The San Marcos City Council agreed at their Dec. 14 meeting to move forward with a proposal by Mayor Jane Hughson to create a new commercial zoning district to address the needs of many developments that are seeking to enter the city.
Seeking to reduce the amount of heavy commercial zoning granted—albeit with restrictive covenants that cater to what the city will and will not authorize in certain areas—Hughson proposed a new zoning category that would carve out a new zoning code and streamline the approval process without granting more industrial activity than intended.
“It’s mainly what people have been proposing, but they have to go with one of the higher density zoning districts, because that's what we have,” Hughson said. “So this will hold their feet to the fire and if we get this laid out the way that we want it.”
The details on the proposed new zoning district would likely mirror what many developers have been requesting from the city in recent months, and that is a more honed-in scope specifically for business parks, Hughson said.
