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ARTICLE 1. GENERAL TO ALL PLANS
<br />San Marcos, Texas
<br />TABLE 1.1. TRANSECT ZONE DESCRIPTIONS.
<br />This table provides descriptions of the general character of each T -zone. It is part of Intent Section 1.3.
<br />T -1 NATURAL
<br />a mixed use but primarily residential
<br />T -2 RURAL
<br />T -1 Natural Zone consists of lands
<br />General Character:
<br />Natural landscape with some agricultural use
<br />approximating or reverting to a wilder-
<br />Building Placement:
<br />Not applicable
<br />ness condition, including lands unsuit-
<br />Frontage Types:
<br />Not applicable
<br />able for settlement due to topography,
<br />Typical Building Height:
<br />Not applicable
<br />hydrology or vegetation.
<br />Type of Civic Space:
<br />Parks, Greenways
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<br />a mixed use but primarily residential
<br />T -2 RURAL
<br />teredCommercial activity, balancebetween landscape and buildings,
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<br />urban fabric. It may have a wide range
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<br />T -2 Rural Zone consists of sparsely
<br />General Character:
<br />Primarily agricultural with woodlands & wetland and scattered buildings
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<br />settledlandsin open or cultivated states.
<br />Building Placement:
<br />Variable Setbacks
<br />Frontage Types:
<br />Porches, fences, Dooryards
<br />These include woodland, agricultural
<br />Frontage Types:
<br />Not applicable
<br />2- to 3 -Story with a few taller Mixed Use buildings
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<br />land, grassland, and hill country. Typical
<br />Typical Building Height:
<br />1- to 2 -Story
<br />buildings are farmhouses, agricultural
<br />Type of Civic Space:
<br />Parks, Greenways
<br />Stoops, Shopfronts, Galleries
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<br />buildings, cabins, and villas.
<br />Typical Building Height:
<br />Type of Civic Space:
<br />2- to 5 -Story with some variation
<br />Parks, Plazas and Squares, median landscaping
<br />T -3 SUB -URBAN
<br />T-3Sub-Urban Zoneconsistsof lowden-
<br />General Character:
<br />Lawns, and landscaped yards surrounding detached single - family
<br />sitywalkable residential areas, adjacent
<br />houses; pedestrians occasionally
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<br />to higher zones that have some mixed
<br />Home
<br />Building Placement:
<br />Large and variable front and side yard Setbacks
<br />use. occupations and outbuildings
<br />Frontage Types:
<br />Porches, fences, naturalistic tree planting
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<br />are allowed. Planting is naturalistic and
<br />setbacks are relatively deep. Blocksmay
<br />Typical Building Height:
<br />Type of Civic Space:
<br />1- to 2 -Story with some 3 -Story
<br />Parks, Greenways
<br />be large Thoroughfares irregular to
<br />and
<br />accommodate natural conditions, but
<br />designed for slow movement.
<br />T -4 GENERAL URBAN
<br />T -4 General Urban Zone consists of
<br />General Character:
<br />Mix of Houses, Townhouses & small Apartment buildings, with scat-
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<br />a mixed use but primarily residential
<br />T -5 URBAN CENTER
<br />teredCommercial activity, balancebetween landscape and buildings,
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<br />presence of pedestrians
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<br />of building types: single, sideyard, and
<br />Building Placement:
<br />Shallow to medium front and side yard Setbacks
<br />d.,.
<br />rowhouses. Setbacks and landscaping
<br />Frontage Types:
<br />Porches, fences, Dooryards
<br />arevariable. Streets with curbs and side-
<br />Typical Building Height:
<br />2- to 3 -Story with a few taller Mixed Use buildings
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<br />walks define medium -sized blocks.
<br />Type of Civic Space:
<br />Squares, Greens
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<br />T -5 URBAN CENTER
<br />T -5 Urban Center Zone consists of
<br />General Character:
<br />Shops mixed with Townhouses, larger Apartment houses, Offices,
<br />d.,.
<br />higher density mixed use building that
<br />accommodate retail, offices, rowhouses
<br />and apartments. It has a tight network
<br />Building Placement:
<br />workplace, and Civic buildings; predominantly attached buildings;
<br />trees within the public right -of -way; substantial pedestrian activity
<br />Shallow Setbacks or none, buildings oriented to street defining a
<br />of streets, with wide sidewalks, regularly
<br />street wall
<br />spaced street tree planting and buildings
<br />Frontage Types:
<br />Stoops, Shopfronts, Galleries
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<br />set close to the sidewalks.
<br />Typical Building Height:
<br />Type of Civic Space:
<br />2- to 5 -Story with some variation
<br />Parks, Plazas and Squares, median landscaping
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