DEPARTMENT: Planning Department
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Bridgett White, AICP
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: District 3
SUBJECT:
Consideration of an ordinance adopting the Brooks Area Regional Center Plan as a component of the City's Comprehensive Master Plan.
SUMMARY:
Consideration of an ordinance adopting the Brooks Area Regional Center Plan as a component of the City's Comprehensive Master Plan. The Brooks Area Regional Center Plan aims to create a realistic and implementable strategy to address projected growth in the Brooks Area Regional Center, one of thirteen (13) Regional Centers identified in the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan is one of three growth-related plans addressing how the City of San Antonio's expected population growth will be balanced with social, economic, and environmental resources. The Comprehensive Plan provides strategic direction for decision making and public investment to prepare the San Antonio community for anticipated growth. The major "building blocks" of the Comprehensive Plan include:
* Regional Centers
* Urban Centers
* Corridors
* Neighborhoods
The Brooks Area Regional Center Plan aims to create a realistic and implementable strategy to address projected growth in the Brooks Area Regional Center, one of the thirteen (13) Regional Centers identified in the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan. Anchored by the redevelopment of the Brooks campus, this area is one of San Antonio's emerging activity centers and a major catalyst for growth on the south side of the City. The main topics covered by the Plan include Land Use, Mobility, Amenities and Infrastructure, Focus Areas/Corridors, Catalytic Projects, Economic Development, and Housing.
The Brooks Area Regional Center Plan covers the area generally bound by Interstate Highway 37, South New Braunfels Avenue, East Southcross Boulevard, South Presa Street, and Southton Road to the west; Shane Road and South Presa Street to...
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