Review and evaluate the Zoning Ordinance and make appropriate amendments based on guidance from the Comprehensive Plan.

Review development regulations and implement standards that configure development to provide complementary uses and foster good connections, using a combination of streets, trails, and sidewalks for vehicular, pedestrian, and bicycle circulation, that enhance the quality of neighborhoods.

Review and update the Zoning Map to resolve land use inconsistencies between the Future Land Use Map and the Zoning Map.

Create regulations that incentivize the redevelopment and revitalization of underperforming retail and multifamily development.

Review requests to expand retail zoning for consistency with city policies and studies discouraging an overabundance of retail-zoned land. Emphasize reinvestment in existing retail centers as the preferred strategy, consistent with the Revitalization of Retail Shopping Centers Policy, the Retail Study of Underperforming and Vacant Retail Areas, and the City of Plano Shopping Center.

Review and ensure residential adjacency standards provide appropriate transitions in building height and bulk that are sensitive to the physical character of adjoining neighborhoods.

Develop locations for special area plans to focus development and redevelopment efforts in conformity with the Comprehensive Plan.

Develop review criteria that provides guidance on the community’s preferences regarding mixed-use developments, such as desired mix of uses, densities, parking, phasing plans, minimum open space, building placement, quality of building materials, residential adjacency, and other urban design elements.