Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan Adopted 2024

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

community and part of a community has different challenges when it comes to access to various opportunities. Equity means adapting our policies and actions based on those differences to respond to unique needs, create more inclusive access, and have fair treatment for all parts of a community. Equitable Growth An approach to public and private investment that attempts to provide community benefits for all residents while recognizing that community members have varying levels of access to opportunities, resources, and investments. Equitable Growth means to distribute the costs and benefits (physical, financial, environmental, social, and cultural) of growth and change in a way that benefits all San Marcos residents that is considerate to the varying proportions of need. Equitable growth means being fair about what is built or added in different parts of the city and being thoughtful about why it’s being added and who will benefit.

Fiscal Sustainability The long-term public cost obligations and fiscal productivity of new development proposals.

Goals Priority outcomes that the community wants to accomplish.

Green (Stormwater) Infrastructure The use of measures that allow stormwater to be stored on site and slowly infiltrated into the ground, transpirated by plants, or evaporated into the atmosphere, instead of immediately being transported through pipes, drains, and water treatment systems to water bodies or manufactured flood containment systems. Green stormwater infrastructure includes elements such as rain barrels, rain gardens, bioswales, permeable pavement, planting strips, tree lawns, and green roofs. Historic Property A district, site, building, structure or object significant in American history, architecture, engineering, archeology or culture at the national, state, or local level.

Incentives A monetary, policy, regulatory, and/or process-related benefit that may be granted to a property

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