SouthSaToday.Com
by Robert Castillo
San Antonio, Tx - Staff from the City of San Antonio held their third community meeting on the proposed Heritage South Sector Plan Land use.
Saturday morning's meeting lasted about two hours and was held at the San Antonio Police Academy with approximately 50 in attendance. The presentation done by city staff was divided into several components, which included land use and urban design, transportation, utilities, housing, economic development, community services, education, parks and natural resources and historic preservation.
According to their printed material, this plan will determine appropriate uses and development within the south side area bounded by: Loop 410 to the north; the extraterritorial jurisdiction boundary to the south; I-35 to the west; and Hwy 181 to the east.
Questions raised by the public included whether there were any plans for hospitals in the southside while another person commented about the growing congestion on Roosevelt.
Ernest Chacon, a southside resident addressed the group from a prepared written statement concerning the buffer zone around the Toyota plant. According to Chacon, he owns several acres and felt that because of the concession made to Toyota, he is now locked in and cannot sell his property.
" Nobody here went to the meeting." said businessman Gomer Pena, "the problem that is occurring is that you keep telling us that at the last meeting this was developed and nobody here was at the last meeting. So the thing is..you need to have a little more respect for the people. "
Pena asked that ample notice be given about such meetings.
City staff pointed out that information about Heritage South Sector Plan Lane use and meetings are on their website.
Many planned to attend the next meeting scheduled on June 22, 2010 at 6:00pm. The location will be 1901 S. Alamo.
http://www.sanantonio.gov/planning/south_sector_plan1.asp
