Oak Point is lining up a rewrite of its comprehensive plan, the document that guides how land in the city is used and developed, with $200,000 from a Texas General Land Office grant, according to the packet for Wednesday's City Council meeting.
The city applied for and received the money through the land office's Resilient Communities Program, Community Development Director Brian Salvesen wrote in a staff memo. After a request for qualifications, the city picked Westwood Professional Services both to revise the plan and to help administer the grant.
The council voted 7-0 on Sept. 16 to let the city manager negotiate and sign a contract with the firm, according to draft minutes of that meeting included in the packet.
Paperwork before the money flows
On Wednesday's consent agenda is a resolution naming who may sign grant documents for the city. City Manager Noah A. Simon and Salvesen would sign contract documents, and Simon and Finance Director Zina Pew would sign financial ones. The memo says the land office requires the form before Oak Point can begin receiving reimbursements.
The resolution ties the work to Texas Community Development Block Grant contract No. 23-160-213-F796. Once it is approved, staff plan to keep working with Westwood to start the planning process, form a steering committee and meet the grant's requirements as milestones are reached, the memo says. It does not give a schedule or say how residents will be invited to take part.
The plan now in force is the 2019 Comprehensive Plan, which staff cite elsewhere in the packet for its future land use map. The city has since added a 2023 corridor plan and a 2024 FM 720 zoning overlay, according to the same report.
