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After postponing the approval on the final draft of the Old Town Master Plan in May due to missing elements in the documents, Leander City Council has decided, once again, to bring the item back again at a later date.
What happened
At its July 20 meeting, council decided to postpone the approval of the Old Town Master Plan drafted by consulting firm Kimley-Horn, this time due to outstanding revisions that needed to be made on the document.
Zooming in
Mayor Christine DeLisle said the plan that came to council at the May 18 meeting “wasn’t finished,” and they had hoped for it to be completed when it came back the second time.
Now that the plan has come back to council for a second time, DeLisle said it was still missing key parts.
“Looking at [the plan] now in second reading, I feel like it's still not finished,” she said at the July 20 meeting. “We still don't have the appendices.”
DeLisle went on to list everything wrong with the final draft of the Old Town Master Plan presented to council at the meeting. Her issues with the document includes:
What’s next?
Council decided to take no action on the Old Town Master Plan, and suggested reviewing the document for approval in September.
Kimley-Horn engineer Jake Gutekunst understood council’s feedback, and he said the revised document will be ready by council’s Sept. 7 meeting.
