To meet the aquatic needs of the community, the City of Baytown retained Kimley-Horn and Counsilman-Hunsaker to prepare an Aquatic Facilities Master Plan to focuson the future of aquatics for the community. The purpose of this plan is to identifyand evaluate current aquatic programming and to establish a needs analysis foraquatic spaces for the City of Baytown, Texas.

This master plan is based on extensive research including meetings with members ofthe City of Baytown, the community, and other interested parties. This plan alsoincludes information and opinions developed from investigations of other aquaticproviders in the area; a visit to the existing pool sites; demographics of the marketarea; a tour of the community; a review of national trends in aquatic recreation,instruction and competition; the development of construction costs in the local area;and an analysis of how all this phenomena will impact the operation of the proposedfacility.