06-20-1985 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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Page Two • June 17, 'i 985 Community Facilities & Safety Plans • Following is a synopsis of each plan: COMMUNITY FACILITIES Reference 1B contains guidelines for all public facilities likely to be needed to serve our citizenry in the future, whether privately or publicly owned. Table 12 of Reference 1A narrows the focus down to public facilities. Table 2, following, summarizes those facilities included within the proposed City Capital Improvement Program. La Porte Independent School District anticipates constructing a second high school, a vocational school, a new junior high school, and two more elementary schools within the district during the next 35 years. The market study revealed that the City could be a viable location for a 60-100 bed hospital owned by a health management organization. Such a hospital would initially need to draw -from adjacent cities for its required 60,000 service area population. • Reference 1C is a detailed twenty year master plan for La Porte Municipal Airport (LPMA), which is classified as a General Utility Stage 1 General Aviation Airport by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Major features of the Airport Master Plan are: LPMA now houses about 200 mostly single-engine aircraft, which figure is expected to grow about 3% per year to 370 by the year 2005. Annual operations (take-offs and landings) are expected to increase about 5% a year, from about 80,000 to 222,000 by 2005. These important forecasts assumes Hobby ..~...~..i.~.po,~.x~_.Ellington AFB, and -Baytown--~.-irpartw-w-i-l-l-µ-compete with LPMA in the General Aviation Market. The existing runways have adequate width and strength for General Utility Stage 1 use. The NW-SE runway should be lengthened 200' at the NW end. Most future development should be concentrated in the area south of the runway intersection. Scheduled for phased construction in that area are a large apron for aircraft open storage, a terminal building, and two hangers for private lease. The second area for future development is west of the runway intersection, where 18 T-hangers and 3 corporate hangers will • eventually be constructed.