Rolling Oaks Area Regional Center Plan: Survey #3
Rolling Oaks Area Regional Center Plan: Survey #3
The City of San Antonio Planning Department is gathering input to improve the draft recommendations that have been developed related to Land Use, Housing, and Economic Development for the Rolling Oaks Area Regional Center Plan. We are also gathering community input related to Focus Areas, Amenities and Public Spaces, and Mobility to determine what should be evaluated and refined as we continue with the planning process. Please submit your feedback by completing the survey by Tuesday, July 18, 2023.
For any questions, please email Ana Villarreal at: ana.villareal@sanantonio.gov
Para ver y participar en la versión en español de esta encuesta, visite: saspeakup.com/rollingoaks-survey3-span
Currently in Stage 1: Community Engagement
Stage 1: Community Engagement
Community Engagement
This survey is will be open until Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Thank you for taking the time to make sure your voice is heard for your city!
Project Background
The Rolling Oaks Area Regional Center Plan ("Plan") will help guide development and investments in the area over the next 10 to 15 years. Specifically, the Plan will address the following topics:
- Land Use
- Housing
- Economic Development
- Mobility
- Amenities and Public Spaces
In Community Survey #3, the City of San Antonio Planning Department is requesting input on draft Land Use, Housing, and Economic Development recommendations, in addition to requesting input that will be used to develop similar draft recommendations for Mobility, and Amenities & Public Spaces needs specifically for the plan area. All recommendations are meant to build on the Plan’s draft Vision and Goals, which were developed using community input from past surveys and community meetings.
Draft Vision:
The Rolling Oaks Regional Center helps multi-generational households, residents, and businesses thrive by respecting, celebrating, and connecting the area’s rich history and authenticity, community destinations and gathering places, and family friendly recreational amenities with clean and green infrastructure.
Draft Goals:
- Promote quality development that is compatible with existing neighborhoods and includes additional housing and employment options for existing and new residents.
- Ensure that existing residents and businesses – and the culture and authenticity they represent – are a part of the Regional Center Area moving forward as public and private improvements are made.
- Facilitate and guide new development to maintain the existing relationship of safe and quiet neighborhoods tucked between commercial and mixed-use areas.
- Retrofit auto-oriented commercial development to be more walkable and provide a greater diversity of locally serving restaurant and retail options.
- Expand the amount and variety of transit services throughout and connecting the Regional Center to other area destinations and amenities.
- Improve existing connections and create new connections that are truly multimodal, aesthetically pleasing and provide stormwater benefits.
- Provide more parks, open space, trails and recreational amenities throughout the Regional Center.
- Encourage responsible watershed management through sustainable and resilient public investments, private development, and strategic partnerships.
The boundaries of the Plan area are shown on the Study Area map. Please reference this map when answering questions. 
Draft Recommendations: Land Use, Housing, and Economic Development
The draft recommendations for Land Use, Housing, and Economic Development for the Rolling Oaks Area Regional Center were created based on public input during public meetings and surveys. Please review the draft recommendations for Land Use, Housing, and Economic Development, and use the slider to indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with each. If you have ideas for improvements or general comments relating to the draft recommendations, use the space provided for comments.
Use the slider to rate how much you agree or disagree with each recommendation.
DRAFT Land Use Recommendation #1
Protect the integrity of water resources in the Rolling Oaks Area Regional Center by preserving and enhancing green infrastructure.
Land Use Recommendation #2
Encourage creation of vibrant commercial areas, including mixed-use redevelopment or adaptive reuse, particularly of the Rolling Oaks Mall site.
DRAFT Land Use Recommendation #3
Ensure continued productivity of industrial areas, while minimizing negative impact on nearby neighborhoods.
DRAFT Land Use Recommendation #4
Foster future development patterns that concentrate density and intensity near major highways and transportation corridors, decreasing development impacts for properties farther away.
DRAFT Housing Recommendation #1
Focus higher density housing options near major transportation routes and the Loop 1604/Nacogdoches Road Interchange.
DRAFT Housing Recommendation #2
Support the transition of vacant and underutilized commercial areas to mixed-use areas to accommodate greater housing diversity and to create greater demand and vitality for existing retail areas.
DRAFT Housing Recommendation #3
Encourage a greater diversity of neighborhood compatible housing options to be built in the regional center.
DRAFT Economic Development Recommendation #1
Support the revitalization of the Rolling Oaks Mall area into a mixed-use destination.
DRAFT Economic Development Recommendation #2
Attract a greater diversity of employment uses to the Regional Center.
Comments?
Leave any comments or ideas you have for the draft recommendations.
Mobility, Focus Areas, and Amenities & Public Spaces
This section of the survey will help us gather input from the community to help staff develop draft recommendations for the Mobility and Amenities & Public Space sections of the Plan.
Mobility:
Review the sites identified here and rank them in order from 1 through 9, with 1 being the top priority for the most important location for future mobility improvements.
Mobility
Use the comment box to suggest additional sites that need mobility-related improvements, and to describe what kinds of mobility improvements you would like to see in your priority sites or within the Plan area.
Focus Areas, and Amenities & Public Spaces
Using the interactive map, please select the appropriate pin and place it (drag and drop) on the map where you would like to see that type of amenity or public space feature. The map depicts the boundary for the entire Roling Oaks Regional Center.
You may zoom into the map and place pins anywhere within the Plan Area and share your thoughts by typing in the comments section.
Optional Questions
The next set of optional questions will help us improve our outreach efforts across the City. The information you share helps us better understand how your lived experiences contribute to your experience and perceptions in this survey. Your responses will remain anonymous.