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<br />Another comparison and usefulbase,-data ,source for pop'ulationgrowthis the' past trends in <br />reside_ntial constructio,n.San Marcos' Building 1r1spection Departme_lJt maintains, a summary of <br />residential development indicating the number of building_permits issued during each year. lab_Ie <br />2 'shows th'e trend'in residential building permits a'nd, dwelling- units in the City over the last ten years. <br />Through July of 2002,_permits for 485 ,dwelling units have been issued. <br /> <br />Table 2 <br /> <br />RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS (1) <br />City'ofSan Marcos, Texas- <br /> <br />Residential <br />'Dwellina Units,' <br /> <br />Year <br /> <br />1992, <br />1993 <br />1994 <br />19-95 <br />1.996 <br />1997 <br />1998 <br />1999 <br />2000 <br />2001 <br /> <br />Total: <br /> <br />20 <br />40 <br />74 <br />433 <br />513 <br />439 <br />329, <br />336 <br />11232 <br />1.200 <br /> <br />4,614 <br /> <br />Average: 461.4 residential units per year <br /> <br />Source: City of San Marcos, Texas. <br />(1) Includes single-family and multi-family units, duplexes, <br />and townhouses. <br /> <br />For th_epurposes, ofd,oGumenting changes in- population, la,OO use, density and, intensity, the, data. <br />format to be LJsed as a basis to formulate the land use assumptions will be principally population'and <br />land- use e$timates. 'The_seestimates and' the_land' ~5e inventory J . from . the' City'sCompre-hensive <br />Plan, were us~dt()establishabeginning baseline, and updated to the year 2002 tor the projections <br />for San Marcos. <br /> <br />The 2002 population estimate from the City.ot San Marcos, was 'used as the base year population <br />(40,514 persons)~T_h~ tota_1 rumber of acres 'inside the . City's corporate limits'as' of January 2002 <br />was 11, 118 acres. The total area of the'waterservice area (Plate 1) is- 45,354 acres, and the total <br />area of the wastewa~erservice area (Plate 2-) is 59,565 acres. The 2002 estimate for the City's <br />water service area is: 17,350 dwellings, which yields a population of 45-,800 ,persons. The estimate <br /> <br />,Land Use Assumptions for Impact Fees--August, 2002 <br />City of San Marcos) Texas, ' <br />C:\DOCUME-1 \THERlcr1\LOCALS-1 \Temp\LandUseAssump-report 0821-2002.doc <br /> <br />_6 <br />