A comprehensive plan is a long-range planning tool intended to be used by decision-makers, City staff, and local residents. Comprehensive plans are important because they direct the growth and physical development of a community for the next 10 to 20 years. The State of Texas has established laws with regard to the way in which incorporated communities can ensure the health, safety, and welfare of their residents through a comprehensive plan. A comprehensive plan is not a zoning ordinance, but rather a high-level tool for the City to guide future policy and development decisions.
This Comprehensive Plan aims to set the stage for this future, where growth is happening WITH Lockhart rather than TO Lockhart. This Comprehensive Plan sets in place a vision and strategy to achieve growth and decision making in Lockhart that maintains its culture while bringing new ideas and realizing outcomes that make everyone in Lockhart, currently and in the future, stronger.