DEPARTMENT: Planning Department
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Bridgett White, AICP
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Districts 1 and 2
SUBJECT:
The Midtown Area Regional Center Plan
SUMMARY:
Consideration of a resolution recommending the Midtown Area Regional Center Plan to City Council to become a component of the City's Comprehensive Master 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 our communities for anticipated growth at the citywide level. The major "building blocks" of the Comprehensive Plan include:
* Regional Centers
* Urban Centers
* Corridors
* Neighborhoods
The Midtown Area Regional Center Plan aims to create a realistic and implementable strategy to address projected growth in the Midtown Area Regional Center, one of the thirteen (13) Regional Centers identified in the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan. Located between Downtown and the historic neighborhoods to the north, Midtown is the nexus of live, learn, work, and play in central San Antonio. Anchored by Brackenridge Park, San Antonio College, and the Pearl Brewery redevelopment, Midtown increasingly attracts multifamily residential development and businesses in creative industries. Broadway, one of several major arterials connecting Downtown to Midtown and neighborhoods to the north, is slated to become a major cultural corridor in San Antonio. The main topics covered by the Plan include Land Use, Mobility, Amenities and Infrastructure, Focus Areas/Corridors, Catalytic Projects, Economic Development, Housing, and Neighborhood Priorities.
As success of the Sub-Area Plan depends on broad participation from area stakeholders, Planning Department staff worked with a wide range of community members...
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