DEPARTMENT: Planning Department
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Bridgett White, Director
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
City Council consideration of the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan proposed land use categories.
SUMMARY:
Consideration of amendments to Chapter 35, Unified Development Code, of the City Code of San Antonio, Texas, Section 35-420 (e) (5) Comprehensive Land Use Categories, and Section Sec. 35-A101. - Definitions and Rules of Interpretation: Comprehensive land use category.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
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. The City of San Antonio has no single governing regulatory future land use palette which has resulted in a lack of equity and fairness in several neighborhoods and communities throughout the City. The 16 adopted Unified Development Code land use categories are intended to be the designated comprehensive land use categories for neighborhood, community, sector, perimeter plans and any other element of the comprehensive plan. However, collectively, there are already a total of 39 future land use categories within the adopted neighborhood and community plans. Many plans have land use categories that are inconsistent with each other and have variations in description, density and intensity allowances, development requirements, and permitted zoning districts.
ISSUE:
As part of the implementation of the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan over the next five years, thirteen (13) Regional Center and seventeen (17) Community Plans will be initiated throughout the City, with the goal of having a comprehensive land use map for the entire City of San Antonio. To absorb and leverage the City's projected growth successfully, and to provide strategic approaches for transitions between incompatible land uses and densities, coordinated land use plans are needed for ea...
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