Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan Adopted 2024

OUR VISION FOR EQUITABLE AND COMPATIBLE GROWTH

Goal HN-2: Promote diverse housing choices and attainability at all affordability levels to accommodate household size, preference, and characteristics over residents’ life spans

Actions HN-2.1

Create, evaluate, and implement tools to incentivize affordable housing and expand resources available for both Affordable (subsidized) housing development and to achieve overall housing affordability in the community, while ensuring quality and sustainable building practices. HN-2.2 Encourage and consider incentivizing diverse housing types. HN-2.3 Consider encouraging all neighborhood centers identified on the Preferred Scenario Map to allow for multiple diverse housing types. HN-2.4 Support programs and resources to prevent displacement of existing neighborhood residents. HN-2.5 Strengthen programs and resources for first-time homebuyers. HN-2.6 Explore tools that will allow residents to downsize and/or age in place. HN-2.7 Promote programs and enhance resources to protect renters and support affordable, safe, and stable rental housing options. HN-2.8 Promote policies and programs to educate tenants on their rights and landlords on their responsibilities.

Goal HN-3: Protect and enhance the natural, cultural, and historic resources of all San Marcos communities through neighborhood stabilization, thoughtful growth, and compatible development

Actions HN-3.1

Implement transition zones, buffers, and other tools to ensure compatibility between buildings and neighborhoods. HN-3.2 Maintain the quality of existing neighborhoods by encouraging reinvestment, conservation, and enhancement of existing housing stock. HN-3.3 Adopt a Preservation Plan to guide the protection, preservation, rehabilitation, and adaptive reuse of existing historic residences and resources, and the historic and cultural resources of minority communities. HN-3.4 Encourage tools and strategies to promote long-term affordability, such as community land trusts, land banks, shared equity models and developer agreements.

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