* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:55] INTERPRET. GOOD MORNING. WELCOME TO THE CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING OF AUGUST 22ND, 2019. COUNCIL MEMBER VINNO HERE, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER COVEO HDA. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. COUNCIL MEMBER ELIAS. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE RESIDENT COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY MAYOR. AND MAYOR NURENBERG. MAYOR, WE DO HAVE A QUORUM. GOOD MORNING. WELCOME EVERYONE TO OUR CITY COUNCIL, A SESSION AGENDA. THE TIME IS 9:20 AM UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PATIENCE AS WE BEGIN TODAY. WE'LL START TODAY WITH A GUEST OF COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO, AND I'LL ASK HIM NOW TO WELCOME OUR INDICATOR. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, BEFORE INTRODUCING TODAY'S INDICATOR, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED INDICATOR, FORMER BISHOP OF THE ST. CLOUD WARD OF THE CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS AND PRESIDENTS OF THE COLONIAL HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, RICK CHRISTIANSEN. RICK HAD A MISHAP ON TUESDAY INJURING HIM AND PREVENTING HIM FROM ATTENDING OUR MEETING THIS MORNING. WE WISH HIM A SPEEDY RECOVERY. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK PASTOR BARBER FOR HIS GRACIOUS LATE IN THE GAME SUBSTITUTION AS INDICATOR. PASTOR BARBER GRADUATED WITH HONORS FROM GW BRACKENRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL. HE THEN ATTENDED TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY AND SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE, MAJORING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, WHERE HE OBTAINED AN ASSOCIATE DEGREE IN 1970. PASTOR BARBER HAS BEEN PREACHING THE GOSPEL FOR OVER 25 YEARS. HE ACCEPTED THE CALL TO MINISTRY AT ST. LUKE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PASTOR JV WINTERS AT ST. LUKE. HE SERVED AS A YOUTH MINISTER, B T U DIRECTOR AND MEMBER OF THE BROTHERHOOD, MASS CHOIR AND MALE CHORUS. UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF PASTOR WINTERS, HE BECAME INVOLVED IN SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING AND HAS CONTINUED HI IN THIS PROFESSION FOR OVER 20 YEARS. HE'S A FORMER PASTOR OF THE GREATER SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH IN SEINEN, TEXAS, WHERE HE SERVED FOR NINE YEARS UNTIL HE WAS CALLED TO TAKE OVER THE LEADERSHIP AT ST. LUKE IN JULY OF 20 OF 2006. HE IS NOW CELEBRATING 13 YEARS AS PASTOR AT THE PLACE WHERE HIS MINISTERIAL JOURNEY BEGAN. SINCE RETURNING TO ST. LUKE, PASTOR BARBARA FOUNDED A FAITH-BASED CORPORATION DESIGNED TO IMPLEMENT CHANGE ON THE WEST SIDE, AS WELL AS OTHER PROGRAMS TO FOCUS ON THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY. RECENTLY, PASTOR BARBER CREATED THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM, WHICH OFFERS FREE MEDICAL SERVICES AND HOT MEALS EVERY FOURTH WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH. HE'S A MEMBER OF THE WEST END HOUSING INITIATIVE GROUP, WHICH ASSISTS WEST SIDE SENIOR CITIZENS AND HOME WITH HOME REPAIRS. HE'S ALSO A CO-FOUNDER AND ADVISOR OF SHAKE THE CITY YOUTH NETWORK IN COLLABORATION OF YOUTH MINISTERS WORKING TO IMPLEMENT STRATEGIES TO EVANGELIZE THE YOUTH WITHIN OUR CITY. HE AND THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE. SHARON SULLIVAN BARBER HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 32 YEARS. SHE READILY WORKS HAND IN HAND WITH PASTOR BARBER, AND THEY ARE THE PARENTS OF THREE DAUGHTERS AS WELL AS BEING GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS. THANK YOU, PASTOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INVITATION AND THE PRIVILEGE