Vision San Marcos Comprehensive Plan

THE RELAT IONSHI P OF THE PREFERRED SCENAR IO TO CI TY OPERAT IONS The preferred scenario is intended to be a

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN

preferred scenario will be utilized to

guide day to day decisions of the City

This Plan and the preferred scenario will be used

Departments. The preferred scenario

to incorporate and score capital improvements

is a recommendation from the public,

projects and other public planning and

adopted by City Council which supports

development decisions. The Capital Improvements

development in the intensity zones and

Plan (CIP) is a multi-year schedule for the

guide for planning and development through

guides future economic development

construction or substantial renovation of public

the intensity matrix and updates to the City’s

decisions supporting industrial, office park

facilities such as libraries, recreation centers,

Land Development Code. It is important to

and commercial uses in the employment

utility expansion and roads. It is a link between

note that it is inevitable that development

areas.

the annual budget and the comprehensive plan.

will occur outside the preferred scenario

Aligning the CIP with the preferred scenario is

intensity zones and not all the development

essential to the successful implementation of the

proposed for the zones will actually occur.

comprehensive plan.

The preferred scenario will also not impact

existing entitlements and any zoning based

on the preferred scenario will follow

standard procedures for public hearing and

comment.

Along with the intensity matrix and an

updated Land Development Code, the