San Marcos Downtown Area Plan

CHAPTER 4: RECOMMENDATIONS

To promote the development of recommended housing types in Downtown, existing barriers should be considered for change. Strategies may include: DEVELOPMENT BARRIERS (Recommendation A.7)

· Identify one or two key points of contact for navigating development process · Provide technical assistance/resource guide · Provide expedited permitting, especially for resubmittals · Improve timeliness of pre-development meetings and notes Streamlined Development Process

Development Code Standards

· Analyze reducing parking requirements for commercial uses · Reassess build-to, setback, and lot size requirements to ensure standards are both capable of being met and would achieve the desired building design for downtown · Evaluate the process and impact of existing and proposed utility easements (Ex: width, location,) · Consider providing watershed-level engineering modeling for downtown to assist with meeting engineering requirements · Expand platting exemptions · Offer solar or other sustainability incentives for new construction and re-development · Evaluate and adopt additional regulatory exemptions to financially justify small-scale diverse housing types and multi-family projects

SAN MARCOS DOWNTOWN AREA PLAN

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