Comprehensive El Paso
Urbanism/Urban Design/Public Policy/San Antonio
Tonight we (in the royal sense) attended the lecture at UTSA’s downtown campus concerning El Paso’s new, celebrated comprehensive city plan
Planning leadership in the city and in the university took the time to drill the panelists with questions in the hope of replicating the effort in our sprawling city. Without a similar influx of cash that will no doubt be incredibly difficult. Anything is possible with some dynamic leadership here. Apparently El Paso had the critical mass of talented people who could fight for Smart Growth principles successfully. San Antonio certainly has the knowledge, but it is yet to be seen if it has the same political talent
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Or luck. I mean, it’s hard to look at the results and make accurate judgements about the causes. El Paso seems fortunate to have had the right group of people to lead this thing and certainly lucky to have lots of help from the DoD. SA Mayor Castro’s SA2020 plan is not quite a comprehensive city plan in the URP sense. UTSA’s John Dugan led the panel Q&A. He is also on the SA planning commission thing. He is a talented guy from what I hear. ↩ ↩