TO COME BEFORE YOUR PRESENCE TO HONOR MARY AND ALL STAFF ASSEMBLED FATHER GOD, WE COME MASTER WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE AHEAD OF OUR LIVES, THAT YOU RULE AND SUPER RULE OVER THESE LIVES, THAT YOU HAVE ALLOWED US TO COME TOGETHER ONE MORE TIME. WE PRAISE YOU, FATHER GOD, FOR YOUR PRESENCE IN THIS PLACE, REALIZING THAT YOU'RE OMNIPRESENT [00:05:01] AND YOUR PRESENCE IS ALWAYS AVAILABLE. WE THANK YOU NOW AND WE PRAISE YOU NOW FOR A, FOR A LEADERSHIP MASTER THAT ACKNOWLEDGES YOU AS GOD'S SOVEREIGN, THAT FATHER GOD COME TOGETHER WITH THE PURPOSE OF BEING USED BY YOU. WE ASK SO GOD, THAT YOU MOVE IN A MIGHTY WAY IN THIS CHAMBER, THAT YOU BLESS THOSE THAT ARE, THAT ARE OVER THIS MEETING, THAT YOU GUIDE THEM BY YOUR SPIRIT. THAT'D BE A SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIP. THAT'D BE A SPIRIT OF RESOLUTION, FATHER GOD, THAT THIS CITY BE GLORIFIED, BE LIFTED UP AS A BEACON CITY THAT TRUST YOU IN GUIDING EACH PATH. BLESS NOW WITH YOUR PRESENCE, WE OPEN OUR HEARTS AND OUR MIND TO RECEIVE YOU TODAY. THANK YOU, SIR, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PREACH, TO PRAY TO YOU. THANK YOU, SIR FOR BEING A OPEN VEHICLE, AN OPEN WAY, A PATHWAY FOR HOPE, A PATHWAY FOR RECONCILIATION. LORD, WE LOVE YOU, SIR. OH GOD, WE THANK YOU NOW, HAVE YOUR WAY IN THIS ROOM, SIR, AS WE SUBMIT TO YOUR WILL AND YOUR WAY. IN JESUS' NAME WE PRAY, AMEN TO THE FLAG FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, AND LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU, PASTOR BARBARA. ALL RIGHT. OUR FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA FOR ACTION IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MEETING MINUTES FROM THE CITY COUNCIL SESSIONS OF JUNE 21ST IN JUNE 24TH, 2019. ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF THOSE MINUTES. SECOND. OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING. MINUTES OF JUNE 21ST AND 24TH. PLEASE VOTE. MOTION CARRIES. ITEM NUMBER FOUR. ITEM NUMBER FOUR, MAYOR AND COUNCIL IS THE SWEARING IN OF COUNCIL MEMBER SHIRLEY GONZALEZ, WHO WILL BE SWORN IN AS MAYOR PRO TEM TO SERVE THE TERM OF AUGUST 29TH, 2019 THROUGH NOVEMBER 7TH, 2019. WE JUST RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND REPEAT AFTER ME. I STATE YOUR NAME. I SHIRLEY GONZALEZ. DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE DUTIES THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE OF, OF THE OFFICE OF MAYOR PRO TEM MAYOR PRO TEM OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, AND OF THE STATE OF TEXAS AND OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY, PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND, PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION. THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. OF THE UNITED STATES. AND OF THE STATE. AND OF THE STATE. SO HELP ME GOD. SO HELP ME GOD. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU. RIGHT, THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. OKAY. UM, WE HAVE, I'M GONNA RECOGNIZE COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO FOR POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND IF WE CAN PUT UP, UH, THE IMAGE UP ON THE SCREEN. UH, I WAS REMISS LAST WEEK, NOT TO MENTION THE PASSING OF A COMMUNITY LEADER, PASSIONATE NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATIONIST, LOCAL BUSINESS OWNER, AWARD-WINNING JAZZ MUSICIAN, SAN ANTONIO, AMBASSADORS TO THE WORLD, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, FRIEND JIM CULLUM JR. JIM DIED ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 11TH IN HIS RIVER ROAD HOME. WORDS CANNOT FULLY DESCRIBE JIM'S IMPACT IN SAN ANTONIO IMPACT THAT WAS RECOGNIZED FAR AND WIDE, AND MOST RECENTLY BY OUR OWN DISTINCTION IN THE ARTS AWARD IN 2016. I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW JIM, AND MY HEART GOES OUT TO ALL WHO ARE FEELING HIS LOSS. A CELEBRATION OF HIS LIFE WILL BE HELD AT THE TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOR HUNDRED AUDITORIUM CIRCLE SAN ANTONIO ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 31ST AT 2:00 PM KEEP SWINGING, JIM. