DEPARTMENT: Department of Planning & Community Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: John Dugan, AICP
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
A briefing on the SA Tomorrow Draft Innovative Policies.
SUMMARY:
SA Tomorrow contains innovative policies in each of its planning elements; Growth and City Form, Transportation and Connectivity, Housing, Jobs and Economic Competitiveness, Public Facilities and Community Safety, Military, Community Health and Wellness, Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability, and Historic and Cultural Preservation. These goals and policies will allow San Antonio to enjoy a higher quality of life by increasing choice in inclusivity.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
SA Tomorrow represents an innovative, three-pronged planning effort to guide the city toward smart, sustainable growth. In order to create new innovative policies, thorough public outreach has been done to include the public as well as key stake holders. The Plan Element Working Groups are comprised of the key institutions subject matter experts, corresponding to each of the nine plan elements. These subject matter experts are the core of identifying new goals and policies that need to be achieved in order to increase the quality of life in San Antonio through 2040.
ISSUE:
SA Tomorrow contains innovative themes for addressing the population increases in the future. These over arching themes are the focus of the plan and the basis for our innovative policies in each plan element.
Unique Citywide Activity Centers
San Antonio will build upon its significant polycentric asset, which is the 13 Regional Centers. By using this approach, San Antonio can preserve and protect existing neighborhoods, parks, open space, and trails by concentrating a large portion of future growth and development (housing and employment) in these centers, as well as, smaller scale activity centers, and along attractive muti-modal corridors with enhanced transit servi...
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