The time is now 2 08 p.m.

on Thursday, February 19th, and the City of San Antonio zoning and land use session as called to order.

Madam Clerk, please call roll.

Councilmember Corps.

Councilmember McKee Rodriguez.

Present.

Councilmember View Gran.

Councilmember She's here.

Councilmember Mungia.

Present.

Councilmember Castillo.

Here.

Councilmember Gaulman.

Here.

Councilmember Alvarete Gavito.

Here.

Councilmember Mesa Gonzalez.

Present.

Councilmember Spears.

Here.

Councilmember White.

Here.

Mayor Jones.

Here.

Mayor, we have quorum.

Great.

Thank you.

Items to continue to March 5th, 2026.

Um are items one and five.

Is there a motion to continue the items?

Just Jack Finger.

Okay.

Jack Finger, you have three minutes, sir.

Madam Mayor, other members of our San Antonio City Council.

My name is Jack M.

Finger.

And just to clarify something, Madam Mayor, you said this is a continuation uh point period here.

And you said one and five are continued.

Are I was told that 23 and 8 were also continued.

Different dates.

Okay.

Very good.

I'll take on uh one.

Yes, one and five.

Okay.

What I have to say about basically is simply in item number one is being continued, and this is in uh district seven.

Yes, that's right.

This Mr.

Ms.

Ms.

Govito.

Yeah.

They can't gotta have a program that to keep things straight here.

You keep otherwise you all always get mixed up.

Ms.

Gabito, you uh want to offer a alcohol variants to the area over in uh on Bandera Road, the Woodlawn Hills Elementary School, as I recall.

Yeah.

That's um I always am puzzled why you would allow all alcohol sales to be sold within walking distance of where kids uh play play on uh playgrounds, Ms.

Govito.

I uh uh somehow along the way I I wish uh you would just say no to the whole thing and and and get it over with instead of wearing down anybody else who who comes by and says please don't do this, please don't do this, please don't do this.

You know, uh so please uh don't do this, Ms.

Govito.

Uh at least for this uh period that's all I have to say, madam mayor.

That was the only uh individual signed up to speak on this.

Is there any council discussion on the items to be continued?

Okay, hearing none, there's a motion and a second to continue items one and five to March 5th, 2026.

Please vote.

Councilman Via Grande.

Aye, okay, thank you.

Aye.

Okay.

Okay, the motion carries.

Our next item to continue to the March 19th, 2026 meeting is item 23.

Is there a motion to continue the item?

Okay.

Madam Clerk, uh, we've got one individual signed up on this item as well.

Jack Finger.

Good afternoon, City Council.

Once again, I am Jack Finger, and I'm here to uh mention a few comments on item 23, which you intend to continue.

And uh Ms.

Castillo, this is in your district.

You have I notice you have quite quite a few of them here on today, today's agenda.

But item uh 23 is about uh placing say a uh proposal commercial proposal where a uh a residential area was earlier, and uh the zoning staff had a big problem with that.

They think that uh they notice that it's a dead end street, and that uh the traffic on this would be uh quite uh substantial for the bed and breakfast that the people want to establish here.

Uh zoning staffs and in spirit of compromise said suggest you lower this down to multifamily dash 18 instead of the 30 sum odd that that uh is proposed here, so that the people living on that street don't have to deal with cars whizzing past them every time they get out of the driveway there.

So, yeah, um if you would uh Miss Castillo, please uh uh follow the staff's recommendation and just lower it down to MF 18.

There's uh with a special specialty for bed and breakfast there.

Thank you.

There's a motion and a second to continue item 23 to March 19th, 2026.

Please vote.

Uh councilman Via Gadan.

Aye.

Okay, the motion carries.

Our next item can to continue to the April 16th, 2026 item uh meeting, excuse me, is item eight.

Is there a motion to continue the item?

Is there a second?

Okay.

Let's see.

We don't have any individuals signed up, right?

There are no individuals from the public signed up to speak on this item.

Is there any council discussion on the item to be continued?

Okay.

Hearing none, there's a motion and a second to continue item eight to April 16th, 2026.

Please vote.

I think the motion carries.

We'll now move on to the consent agenda.

The following items are listed for individual consideration.

Items 10, 11, 22, and 28.

The remaining items on today's agenda will be considered on the consent agenda.

Do any council members wish to pull an item from the consent agenda to be heard individually?

Okay.

We've got a couple of individuals signed up on the consent agenda.

Okay.

Okay.

Um we've got Marcus Nurndorm.

Marcus Nurnderm.

I'm sorry, sorry if I'm butchering that.

Marcus Nurndorm.

Okay.

Sir, you have three minutes to speak, followed by Jack Finger and then Cotton Estes.

Uh yes, I'm I'm here in favor of the zoning change.

Um, I'd like to address some comments that we got back on that.

Um a concern was that the flood area was going to be developed.

It is not.

Uh, it is going to be kept as a uh as a green space and a tree save area.

Um that's how I wanted to make clear.

Thank you.

