Council to consider $800,000 home repair, rehabilitation program
In an agenda with only six items, the San Marcos City Council is set to possibly approve an $800,000 funding agreement to establish a Home Repair and Rehabilitation Program for the community, rezone approximately 18 acres from Character District 5 to Light Industrial, create an amendment to the city code so the city manager can remove COVID-19 pandemic provisions that are no longer necessary and consider the allocation of remaining Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Action Plan funds to different categories or projects at the regularly scheduled meetings at 6 p.m. today. Based on the scope of the items, a shorter agenda may not equate to a shorter meeting.
The council is set to consider the approval of a funding agreement for $800,000 for Operation Triage and Mission Able, each for $400,000, to come from funds received through the American Rescue Plan Act in order to establish a Home Repair and Rehabilitation Program to support community recovery.
The council is set to take a final vote as to whether or not to rezone approximately 18 acres of land located 3,300 feet east of IH-35 near Centerpoint Road, from Character District 5, which allows high density residential as well as pedestrian oriented commercial uses, to Light Industrial, which allows manufacturing and light industrial uses, or another less intense zoning district classification.
It has almost been four years since the COVID-19 virus was declared a pandemic, and the council is looking to make amendments to the city code. The council is now set to give final consideration to an amendment to the San Marcos City Code that would give the city manager authority to remove obsolete provisions related to the COVID-19 pandemic and to clarify the types of agreements to which the city manager’s authority extends.
The council is set to consider approval of Substantial Amendment No. 14 to the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Action Plan for the purposes of reallocating project funding to different categories or projects and moving provisions concerning the duration of liens for affordable housing loans.
The meeting can be viewed in person at City Hall or online at san-marcos-tx.granicus. com/ViewPublisher. php?view_id=9.
