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MAP IT OUT Plano’s new comprehensive plan will help guide city planners in future land use decisions. This map shows where the city would like to see future projects located.
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The plan looks to preserve Historic Downtown Plano while increasing downtown accessibility through walking, biking and public transit. The expressway corridors along US 75 and the Dallas North Tollway include areas that can be redeveloped for a variety of uses. Downtown and expressway corridors
These areas are meant for o ce campuses, medical centers, schools, technology companies and research facilities. The plan prioritizes evaluating these areas to make sure corporate campuses remain a viable development within the city.
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Single-family neighborhoods make up the majority of the city and will continue to do so. Neighborhoods should be easily accessible and developments nearby should be low-density.
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housing, redevelopment, city growth and transportation. The plan states Plano has less than 5% of undeveloped land available. It also says the city’s population is likely to grow only about 15% higher than its current total of 287,000 residents. The plan projects the city’s popu- lation by 2050 to be near 331,000. By that same year, it also predicts 60% of residences will be single-family homes with the remaining 40% to be multifamily housing. The plan also has a variety of maps
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The land use map identi es areas around Legacy West; the Dallas North Tollway between Spring Creek and Plano Parkway; The Shops at Willow Bend; US 75; Oak Point Park; the intersection of 15th Street and Alma Drive; and downtown Plano as being the most likely places for more multifamily housing. Day said it was crucial for the new plan to be adopted by City Council as soon as possible because it acts as a broad piece of direction for action
to help city planners in land use, transportation and development decisions. Doug Shockey, chairman of the Comprehensive Plan Review Com- mittee, said drawing the lines between areas of suburban and urban development was challenging. “We need a ordable housing,” Shockey said. “But the challenge was how to add these things in a subur- ban character.”
from City Manager Mark Israelson and city sta members. For example, she said, one sec- tion of the plan gives sta direction to work with property owners across the city to nd retail centers that are candidates for redevelopment. “Because that’s an adopted policy, the city manager can [now] direct us and say, ‘I’m going to set up a sta task force to go and start working on it,’” she said.
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