13. Market Analysis
• Detailed demographic analysis of city and the region
• Demand projections of activities for these markets
• Understanding of visitor market potential
• Comparisons of other lakes to Nasworthy
• Demand analyses for restaurant, hotel, and special uses
16. Market Opportunities
• Programming of water events (an “event facility”)
• Tourism from other west Texas communities
• Education and family venues
• Quality of life activities for locals
• Increased values for undeveloped nearby parcels
27. Harbor Village
Incorporate Mary E Lee Park and adjacent location
to catalyze activity by creating a mix of uses:
• Hotel on the lake - 120 to 150 rooms total
• Restaurants - 30,000 SF
• Conference center - 30,000 SF
• Retail/Entertainment Flex Space - 45,000 SF
• Beach structure with concessions - 6,000 SF
30. TxDOT Project Development Process
Manual [revisions in blue]
Subsection 1000
“For urban projects, particularly capacity improvements,
the need for a project may be determined from traffic
modeling of future travel demands as well as from the
need for a sustainable street and transit network
associated with… urban design established in regional
plans, comprehensive plans, neighborhood plans, other
local plans, special district plans, relevant public-private
partnerships or economic development plans.”
Subsection 1330
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the
Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) have developed a
proposed recommended practice …. Those resources and
the other resource materials listed below shall provide
guidance for the CSS process.
31. Accommodation Goals and Approach
Using ITE’s Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares
• Traffic
Operations
• Transit
• Pedestrians
• Bicycles
• Cars
• Parking
• Landscaping
• ADA
• Development
• Context zoning
37. Nature/Education
• Nature Center (relocated)
Potential partnership with
larger Texas Zoo
• Family Entertainment Center (FEC)
Only if risk remains on private sector
40. Special Opportunity
• Walk/Jogging/Bike Trail
• Windsurfing
• Zip line (connection to Gun Club Hill)
• Hotel (potential Interpretive Ctr.)
• Residential Development
• Commercial/Retail Development
43. Activation of a previously dormant parcel by taking
advantage of the canal and location on the Lake:
Power Plant Catalytic Site
• Hotel on the Channel
• Neighborhood retail and commercial
• Mixed Residential Types
• Potential Heritage Interpretive Center
53. Gun Club Hill
• Per the City Engineer, a trail
could be facilitated via
construction of an additional
5 to 8 foot wide improved
pedestrian way adjacent to
the roadway (20 feet width)