Kerrville planning commission recommends 2050 comprehensive plan update to City Council

The Planning & Zoning Commission voted to recommend the City of Kerrville’s 2050 comprehensive plan update to the City Council after a presentation from a consulting team led by Freese and Nichols.

The recommendation follows roughly 12 months of work that updated the city’s land use map, added resilience analysis across topical chapters, refreshed housing and market data and produced two small-area plans for Nimitz Lake and downtown, the consultant said.

Caitlin, a consultant with Freese and Nichols, summarized the update as “a 400 plus page document” and told the commission the project remained on the original 12-month schedule. The update revises place types on the future land use map, assigns preliminary land-use types to previously undefined catalyst areas, and includes a resilience dashboard that highlights flood risk as the most mappable hazard for…