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Smithville Comprehensive Plan: Land Use Survey POST MEETING

The following suggestions were made at the Land Use Community Forum and on the preliminary survey by members of the community. These are offered to help craft the direction the City will follow in its Comprehensive Plan. The number of stars you choose, if you choose any, will indicate your agreement/preference for the idea offered. Please feel free to provide more comments and suggestions to these lists. Thank you for participating! Your voice makes a difference!
1.Which City-Sponsored Community Forums have you attended?
General Suggestions from the Survey and the Forum
2.Development of economic development of land and land use to provide revenue resources for the region
3.Good ordinances lead to good development. We need to update now.
Commercial Land Use Ideas and Suggestions from the Survey and the Forum
4.Make ALL properties along Loop 230 commercial zoning, changing the closer you get to downtown – make adjacent properties SF 2 or SF 3 to ease transition from commercial to SF 1
5.Take advantage of the only airport in Bastrop
6.Relocate railroad tracks
7.Protect the historic district
8.Protect small downtown businesses
9.Development along the highways to generate tax revenue to the city without impacting the historical districts.
10.Attract a restaurant for the Airport and Zone appropriately
11.Commercial Land Use: If you have other ideas, please state them here and indicate their ranking in comparison with the ideas on this list
Industrial Land Use Ideas and Suggestions from the Survey and the Forum
12.Invest in Waste Water TX to encourage industry and commercial uses at Hwy 71
13.Target TWO industries and make this a center of excellence in those – medical technology for example (since we have the hospital)
14.Expand Airport
15.Add Industrial Zone in the ETJ area south of Loop 230 from about Chase Street to HWY 71
16.Industrial Land Use: If you have other ideas, please state them here and indicate their ranking in comparison with the ideas on this list
Mixed Use and “Smart Growth” Concepts and Suggestions from the Survey and the Forum
17.Commercial and residential mix on the east side of Hwy 71 south of SH 95
18.Mixed use and Multi-family in the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) in the South West corner of town across from High School
19.Mixed use in the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) between the Airport, River and SH 95/Loop 230
20.Accessory Dwelling Units are low hanging fruit within Smithville for long-term rentals
21.Build a bridge from Main across the Railroad Park to connect with Washington Street
22.Do long-term planning goals well beyond our Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ)
23.Triangle in front of nursing home should be 1st place for development (some flood, all utilities)
24.Keep rural character by encouraging industrial/commercial that caters to farming like hemp processing facility
25.Build stricter building “look” into historic downtown
26.Mixed Use and “Smart Growth” Concepts: If you have other ideas, please state them here and indicate their ranking in comparison with the ideas on this list
Residential Land Use Ideas and Suggestions from the Survey and the Forum
27.Retirement Village like “Sun City”
28.Subdivision development for Accessible Dwelling Units, Senior Living, Patio Homes
29.Zone for "Airport Residential" in the ETJ area between the runway and SH95/Loop 230
30.Zone for SF-1 Residential in the ETJ at the southern edge of City Limits where housing is already
31.Zone for a Town Center area in the City Limits most east of town past HWY 71 (old Capella's property)
32.Add housing on 10 acres around the baseball field at Keilburg Park on the Hill
33.Encourage a village concept for affordable housing – tiny homes around a kitchen/dining/meeting hall
34.Single Family: Put teeth on historic neighborhood designation before people start tearing down old structures and putting up contemporary homes in our historic neighborhood
35.Single Family: Zoning Change: SF1 Single Family Residential – minimum lot area 22,000 square feet intended to provide for the highest quality with large development
36.Single Family: Zoning Change: SF2: Single Family residential minimum lot area 12,500 square feet for lower density housing
37.Single Family: Zoning Change: Single Family Minimum lot 7,000 feet for medium density housing
38.Tiny Homes: Eliminate square footage requirements – let the market
39.Tiny Homes: Designate areas for tiny home communities (Fredericksburg, for example)
40.Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU): Allow one ADU per city block to create smaller affordable rental properties – first come first serve, time limits to complete – for long-term rentals
41.Increase density to encourage Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)
and Short-Term Rentals (STR)
42.We should revisit the current rules around ADUs and Tiny Homes. While we should maintain a high level of quality and safety for homes in Smithville, we really need to look again at our minimum square footage requirements. The current requirements make it hard for young people (like so many of our high school grads), older people on fixed incomes (like so many of our long-time residents), or anyone coming from a economically challenged background (in other words, they grew up poor) to afford to get housing in Smithville.
43.Develop list of minimum public benefits necessary prior to approval of Planned Unit Development (PUDs -- a type of housing development that combines individually owned homes with shared common areas)
44.Trade development incentives (like density) in exchange for setting aside units for rent or sale at 30, 50, 80 MFI
45.No cookie cutter homes on Hwy 71
46.Manufactured Home (MH) Designation
47.Residential Land Use: If you have other ideas, please state them here and indicate their ranking in comparison with the ideas on this list
48.Please make any other comments or suggestions about economic development that you want to have included in the Comprehensive Plan. Thank you!