Vision SMTX Appendix Adopted 2024

APPENDIX E: PREFERRED GROWTH SCENARIO DEVELOPMENT

Scenario 2 Strategic Eastward Growth & Second City Center (“East Village”) proposed to expand the city in certain areas of the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) and certificate of convenience and necessity (CCN’s) to allow for a better land use pattern, focusing on areas that could more easily be serviced and help protect other sensitive areas. It prioritized expansion in areas that were both in the City’s ETJ and water/ sewer CCN’s in priority growth areas. This scenario helped facilitate nodal development along corridors and planned for an additional “city center” east of IH-35. The second city center (“East Village”) would increase residential density. Other considerations for the location of the East Village included the Medical District, High School, Centerpoint, Old Bastrop and old Smart Code area. Furthermore, this scenario provided a conservation approach to strategic development of new areas east of IH-35 to preserve and protect large portions of Blackland Prairie ecosystem, create greenway, and trail connections, and establish a pattern of urban villages connected to Second Center and the rest of San Marcos.

SAN MARCOS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2024

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