Vision San Marcos Comprehensive Plan

VISIONING (SEPTEMBER 2010- JUNE 2012)

The City-sponsored workshops that brought

worked to combine all three exercises into

together the “Core-4” group including

an integrated vision. The vision statements

representatives of Hays County, the San

were approved by Planning and Zoning

While the initial programming and

Marcos Independent School District,

Commission and were adopted by the

scheduling for the comprehensive plan

Texas State University, and the City.

Council on June 5, 2012.

began in February of 2012, public input

These workshops focused on economic

for Vision San Marcos actually began

development and workforce development.

in September 2010 with the Dream San

The output from these workshops was

Marcos visioning process. Dream San

a report outlining specific strategies

Marcos was a process comprised of

regarding infrastructure, workforce and

three parts: the crowd sourcing exercise;

community character issues as well as

the Core-4 Collaboration Report and the

recommendations for collaborative action

visioning workshops which were utilized as

to implement the strategies.

the basis for Vision San Marcos.

The two half-day public visioning workshops

The yearlong web-based crowd sourcing

were held on April 21, 2012 and focused

exercise gathered input regarding

on the development of vision statements to

planning-related challenges and

guide development of the plan elements.

opportunities. Over 360 individuals

Following completion of the public

participated in the crowd sourcing exercise

visioning workshops, the Citizen Advisory

and provided critical input to the visioning

Committee and the Steering Committee

phase of the Plan.

Vision San Marcos: A River Runs Through Us pg 25