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/1 q/f EXECUTIVE SESSION OF TilE CITY COUNCIL AND WORKSI10P ON GNRP AND RIVER PROJ ECT, .W I TI1 PLANNERS MOK AND GREEN; LOCAL PUBLIC AGENCY (URBAN RENEWAL); AND PLANN.ING AND ZONING COMMISSION, HELD ON MAY 3, 1966 I Present: Mayor Ell is Serur Aldermen: Caesar A. Damon Joe C. Froh Herman Korff Wi I J i am C. Poo I Mark H. Whittenberg City Manager:' City Secretary Wi J J iam E. Wolff Dorothy O. Worrell Planners: Ed Mok and Robert Green of Marmon, Mok, & Green, Inc, Local Public Agency Members: Thomas Colgin, W.H. Hami Iton, Ramsay, Dr. Robert Walts; and Augustin Lucio, jr., Chairman, jr., Jerry Moore, Mrs. Laura J. T. Ban i ster, Execut i ve Director. Planning and :Zoning Commission Members: J.B. Roberts, Chairman, Jesse Adams, James Carney, Luciano Flores, jr., Mrs. Katherine Hardeman, J.E. Younger, Jr. I The Mayor called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m. I J . T. Ban i ster, LPA Director, gave the background on the pi anni ng of a GNRP and theR i vel" Project.. He recalled that at a previous meeting, open to the publ ic, the Planners had presented a concept of the General Neighborhood Renewal Plan and the River Project. Mr. Banister introduced Mr; Green, who showed maps with revisions .made as an outgrowth of the first meeting. Ke indicated that certain decisions must now be.made before plans moved into another stage of development. Mr. Green sa i d the two i mmedi ate objecti ves were to prepare the plan so ~hat Mr. Banister could make application for the GNRP, with a target date of October I, 1966. Th i s wou I d con- st i tute a general land use p I an. The th i rd stepwou I d be est i - mating costs, relocation of fami lies, etc. When .the appl ication is submitted .around OCTober I, Mr. Green said, the Counci I would be asked to pass a Resol Lit i,on sett i ng forth the goa Is. Before that~ime, however, a general agreement must be reached, so that the Planners may proceed along .the lines .the Counci I wishes. When the subject of "credits" was introduced by J.B. Roberts, Chairman of the Planning & Zoning Commission, Mr. Mok explained what constitutes a credit under a GNRP. He said: "It is a tremendous advantage to parley every dollar spent in public works within the project area into credits." Mr. Mok introduced the subject of the planned boulevard through the River Project. l1e said members of their. firm apent a week in San Marcos, working from 8 a.m. to I I p.m., studying al I aspects of the ,community. They realized that the River was one of San' Marcos' ch i ef assets, and they had suggested in' the i I" original concept that the boulevard come off I 35 on the east side of the River. He made it clear the Planners were not adamant on the point, but explained why they had planned it.