Land Use Impact of Improving Section Two of Westheimer Road in a Developing Area in Houston, Texas

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• Creators:
  Herndon Jr, Cary W. ; Buffington, Jesse L.
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas Transportation Institute. Texas A&M University
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Abutments Analysis Data Collection Highways Impact Inventory Land Use Real Property
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-79/39+225-14
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Houston (Texas) ; United States
• Edition:
  Interim: September 1976 to July 1979
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas Transportation Institute. Texas A&M University
• Abstract:
  The majority of previous land use impact studies have been devoted to investigating the effects that new highway construction has on land use change and development. In view of the new emphasis placed upon upgrading and redesigning existing facilities rather than building new ones, highway planners need information relative to the influence that existing facility improvement has on area land uses. This report relates the findings of such an improvement which occurred in Houston, Texas when Section Two of Westheimer Road (F.M. 1093) between Hillcroft-Voss Road and Fondren Road, was upgraded from a two-lane rural type road to a six-lane divided thoroughfare. Prior to the improvement, the study area was described as a developing area in which the predominant land use was unimproved. Abutting and nonabutting properties were analyzed to determine the impact that the Westheimer Road improvement had on land development relative to location of property within the Study Area. Land use inventory data were collected for four study period years: 1962, the first "before" year; 1964, the last "before" year and first "construction" year; 1970, the last "construction" year and first "after" year; and 1978, the last "after" year. The 16-year study period includes two "before" years, six "construction" years, and eight "after" years. Comparisons of the type and rate of land use change were made between each of the three analysis periods to determine the impact of the improvement on area development. The results are reported in narrative, graphic and tabular form.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  2-8-77-225
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f65334a7726da8098650dc9f2bbe703c90ee042a11dbdd9f45aa66b8d120dc61a66c7f76a7c503f8cab25db439a27f1b34e3e3f7c86587b4b7f272ebcda52a4b
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/85652/dot_85652_DS1.pdf
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