TYLER 1ST UPDATE
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  • Home
  • About
  • Implementation Status
    • Downtown
    • North End Revitalization
    • Historic Preservation
    • Parks, Recreation, and Open Space
    • Housing, Neighborhoods, and Community Identity
    • Business and Economy
    • Transportation
    • Public Facilities
    • Education
  • FACTS AND FIGURES
    • General
    • TRANSPORTATION
    • PARKS AND RECREATION
    • Historic Preservation
    • HOUSING AND NORTH END REVITALIZATION
    • Public Facilities
    • Downtown
    • Education
  • Community Survey
  • Contact
TYLER 1ST UPDATE
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IMPLEMENTATION.

HOUSING, NEIGHBORHOODS & COMMUNITY IDENTITY

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GOALS:
HOUSING
​Provide sufficient housing for households at all income levels and all stages of the life cycle.
​Facilitate and provide incentives for development of a variety of housing types to serve diverse household types.
98%
​Expand programs that support creation of ownership and rental housing affordable to low and moderate income households within the city, working with both for-profit and nonprofit developers.
100%
Expand first-time homebuyer and credit counseling programs.
100%
​Sustain and maintain established neighborhoods.
​Encourage compatible infill residential development in established neighborhoods.
100%
​Enhance code enforcement.
100%
​Rehabilitate existing housing stock.
100%
BUSINESS, RETAIL AND MIXED-USE AREAS 
​Concentrate commercial development in compact, mixed-use districts interspersed with lower density uses and open space along corridors rather than commercial strips.
​Facilitate and provide incentives for concentration of development in mixed-use districts.
100%
​Encourage addition of other uses to existing business parks and shopping centers.
100%
​Establish zoning overlay districts to require improved design standards as properties redevelop.
100%
​Improve function and design of commercial areas.
​Establish zoning, design and access guidelines for mixed-use and commercial areas, including tree and landscape standards.
100%
​Use public investments to promote compact mixed-use districts.
​Use public buildings as anchors for mixed-use centers.
100%
​Use infrastructure investments to support mixed-use centers.
100%
COMMUNITY IDENTITY AND APPEARANCE
​Enhance Tyler’s public realm with trees, attractive streetscapes, and public gathering places.
​Establish design standards for streetscapes.
100%
​Establish a city commitment to tree-planting.
100%
​Establish a program for public art.
100%
​Promote building, street and residential subdivision design that is focused on people rather than vehicles.
​Encourage voluntary use of guidelines for human-scaled and pedestrian-friendly development while accommodating vehicles.
100%
​Ensure sensitive transitions from nonresidential to residential areas.
100%
Ensure that signs are compatible with the desired surrounding context and kept in good repair.
100%
​Preserve and enhance the walkable character of older neighborhoods.
100%
​Promote creation of new neighborhoods rather than isolated subdivisions and/or apartment complexes.
​Encourage subdivision design that includes defined centers and edges. 
100%
​Allow new subdivisions to be connected to surrounding areas.
100%
​Require maintenance endowments for private streets and open space.
100%
​Promote appropriate location and design of housing and commercial development in the ETJ.
​Support land use frameworks to shape and guide development in the ETJ.
100%
​Continue City review of all plats in the ETJ for consistency with the Master Street Plan and the Comprehensive Plan as adopted.
100%
CHAPTER IMPLEMENTATION
95%
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