Hutson Land Planners and Development Consultants, LLC is focused on changing how land planning is thought of in Central Texas and around the State, by providing a comprehensive scope of services including feasibility, design, entitlements and advocacy.
Governmental Entities
HLP has recently focused on the production of land use analysis to assist governmental entities with the acquisition of rights-of-way throughout the State of Texas. From Dallas/Fort Worth to Houston, clients include the Dallas and Houston district offices of TxDOT, Haltom City, O.R. Colan Associates and Halff Associates. We have also worked directly with the Texas State Attorney General’s Office to produce land use analysis in preparation for special commissioner’s hearings and court proceedings.
Hutson Land Planners has produced land use analyses for parcels along FM 423 in The Colony, IH 35E and IH 635 in Dallas, FM 720 in Little Elm, FM 2181 in Corinth and Hickory Creek, SH 183 in Irving, SH 121 in Bedford and Euless as part of the NTE project, SH 114 in Southlake and Grapevine as part of the DFW Connector Project and IH 45 in Houston and Conroe. HLP works with the lead appraisers, staff engineers, consulting appraisers and consulting engineers to evaluate the existing use of the property and establish appropriate solutions for remainder tracts.
HLP is also on the team of consultants engaged by the Houston-Galveston Area Council to evaluate the SH 6 corridor northwest of Houston. HLP is charged with analyzing the potential for location and design of livable centers throughout the project scope and the final design of a livable center to determine the development impact of vertical mixed use within a transportation corridor. HLP also assisted in the property and accessibility analysis of the corridor; reviewing the impacts of future rights-of-way and accessibility.
Private Sector
Private sector work includes the land use and site characteristics analysis, site design and entitlements of two tracts along US 290 West in Austin, Texas for hotel and mixed use development. This work includes representation of the client before neighborhood committees and before city council to obtain a zoning change during the adoption of the Oak Hill Neighborhood Plan, as well as site design of the property and management of the consultants and entitlement process.
Additional work includes the advocacy for a client who owns a large acreage tract near the intersection of Loop 1604 and IH 10 in San Antonio, Texas. This work includes the determination of the maximum building potential of the property utilizing vertical mixed use livable centers.