Z-101 · Service
Land development & entitlements
Pathway supports development teams through the municipal and county processes required to establish development rights and move projects toward construction.
- Zoning
- Annexation
- Special Use Permits
- ETJ disannexation
- Variances
- Development agreements
S-201 · Included
What the engagement covers
Entitlement strategy
What approvals the site actually needs, in what order, and which of them run on a hearing calendar rather than a review clock.
Zoning, annexation and Special Use Permits
Application preparation, agency coordination, and management of the process through commission and council action.
Variance requests and administrative exceptions
Identifying whether the relief needed is administrative or discretionary, which determines both the timeline and the risk.
Development agreement coordination
Managing negotiation and document flow between ownership, counsel, and the jurisdiction.
ETJ disannexation
Texas ETJ law changed materially in 2023 and release petitions are now available in circumstances they previously were not. ETJ status is verified per parcel rather than assumed.
Preliminary and final plats
Coordinated with the civil team and the reviewing agency through each review round.
T-101 · Published windows
What the jurisdiction publishes
These are the city's own stated review windows, not our estimates. Nobody shortens them. What changes is how many times a submittal has to pass through one.
Georgetown planning review rounds, as published in the Development Manual. Rounds shorten as the application matures; the building permit clock has not started yet.
Source: City of Georgetown Development Manual, 03.09.2026. Retrieved August 2026.
D-201 · Deliverables
What you receive
Approval path with the discretionary steps identified separately
Submittal calendar mapped to commission and council dates
Application packages coordinated with the consultant team
Written status through each review round
Recorded instruments and approval documentation
W-100 · Waypoints
How it runs
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Understand the project
We establish scope, jurisdiction, development status, approvals already completed, and the decisions still outstanding. You get a straight read on what the project is actually facing.
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Map the path
We identify the likely approvals, permitting dependencies, agency requirements, consultants needed, and the major project milestones, including the sequencing gates that determine what can be filed when.
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Coordinate the team
We manage communication and deliverables among ownership, consultants, contractors, utilities, and reviewing agencies, so responsibility for each next action is unambiguous.
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Manage the process
We follow applications, reviews, comments, responses, resubmittals and approvals per department rather than per project, and escalate whichever review has stalled.
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Keep moving
We maintain visibility into what is complete, what is outstanding, and what needs to happen next, through issuance and close-out.
Q-001 · Questions
On this service
How early should we involve you?
Before the site is under contract if possible, and certainly before design is fixed. Constraints like overlay districts, impervious cover limits set at platting, and utility service boundaries are cheap to design around and expensive to discover late.
Do you provide legal or engineering services?
No. Pathway coordinates and manages the process. Engineering, surveying, environmental engineering, and legal work are performed by the appropriately licensed professionals on the project team. Our role is to keep that work moving in the right sequence.
How is impervious cover determined in Georgetown?
It is frequently set on the subdivision plat rather than by a citywide table. If it is not on the plat, it falls to the Unified Development Code. Pools count at 50% of the water surface area. This is worth confirming before site design, not after.
S-100 · Other services
Runs alongside
Permit expediting & management
Applications, agency review, comments, resubmittals, and issuance.
Details C-101Platting & civil infrastructure coordination
Subdivision and infrastructure approvals across the project team.
Details C-401ROW & infrastructure permitting
Municipal, county, TxDOT, and utility right-of-way approvals.
Details EC-101Site & environmental permitting
Site development, stormwater, TCEQ, and Edwards Aquifer approvals.
Details G-001Fee-based development
Development leadership for ownership groups, without the overhead.
DetailsT-001 · Transmittal
Have a project that needs a path forward?
Evaluating a site, working through entitlements, preparing an application, responding to comments, or trying to move a project that has stalled. Tell us where it stands and we will map what comes next.