Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan Adopted 2024

IMPLEMENTATION

RELATIONSHIP TO THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN The Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) is a multi-year schedule for the construction or substantial renovation of public facilities such as city-owned buildings, utility expansion, drainage and stormwater projects, and multimodal infrastructure, including roads. It should be a link between the City’s annual budget and the Comprehensive Plan. Aligning the CIP with the Preferred Growth Scenario is essential to the successful implementation of the Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan. Vision SMTX provides substantial direction for the future development of the CIP. In addition, the Comprehensive Plan lays out an updated and comprehensive set of goals the community wants to achieve in the next 20 years. The Comprehensive Plan also introduces Place Types and an updated Preferred Growth Scenario for considering where and how investments should be made to achieve desired land use patterns and to address disparities and inequities. The City’s approach to updating and adopting the CIP should: • Reflect the vision for the community identified within the Comprehensive Plan’s vision, guiding principles, and goals; • Prioritize the implementation of the Plan’s actions, Place Types, and the Preferred Growth Scenario; and • Reference Area Plans as they are adopted to identify and prioritize public infrastructure and amenity improvements. The CIP can integrate the Comprehensive Plan’s recommendations in two major ways to help achieve the Plan’s goals and objectives. First, the approach to identifying projects can be modified to align with direction provided by the Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan and Area Plans as they are adopted. Second, the approach to prioritizing projects and funding the CIP can integrate the Comprehensive Plan and associated Area Plans through the development of new scoring criteria explicitly linked to policy guidance provided by these documents.

City staff talking to residents at a public outreach event.

SAN MARCOS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2024

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