The El Paso City Council approved the Connecting El Paso Plan on Tuesday, January 18 with unanimous approval and accolades from the Council to the volunteer citizen planners, planning staff and consultant team which worked on the project. The plan was described by City Council representative Beto O’Rourke as likely to “result in historic change” for the growing City. Connecting El Paso focuses on areas which are expected to become new centers of the City under the City’s new transit plan: Remcon Circle, 5 Points, and the Oregon Corridor. The plan also proposes redevelopment at the former ASARCO site, which includes over 450 acres of developable land near the center of the City. In the next five years the City will complete new bus rapid transit centers and street improvements at each of the transit sites and compact, mixed-use transit-oriented development is expected to follow in time. At the ASARCO site connected networks of pedestrian-friendly streets, protected open spaces, office and commercial uses, and regional landmark destinations are planned. The plan was the result of a year-long initiative involving the multi-disciplinary consultant team and hundreds of El Paso residents with close support from Senator Eliot Shapleigh and Roberto Puga, Trustee for the ASARCO Site, and the Texas Department of Transportation.
Latest Press
- 03-25-2012"'Smart Growth:' Plan adopted in Northwest El Paso," El Paso Times
- 03- 11 -2012, "Glimpse into El Paso's future: Plan El Paso earns praise from EPA," El Paso Times
- 03- 11 -2012, "ABC 7 Listens, Plan El Paso," KVIA 7
- 03- 11 -2012, "A Look Into The Future," ABC7 Extra
- 03- 10 -2012, "Council Approves Plan," KVIA 7
- 03- 08 -2012, "It's unanimous: El Paso commits to a smarter, greener future," Switchboard NRDC Staff Blog
- 03- 08 -2012, "How El Paso Ended Up With America's Best Smart Growth Plan," The Atlantic Cities
- 03- 07 -2012, "Plan El Paso Expected To Change Look Of City Over Next Two Decades," KVIA7
- 03- 07 -2012, "City Council approves plan for transformation of El Paso," El Diario de El Paso
- 03- 06 -2012, "City Council to vote on plan to shape economic growth, development," El Paso Times
- 03- 06 -2012, "City council expected to adopt comprehensive plan," KFox14
- 03- 06 -2012, "City Council Approves Plan El Paso," NewsChannel9
- 03- 04 -2012, "Joyce A. Wilson: Moving city ahead with Plan El Paso," El Paso Times
- 02- 16 -2012, "San Jacinto Concept Plans Finalized, Foster Out Of Project," KVIA
- 02- 01 -2012, "El Paso, Texas: Destination of the week," Mother Nature Network
- 01- 25 -2012, "City plan focus of 2 meetings," El Paso Times
- 01- 25 -2012, "City Asks For Your Input Regarding Transmountain Corridor," KVIA.com
- 01- 24 -2012, "Northwest Master Plan, Trans Mountain Corridor to be discussed tonight at planning session," El Paso Times
- 01- 23 -2012, El Paso transit: Sun Metro's plan for Dyer Street move ahead, El Paso Times
Background Docs
- 1925 Comprehensive Plan for El Paso
- 1999 Comprehensive Plan for El Paso
- 2006 Parks and Open Space Masterplan
- 2015 Downtown Plan
- A Review of the Kesselar Plan for El Paso, 1962
- An Historical Appraisal Of The 1925 Kessler Plan For El Paso
- ASARCO in El Paso Shapleigh report
- City of El Paso Sustainability Plan
- Complete Master Final October 2009
- Complete Streets
- Complete Streets
- El Paso Smart Code Workshop
- Northwest Master Plan
- Rail in the Pass Presentation Caballero Plan
- SmartCode Adopted 20 July 2008
- SmartCode Presentation to Council 20 July
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