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PZ recommendations -Phase 1-clean PHASE 1 - VISION, GOALS, & OBJECTIVES Planning and Zoning Commission Recommendations November 2003 Southlake 2025 Plan Vision, Goals, & Objectives Last edited November 21, 2003 Draft Recommendations 2 II. SOUTHLAKE 2025 PLAN VISION STATEMENT “Southlake will continue to enhance its status as a desirable, attractive, safe, healthy, fiscally sound community with quality neighborhoods, while maintaining a high standard of living, learning, shopping, working, recreation, and open spaces. Southlake will continue to be a vibrant community that epitomizes both economic and environmental sustainability.” Southlake 2025 Plan Vision, Goals, & Objectives Last edited November 21, 2003 Draft Recommendations 3 III. SOUTHLAKE 2025 PLAN GOALS & OBJECTIVES Goal 1: Promote quality neighborhoods that contribute to an overall sense of place and community. Quality neighborhoods are the cornerstone of our community. Quality neighborhoods are well designed and maintained, attractive, pedestrian friendly and safe. Objective 1.1 Encourage the maintenance of existing neighborhoods in order to preserve property values and a sense of place. Objective 1.2 Promote the creation/preservation of attractive, pedestrian friendly streets with pleasing vistas that limit the visual impact of the automobile. Objective 1.3 Encourage neighborhood design that compliments existing development patterns while creating unique places. To this end, promote the creation of well-designed, appropriately-scaled residential neighborhoods. Objective 1.4 Encourage creativity in neighborhood design with special emphasis on environmental stewardship that conserves the city’s natural assets. Goal 2: Foster attractive and well designed residential developments to meet the needs of a diverse and vibrant community. Objective 2.1 Facilitate housing products that are consistent with Southlake’s vision for quality neighborhoods which emphasize design details for homes, streets, open spaces, recreational amenities, etc. Objective 2.2 Ensure that new growth is in accordance and in harmony with the Land Use Plan and population build-out numbers. Objective 2.3 Provide for the incorporation of high quality smaller-scaled single- family residential uses as a part of a planned development at appropriate transitional locations. Transitional areas are undeveloped or under-developed properties that are adjacent to established and/or future residential neighborhoods when such areas are adjacent to commercial development, and/or major roadways. Goal 3: Maintain a balanced approach to growth and development in order to preserve the city’s assets (schools, public safety, and competitive edge in the region) and its fiscal health. Objective 3.1 Promote the development of commercial and mixed-use development with an emphasis on design detail and performance standards such as building and street design, pedestrian/automobile orientation and transition to adjacent uses (staff added 11-21-03). Objective 3.2 Encourage a range of uses, including retail, office, hospitality, entertainment, industrial and residential, that is both responsive to changing market conditions and sustains growth in property values for the future. Southlake 2025 Plan Vision, Goals, & Objectives Last edited November 21, 2003 Draft Recommendations 4 Objective 3.3 Support appropriate public-private financial partnerships that will help retain and enhance Southlake’s economic base. Objective 3.4 Continue active partnership that exists between the City and its school districts through joint use committees and the building of roads and infrastructure to accommodate school facilities; making sure that such partnership is mutually beneficial and thus to Southlake Citizens. Objective 3.5 Ensure that the character and quality of Southlake’s built environment, relative to commercial development, contribute to desired community character objectives and foster a positive relationship between the taxable value of real property and the corresponding cost of municipal services. Goal 4: Develop a transportation system that minimizes traffic congestion, provides alternatives to the automobile, promotes energy efficiency, and allows expanded opportunities for its citizens to meet some routine needs by walking or bicycling. The design of the transportation system should act as framework that gives the city “character and functionality”. Objective 4.1 The Thoroughfare Plan --a component of the Southlake 2025 Plan— should address safety, design, and aesthetics elements such as landscaping, street design, lighting, sidewalk design, traffic calming, signage etc. in order to provide a distinct image for the City. Objective 4.2 Provide a street network that allows residents/workers to travel effectively to shopping areas, schools and places of employment without having to travel on the city’s major arterials (FM 1709, FM 1938, or SH 114), while minimizing cut-through traffic in residential neighborhoods. Objective 4.3 Promote contiguous bicycle/pedestrian/trail facilities which are user friendly, efficient, safe, economical, and connect parks, shopping, schools, work and residential areas. Objective 4.4 Promote opportunities to link existing neighborhoods, shopping areas and employment centers to the existing/future trail system, as detailed in the Master Pathways Plan. Objective 4.5 Ensure that an adequate transportation system on-site and to the site is provided or planned prior to the approval of any land uses that create significant traffic demand. Objective 4.6 Mixed-use developments should encourage a pedestrian-friendly environment and minimize the need of the automobile for convenience shopping, work, or leisure trips. Objective 4.7 Encourage pedestrian and bicycle mobility on existing or when redesigning existing roadways or designing new roadways. Objective 4.8 Partner with adjoining communities and the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) to study the impact of the future light/commuter rail corridor proposed along the Cottonbelt rail line, adjacent to SH-26. Evaluate and determine appropriate land use designations along the rail corridor. Southlake 2025 Plan Vision, Goals, & Objectives Last edited November 21, 2003 Draft Recommendations 5 Goal 5: Support a comprehensive integrated open space and recreation system that creates value and preserves natural assets of the city. Open spaces may include a combination of natural areas, parks, trails, and greens. A recreation system includes squares, educational, and civic uses. Objective 5.1 Encourage developers to provide useable and functional open space that is integrated with new development. Access to such areas should be pedestrian friendly. Objective 5.2 Ensure that parkland and open spaces include a mix of developed and natural areas in order to preserve, to the greatest extent possible, wildlife habitats, plant communities and scenic areas while maintaining accessibility. Objective 5.3 Ensure that parkland accommodates both active activities such as organized sports and passive activities such as bird watching. Objective 5.4 Water conservation and reuse should be a priority in the design of parks and open spaces. Objective 5.5 Develop and utilize the city’s Storm Water Management Plan to protect against inundation from storm water runoff. Open space easements and corridors for preservation should be identified and integrated to this plan. Objective 5.6 The city should continue to investigate public-private partnerships to create open space and recreation facilities with other types of developments including residential, retail, and employment. Objective 5.7 Ensure that development is respective of and appropriately integrated with the natural physical geography of the land in Southlake by requiring environmentally sensitive development to eliminate “scrape and build” development. Goal 6: Preserve effective and efficient professional police, fire and communication services. Objective 6.1 Support the provision of facilities, equipment and roadways to achieve desired emergency response times throughout the city. Objective 6.2 Support the location of substations in areas of greatest need.