During the Greater San Marcos Partnership’s (GSMP) annual board meeting on Oct. 20, the GSMP Board approved a new financial commitment to Vision 2025, our region’s community built and consensus-driven economic development strategy.
This commitment provides funds for the first phase of a support data mapping tool, which is critical to fulfilling one of Vision 2025’s key strategic actions: the development of a regional conservation development growth plan.
This decision to proactively identify the geographic areas throughout our region that should or should not be developed is rare in economic development. It is an intentional part of our region’s strategy, however, as both GSMP and our community at large finds it critical to preserve the region’s natural resources. Those resources include our river systems, aquifers, and the Hill Country’s natural beauty, all of which must be protected as we strategically plan the inevitable growth and development of our community.
