DEPARTMENT: World Heritage Office
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Colleen Swain, Director
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City-Wide
SUBJECT:
World Heritage Work Plan and Land Use Amendment Process Updates
SUMMARY:
The World Heritage Work Plan identifies specific tasks and deliverables necessary to enhance the visitor and resident experience around the five San Antonio Missions. A critical component of the work plan has been to update the existing land use plans through community input in order to develop a unified vision for the future of the World Heritage Buffer area. City staff will provide a brief update on the Work Plan that includes recommendations for proposed land use amendments to the following plans: Lone Star Neighborhood, South Central Community, Stinson Airport Vicinity, and Heritage South Sector, as well as next steps.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The World Heritage designation for the five San Antonio Missions will increase visitation and tourism spending, promote the history and culture of San Antonio, and create jobs and small business opportunities. To prepare for this increased activity and to maximize benefits, City staff prepared the World Heritage Work Plan. The work plan identifies specific tasks and deliverables.
Tasks and deliverables included in the work plan address the following categories: management and oversight, infrastructure, wayfinding, transportation, economic development, land use, and marketing and outreach. The work plan is being coordinated with the Alamo Master Plan effort.
Additionally, the work plan is a dynamic document and items may be added to the work plan as a result of the public input process. The work plan includes items that were identified at the World Heritage Symposium hosted by Councilwoman Rebecca Viagran last fall. Thereafter, City staff supported Councilwoman Viagran in hosting two other symposium events focused on the visitor experience and land use. The second World Heritage Symposium was held on Decem...
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