Kyle City Council To Hold Special Meeting Saturday

Kyle City Council will be holding a special meeting tomorrow to receive public input on their vision and zoning of the Historic Core Area and Old Town District.

Note: To view the agenda and the agenda packet click here.

According to the documents in the agenda packet the public hearing with cover the three items below.

Old Town District –  Character

Development within the Old Town District follows the historic and regular street grid, which should be preserved while also encouraging appropriate infill development and redevelopment.

Primary uses within this District are civic and institutional, specialty commercial, and residential. Of note, there are few sizeable employers located in or near the Old Town District. Significant features include easy access to both north and southbound I-35, the railroad, City Hall and Police Headquarters, and the landmark City Square.

The Old Town District embodies the characteristics of a Rural Town Center through consistent community form, continuity, and scale. The scale of reference is a uniform Old Town block, reinforced by the regular street grid. In order to ensure smooth transitions and maintain this fabric, building height should not vary by more than two stories from the average height within any one block.

Historic Core Area Transition District – Character

The Historic Core Area Transition serves as a transition between the regular gridded development pattern that characterizes Downtown and the more rural patterns to the south and west, as well as newer development to the north.

Significant features of this District include the intersection of Old Stagecoach Road and Center Street, the Gregg Clarke Park, Wallace Middle School, and the emerging commercial corridor along Rebel Road north from Center Street. This District is a “middle landscape” of historic residential forms that transition to more rural residential forms.

The District should embody the historic character of existing uses while anticipating appropriate expansion of Old Town. Development in the Historic Core Area Transition District has historically been on a small, lot-by-lot basis, rather than on a larger, project-by-project basis. Because of this, the street serves as the organizing feature of the District.

Therefore, as new development extends into the District from the Old Town District, care should be taken to ensure that the historic street pattern is preserved, as called for in ‘Kyle Connected’, the city’s Transportation Master Plan.

Immediately following the public meeting council will be going into executive session.