Public hearings to address street name, new MF housing project

The San Marcos City Council’s agenda for Tuesday night includes two public hearings: one on a street name change and one on a proposed multifamily housing project.

Council will take on the issue of renaming the section of Hunter Road between Wonder World Drive and West San Antonio Street to West Hopkins Street after a staff presentation and public hearing. The city has looked at the issue before in order to eliminate multiple street names along a single street.

The Planning and Zoning Commission has already considered the issue and, after hearing from numerous residents who would have to change their addresses, voted 8-0 against the street name change. 

The second public hearing on the council’s agenda is on a resolution providing no objection to an application for low income housing tax credits from the state for the proposed Riverstone Multifamily Housing Project. 

The development would be located at 1430 Wonder World Drive, between Sadler Drive and State Highway 123. Riverstone would be located less than a third of a mile from Central Texas Medical Center, about a quarter mile from a bus stop and 1-2 miles from several SMCISD campuses. 

According to the city agenda, the project will provide 336 housing units, all of which will be affordable housing at 51 to 60 percent of Area Median Income. No market-rate units are proposed. 

City staff is recommending the approval of the resolution of no objection for Riverstone to send an application for low income housing tax credits to the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. 

In other business Tuesday night, council is slated to discuss potential changes to the city charter, including but not limited to assembling the Charter Review Commission. 

Council is also set to make appointments to numerous boards and commissions, including the arts, cemetery, historic preservation, ethics, and planning and zoning commissions, and the Main Street and parking advisory boards. 

Council will meet in the council chambers at City Hall, 630 E. Hopkins St., at 6 p.m. City council meetings are televised live on Spectrum Ch. 10 and Grande Ch. 16 or 123-16 and streamed online.