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. AND, UH, AGAIN, TO EMPHASIZE THE POINT, THE COMMUNITY CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND MUSIC AND, UH, IMPACT OF JIM COLUM WILL BE HELD FOR THE PUBLIC ON AUGUST 31ST AT THE TOBIN CENTER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. UH, WE HAVE ONE ITEM SCHEDULED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION ON OUR AGENDA TODAY. UM, I'LL, AT THIS POINT, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES IF THERE ARE ANY ITEMS FROM WHICH THEY WOULD LIKE TO PULL FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA, AND THEN WE'LL TAKE UP CONSENT FIRST, AND THEN WE'LL MOVE TO OUR INDIVIDUAL ITEMS. OKAY. [00:10:01] THANK YOU. ARE THERE ANY ITEMS FROM WHICH, UH, WE'D LIKE TO PULL FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA? OKAY. HEARING NONE, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. THAT'S ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR ITEM FIVE SECOND. OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR ITEM FIVE. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO, OR EXCUSE ME, COUNCIL MEMBER PIA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. EVERY ONE OF YOU, UM, HAS A VERY BRIGHT ORANGE HAT ON, UM, ON, ON IN FRONT OF YOU. UH, ASIDE FROM BEING EXCELLENT FOR SAFETY PURPOSES AS YOU CROSS THE STREET, UH, IT'S ALSO A GIFT FROM OUR FRIENDS AT U T S A. UH, AS YOU KNOW, U T S A, UM, IS ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT PARTNERS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, AND THEY'RE PREPARING THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR WORKFORCE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE, UH, STAY AS COMPETITIVE AS POSSIBLE. UM, TODAY, ITEM 22, UH, ON CONSENT IS GOING TO ALLOW THEM TO ALSO STAY AS COMPETITIVE AND POSSIBLE, UH, IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR FOOTBALL PROGRAM. UH, WHICH IS, UM, HAS SURPRISED ALL OF US AS FAR AS HOW SUCCESSFUL IT'S BEEN. YOU KNOW, THE CITY OVER THE PAST DECADES HAS ALWAYS TRIED TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE FOOTBALL PART OF ITS DOWNTOWN. AND HERE COMES U T S A AND THEY DID IT. UH, AND, UH, U T S A THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN SAN ANTONIO ENOUGH TO INVEST, UH, YOUR BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS AND YOUR TREASURE, UH, IN SAN ANTONIO'S, UM, FOOTBALL FUTURE. RIGHT. UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU NEED SOME HELP FROM US, UH, AND SOME, UH, FLEXIBILITY ON OUR PART TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU CONTINUE TO BE A SUCCESS. UH, AND I'M EXCITED TO, UH, TO SUPPORT THAT. SO THANK YOU AND THANK YOU TO CARLOS AND THE TEAM, UH, AND PATRICIA FOR WORKING SO HARD TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN FOR US. THANK GREAT, THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PLYS. COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I JUST WANTED TO BE SURE TO HIGHLIGHT ITEMS NUMBER NINE AND NUMBER 10 IN PARTICULAR, THEIR WORK. I WANNA THANK THE OFFICE, THE WORLD HERITAGE OFFICE. UM, WE ARE FINALLY GETTING OUR SIDEWALKS THAT WE NEED, OR A PORTION OF OUR SIDEWALKS THAT WE NEED, UM, TO, FROM THE MILITARY AND TO SAN JUAN. AND IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY VISITORS THAT COME HERE, AND ALTHOUGH THEY CAN SHARE A ROAD, THEY CAN'T EVEN WALK ON A SIDEWALK. SO THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, UM, MEETING A NEED FOR OUR COMMUNITY. SO I'M REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF THE COMMUNITY, OF THE OFFICE OF WORLD HERITAGE AND CITY STAFF AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE ONE CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEMS REMAINING ON CONSENT. JACK FINGER. I, MR. THIS THING, IS THIS SUPPOSED TO WORK RIGHT HERE? IT'LL, OKAY. I CAN'T SEE. WELL, GOOD MORNING, MAYOR NURENBERG AND OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR ILLUSTRIOUS SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL. FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JACK M FINGER. FEW ITEMS WISH TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS PORTION OF THE AGENDA, INCLUDING THE ONE THAT MR. PALAI MENTIONED REGARDING U T S A. IT'S ABOUT, UH, OH, ITEM NUMBER 22. IT'S ABOUT AMENDMENT TO TWO, OUR CONTRACT WITH U T S A REGARDING THEIR FOOTBALL GAMES HERE AT OUR DOME STADIUM. AND YES, UH, MR. PALIS, I MENTIONED, UH, THE SUCCESS OF THE, OF THE U T S A FOOTBALL TEAM. I WAS WONDERING IF MR. AZZ AND I ARE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME FOOTBALL TEAM, UH, I, MR. AVISION, MAN, TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. BLOW THAT UP IF YOU WOULD. THERE'S AN ARTICLE FROM THE EXPRESS NEWS, UH, A FEW MONTHS AGO ABOUT THE UTSA'S FOOTBALL TEAM, THEIR RECORD, UM, FROM LAST YEAR. YEAH, WHAT'S IT SAY? YEAH, U T S A FINISHED. YEAH, IF YOU, THAT UNDERLINED AREA, U T S A FINISHED 3 9 3 9 FOR THE YEAR. AND, UH, IF YOU WOULD TURN OVER THE NEXT SECOND PAGE. YEAH. SECOND PAGE, IF YOU WOULD, THERE. YEAH, THERE YOU GO. LET'S SEE, WHAT'S IT SAY THERE? UH, THE UNDERLINE ROADRUNNERS FINISHED THE SEASON. EXPAND THAT A LITTLE BIT SO WE CAN SEE IT BETTER EXPAND RANKED LAST NATIONALLY. IT'S HARD TO SEE WITH ALL THE AUDIO VISUAL THERE, BUT THEY ALSO, THE, THE NEXT LINE SAYS ROADRUNNERS ALSO ARE NUMBER 1 29 OUT OF 130. HMM. 1 29 OUT ONE 30. YEAH. RETURN THE CAMERA TO THE PODIUM, IF YOU WOULD, MR. VIS MAN. YES. THAT'S UTSA'S FOOTBALL TEAM. AND THEY, UM, THEY, THEY HAD A, UH, OH, LET'S SEE, A, UH, LET'S SEE, A 16% DECREASE IN ATTENDANCE AT THE ALMO DOME. AND THEIR, THEIR TAKE AT THE GATE HAS JUST BEEN GOING DOWN, AND [00:15:01] IT'S BEEN WONDERING HOW DO THEY, HOW CAN THEY, UH, ALLEVIATE THIS PROBLEM, YOU SEE? AND I GUESS MAYBE ONE LOGICAL BLATANT, UH, UH, REMEDY WOULD BE, WELL, MAYBE THEY CAN START WINNING SOME FOOTBALL GAMES THERE, YOU KNOW, . YEAH. UM, I, MY QUESTION IS THAT BASICALLY THEY'RE, THEY, THEY COME UP WITH A, A, A PROGRAM WITH THE CITY WHERE THEY'RE GONNA OFFER SOME BUYOUTS. WELL, IN THE BACKUP DOCUMENTS, IT REALLY DOESN'T TELL US IF THOSE BUYOUTS ARE A GOOD DEAL FOR THE CITY. HAVE WE REALLY BEEN GETTING, UH, THE TRUE PROFIT ON THIS? WILL WE, WILL WE BE LEFT IN THE LURCH ON THIS? OR, OR IF THE, OR IS IT A WAIT AND SEE THING OVER YEARS THAT TO COME, ONLY THEN WILL WE BE ABLE TO MAKE A DECISION. I'D SAY, YOU KNOW, IF IT REALLY ISN'T, DOESN'T LOOK THIS GOOD FOR U T S A AT THIS TIME, MAYBE WE SHOULD BE ASKING, LOOKING FOR ANOTHER UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE TO USE THE ALAMO DOME AND, AND ASKING U T S A TO MAYBE USE A, WELL, A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STADIUM OR SOMETHING FOR THEIR, THEIR NEEDS THERE. YEAH. LET'S SEE, WHAT ELSE DO WE HAVE? OH, SO MANY SCANDALS. SO THEM TIME. THANK YOU, MR. FINGER. THANK YOU. OKAY. THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. THAT'S ALL ITEM SAVED FOR ITEM FIVE. PLEASE VOTE. MOTION CARRIES ITEM NUMBER FIVE. ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS A BRIEFING ON THE STATUS OF THE CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION PLAN. AND THIS IS TO BE PRESENTED BY ROD SANCHEZ AND DOUG MILICK. