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Anna officials, consultant debate scale of rural and employment areas in 2050 plan update
Summary
City council and Planning & Zoning Commissioners spent more than an hour reviewing community feedback on a draft update to Anna's 2050 comprehensive plan, debating how much rural living and employment-focused land to show on the future land use map and directing staff to refine the plan before public hearings in March.
The City Council and the Planning and Zoning Commission of Anna heard a detailed briefing Feb. 25 on the draft update to the Anna 2050 comprehensive plan and publicly urged changes to the draft future land use map.
At a joint work session, Mark Bowers, project manager and planner with Kimley Horn, the consultant on the update, summarized community engagement and survey results and walked the two bodies through revised place types and a draft future land use map. "There were more than 430 touch points with Anna's neighbors from February 4 to February 14," Bowers said, describing public open houses, online surveys and follow-up outreach.
The meeting featured extended discussion about where to preserve rural- and estate-style lot patterns versus where to show suburban growth and employment uses on the map. Terrell Culbertson, a resident who spoke during neighbor comments, objected to the…
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