DEPARTMENT: Planning Department
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Bridgett White, AICP
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
A briefing and discussion on the SA Corridors Strategic Framework Plan, a component of the City's Comprehensive Plan.
SUMMARY:
A briefing on the SA Corridors Strategic Framework Plan, a component of the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
SA Corridors is a partnership with VIA Metropolitan Transit to study the twelve (12) primary transit corridors outlined in the City's Comprehensive Plan and in the VIA Vision 2040 Plan. This collaborative effort is one of the initial steps to implement the Transportation Element of the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan by establishing a conceptual framework that lays out the future urban form of San Antonio in the most equitable, sustainable, and efficient manner.
On November 18, 2014 the VIA Metropolitan Transit Authority Board of Trustees authorized the use of $250,000 to be granted to the City's Planning Department to pay for the development of the SA Corridors Plan. The funds would be used to support the concept of developing a transit-supportive land use plan for key arterial corridors and activity centers. Through City Council Ordinance No. 2018-05-19-0370, which was adopted on May 19, 2016, the City Council authorized the Planning Department to execute a professional services agreement with Fregonese Associates, Inc. for consultant services to conduct a citywide corridor land use planning study to optimize land use and transit investments to support implementation of SA Tomorrow and VIA Vision 2040 planning efforts.
The scope was developed in concert with VIA and was designed to implement both the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan and the VIA Vision 2040 Plan.
The Planning Department conducted an extensive public awareness and engagement campaign that included neighborhood association meetings, walkshops, community charrettes, area workshops, SA Tomorrow and SA Corridor ...
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