Master Redevelopment
 

Master Redevelopment Plan –Phase 1 – Overlay District and
Development Standards for non-residential areas

It's new, exciting, and sustainable! 
It's a Redevelopment Master Plan!

The Leon Valley City Council spent several months working and reviewing information for overlay districts in the commercial/business/industrial areas of the City of Leon Valley.  The overlay district plan was adopted following a development and redevelopment moratorium on December
1, 2009 under Ordinance 09-063.

Public Workshops held in November 2009 at City Hall presented ideas and recommendations for the overlay districts by Jim Carrillo, Director
of Planning for Halff Associates.  Mr. Carrillo presented an in-depth program on the desired future of Leon Valley – how it can look with new development standards, a comparison of existing code standards to proposed code standards, and introduced how the standards could be
applied to existing buildings for new and redevelopment projects.   Like the SDAT workshops, City Council looked to its citizens and
stakeholders for their input on the proposed changes.  Approximately 50 residents and business members of the Leon Valley community met
with Council to provide their comments and to ask questions on the proposed plan. The workshop meetings were not reinventing the mapping already begun with the SDAT, but rather building on the public responses from the SDAT and looked at how that has helped to shape the new proposed Master  Redevelopment Plan and its overlay district standards.  Presentations were given to the Zoning Commission, the Leon Valley Area Chamber of Commerce, and at City Council workshops and public hearings.

The link at the bottom of this page will take you to the slide show presented by Mr. Carrillo on Tuesday, November 17^th at the Special City Council Workshop.  From that workshop, came the final plan under the City's adopted Ordinance 09-063 adopted by unanimous vote at the December 1, 2009 Regular City Council Meeting.  

The overlay districts provide additional direction for streetscaping, parking, landscaping, businesses uses acceptable in certain zoned areas
along and adjacent to Bandera Road, building facades, and connectivity for motorists and pedestrians to reach their destinations in the future.  There are specific triggers that will cause the new regulations to apply to not only new development, but also to redevelopment of existing
business areas.  The City Council, Zoning Commission, interested citizens who spoke at public hearings, the business community, staff, and members of the Halff Associates Team worked together  - listening, asking, planning and building the new Ordinance to create a plan that would
be a building foundation upon the the recommendations of the American Institute of Architects' SDAT - Sustainable Design Assessment Team. 

In 2008, the SDAT worked with Leon Valley's committees, boards, commissions, the general public, the business community, City Council, and staff to assess what the City needed to move forward to a more sustainable future.  It provided a broad assessment based on the information received from Leon Valley officials, residents, businesses and stakeholders to help the City frame future policies and sustainability solutions. 
The assessment asked the City to base its decisions on social equity, economic development and environmental stewardship.  The SDAT workshops yielded recommendations for five kick-off projects for the City to move forward to a sustainable City: create a Bandera Road Vision Document, Poss Road reconstruction, LEED Construction initiative, Leon Valley Town Center, and a Street Tree Planting Program.  

The overlay district creation, by the adopted Ordinance amending the  Zoning Code, provides a vision document with the tools necessary to
reach a more beautiful, connected, viable business district   that will bring businesses, shoppers, residents, and visitors to Leon Valley. 

Public hearings were held before the  Zoning Commission on November 23, 2009 and before the City Council on December 1, 2009.  The approved new amendments to the Zoning Code with the new overlay district development standards are attached by clicking HERE! 

Please note that the ordinance is large and may take a few minutes to download.

QUESTIONS? Contact Community Development Director Kristie Flores at Tel: (210) 684-1391, ext. 226 or k.flores@leonvalleytexas.gov

                        Telephone:  (210) 684-1391, ext. 226

FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW TO VIEW or DOWNLOAD -    PowerPoint Presentation
Please be patient - This is a large file and it may require 2 to 4 minutes to download.