DEPARTMENT: Development Services
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Roderick Sanchez
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Briefing and discussion of a Council Consideration Request to amend the composition of the San Antonio Planning Commission.
SUMMARY:
Discussion on amending the composition of the Planning Commission from at-large membership to district and mayoral appointments.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On September 6, 2016 District 1 Councilman, Roberto C. Trevi?o sponsored a Council Consideration Request (CCR) to amend the composition of San Antonio's Planning Commission to eleven members, excluding ex-officio members, such that members are appointed by Council District and the Mayor.
The Planning Commission is a nine (9) member body appointed at-large by City Council in accordance with the City Charter Article IX Section 117. Commission members have overlapping two year terms. Regularly scheduled meetings are held twice a month where the Planning Commission is:
* the final approving body for Subdivision Plats, Subdivision Variances, and Planned Unit Developments (PUDs) in the city and extraterritorial jurisdiction;
* the appellate body for Rights Determinations (vested rights), Master Development Plans (MDPs), and Certificates of Determination (plat exceptions); and
* the recommending body for street closures, street name changes, license agreements, encroachments, land transactions, Unified Development Code (UDC) amendments, the Parks Plan, Capital Improvements Program (CIP), annexation, Master Plan amendments (including Neighborhood, Community and Sector plans), and Major Thoroughfare Plan amendments.
The Planning Commission considers the broader development of the city and extraterritorial jurisdiction by determining how specific developments impact the community as a whole. The Planning Commission also determines if proposed developments, projects and initiatives are consistent with the Comprehensive Plan. The Planning Commission must also review for c...
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