Research snapshot · Development · 31 August 2026

Zoning and site plan in Texas: 8 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 17 dated municipal records flagged as zoning and site plan in Texas, spanning 8 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Big Spring, 22 March 2022. Since then 8 Texas towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Parker on 10 March 2026.

The last 90 days put 0 meetings on the record, well down from 1 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: City Council, Planning and Zoning Commission and Public Notices.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202511
Dec 2025 to Feb 202621
Mar 2026 to May 202611
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)00

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 2 meetings.

The towns on the record8, earliest first

Every Texas town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Big Springearliest 2022-03-22 · 1 meeting · latest 2022-03-22 · the agenda City Council Meeting
Laporteearliest 2023-01-23 · 3 meetings · latest 2024-07-18 · the agenda July 18, 2024, Planning and Zoning Commission meeting agenda packet
Corsicanaearliest 2023-08-14 · 1 meeting · latest 2023-08-14 · the public notice Notice of City Council Meeting - August 14, 2023
Seabrookearliest 2024-02-15 · 4 meetings · latest 2025-11-20 · the public notice PZ Public Hearing Notice - Creating Associated Regulations Prohibiting Hazardous Materials
Castrovilleearliest 2025-01-08 · 4 meetings · latest 2025-02-11 · the agenda Original Agenda posted on new page with packet link shown at top of this page- Courtesy post
Friendswoodearliest 2025-08-25 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-08-25 · the agenda City Council Special Meeting, August 25, 2025 2025-08-25 — 2025 08 25 SP CC PACKET
League Cityearliest 2026-01-08 · 2 meetings · latest 2026-01-08 · the document 4C Staff Report Used Cars Remediated
Parkerearliest 2026-03-10 · 1 meeting · latest 2026-03-10 · the agenda City Council Special Meeting - March 10, 2026

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

10 March 2026 · Parker City Council Agendas/

the agenda, on the town's own site City Council Special Meeting - March 10, 2026

8 January 2026 · League City Planning & Zoning Commission Agendas

the document, on the town's own site 4C Staff Report Used Cars Remediated

20 November 2025 · Seabrook Public Notices

the public notice, on the town's own site PZ Public Hearing Notice - Creating Associated Regulations Prohibiting Hazardous Materials

25 August 2025 · Friendswood General

the agenda, on the town's own site City Council Special Meeting, August 25, 2025 2025-08-25 — 2025 08 25 SP CC PACKET

Companies on this record35 companies, 8 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
Algonquin Power & UtilitiesLaporte
Ardurra Group, Inc.Friendswood
AT&TCastroville
Atmos Energy CorporationParker
Bay Area Signs and Electrical, LLCFriendswood
Birkhoff, Hendricks, and Carter, LLPParker
Channel Industries Mutual Aid OrganizationLaporte
ChevroletCastroville
Construction Masters of Houston, Inc.Friendswood
Core & MainParker
Crossroads Housing Development CorporationBig Spring
Denton, Navaro, Santee, Rodriguez, Bernal & ZechCastroville
Director of Planning and Community DevelopmentSeabrook
Environmental Improvements, Inc.Laporte
Friendswood Downtown Economic Development CorporationFriendswood
Galveston County Consolidated Drainage DistrictFriendswood
Gary Reno/aSeabrook
Gates of Praise Christian CenterLaporte
Grapevine Dodge Chrysler JeepFriendswood
Gravity Oilfield Services, LLCBig Spring
Harris-Galveston Subsidence DistrictFriendswood
HDR Engineering, Inc.Friendswood
Medina County Appraisal DistrictCastroville
MVISDCastroville
Office of the GovernorCastroville
Republic ServicesParker
RESPEC EngineersCastroville
Restore the Grasslands, LLCParker
Siddons Martin Emergency Group, LLCFriendswood
SimpleCityCastroville

And 5 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 146 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

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Also at this scope: Zoning and site plan across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Zoning and site plan, Texas

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Texas

every topic this state carries

Area

Development

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

8

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

22 March 2022

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

0 against 1 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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