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