San Antonio Zoning Commission Meeting - August 18, 2026
San Antonio Zoning Commission Meeting - August 18, 2026
The San Antonio Zoning Commission met at 1:00 PM on August 18, 2026, chaired by John Bustamante. A quorum was present. The commission considered a consent agenda of six items and one individual hearing item, and approved minutes from the previous meeting. All votes were unanimous.
Consent Calendar
- Item 1: Approved a zoning change from C1 to C1S with a Specific Use Authorization for a medical clinic, physician, and/or dentist at 16719 Hubner Road.
- Item 2: Approved as amended to IDZ1 with one unit and C1 commercial uses at La Chappelle Street (originally a request from FBZ and MI1 to MI1).
- Item 4: Approved a zoning change from FBZ and MI1 to MI1 at 11608 South Sars of Morris Street (13 notices mailed, none in favor or opposed).
- Item 5: Approved a zoning change from R6 to IDZ2 with uses permitted in C2 commercial and MF40 multifamily districts at 211 McLean Street (21 notices mailed, 7 in favor, 1 opposed).
- Item 6: Approved a zoning change from C3NA to IDZ3 with uses permitted in C2 commercial and 185 units per acre at 1928 North St. Mary's Street (27 notices mailed, 1 in favor, none opposed).
Public Comments & Testimony
- Cynthia Spielman (speaking for Beacon Hill Area Neighborhood Association) thanked the applicant for working with the neighborhood. She stated that the neighborhood voted unanimously against the original MF25 proposal but unanimously supported allowing one additional unit (RM4). She noted the original proposal would have demolished a building in good shape.
Discussion Items
- Item 3 (1108 West Woodlawn Avenue): Request to rezone from R6 CD (conditional use for three dwelling units) to MF25 (low-density multifamily), which would allow up to six units. Staff recommended denial, noting that MF25 would double density and be out of character with the surrounding duplexes, triplexes, and quadplexes. Staff offered an alternative recommendation of RM4 (up to four units) or R4 CD. The applicant, Jonathan Vasquez, amended the request to RM4. Commissioner Kellum (District 1) praised the applicant's cooperation with the neighborhood and moved to approve RM4. The motion was seconded and passed unanimously.
Key Outcomes
- Consent agenda items 1, 2 (as amended), 4, 5, and 6 were approved unanimously via roll call vote.
- Item 3 was approved as amended to RM4 (unanimous).
- The minutes of the August 4, 2026 Zoning Commission meeting were approved by acclamation.
- No director's report was given. The meeting adjourned at 1:14 PM.
Meeting Transcript
All right, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. If we could please have our Spanish language interpretation services statement. Good afternoon, everyone. Buenas tardes a todos. Gracias. Thank you. My name is John Bustamante, and I am the chair of the zoning commission of the City of San Antonio, as well as the District 5 zoning commissioner. The time is 1 o'clock. I hereby call this regularly noticed meeting of the City of San Antonio Zoning Commission into session. I'd like to do roll call by allowing the zoning commissioners to introduce themselves, starting with the commissioner on the far left. Good afternoon. My name is John Kelly. I represent District 8. Danny Kellum, District 1. John Witsett, District 10. Moses Javel, District 9. Mia Losaf, District 2. Kinhoe, District 6. George Inojosa, District 3. ADP Rodriguez, District 4. Moj Gampana, Mayor Olapenti. Very good. Staff is a quorum present. Yes, the quorum is present. Thank you. Would everyone please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which the stands one nation under God is all before we begin our hearing. Staff, if you would. Before I begin, please turn your phones on vibrate or turn them off. The zoning commission is an 11-member body appointed by the city council to make recommendations on zoning cases. Upon receiving a recommendation from the commission, you will have six months from the date of the commission's recommendation to forward your case to city council. If you have any questions regarding this procedure, please contact your case manager. Staff will begin each case with a short presentation of the request. Part of the presentation includes a map that shows the area to be considered for rezoning and property within 200 feet of that subject property. Check marks will indicate those property owners in favor of the request, and an X will indicate those property owners in opposition. Following the presentation and any questions by the commission, the applicant will present their request. For those who have signed in to speak for or against the proposed rezoning, you will be called in the order that you have signed up to speak. Those in support and opposition will be allowed a maximum of three minutes per speaker, and you are not obligated to utilize the maximum time limitation. You will be informed that the three minutes are up. For those who would like to give their time to a speaker, that speaker will be allowed a maximum of two people giving their time for a total of nine minutes. Those giving up their time must be present and signed in to speak. And to please announce that when that speaker is going up to the podium that you are yielding your time. We do not. Awesome. Uh if you would please list the items on our combined hearing number one, the consent agenda, please. Items on the combined hearing are items one, two, four, five, and six. Commissioners, before we read these items into the record, would anyone like to pull any of them? Looking left, seeing none, looking right, seeing none. If we could please read those items into the record.
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