Tyler 21 Ensures Area Is Well Positioned for Growth
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Preserving the past and building for the future just got easier for Tyler’s leaders. Tyler 21, a framework for future actions, defines the city’s goals and policies and outlines strategies and action items for attaining them.
The 13-chapter comprehensive plan was 18 months in the making, largely because the citizens had extensive input. More than 300 people attended a community visioning retreat, and there also were six open houses and a survey. Focus groups, interviews with community leaders, a newsletter and a Web site were all used to elicit comments. Another 100-plus volunteers worked in groups to further define the key issues and strategies for fulfilling the city’s future needs.
“With this plan, we can ensure that every step we take in the future is in line with what our citizens want and what our future needs will be,” says Mayor Joey Seeber.
The plan encompasses several aspects of the community, from improving traffic flow in South Tyler to downtown development and preservation to a lakes master plan that covers recreational and other uses of city-owned land around Lake Tyler, Lake Tyler East and Bellwood Lake.
The next step is to develop a Unified Development Code to translate the plan into zoning and development codes.
Seeber says he doesn’t intend for the nearly 500-page plan to sit on a shelf. Instead, he hopes it will be used to mold the future of the city rather than seeing it turn into “yet another distant metroplex suburb. The central challenge we face today is whether we will allow that to happen or whether we will be able to maintain the quality of place – this place – that we all take pleasure in and value.”
For more information about Tyler 21, visit www.tyler21.com.
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