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Wonder World Drive Land Use Plan City of San Marcos VI. Action Plan A. Plan Adoption & Amendment . The City formally adopts this Wonder World Drive Land Use Plan as an element of the Horizons Master Plan. . Where recommendations of this plan conflict with previously adopted elements of the Master Plan, the most recently adopted provisions shall apply. . The City will review the recommendations of this plan periodically (either through a review of this plan or through incorporation of this area into the Sector planning process) to ensure that it remains current and relevant to changing conditions in the community. . The City will implement this plan as development occurs. B. Annexation of Planning Area Most of the planning area is currently outside the city limits of the City of San Marcos. In order to promote efficient growth of the City and to ensure that development within the planning area fully complies with the recommendations of this plan, the City intends to annex the planning area. Such annexation may occur as a single act encompassing the entire planning area or may be accomplished in stages. C. Conservation Development Overlay Zoning District A new "Conservation Development" overlay zoning * district should be created with the purpose of encouraging the preservation of large areas of open space for environmental protection, recreation, and aesthetic preservation. This district should include the following provisions: . An inventory and analysis of natural features should be required for each site. . Protected open spaces should be determined based on this natural features analysis. . Minimum standards for acceptable open space areas should be established. . Provide density bonus for preservation of open spaces: · Density bonus should only be available if more than a minimum percentage of the total land area is preserved as permanent open space. This could be accomplished through the City's Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) rules. · Open space must be permanently preserved through a conservation easement or dedication. It cannot include yards or other lands retained as part of a private lot. · Open space lands, or conservation easements, must be dedicated to the City of San Marcos, another public agency, a land trust, or other non-profit organization with a land preservation mission. · Open space should be either usable parkland or be large contiguous areas that are appropriate for preservation, not merely scattered tracts or slivers of 'leftover' or unbuildable land. An exception to this might be allowable for relatively narrow strips for a trail system, however the developer should be required to actually build the trail for such an exception. * An 'overlay zoning district' is a district that imposes uniform requirements on all properties within its area which are in addition to those of the underlying standard zoning district. Page 22 Adopted: January 14, 2002