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KILGORECOMPREHENSIVE PLAN

C PA C K I C K - O F F | J U LY 1 6 , 2 0 1 9

WELCOME!

Edmund Haas, AICPTransportation

Kim Dresdner, AICPDowntown

Dan Sefko, FAICPSenior Advisor

Erica Craycraft, AICPComprehensive Plan

TONIGHT’S AGENDA• Comprehensive planning purpose

• Planning scope and schedule

– Comprehensive Plan

– Downtown Plan

– Transportation Plan

• Input exercises

• Next steps and feedback

PLAN PURPOSE• 10- to 20-year vision for Kilgore’s future

• Decision-making guide

– Future land uses

– City policy

– Zoning

– CIP and infrastructure

HOW IS THE PLAN USED?

City Council

Decisions


Comprehensive Plan

Planning & Zoning Commission

City Staff

Public Meetings

City Council

Input Decisions


City Council

Input Decisions Results

Rezonings

Capital Improvements

Budget Allocation

Development Regulations

Comprehensive Plan

Planning & Zoning Commission

City Staff

Public Meetings

CPAC’S ROLE• Ensure that the community’s input is reflected

by the plan

• Sounding board for plan recommendations

• Ambassadors of the plan and the process

PLANNING SCOPE

PLANNING SCOPECommunity Snapshot

Vision

Land Use and Housing Plan

Implementation

Downtown Plan

Transportation Plan

Local and regional plans

Historic growth trends

Demographics

Housing characteristics


Vision


Implementation

Downtown Plan

Transportation Plan

Vision statement

Goals and objectives

Summary of community input


Vision


Implementation

Downtown Plan

Transportation Plan

Existing land use

Physical constraints

Housing mix

Future industry areas

Future land use

Population projections


Vision


Implementation

Downtown Plan

Transportation Plan

Existing conditions baseline and mapping

High-level market assessment

Illustrative master plan

Branding and district strategies

Implementation plan


Vision


Implementation

Downtown Plan

Transportation Plan

Public/stakeholder input

Planning context/existing conditions

Future needs & planning

Design standards

Short & long-term action plan


Vision


Implementation

Downtown Plan

Transportation Plan

Action matrix

Ordinance diagnostic summary

OUTREACH AND MEETING WORK PROGRAM J A S O N D J F M A M J

Project Website

Supplemental Materials

Meeting 1 | City Staff Charette and CPAC Kick-Off

Meeting 2 | Stakeholder Focus Groups and Open House #1

Meeting 3 | CPAC Review Community Snapshot Draft, Discuss Goals/Vision Statement, and Discuss Survey

Communitywide MetroQuest Online Survey

CPAC Goals Online Survey

Meeting 4 | CPAC Review Land Use and Housing Plan Draft

Meeting 5 | CPAC Review Downtown and Transportation Plan Drafts

Meeting 6 | Open House #2 to Review Draft Plan Recommendations

Meeting 7 | CPAC Review Open House Input and Revise Draft

Meeting 8 | Joint Workshop on Complete Draft

Meeting 9 | Joint Public Hearing

ENGAGEMENT• Community

• CPAC

• Stakeholders

• P&Z

• City Council

• City staff

INPUT EXERCISE

INPUT TO-DATEVALUES AND STRENGTHS

• Hometown feel

• Sense of community/pride

• Safe and inclusive

• Family-oriented

• Downtown

• Amenities (college, hospital, lakes, outdoors)

• Rich in history and arts

WISHLIST

• Attract residents, not just employees

• Young adults to want to stay here

• Community/event center

• Focus on community health

• Kids recreation

• Revitalize Downtown

• Employment opportunities and job training (but not heavy industrial)

• Improved aesthetics

• Prepare for changes in technology, economy, oil industry, etc.

DOWNTOWN• Opportunities and assets

• Challenges

• What’s missing?

• One thing

Notes:

Sidewalk connection between college and downtown; tourism for Shakespeare festival, Rangerettes, museum

Mindset/hesitation to use sidewalks, more visually apparent/understandable

More pedestrian-scale lighting/shade; practical/safety, not just aesthetic; especially downtown because events

Electric availability (on the Acre but want on Kilgore) for events, food trucks

Available space, several smaller parking lots, where can people park for parade? More consolidated parking location desired, also use for events instead of closing streets, outlets

Would like to see Kilgore street portion of Dr Whiteside’s lot developed for something other than parking, should be storefront

Notes:

Overlay entertainment district previously

Also don’t need parking lots at every building, can walk some

No stop sign between Knowles and Main Street on Kilgore, too fast

Could the parking lot be shared between uses? Mainly events, residential behind.

Adequate supply of parking for daily traffic

Many vacant buildings, trying to help them come up to code; not sure why they won’t make improvements (ROI, cost prohibitive, what to do with them?)

Kilgore wants/needs more restaurants, especially in downtown

Cyclical – fill up and dwindle down


• Challenges


• One thing

Notes:

What codes? ADA, fire, plumbing, electrical…

$1/sqft for leasable space

Enforcement, Main Street working on this

Underutilized buildings (self-storage)

Building owners should be involved in community input

Hard to make improvements that aren’t lipstick on a pig

Not enough traffic in downtown – no courthouse, not a main highway, have to be lured off main roads

What’s the best small downtown? Granbury, Fredericksburg, McKinney. Vineyards tourist attraction… what’s our attraction? People come for derricks, oil museum, Rangerettes.

