify employment and commute statistics before they are used in planning or budget decisions.
No votes were taken. Staff will correct figure labels, add more recent permit and traffic data where available, tighten the presentation of public-input findings and return a revised draft for further review.