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BRIEF YOU ON THE STATUS OF THIS PLAN. UM, IT'S A MAJOR MILESTONE FOR THIS COMMUNITY AND THE CITY. UH, THIS PLAN BRINGS SAN ANTONIO TO THE FOREFRONT OF RECOGNIZING THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS A, UH, MAJOR PRIORITY, UH, TO ACT ON AND PROVIDE A BALANCED APPROACH TO, TO ADDRESS IT. UH, I ALSO WANNA RECOGNIZE THE THOUSANDS OF SAN ANTONIANS WHO'VE WEIGHED IN ON THIS PROCESS, AS WELL AS THE 80 PLUS, UM, COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WORKED FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF ON CRAFTING THIS PLAN. SO, UM, AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT. I'D ALSO JUST LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THERE'S A FEW PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE WHO, UM, UH, ARE HERE. IF ANY PARTICULAR QUESTIONS COME UP THAT I CAN ANSWER. UH, DAN BRADLEY IS THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF NAVIGANT. UH, THAT WAS THE LEAD CONSULTANT ON THE PLAN, DR. HAKIM SHARIF, UH, FROM U T S A, WHO IS THE LEAD RESEARCHER ON THE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS, AND CARLA DE CHAPPA AND ANGELA RODRIGUEZ FROM C P S ENERGY, WHO HAD, HAD BEEN OUR, UH, DIRECT LIAISONS DURING THE PLANNING PROCESS. SO THE BIG QUESTION IS, WHY ARE WE WORKING ON THIS? UH, BASICALLY, IT REALLY STARTED BACK IN, UH, AUGUST OF 2016 WHEN CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED THE SA TOMORROW SUSTAINABILITY PLAN. WHILE THAT PLAN WAS NOT A CLIMATE DOCUMENTS, IT WAS MORE OF A GENERAL SUSTAINABILITY PLAN FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR ORGANIZATION. IT INCLUDED CLIMATE ELEMENTS. IT INCLUDED OUR FIRST GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY. IT ALSO DID INCLUDE A, A STRATEGY, UH, IN THE MUNICIPAL SECTION THAT DID RECOMMEND THE DEVELOPMENTS OF A CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION PLAN. SO THIS PLAN THAT WE'RE WORKING ON NOW IS A DIRECT RESULT OF THAT ADOPTED PLAN. THERE WAS ALSO THE RESOLUTION IN JUNE OF 2017 BY CITY COUNCIL IN SUPPORT OF THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENTS. UH, THAT WAS OUR PRIMARY DIRECTIVE. AND THIS PLAN, WE BELIEVE, UH, MEETS THAT, UM, THAT THAT COMMITMENTS, UH, ON BEHALF OF CITY COUNCIL. AND THEN FINALLY, IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO, TO MENTION THAT THIS PLAN JUST ISN'T ABOUT CLIMATE. IT'S ABOUT SO MUCH MORE. UH, WE WERE RECENTLY, UM, UH, DESIGNATED AS NON-ATTAINMENT OF GROUND LEVEL OZONE STANDARDS. THIS PLAN REALLY HELPS ADDRESS THAT. UM, IT ADDRESSES, UM, MANY OTHER THINGS AND OTHER PRIORITIES AS WELL. UH, IT HELPS, UM, INITIATIVES AROUND MOBILITY, UH, MICRO MOBILITY CONNECT, SA, UH, INITIATIVES, UH, AND PLANS THAT ARE IN PLACE BY OUR PARTNER AGENCIES, SUCH AS THE RIVER AUTHORITY SAWS VIA C P S. SO, THIS PLAN BRINGS A LOT OF EXISTING PLANS AND PROGRAMS UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF CLIMATE, AND PROVIDES A KEY TRACKING METRIC TO MOVE FORWARD. SO WHY IS CLIMATE SUCH A BIG DEAL? UH, SO THESE ARE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS FROM, UM, FOR THE END OF THE CENTURY, UH, THROUGH 2100. THEY WERE COMPLETED, AS I'D MENTIONED BY DR. SHARIF, FROM U T S A AND, UM, BROUGHT DOWN TO THE SAN ANTONIO SPECIFIC, UM, GEOGRAPHY. THERE'S TWO POSSIBLE PATHWAYS. THERE'S THE LOW EMISSION PATHWAY, WHICH MEANS WE, AS PART OF A, A GLOBAL COMMUNITY, TAKE AS MUCH ACTION AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WE CAN MINI MINIMIZE THE DIRECT CLIMATE IMPACTS, OR IF WE DO NOT DO ENOUGH, THERE IS THE HIGH EMISSION SCENARIO. AND YOU CAN SEE, WE'LL SEE AN INCREASE OF SUMMER MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES BY UPWARDS [00:20:01] OF 10 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, ALMOST