Downtown Master Plan nears completion

Downtown Master Plan nears completion Main Photo

13 Mar 2023


Downtown, Quality of Life, News, City of Seguin

Special by Kyle Kramm, Main Street & CVB director
(Seguin) — After a yearlong planning process, Seguin’s Downtown Master Plan is nearing completion and is being prepared for adoption by the Seguin City Council. As the public has been highly involved in the process, there will be one final open house on April 19 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Seguin Public Library.

“This plan will guide the Main Street Program and City Council in making decisions about downtown for the next ten to twenty years, and we want to make sure that the projects, ideas, and concepts included in the plan are what the citizens of Seguin want and envision,” said Kyle Kramm, Seguin Main Street & CVB Director, “We have over 60 projects and tasks in the plan that will help guide us to creating the community’s vision into a reality.”

That vision that the community created is described in the plan as “Downtown Seguin is an exciting and welcoming destination for locals and visitors that celebrates our beauty, grit, and drive while remaining true to our local history and variety of cultures that shape our future.”

The plan includes five goals to create that vision:

Become a regional destination.
Strengthen the relationship between the local community and downtown.
Effectively tell the story of downtown.
Attract and sustain a variety of businesses.
Conduct physical improvements to facilitate a vital place.
From those goals comes over 60 tasks and projects for the Main Street Program, the City of Seguin, downtown businesses and property owners, downtown partners, and the community to work on and accomplish. These include policy changes like the adoption of the International Existing Building Code, programming changes like creating a parklet program, and physical improvements like constructing downtown restrooms.

To learn about these 60 tasks and other elements included in the master plan, we encourage the public to join us on Wednesday, April 19 from 5:00 to 7:00 for a come and go open house. There will be no formal presentation, so the public can come anytime to walk through the meeting room and review the displays and provide feedback. Based on feedback, there may be some final edits to the plan before it goes for formal adoption.

To stay informed on the downtown master plan and continue to provide feedback, visit www.planseguindt.com. There you can find copies of the presentations about the plan, provide comments on items about downtown, and more.