DEPARTMENT: Planning Department
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Bridgett White, AICP
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT: Briefing on proposed UDC Amendments relating to future land use categories.
SUMMARY:
This is a briefing item relating to upcoming proposed UDC amendments for future land use categories to implement the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
As part of the implementation of the City's SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan, 30 sub-area plans will be completed throughout the City over the next decade, including 13 regional center plans and 17 community plans. One of the primary goals of this planning process is to develop a complete future land use plan for the City while developing strategies to accommodate the projected 1.1 million new residents by the year 2040. To absorb and leverage this growth successfully, and provide strategic approaches for transitions between incompatible land uses and densities, coordinated land use plans are needed for each sub-area-plan. As a part of this process, the City's Planning Department has been working with the community's many stakeholders to update and streamline the land use categories in the Unified Development Code (UDC). This approach is intended to provide the necessary uniformity in land use vernacular for City employees, developers, and residents. Specifically, with input from external and internal groups, residents, and other community partners, the City is revising the existing 16 adopted UDC land use categories to create consistent land use categories that are applicable to all regional center and community plans moving forward.
ISSUE:
Future land use is important because it helps determine where people will live, work, and play in the City of San Antonio and is the basis for zoning and other land use and development decisions. However, for the entire City of San Antonio, there is currently no single governing regulatory future land use palette. Currently, there are over 40 ...
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