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Wimberley council, planning commission review resiliency goals, set review timeline for comprehensive plan update
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Summary
City and planning officials heard Langford consultants present resiliency goals from a GLO-funded comprehensive plan update, discussed trail and junction recommendations, and agreed to review goals and objectives by April 30 ahead of a June review and an August adoption push to meet a December grant deadline.
The Wimberley City Council and Planning & Zoning Commission met jointly on April 9 to review the most recent draft of the comprehensive master plan update and the resiliency goals required by a GLO Resilient Communities Program grant. The council and commission were briefed on goals and the adoption process and were asked to submit feedback on the goals and objectives by April 30.
Jerry Conrado of Langford Community Management Services, the consultant team lead, told the bodies the project’s main objective was completing the grant deliverables and integrating hazard mitigation priorities into the city’s plan. "We look forward to getting the Resilient Communities Program grant to final steps of approval," Conrado said, and he introduced staff who will support the review and adoption process.
Resiliency planner Celeste Alvarez gave an overview of how the plan’s goals will be organized: each goal will be supported by objectives and discrete action items the city could use to implement resilience measures. Alvarez said the team pulled objectives from the Hays County hazard mitigation plan and incorporated public portal comments. "These goals are really just a list of general goals; then you get an objective from that and then a list of action items that the city can do to achieve these goals," she said.
On flood resiliency the consultants listed six objectives: improving infrastructure (for example, replacing or reconstructing low-water crossings), enhancing early-warning systems, promoting flood insurance and Community Rating System participation, mitigating high-risk properties, strengthening regulations, and expanding floodplain-management expertise. Alvarez said the team captured portal comments about pursuing Community Rating System participation and folded them into the draft objectives.
The consultants also presented a trails overlay and a junction-area analysis as supplemental sections. Frank Broussard, who reviewed the junction maps and suitability analysis, said much of the junction falls inside the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone and has constraints such as fragile soils, septic limitations and a buried petroleum-storage tank that complicates development. He described the trails material as a 20-year conceptual overlay that emphasizes connectivity and cultural/arts placards rather than immediate construction obligations.
Kevin Coleman, identified as the project’s director of planning and mitigation, reminded the bodies that the GLO grant requires adoption of an enforceable measure that advances resiliency—often a zoning change or an equivalent action. "There's a laundry list of what it could look like," Coleman said; Langford staff and GLO will help define the permissible "or equivalent" measures during the next month.
Langford asked the council and commission to review the goals and provide written feedback by April 30 so the team can prepare a semi-final packet for a targeted June 1 review and an August posting for public hearings ahead of a December 31, 2026 grant deadline. Conrado said the full plan will include chapters 1–9 plus an implementation chapter and annexes, with a searchable digital version and printed copies provided for review.
No formal motions or votes were recorded at the workshop. The bodies agreed to continue review at Planning & Zoning and council meetings as the team sends revised materials.
