MF Council changes venue for Jan. 17
By Glynis Crawford Smith
The Highlander
Because crowd is expected for the next meeting of the Marble Falls City Council, the venue for the meeting Tuesday, Jan. 17, has been changed from city hall to Lakeside Pavilion, 307 Buena Vista Drive.
The regular session, at 6 p.m., will see appointments to committees that are the workhorses of citizen input into city government and the workshop that follows, at 7 p.m., will be about coordination of a project under way concerning land use in the city.
The regular session will include a public hearing on the voluntary annexation of 75.94 acres of land along South US 281, a presentation from Central Texas Food Bank by senior director Kathy Green and an introduction of the city's new Fire Marshal Thomas Crane by Fire Chief Russell Sander. The council will consider four appointments to the Planning & Zoning (P&Z) Commission and to the Parks & Recreation Commission, appointments to the board of directors of the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) No. 1, and to the Capital Improvement Plan Committee. Also an appointment should be made to the Marble Falls Economic Development Corporation (EDC) to fill the unexpired term of City Manager Mark Hodges and to the Hotel Motel Tax Advisory Committee for the positions of Mayor/Council member, Chamber Director and EDC Director.
The workshop will bring together the city council, the P&Z Commission and the new Zoning Advisory Committee (ZAC) for a land use regulation and zoning update and consideration of the Code Evaluation & Proposed Approach (CEPA) memorandum.
The ZAC was appointed in November to work with City Planner Elizabeth Yeh and other staff and Halff Associates, Inc., to develop and update Land Use Regulations/Zoning Regulations and associated city development codes. Meetings are expected for a year or more including Mayor Pro Tem Jane Marie Hurst, former mayor Richard Westerman and Norman Reed from the council; Steve Reitz, Darlene Oostermeyer and Gregg Mills from the P&Z, and citizen or business representatives Brian Shirley, Jim Weber, Matt Fields, Dave Plante, John Page and Steve Nash.
Halff Assocites also was the conslutant on the the City Comprehensive Plan. A detailed analysis of the current zoning code, input from the development of the comprehensive plan and the plan itself are feeding the firm's strategy for the next steps of toward land use regulation and related zoning code changes: The Code Evaluation & Proposed Approach (CEPA) memorandum.
