San Marcos Weighs Rezoning 14.72 Acres on Hunter Road
Case ZC-26-03 would shift land east of Wonder World Drive from a holding district to commercial.
San Marcos City Council is set to take up a rezoning case for 14.72 acres in the 1600 block of Hunter Road, about 2,000 feet east of Wonder World Drive, when it meets Oct. 20, 2026. Ordinance 2026-52, case ZC-26-03, asks the council to move the tract from FD (Future Development), a holding designation, to CM (Commercial), or a less intense district if the owner consents. The item carries a public hearing and is on first reading, meaning a second vote would still be required before any zoning change takes effect. The public agenda packet does not name the applicant or the landowner behind the request.
Why it matters
Moving a tract out of the city’s Future Development holding category and into a commercial district is typically the step that clears the way for a site plan, well before any building permit is filed. The same Oct. 20 agenda asks council to give second readings to four annexation and zoning ordinances in the La Cima subdivision in Hays County, plus a 0.41-acre rezoning on North LBJ Drive. That volume signals the city is processing a wave of land-use changes on its edges this fall. None of those cases is final until council records its vote.
The numbers
The Hunter Road tract spans 14.72 acres under case ZC-26-03. A second first-reading case with a public hearing, ZC-26-07 (Wonder World Medical), would move about 4.64 acres on Wonder World Drive from Commercial to Business Park. The four La Cima items on second reading cover roughly 356 acres, counting the 165.69 acres that appear in both an annexation and a zoning case once.
What’s next
Council holds the public hearing and first-reading vote Oct. 20. A rezoning ordinance in San Marcos requires a second reading before it is final, so the Hunter Road case would need to return to a later agenda for a final vote. The city’s Legistar system is the record of when, and whether, that happens; the agenda packet itself does not identify who is requesting the change. For more Hays County and Austin metro land-use coverage, see the market hub.
On the record
Primary record
- Public recordOrdinance 2026-52, case ZC-26-03, proposes rezoning about 14.72 acres in the 1600 block of Hunter Road, roughly 2,000 feet east of Wonder World Drive, from FD (Future Development) to CM (Commercial), with a public hearing on the item's first readingView the record on san-marcos-tx.legistar.com