A primer on Short Term Rentals

The different types of Stealth Dorms

College Station is in the process of revising its comprehensive Plan. This plan will guide development for the next decade. As we embark on this process, it is helpful to reflect on the performance of the last comprehensive plan adopted in 2009.

College Station is the only city in the nation to simultaneously have national accreditations in police, fire, public safety communications, parks, water, and public works.

The 2018 Existing Conditions Report provides a snapshot of College Station's current conditions and trends for demographics, economic development, land use, public facilities, and transportation. This is the first step in a process to provide a ten-year update to the City's 2009-2030 Comprehensive Plan

Since being incorporated in 1938, the city of College Station has actively annexed property into its city limits. There are currently 32,814 acres within the city limits,102,978 acres within the city's ETJ and 2,211 acres of agricultural land covered in non-annexation agreements

The College Station-Bryan area has a growing, educated labor force and low unemployment rate. The growth of Texas A&M is a significant driver in the positive expansion of the local economy.

In October 2018, the population estimate for College Station was 119,748. Since 2010, the population has increased by 26 percent.

Now a common picture in College Station: a cookie-cutter three story apartment building over a vacant commercial space. At the end of the day, a vacant storefront makes the whole street feel neglected and undesirable, and it isn’t fulfilling its purpose.

The stealth dorm concept is to rent homes by-the-room, which has elevated the cash flow to the point that investors can pay very high prices for land, far beyond the residential value.

The Texas Department of Transportation estimates College Station now has the fourth busiest downtown area in Texas.

Texas A&M Real Estate Center concludes that prices have been “explosive,” driven by commercial rental properties in residential neighborhoods.

High-occupancy commercial rental houses in single-family neighborhoods have negatively impacted the quality of life in our community and distorted property values, affecting families who reside in these neighborhoods and traditional renters.

Residential zoning should not be changed to General Commercial to place businesses and their associated traffic flow inside neighborhoods.

Historically, City Council has not placed a priority on the right of a resident to not have a commercial business built next door.