Planning & Development Services

Celebrate cycling, culture, and international friendship at Biketober on Saturday, Oct. 10! The event features a free 8.6-mile community ride connecting College Station City Hall and Bryan Midtown Park, starting at 9:30 a.m. (registration at 8:30). Enjoy German-inspired food, live music, games, family fun, and bike safety activities at City Hall's south parking lot from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

In this week’s episode of “What’s Up, College Station?,” Transportation and Mobility Planner Carl Ahrens shares how his childhood passion for SimCity and early experiences with traffic congestion inspired his career in urban planning. The conversation centers on Biketober, an 8.6-mile community bike ride on Saturday, Oct. 10, highlighting our longstanding Sister City relationship with Greifswald, Germany.

Over the past several months, the City of College Station invited residents, businesses, property owners, students and other community members to help answer those questions as part of the Harvey District planning process. While the input does not represent a scientific sample or point to one preferred redevelopment concept, several themes appeared consistently across the engagement activities.

A map is only useful if it’s easy to navigate. When you first open our Planning and Development Services Interactive Map, the splash of colors and layers can feel overwhelming, but beneath the visuals lies invaluable information for property owners, buyers, and neighbors alike. To help you get started, we created a quick video tutorial that walks you through the basics.

The Harvey District Plan is well underway, guiding reinvestment, connectivity, housing, business vitality and public spaces along Harvey Road from Texas Avenue to State Highway 6. We invite you to take a brief community survey to share your experiences in the district and your vision for its future.

We’ve all seen it during a heavy Texas downpour. You look outside, and the street looks more like a shallow river than a road. It can be frustrating when your travels are delayed, and it’s normal to wonder why the drainage system isn’t keeping up. But the truth is, the system is working just as it was designed.

In this week’s episode of “What’s Up, College Station?,” Principal Planner Heather Wade discusses the upcoming Harvey Road District Plan, which focuses on revitalizing and reinvesting in a key commercial gateway with aging infrastructure and disconnected pedestrian paths.

The City of College Station invites residents, business owners and property owners to help create a shared vision for the Harvey District through interactive community visioning workshops in August. You can share ideas about what makes the area unique and what opportunities should guide its future.

The City of College Station is launching the Harvey Road Corridor Redevelopment Plan, a long-range planning initiative that focuses on shaping the future of one of the community’s most vital commercial corridors, guiding future growth and investment to align with community priorities.

Throughout May, the City of College Station has celebrated National Bike Month, shining a spotlight on the immense personal, health, and community benefits of life on two wheels. National Bike Month was established in 1956 to promote cycling as a healthy, sustainable, and enjoyable form of transportation and recreation. In College Station, that mission has deep roots.