Editing Whitehouse, Texas (section)

==Planning and development==

===Past efforts===

[[Image:WCP cover wiki.jpg|thumb|The front and back cover of the Whitehouse Vision 2020 Comprehensive Plan. The document was adopted by the City of Whitehouse in the spring of 2006.]]  Whitehouse is in the first phase of an overhaul of its planning regulations. The city initially began regulating land use through zoning on December 4, 1987. The next major effort intended to improve quality of life in the city through planning was the completion of the community's first comprehensive plan in April 1996. The document was developed by J.T. Dunkin & Associates.

===Recent efforts===

The city's [[Planning and zoning commission|Planning & Zoning Commission]] has worked at the direction of the City Council to update various components of the 1987 [[zoning]] ordinance. The commission also recommended updates to the subdivision regulations which were adopted in February 2004. The city also contracted with Butler Planning Services to update the comprehensive plan from 1996. The firm, along with a citizen steering committee, produced the [http://www.butlerplanning.com/whitehouse/index.html Whitehouse Vision 2020 Comprehensive Plan] in the spring of 2006. Following this effort, the city is currently evaluating the need for a new zoning ordinance which can implement the recommendations of the Vision 2020 Plan.