BY AMIRA VAN LEEUWEN
What it means
Looking ahead
Our Buda, Our Future identifies four themes—community, activity, mobility and economy—with several objectives that will help with the plan’s integration. Buda’s Development Services Department will work with developers and Hays CISD to facilitate efforts for integrating schools into future neighborhoods, according to plan documents. Public Works and the development services department will also lead efforts to refine regulations that support developers who want to decrease land disturbance in natural areas through impervious cover maximums and green site design elements. Grau encouraged Buda residents to look at the action items that outline the city’s goals. “I’m really grateful for our citizens for taking the time to share their ideas and shaping the vision of what they think Buda should be,” he said.
Grau also emphasized the importance of grow- ing strategically. “We wanted to make sure our plans were very intentional, we had very clear expectations out there in terms of what we wanted to see devel- oped,” Grau said. With the plan’s adoption, there will be changes to residential zoning, and the city will look at development codes to ensure they reflect their new comprehensive plan in February.
Each of the comprehensive plan’s land uses have recommended zoning districts. City Planner Tyler Frost said Buda’s previous comprehensive plan was “very high level” and lacked a lot of detail. Frost is hopeful that it will provide more direction to the city’s planning and zoning commission. “This is guidance for you; you interpret it as you see fit,” Frost told the planning and zoning commission Nov. 28.
Single-family homes make up approximately 78% of Buda’s current housing landscape, however its comprehensive plan is looking to diversify that. Buda’s housing landscape
Single-family • 77.9% Apartments, condos • 10% Townhomes, multiplexes, cottages, some apartments • 5.5% Single family, duplexes • 4.9% Duplex • 1%
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