Jack Finger, followed by Cotton Estes.

Very good.

Madam Mayor, other members of the council, my name is Jack Finger, and just to clarify, I believe we're on the consent agenda portion.

Okay.

Very good.

Thank you.

Um items I wish to bring to your attention on the consent agenda that you're intend to pass faster than a speeding bullet.

Uh item number 16, and I believe this is in uh once again, Ms.

Castillo, that's your district there.

It's about placing a uh well uh a bar or tavern over on uh East Sabayo Street.

I mean, like we don't have enough bars and taverns on Sabaya Street already, or in the judge are within a half mile, even a half mile of of the area there.

Uh could we uh just consider not placing an extra bar tavern there so that uh people don't have one more easy place to get get drunk on a on a Friday night there.

So also the very next item is about uh placing a well well a wine boutique, wine boutique uh over on East Fest Street, and once again in your district, a wine boutique.

Is that is that just an uh a glorified wine, uh go glorified bar or tavern is my question.

You know, I mean I guess I don't know if you can get any more uh inebriated with uh with wine than you can with with with beer or or or scotch, but uh I would I would ask you just to somewhere along the way when the people come up to you and propose these things, say just tell them no, we don't need any more bars on the west side.

We just don't, you know.

If you don't believe me, Chuck, I asked the police department that they'll tell you about all the people they have to arrest on Saturday night there.

Also uh also on this portion of the agenda, a couple of other things I wish to bring your attention is the uh item number 13.

This is uh in uh Mr.

Mongea, the your district reading through the backup documents.

I noticed it looked like this proposed commercial initiative is on a smack dab middle in the um in a floodplain.

And uh I'll combine my comments to you about this one as well as Mr.

Mr.

Galvon.

You have a item on item number 28, which I think is also a commercialization on the that it touches a floodplain as well.

You know, what's going to happen someday?

Well, I mean, when we really get some heavy flooding, I know it doesn't seem like seems like a far, far away from at this point, but someday we are going to get some heavy floods.

And what happens when these commercial establishments get flooded out?

They'll point to the city council saying, Hey, you you're the guys who that that approved this thing when when we when you should have been looking out for our interest, you know.

Thank you.

Cotton Estes.

You have three minutes, please.

We no longer need to speak, but thank you all for your time.

Okay, there's a motion to approve the balance of the consent agenda.

We don't have a motion.

Hold on, we have a highlight based on the consent agenda, councilwoman.

Okay, okay.

Okay, go ahead.

Thank you, Mayor.

Uh really quick.

I I did just want to um highlight items number 26 and 27.

Uh, first I want to thank the applicants, Giovanna and Michelle, uh, who are here with us today.

Um, and thank you for answering me and my team's questions throughout this process.

I especially um just want to thank everybody at Wild Farm for revitalizing this property on East Cheryl and activating this space with community events.

We recently talked about it at a Donaldson neighborhood meeting, and this this was definitely a huge highlight.

So thank you so much for um being creative with this space for adding um a much needed um uh garden and an exciting place to this neighborhood.

Uh we really appreciate it.

Thank you.

Councilwoman Castillo.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'd like to highlight highlight a couple of items beginning with item 16.

I want to thank the applicant to committing to work with the district five office to explore sound mitigation options, including sound barriers, uh, exterior and interior vegetation where needed to protect neighbors from unwanted noise.

Uh with that, a couple of these rezonings are within uh South Town, the Lone Star uh neighborhood, so we're very excited to see uh a lot of these um vacant properties being activated into productive spaces.

Uh with that, I want to invite folks to come out to Second Saturday in the Lone Star community every second Saturday.

Um there's a great opportunity to get plugged into the Lone Star Arts District uh with galleries and so much more, and this uh these two rezonings will add to that excitement within the community.

So I'm very excited to highlight those two items.

Thank you, Mayor.

Councilman Galvan.

Thank you, Mayor.

Just really quickly, I wanted to make a comment about item number 25.

It's been an ongoing uh concern in our community for long before I was, of course, an office, let alone uh even involved in kind of this world.

Um and so I really uh just want to appreciate the work that's been going on uh not only during this entire time with through the city as well as with residents nearby, in particular with the Mountain View Acres Neighbor Association and the residents there who've been really pushing to adjust this land use, change it to something different and get to a better spot uh than what's currently there.

Uh there's a long history along with code compliance and TCEQ concerns, but I think you know, those are a bit separate, but I think it's important to keep in this context about um when we're looking at how we plan our city.

This is something that I think is going to any kind of change is gonna be tough to deal with, and I think it's going to be a hard thing to kind of build trust once again in this community in this particular uh area, but I'm hopeful that with this zoning uh approval that we can get to a better spot, we can move the neighborhood in the community forward on this.

Uh and I always uh appreciate the applicant and their their work on this uh on their end, and I hope uh you know they find a new steward as soon as possible on this particular parcel.

Thank you.

Are there any other council comments on the consent agenda?

Okay.

Excuse me.

Yep.

Is there a motion to approve the balance of the consent agenda?