A ADDITIONAL A HUNDRED MORE DAYS, UM, OVER A HUNDRED DEGREES. UH, IT WILL NOT COOL OFF AT NIGHT, AND WE'LL SEE A REDUCTION IN PRECIPITATION. UH, THE OTHER THING THAT WE'LL SEE AS WELL, THOUGH, IS MORE SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY LEAD TO MORE SEVERE AND ACUTE FLOODING. NOW, WHILE WE LOOK AT THESE PROJECTIONS, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT SIMPLY ABOUT CLIMATE. IT'S ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS FOR SAN ANTONIO AND OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR BUSINESSES. UH, WE ARE SEEING CLIMATE IMPACTS ACCELERATE, AND THEY WILL BE FELT IN MANY WAYS. SOME OF THOSE IMPACTS THAT WE CAN EXPECT ARE IMPACTS ON OUR AIR QUALITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH. INCREASED ENERGY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH MORE COOLING FOR OUR BUILDINGS. AND I THINK THE PAST TWO WEEKS WERE A TASTE. IT WAS VERY, VERY HOT. UM, PLACED A GREAT STRAIN ON OUR GRID. WE'LL ALSO EXPERIENCE IMPACTS ON OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, MILITARY PREPAREDNESS, AND NATIONAL SECURITY BOND RATINGS, INSURANCE RATES, AND NOT LEAST IMPACTS ON OUR WORLD, HERITAGE AND TOURISM INDUSTRY. SO WHAT IS SA CLIMATE READY? AND I THINK ONE OF THE, SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE GOT FROM THE PUBLIC ON THE FIRST DRAFT WAS WE READ 60 PAGES OF THIS, AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS. UM, SO IN THE EARLY ON IN THE PLAN, WE, UM, DEFINE WHAT THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THIS PLAN ARE. PRIMARILY, IT'S, IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A PLAN TO MEET THOSE PRESENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE. IT'S ABOUT ENSURING THAT WE HAVE ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE. AND THIS IS REALLY PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT PART. IT'S ABOUT CLEAN AIR, PUBLIC HEALTH, WATER QUALITY AND CONSERVATION, GOOD JOBS, TRANSPORTATION CHOICES, CLEAN, INSECURE ENERGY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. THIS PLAN'S NOT JUST ABOUT CLIMATE. EVERY STRATEGY IN THAT PLAN HAS OTHER BENEFITS THAT WILL HELP IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF OUR COMMUNITY. IT'S ALSO ABOUT MARKET TRANSITIONS, CONSUMER CHOICE. UH, THIS ISN'T ABOUT DIRECTING, UM, UH, UH, OUR, OUR, OUR RESIDENTS, OUR BUSINESSES TO MAKE ANY SPECIFIC CHANGES, BUT IT'S ABOUT REFLECTING WHERE THE MARKET'S GOING. WE'RE SEEING INCREASED, UM, INTEREST IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES. WE AS A COMMUNITY, WE AS A, UH, AN ORGANIZATION NEED TO DETERMINE HOW DO WE HELP SUPPORT THAT AND FACILITATE THAT. KEY TO THE PLAN ALSO IS EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY. I HAVE SLIDE ON THAT, THAT I'LL TOUCH UPON. AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS IS ABOUT CLIMATE SCIENCE AND BEST PRACTICES. THE OTHER THING I WOULD MENTION, UM, IS WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT CLIMATE SCIENCE, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THE JURY'S STILL OUT. UM, WHAT WE HAVE DONE IS, I THINK WE LOOK AT, UM, ORGANIZATIONS THAT CONDUCT PEER REVIEW RESEARCH, THE INTER LOCAL GOV INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, UH, THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS, THE UNITED STATES, NASA, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE ADMINISTRATION, THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. THERE'S NUMEROUS CREDIBLE ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE POSITIONS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS OCCURRING, AND IT'S BEING CAUSED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY. SO THE BASIC METRIC FOR A PLAN TO ADDRESS CLIMATE