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Chapter 4 - San Marcos Tomorrow Thoroughfare Plan I Goal 3 - Land Use and Transportation Coordinate land use, development, and the transportation system. Policy T-3.1: The City will ensure that development approvals are contingent upon a site having adequate public facilities, including transportation, thus reducing premature development in locations that puts undue strain on the transportation system and does not provide adequate accommodation of alternative transportation modes. Policy T -3.2: The City will work to ensure adequate site design of new developments that provide adequate internal circulation, connection to adjacent uses, and multi-modal connection to the City's transportation system. Policy T -3.3: The City will work with public entities, including the university and school districts, to ensure that new facilities are located in areas where there is an adequate transportation system that is accessible by all transportation modes. I Policy T-3.4: The City will encourage the provision of adequate parking, particularly in the downtown/university area, while discouraging the provision of excess parking that results in inefficient land use patterns and promotes over-reliance on the automobile as the sole mode of transportation. Policy T -3.5: The City will encourage mixed-use development that decreases the need for all trips to be relatively long-distance automobile trips. Policy T -3.6: The City will encourage commercial development in concentrated nodes rather than in conventional strips along major roads, particularly for local-serving commercial areas outside the IH-35 corridor. I Policy T-3.7: The City will encourage more efficient use of land and existing infrastructure by encouraging targeted redevelopment of appropriate areas in the core of the community, particularly by increasing the housing base in areas where San Marcos Horizons (Draft: September 17,2004) 4-24.2