Okay.

So there's a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda, which are items two, three, four, six, seven, nine, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-seven.

Please vote.

I okay.

The motion carries.

We'll now move on to the individual items.

Staff, please start with items 10 and 11.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

Agenda items 10 and 11 are a plan amendment and change of zoning, amending the west-southwest sector plan from suburban tier to mixed use center and rezoning the property from C3R to C3 C D with conditional use for manufactured homes slash oversized vehicles, sales service or storage.

And the property is located at 322 Tarasco Drive.

Staff, Planning Commission, and Zoning Commission recommend approval with conditions being installation of a 15-foot type B landscape buffer yard along the northern property line that is closest to the single family residential uses, and that vehicular ingress egress is not to be permitted along Tarasco Drive.

The applicant has informed staff that they are amending their proposal to C3R C D.

Staff mailed 24 notices, two were returned in favor, zero in opposition, and the Rainbow Hills Area Neighborhood Association is in favor.

Thank you doesn't look like we like we have anybody from the public signed up to speak on this item on these items, correct?

Okay.

Um items 10 and 11 are in district four.

Councilman Wungia is recognized to speak.

Thank you, Mayor.

I'd like to motion to approve with conditions as read.

Is there any other council discussion on items 10 and 11?

Okay.

There's a motion and a second to approve with conditions as read for items 10 and 11.

Please vote.

Councilwoman Via Gran.

Okay.

Okay.

The motion carries.

Uh staff, please present the next item.

Agenda item 22 is a change of zoning from R4 to C2P NA, located at 2601 Guadalupe Street.

Staff recommends denial.

Zoning Commission recommends approval.

Staff mailed 67 notices, zero returned in favor, zero opposed.

There is no was no response from either the Prospect Hill, El Charo, or the Historic West Side Residence Neighborhood Association.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We have uh one member of the community signed up to speak, Jack Finger.

Madam Mayor, another members of the council.

Today for the last time, this is Jack M.

Finger.

This item number 22.

Ms.

Castillo, this is in your district once again.

And there's a reason why the zoning staff recommended denial for this item.

That uh is because the uh it was what some time ago it was already a commercial zoning area, commercially zoned area.

And then the city, this is in their own words.

You can look it up in the backup documents.

It was recently down zoned from C2 to R4.

Down zone.

This happened, yes.

It was down zone, so that the city can reaffirm, reaffirm the residential character of the neighborhood.

That's why they downzoned it.

Yeah.

And now you want to upzone it to something as something more as intense as it was before.

Some other comments this is the zoning staff mentioned.

It says it is an intrusion, an intrusion into a stable neighborhood.

Yeah.

It's but even more than ominous than that, it's a precedent for commercial encroachment.

A lot of bad things here, Ms.

Castillo.

You still really want to up zone this is something much more intense than the neighbors can stand.

Do y'all want to vote in this direction as well?

I would encourage you to please say no to this one.

Thank you.

Item number 22 is in District 5.

Councilwoman Castillo is recognized.

Thank you, Mayor.

I want to thank the Historic West Side Residence Association for working diligently with the applicant, Mr.

Zambrano, uh, with approval of this zoning to move from R4 to C2, which was down zoned through a large area rezoning process under the condition that the following business will not uh will not be allowed on the property to include a liquor store andor an indoor gaming facility, a pet cemetery, gas station, vaping, and or smoke shop.

Uh so I want to thank the applicant to agree agreeing to prohibit the use of 2601 Wadanupa Street for any of those businesses with that a motion to approve this item.

Is there any other council discussion on item 22?

Okay, there's a motion and a second to approve item 22.

Please vote.

Aye.

Okay, the motion carries.

And the final item, um, staff please start uh proceed with number 28.

Agenda item 28 is a change of zoning from C2 to C2 C D with a conditional use for construction trades contractor facility located at 13526 Nakadoches Road.

Staff recommends approval with the following condition the installation of a 15-foot type B landscape buffer yard along the rear property line that abuts the single family residential uses.

Zoning Commission recommends approval without that condition.

Staff mailed 43 notices, two were returned in favor, zero in opposition, and we have no response from the Valencia Homeowners Association or the L Chaparral slash Fertile Valley Neighborhood Association.

Thank you.

We don't have anybody signed up from the community to speak, correct?

Okay.

Okay.

Item number 28 is in D 10.

Councilman White's recognized.

Uh thank you to staff for their work on this.

Thank you to the neighborhood for um for their collaboration on this one.

Uh make a motion to approve with no conditions.

And and the reason being, but by the way, uh, first of all, zoning also, the commission approved it with no conditions.

This is a a parking lot, a a concrete parking lot that they would have to rip up to put in to put in this buffer, and then nobody wanted to do it.

So um motion to approve again with no conditions.

Okay.

Is there any other council discussion on item 28?

Okay, there is a motion and a second to approve approve item 28.

Please vote.

I great.

The motion carries.

That concludes today's zoning and land use session.

The time is 2 31.

The meetings are now adjourned.