Vision SMTX Comprehensive Plan

IMPLEMENTATION

Level 3: Area Plans provide detailed strategies and recommendations regarding land use, neighborhood character, other aspects of built form, transportation, infrastructure, parks, recreation, open space, and facilities for smaller geographies of the City. The purpose of Area Plans is to engage and unite neighborhoods to plan their own communities within a framework that use the resources available to ensure input and guidance from neighborhoods for specific localized recommendations. Area Plans will include Neighborhood Character Studies when applicable. Level 4: Specific Plans address smaller scale, targeted geographies and are focused on implementation. They should be guided by higher order plans (Levels 1, 2, and 3 above) but generally focus on further conceptualizing, planning and sometimes designing a specific small geography. Specific Plan priorities should be guided by the Comprehensive Plan’s Preferred Growth Scenario and associated Regional, Community, and Neighborhood Centers. EXISTING REGULATIONS The City Charter states the Comprehensive Plan must be adopted by ordinance and used as a guide for growth and development as well as preservation of open space. The Comprehensive Plan is reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Commission which makes a recommendation to the City Council regarding adoption. City ordinances should be consistent with the Plan. Review of the Plan must be ongoing, and any changes must go through the public hearing process outlined in the Development Code. Area Plans are considered part of the Comprehensive Plan, so those plans will also be reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Commission to make a recommendation to the City Council regarding adoption.

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SAN MARCOS COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2024