Consolidated Land Use Plan
The Land Use Plan consolidates all the area plan recommendations for future land use from Phase II of Southlake 2025 into one cohesive document for the city as a whole. The purpose of the plan is to serve as the community's vision for future development by allocating the appropriate location, concentration, and intensity of future development by land use categories. The plan was approved by City Council on August 2, 2005.
The context of the consolidated Land Use Plan is the city and its region. Accordingly, the individual area plans should be consulted for further detail and site specific recommendations when making land use decisions for individual properties or areas of the city.
The 2005 Consolidated Land Use Plan introduces optional land use designations. The optional land use categories provide alternative tools to encourage creativity and flexibility in development while preserving Southlake's unique character. The optional land use categories may be used by developers in lieu of the underlying land use category in cases where master planned developments are proposed.
The City Council approved Consolidated Land Use Plan is now available in Adobe Reader format. You may download the entire plan as one file or you may download the chapters, maps, and appendices individually. We recommend downloading the files before opening them, especially if you do not have a broad-band internet connection.
Note: If you are simply looking for a brief overview of the different land use designations, you may wish to download the Summary of Land Use Designations and Zoning Districts, rather than the entire plan or individual plan sections.
Complete Plan
(This is a very large file; please right click and save to your hard drive before opening)
Plan Sections:
- Title, Executive Summary, and Table of Contents (151 KB)
- Chapter 1.0: Introduction (39 KB)
- Chapter 2.0: Land Use Recommendations (26 KB)
- Chapter 3.0: Underlying Land Use Categories and Definitions (1070 KB)
- Includes: 100 Year Flood Plain, Corps of Engineers, Public Parks/Open Space, Public/Semi-Public, Low Density Residential, Medium Density Residential, Office Commercial, Retail Commercial, Mixed Use, Industrial, Regional Retail, and Town Center.
- Chapter 4.0: Optional Land Use Categories and Definitions - Part 1 (700 KB)
- Includes: Rural Conservation (RC), Employment Center 1 (EC-1), Employment Center 2 (EC-2), and Employment Center Residential (EC-R).
- Chapter 4.0: Optional Land Use Categories and Definitions - Part 2 (983 KB)
- Includes: Transition 1 (T-1) and Transition 2 (T-2).
- Chapter 5.0: Airport Compatible Land Uses (12 KB)
- Chapter 6.0: Southlake Planning - Past and Future (82 KB)
- Future Land Use Plan Map - Consolidated Underlying Land Use Designations (566 KB) Note: There have been some amendments to the land use map since the original document was published. For the most up-to-date map, please visit the Interactive Mapping page.
- Future Land Use Plan Map - Consolidated Optional Land Use Designations (554 KB) Note: There have been some amendments to the land use map since the original document was published. For the most up-to-date map, please visit the Interactive Mapping page.
- Appendix A - Regional Retail Design Guidelines (404 KB)
- Appendix B - Employment Center Form Standards (1473 KB)