Welcome to Blanco's Planning Engagement Portal

This is your hub to connect, share ideas, and stay up to date on our planning work. Here you’ll find progress updates, key milestones, and the most important moments to add your feedback.

Your Team

Led by City of Blanco leadership, our team includes planning and policy experts, placemakers, and designers—all committed to a plan that reflects the real culture and character of Blanco, today and into the future.

Langford Community Management Services — A Texas-based partner to cities and counties providing funding strategy, grant administration, compliance, and project management for infrastructure and community development.

EBF Development & Design Studio — A place-based strategy and design firm led by Elizabeth Fauerso that blends anthropology of place, market insight, and brand to create mission-aligned vision, partners, and on-the-ground experience.

Brandon Melland Architect — An architecture and planning practice led by Brandon Melland focused on resilient, community-centered design and implementation.

What We’re Working On

• Community-driven, community-led: We start by listening—to residents, businesses, and key stakeholders across all corners of Blanco.
• Blanco’s story, front and center: We’ll explore our formal and informal history to shape land use, placemaking, and resource priorities that celebrate who we are.
• Resilience now and ahead: We’ll address water access and use, infrastructure for growth, and disaster preparedness—aligned with Texas General Land Office (GLO) resilience guidance.
• A vibrant local economy: We’ll explore Blanco’s unique economic drivers—distilleries, wineries, breweries, food & beverage, hospitality, Hill Country tourism, and professional services tied to our community and beyond—and support small businesses and makers.
• Designed for residents: We’ll plan for housing needs, transportation, resources and infrastructure for today and tomorrow—to keep Blanco livable for families, workers, and seniors, ranchers.
• Historic character that feels like Blanco: Clear design standards to reflect our historic buildings, materials, scale, and the natural setting that makes Blanco special.
• Nature first: We’ll protect and celebrate our outdoors—Blanco State Park, the river, Hill Country landscapes, and historic ranches.