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llf.I1I:b. ;r~a1 All) StHIAR!' AJ..l<llua.. MASTBR PIM SNf MMCCS, 1BXAS This Airport Master Plan is the update of the original Master Plan adopted by the San Marcos Municipal Airport Commission in order to develop a long range plan for continuing use and improvement of San Marcos Municipal Airport. Notwithstandinq the detail in the study and in proposed improvements, conditions and criteria will change. For that rea&a1, every effort has been made to ensure that altemati ves to airport development are possible, and that maximum flexibility of recxmmended facilities will result if the airport development program is followed. The study has been made with full recognition of the eooncmic and soci al implications of continued airport development in the San Marcos area, and provides a reasonable and economically sound plan for airport developnent durinq the next two decades. Followinq is a summary of the general conclusions and recx>mmendations resulting' frem the Master Plan Study for San Marcos Municipal Airport: ~1us1Cla8 1. Facilities at San Marcos Municipal Airport must be expanded to provide adequate levels of service during the next two decades. 2. The existing site is well suited for continued airport develcpnent, but will require that approximately 37 acres of additional land be acquired from Gary Job Corps Center. 3. The recent taxiway improvements permit the airport to operate wi thin acceptable levels of taxi time and overall taxiway efficiency. 4. 'nle existing airport lighting system has been augmented by the additioo of a Medium Intensity Runway Lighting system on Runway 12-30. However, the airport lighting system sOOuld be expanded to serve more than one runway. 5. Additional hangars, tie downs, and parking areas will be required in the sOOrt to intermediate term. 6. Improvements stnlld be made to attract compatible, aviation related industrial development. that will generate revenues for the airport..