ru•dat boerne, tx boerne by design Special Thanks Boerne R/UDAT Sponsors Debbie Gilbert City Staff Matthew Tompkins - UTSA Visionary ($1,000 and above) Glazer’s Ron Bowman Natalia Wieczorek - UTSA AIA San Antonio Jodie Goerge Jeff Thompson Bear Moon Bakery Jennings Anderson Ford Christopher Turk UTSA College of Architecture Boerne CVB Kendall County Juvenile Probation Paul Barwick, ASLA Mark Blizard The Boerne Star Kara Holekamp Pamela Bransford Vincent Canizaro, Ph.D. Circle H Signs Land, Water, Sky Don Burger Darryl Ohlenbusch, AIA The Creek Restaurant Roy Montez Linda Cornelius Boerne ISD Crescent Quarters The Peach Tree Restaurant Michael Mann Critical Path Strategies Dr. John Kelly, Superintendent Doris Perez Mark Mattick Michelle Harris Jakovich & Perry Development Riverside Market Sandy Mattick Kendall County EDC Jeff Haberstroh Security State Bank & Trust Doug Meckel Steve Stewart Konica Minolta Business Solutions Charity Montez Spinks Jeff Middleton Phillip Manor Square Tootie Pies Gary Miller Media & Graphic Design Ridgways / AEC Systems The Trust Company Kelly Skovbjerg Albert Flores – Diverse Media, Inc. Ye Kendall Inn Barry Wagner, AIA Paul Kirtley – Paul Kirtley Design AIA San Antonio Landmark ($500 to $1000) Kristy Watson Ken Slavin – Ken Slavin Productions Nancy & Don White Charles John, AIA - President Boerne Bergesfest Torrey Carleton – Hon. AIA & Thank you to AIA, Joel Mills, Director of Caritas BBQ Steering Committee Executive Director AIA’s Communities by Design Program, Cavender Chevrolet Paula Hayward, Co-Chair Boerne R/UDAT Team Leader James Richard Chapman Ben Adam, AIA, Co-Chair Resource Volunteers Abell, FAIA, R/UDAT Team members, and Dodging Duck Marty Bryant George Barrera AIA San Antonio, Easter Creek Quarter Horses Dayna Cartwright Woody Chipman Greater Boerne Chamber Richard Chapman Mickey Conrad, AIA Thank you to the UTSA College of H-E-B Ron Cisneros Steven Cordero Architecture, professors, and students Limestone Grille Bryan D’Spain Col. Bettie Edmonds for their generous research and design Marlin Atlantis Paul Duran Glen Hamner, AIA support for this livable community North Park Toyota Michael Giddens Walter Heard, ASLA visioning project. Republic National Distribution Co. Bill Hensley, AIA Patrick Heath Thank you to the following people The Boerne Vistro Ed McClure Lloyd Jary, FAIA The Hungry Horse Chris Kimm who assisted in preparing, editing and Daniel Ochoa, AIA producing the Boerne R/UDAT report: Israel Pena Daniel Ochoa III, AIA Steward ($100-$500) Mark Oppelt, AIA Amanda Pepmiller (BookMaster) 2 Architects Larry (L.K.) Travis, AIA Paul Kirtley - Paul Kirtley Design Frank Valadez, AIA Don Seidel, AIA Ben Adam, AIA Robin Stauber Torrey Carleton, Hon. AIA Agricultural Heritage Museum Barry Wagner, AIA Dayna Cartwright - Travelhost Nancy White Larry (L.K.)Travis, AIA Authentic Custom Homes Frank Valadez, AIA Susan Hughes - Wordsmith Assoc. Paul Barwick, ASLA City of Boerne Keith Watson Paul Barwick, ASLA Boerne Concert Band City Council Jeffrey Williams Boerne Library Foundation Dan Heckler - Mayor Finally, a heartfelt thank you to Boerne Village Band Jacques DuBose R/UDAT Support Team the hundreds of participants Broadway Bank Haley Adam – Texas A&M Jeff Haberstroh and volunteers who made this Cibolo Arts Council Bob Manning Kara Holekamp – UT-Austin Cisneros Financial Services Ron Warden Rachel Kronick – UTSA public visioning process a Culligan Water Conditioning Rob Ziegler Daniel Lazarine - UTSA community success. Daily Grind Brandon Melland - UTSA Table of Contents “There can be no more noble undertaking than to leave our children a town full of life, beauty and wonderment.” James Abell, FAIA Boerne R/UDAT 2008 — What will be the face of Boerne in the next 100 years? Introduction 4 Community Context 13 Regenerative Design 21 Community Preservation 29 Civic Connectivity 35 Image of the City 45 Civic Health 61 Civic Campus 71 Downtown Center 89 Public Participation 98 Student Perspective 122 Acknowledgements 131 Introduction June 9, 2008 To the Good Citizens of Boerne: grandchildren with the small town atmosphere and quality of life To create a durable vision plan for Boerne, we have listened you currently enjoy, but also a community richer in choices for to many constituencies over two full days of input and have housing, career, recreation, and entertainment for all stages of blended local citizen concerns with national quality expertise in life. Your challenge is accepting change while demanding the town planning, landscape architecture, and architecture. This highest development standards of yourselves and new projects plan is only a beginning of the hard work yet to come. headed your way. In inviting a national American Institute of Architects Regional / It is important