SITE DEVELOPMENT CONSIDERATIONS

A FEW INITIAL FEASIBILITY INSIGHTS FOR REFERENCE

Physical Factors

Geotechnical conditions

  • Soil type and characteristics

  • Depth to bedrock

  • Percolation rate

  • Hydrological characteristics

  • Depth to water table

  • Sinkhole and radon potential from underlying strata

Topographical conditions

  • Desirable and undesirable slopes

  • Elevation

  • Sinkholes

  • Floodplains

Site features

  • Location

  • Water bodies

  • Wetlands

  • Rock outcroppings

  • Vegetative cover

  • Drainage patterns

  • Views

Hazards

  • Buried storage tanks

  • Hazardous materials

  • Pesticide and other chemical deposits

  • High tension power lines

Improvements

  • Presence of installed utilities and data

  • Roads, traffic conditions (heavily traveled or not?)

  • Access on and off

  • Future improvements

  • Buildings, Fences, Driveways

  • Boat ramps or docks

Site history

  • Prior land uses

  • Presence of historical or archaeological artifacts

  • Surface rights

  • Mineral rights

  • Fee simple title (ownership legal interest)

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Legal and Political Factors

Regulatory conditions

  • Federal, state and local regulations

  • Army Corps of Engineers requirements

  • Texas Commission on Environmental Quality requirements

  • Texas Department of Transportation requirements

  • Comprehensive master plan guidelines

  • Past and current zoning

  • Future zoning

  • Rights-of-way and easements

  • Platting and subdivision requirements

  • Adopted building, health, safety, fire protection and site development codes

  • Parking requirements

  • Landscaping requirements

  • Lighting requirements

  • Setback requirements

  • Height requirements

  • Density requirements

  • Signage requirements

  • Stormwater requirements (SWPPP)

  • Zoning overlay districts

  • Historical overlay zones

  • Design overlay zones

  • Law enforcement, fire, emergency medical service and disaster services

  • Deed restrictions

Political conditions

  • Number and types of homeowner associations

  • Special interest groups

  • Impact on adjoining or adjacent properties

  • Local community attitudes toward development

  • Economic development incentives

Off-site Factors

  • Noise

  • Offensive odors

  • Desirable and undesirable adjacent land uses

  • Traffic conditions

  • Type and condition of infrastructure

  • Community services

LET’S RESOLVE TOGETHER TO THE NEXT LEVEL

“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock”

- Matt. 7: 24-25