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COMPRHENSIVE PLAN GETS UNANIMOUS CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL
On August 16, 2005, the Citywide Comprehensive Plan update was unanimously approved by City Council. Mayor Chuck Sisk succeeded in gaining support for specific population buildout (a 20-year time horizon) at no more than 23,000 that was proposed at an August 2 meeting. That language is in contrast to recommendations to leave numbers out of the land use document to preserve maximum flexibility for future councils and citizens. Sisk insisted that citizens needed to be reassured of the specific intent of this council’s objectives. As originally proposed, the Plan update would have accommodated a buildout population of around 26,000. Significant changes to the final document affecting the population number include a reduction of potential residential development on the StorageTek site, and changing a high-density land use designation near Centennial Drive and McCaslin Blvd. to mixed-use. In the final stages of the Plan’s approval, reductions in residential development were made in virtually all seven of the so-called opportunity areas under consideration.
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