City of Kyle Comprehensive Planning Citizen Work Group

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City of KyleComprehensive Planning Citizen Work
Group
Marketing And General Land Use issues

• August 16, 2007
• James R. Earp, CPM
• Assistant City Manager

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Advisory Group Rules of Conduct

• What will we do if we have unruly hecklers?
• Should someone that has not attended regularly be
  entitled to the same voice as someone who has put
  in the time and bothered to educate themselves
  over the course of this project?
• Should we adopt some kind of rules of conduct, or
  just use the common sense approach?

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Marketing

• Communicating Internally
• New email address cpac_at_cityofkyle.com
• CPAC Email group distribution list
• Communicating Externally
• Kyle Quarterly
• Newspaper
• Designate an Outreach Coordinator
• HOA publications, meetings
• CPAC Forum www.cityofkyle.com/forum

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Land Use

• Land use is the human modification of natural
  environment into built environment.
• Municipal land use Villages, cities, towns,
  boroughs, townships and counties are all governed
  by a set of designations assigned to particular
  parcels of land. Each designation, known as a
  parcels zoning, comes with a list of approved
  uses that can legally operate on the zoned
  parcel. These are found in a governments
  ordinances or zoning regulations.

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Land Use

• The Magic Question
• Is the Community comfortable with the changes
  taking place in our current land use patterns?
• If so, what about the current changes excite you?
• If not, what about the current changes bother you?

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What Should We Consider?

• What are the communitys challenges?
• What are the communitys assets?
• How can we build upon our strengths, while
  addressing our weaknesses? How could we use land
  planning to address these both?

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What Should We Consider?

• When planning for recommendations to be included
  in the development of the future land use map,
  you would typically want to make recommendations
  to USE not to actual ZONING. For example, you
  would recommend that an area be set aside for
  residential uses because of proximity to parkland
  or a school, etc but you would not say that the
  land should be ZONED R-1-whatever.

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Categories?

• Typical categories would be

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What Do the Categories Mean?

• Well, its not definitive, but something like.

PUDs are special uses and are generally enacted
for large developments that have need for
flexibility in zoning, and design.
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Zoning Categories
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Current Zoning Map
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Adjournment

• NEXT MEETING
• AUGUST 30, 2007
• Land Use Recommendations