to emphasize that this vision plan is only as Urban Design Assistance Team (R/UDAT) to your community, durable as the collective community memory, and it is our team’s you have embarked on an historic event that will resonate in hope that elected officials, planning commission members, your community for years to come. Crafting a durable vision for R/UDAT steering committee members, and involved citizens will your community is demanding and difficult work. Consensus invoke the spirit and memory of this community planning effort and harmony for all interests at all times for all situations is when individual development proposals are reviewed, discussed, impossible. However, you are blessed with community and and adopted. cultural underpinnings that are well rooted in a collective spirit of It has been a thrill to be so welcomed and loved by so many altruism. residents of Boerne, and I look forward to visiting you again in Developing a new Civic Campus that represents gathering the future as your vision of an even more livable community is spaces of unique character for all citizens; evolving a Central realized. There can be no more noble undertaking that to leave Business District that is pedestrian, bicycle, and parking our children a town full of life, beauty, and wonderment. friendly; and crafting improvements for the Cibolo Creek that provide recreation, enhancement, and linkages throughout the community is a worthy undertaking. With patience and determination, your community will find the James Abell, FAIA, LA collective will and perseverance to provide your children and R/UDAT Team Leader 4 Introduction From the Boerne R/UDAT Co-Chairpersons: spent obtaining public input, communicating ideas, attending focus groups, and participating in debate and discussion. In the fall of 2007, as many changes were occurring to our The information and emotion from citizens helped the Team beloved hometown, it became obvious to a few that a new members imagine and create this plan, as they spent the comprehensive plan was necessary to prepare for the future weekend cloistered away in the Boerne Public Library, sketching, growth and expansion of Boerne. The desire to preserve the discussing, and writing. This document is the final product filled aspects of a Boerne lifestyle which we hold close to our hearts, with overarching ideas, concepts, questions, and suggestions to while changing with the times, had become a challenge we consider as this community continues to grow. needed to address in order to fulfill the potential of our growing community. After the completion of the Master Plan Update We thank the team members for donating their time and for Boerne, there arose the question of how to approach the expertise to Boerne and its promising future. We also extend a areas identified as the “Three C’s,” which encompass the Civic particular thanks to Paul Barwick, Senior Planner for the City Campus, the Central Business District, and the Cibolo Creek. A of Boerne, who exhibited unimaginable motivation and hard solution to this next crucial step came in the acceptance of the work to make this dream a reality. The work of the Steering American Institute of Architects R/UDAT application in February Committee was an absolutely vital part of the process, as each of 2008. Excitement and anticipation grew and soon committees member contributed countless hours organizing and planning. were formed to start preparation for the event. In addition, thanks to all the sponsors and contributors, who provided everything from facilities, rooms, and gathering spaces to food and transportation, as well as materials and equipment. Thank you also must be extended to the architects, landscape architects, planners, graphic artists, report production crew, students and interns, who lent their talent, skill, and imagination. Finally, we send our sincere gratitude to the UTSA College of Architecture for putting together the extensive research and analysis of Boerne, as seen in the book, Document on the City, Boerne, TX that was published and used extensively throughout the R/UDAT process. This document will continue to be a beneficial resource for our community. However, the final printing of the document you now hold does not complete this project. In fact, the real work is just beginning. It is our job to make sure this project does not become just another book on the shelf once the R/UDAT team returns to their Paula and Ben welcoming Brian Driscoll to R/UDAT Kick-Off celebration. respective homes. Therefore, we extend our thanks combined After months of hard work by both Steering Committee members with a call to action to all of those whose future contributions and local contributors, the first day of the R/UDAT process will ensure that we