When they visit, let’s make them want to live here, get kids to come back

Notes:

Lots of traffic on I-20, how to get them here?

Geographically central

Need to develop I-20 sections. 42 somewhat developed, but 135 is industrial, nothing on either side. Nothing along 31 but high traffic volumes. Nothing at exits to encourage visitors.

Jack Ryan’s is an asset

People come here every day for work then go back home, ~10k people – why are they willing to commute/live elsewhere?

Finance is a main hurdle for making downtown successful

If it’s too cheap you won’t attract the quality

Develop the businesses and let the rooftops follow


• Challenges


• One thing

Notes:

10-10-10 rule

Long-term plan

Not much stays open after 6:00

Bottom floor isn’t as hard to fill as the second floor

Restaurants make profit on lunch because of all the people working in Kilgore

Notes:

HOUSING• Big issues

• Missing housing types

• Home condition

• Home affordability

• Neighborhoods

Notes:

People leaving after work- attract people from a region for higher-skill jobs- lack of housing

Have lack of supply in housing

Cyclical oil economy affecting housing projects to finish

Not enough starter homes- entry level housing is $120/sf

No middle market here

No nicer rental homes here

Half a million people within commuting distance- proximity and ease of access to other communities creates a drain-it’s easy to commute

Kilgore is starting to experience traffic issues

Notes:

LAND USE• Big issues

• Missing places

• Land use conflicts

• Redevelopment areas

• Opportunity areas

Notes:

Missing land-uses: things to do after 6:00 PM, gathering places, destination social space (restaurant, family spaces)

Back porch a good gathering space

Parents live vicariously through their children- need a place for mom to get a glass of wine while she waits for kids to get done with activities

Opportunity areas for cool redevelopment could go: Fred’s, 59 corridor, from the College moving north,

Fast-food joints are killing restaurants

Kilgore college draws a lot for the City-Fast food joints energized because of the college.

What tends to be south of the College is older stuff. North of Kilgore you get into the floodplains. Best parts for growing are east and west, but not great thoroughfare access

Notes:

Kilgore probably has more locally owned places than fast food joints

Land use- hard to find locations for the needs of companies

Has development challenges

Pipelines 259 west

Tons of floodplains

Surrounded by Cities that have less development constraints

More expensive to develop in Kilgore because of the oil field pipelines

TRANSPORTATION• Big issues

• Problem areas

• Safety

• Connectivity

Notes:

Themes so far: transportation is generally good? Lack of east-west connectivity. Circulation good overall.

Connectivity issues on the west side of town due to railroad.

Most frontage is on 42 – storage facility, etc. but undevelopable due to floodplain

Downtown?

No development on I-20 because no service roads

KLG-LNG exit all floodplain, major development issue north and east

Oil field, railroad also issues

Too many FM roads, thins down volumes (no desire to take over roads)

Safety? I-20 at 31, if truck coming from west, issue to go south, have to exit left in ½ mile

Notes:

Where will residential growth happen? East or south, toward 259. Schools are to the south.

If we could steer growth, where should it go? Inward? North Street by FBC, lot could be MF (youth center coming)

Commuting patterns – west is closest to downtown; infill area in NW? oil field though.

Lots of infrastructure existing that could be reused, NW side of downtown, homes vacant/redevelopable (MLK Rd)

I-20 or 31 brings people in from the west

Regional opportunities – serviced by AA 2-3 flights a day

Synergy Park is main employment center; 42, North Kilgore Industrial Park; Energy Drive (missing from map?); industrial south of Kilgore

TRANSPORTATION• Big issues

• Problem areas

• Safety

• Connectivity

Notes:

Improvements planned along I-20

Congestion? 259, Synergy Park is tough to get out of during AM/PM. Interchange by Chili’s/car wash, and this point south to Dudley Road due to college, stop lights, schools. Too many lights? No, needed for safety, couldn’t get on at all without them.

How many times do you sit through more than one cycle? Not often.

Major corridors, congestion/access management? Red lights are all state-operated. Truck activity on 135 and 42.

Kilgore College? Staying level. Branch in LNG took some of the students. 5,200 students.

Blank check, what do you fix? Repave Main Street, beat up old streets. It’s on the list.

135 just past the circle going south, potholes

Notes:

4,500 people working at Synergy Park, more coming

Better Synergy Park accessibility – have a truck entrance, 259 employee entrance, but trucks also use it then redirected to use truck entrance

Sidewalks? Patchwork, noncontiguous. Access ramps have sidewalks but they don’t connect to other sidewalks. Just had a public meeting about sidewalks around schools, SRTS, supposed to be done this FY to promote walkability. Have a nice walking trail now.

Traffic circle? TXDOT’s. Bad interchange. Trucks struggle to get through. But no room to expand ROW.

NEXT STEPS


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NEXT STEPAug 20-22: Focus Groups

Aug 22: Open House #1

Question for CPAC:

Thoughts on tonight’s input process?


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NEXT CPACSept 17: Snapshot review,

discuss vision

QUESTIONS?

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