IN TERMS OF REDUCING GREENHOUSE GASES IS OUR INVENTORY. YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS IS FOR OUR COMMUNITY SECTOR. UM, IN 2016, UH, THE MAJORITY OF OUR EMISSIONS COME FROM OUR BUILDING SECTOR AND OUR TRANSPORTATION SECTOR. AND THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH CITIES LIKE SAN ANTONIO ACROSS THE COUNTRY. UH, THE GOOD NEWS, UH, IS BETWEEN 2014 AND 2016, WE HAVE SEEN A 6% REDUCTION IN OUR GROSS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. UH, THE MAJORITY OF THAT IS AS THE RESULT OF C P S ENERGY REDUCING, UH, BURNING OF, OF COAL, AND BRINGING MORE RENEWABLES ONLINE. SO WE, WE ARE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. SO THE PLAN IS BROKEN UP INTO TWO COMPONENTS. ONE IS THE GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION SECTION. THAT IS, THOSE ARE THE STRATEGIES IN PLACE TO HELP US REDUCE OUR EMISSIONS. AND YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE SIX SUBCATEGORIES. UH, INCREASING CARBON FREE ENERGY FROM, UH, C P S ENERGY REDUCING, BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION, REDUCING TRANSPORTATION, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, ADVANCING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY, WHICH IS BASICALLY LOOKING AT, UM, HOW WE CONSUME, UH, AND WHAT WE THROW AWAY, UH, PROMOTING BIODIVERSITY AND HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS. AND, UH, PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANT EDUCATION AND EMPOWERING. UH, UNLESS WE CAN CONTINUE THE DIALOGUE AND CONVERSATION WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR STAKEHOLDERS, UH, WE, UH, IT'LL BE CHALLENGING TO HAVE THE BUY-IN TO MOVE THIS PLAN FORWARD. WITHIN THE MITIGATION SECTION, THERE'S 28 COMMUNITY STRATEGIES, AS WELL AS 13 MUNICIPAL STRATEGIES. AND THE KEY TO THE MUNICIPAL STRATEGIES IS THAT WE NEED TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE. BEFORE WE AS AN ORGANIZATION EXPECT COMMUNITY PARTNERS, RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES, TO TAKE ACTION, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE LEADING THE WAY IN TERMS OF ADAPTATION. THAT IS, AT THE END OF THE DAY, HOW DO WE PREPARE FOR THOSE CURRENT AND FUTURE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE? UH, [00:25:01] VERY MUCH, A LOT OF THIS FALLS UNDER THE BANNER OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OF WHAT WE AND OTHER PARTNER AGENCIES ARE ALREADY DOING. BUT YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE SEVEN, UH, SECTIONS LOOKING AT INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, PUBLIC HEALTH, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENTS, UH, LOOKING AT ECOSYSTEMS, FOOD SECURITY, WHICH, UH, IS A BIG PRIORITY. AND THERE'S BEEN A REPORT THAT CAME OUT, UH, PERHAPS THIS PAST WEEK BY THE, UM, I P C C, THE, UH, INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE THAT STARTED ASSESSING THAT THERE'S POTENTIAL THREATS TO, UH, GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEMS, WHICH AT THE END OF THE DAY WOULD HAVE LOCAL CONSEQUENCES. AND WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT RESILIENCY, AWARENESS AND OUTREACH. AND THEN THE IDEA OF EQUITY. WE KNOW THAT, UH, OUR MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS ARE THE MOST AT RISK, AND THE PLAN RECOGNIZES THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE CONSIDERING THOSE RISKS AS WE IMPLEMENT THE PLAN. SO THE KEY METRIC THAT WE TRACK AS A PART OF THE PLAN IS GREENHOUSE GASES. UM, AS WE WORKED WITH OUR CONSULTANTS TO DETERMINE WHAT PARIS COMPLIANT MEANS, UM, WE LOOKED TO, UM, THE, UH, INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, UM, UH, SPECIAL REPORT, WHICH BASICALLY STATES THAT, UM, IN ORDER TO, UH, MAINTAIN OR LIMIT GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE TO NO MORE THAN 1.5 DEGREES CELSIUS, WHICH FOR US IN THE UNITED STATES IS 2.7 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT, UH, THAT WE NEED TO REDUCE, UM, UH, GREENHOUSE GAS AND C O TWO EMISSIONS BY ABOUT 45% BY 2030. UM, WORKING WITH OUR CONSULTANT, WE TRANSLATED THAT INTO, UM, SPECIFICS FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. UH, YOU CAN SEE, UM, THE ORANGE LINE ON THAT GRAPH ON THE LEFT IS BUSINESS AS USUAL. THAT IS, IF WE DO NOT DO ANYTHING, UM, WHERE DO OUR EMISSIONS GO? AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A STEEP, UM, INCLINE THAT INCLUDES POPULATION GROWTH, THAT INCLUDES ALL THE INDUCED ENERGY NEEDS AND TRANSPORTATION NEEDS FOR THAT INCREASED POPULATION. THE GREEN LINE REPRESENTS A STRAIGHT PATHWAY TO, UH, CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2050. THE CAVEAT WITH THAT IS, UH, NO CITY IS EVER GOING TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE THEY'RE NOT EMITTING ANY CARBON. UM, THIS PLAN CALLS FOR, UH, AN 88% REDUCTION, UM, IN EMISSIONS BY 2050, BUT WILL REQUIRE APPROXIMATELY AT 12%. UM, OTHER CATEGORY, WHICH, UH, POTENTIALLY COULD BE CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE. UH, THE KEY TO THIS PATHWAY IS IT'S A GUIDE. UH, WE ARE CONTINUING CONTINUALLY GOING TO BE EVALUATING OUR PROGRESS, REFLECTING NEW SCIENCE, NEW TECHNOLOGIES. BUT THE KEY IS THAT WE HAVE THAT PATHWAY. AND THIS PATHWAY IS IN LINE WITH BEST PRACTICES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND IN FACT, THE GLOBE. SO I HAD MENTIONED OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUITY. UH, THAT WAS REALLY A HUGE PRIORITY FOR THIS PLANNING PROCESS. UH, IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THAT, UH, WE HAD FORMED A WORKING GROUP AROUND CLIMATE EQUITY, WHICH, UH, INCLUDED 14 COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO REALLY FOCUSED ON, UM, THOSE WHO USUALLY AREN'T AT THE TABLE, AND, AND THOSE THAT, UM, WE REALLY NEED TO MAKE SURE HAVE VOICES IN THIS PROCESS. UH, THE FIRST PART WAS WORKING WITH THEM TO EVEN IDENTIFY WHAT CLIMATE EQUITY MEANS, WHICH WAS NO EASY TASK. UH, AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S ABOUT ACKNOWLEDGING THOSE WHO ARE AT RISK. UH, THE LEVEL OF, UM, IMPACT THAT THOSE COMMUNITIES HAVE ACTUALLY ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS LOW. UM, AND REALLY LAYING OUT A PROCESS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE INVOLVED WITH THE PROCESS, MAKING SURE THEY'RE INCLUDED IN THE DECISION MAKING AND DISCUSSIONS, UM, AND MAKING SURE THEY'RE INVOLVED IN THOSE, UH, THE, THE, THE FINAL PLAN IMPLEMENTATION. WE DID ALSO, UM, IDENTIFY SOME, UM, BEGINNING OF THE CONVERSATIONS AROUND HOW DO YOU EVEN MEASURE CLIMATE EQUITY? AND YOU CAN SEE WE, WE HAVE TWO IN THE PLAN AROUND ASTHMA RATES AND MEDIAN AND WAGES, WHICH ARE CORRELATED DIRECTLY WITH, WITH RACE. UM, GOING FORWARD, AS I MENTIONED IN MY BUDGET PRESENTATION YESTERDAY, WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO EVALUATE WHAT THESE INDICATORS ARE AND WHAT OTHER MEASURES WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT. ONE POTENTIAL MEASURE THAT WE'RE VERY INTERESTED IN IS THE IDEA OF IDENTIFYING OUR ENERGY BURDENED RESIDENTS. UM, THAT IS A CLEAR, UH, INDICATOR THAT'S TIED TO, TO INCREASED HEAT. SO WE'LL CONTINUE TO CONTINUALLY EVALUATE AND IDENTIFY WHAT THOSE INDICATORS ARE. AND FINALLY, WE, WE'D IDENTIFIED A DRAFT SCREENING TOOL. BASICALLY, THIS IS A SERIES OF, OF QUESTIONS. UM, IT'S IN DRAFT FORM. WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON THIS AS WE, WE BEGIN TO MOVE TO IMPLEMENTATION. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S WHAT QUESTIONS DO WE NEED TO ASK BEFORE WE PULL THE TRIGGER ON IMPLEMENTATION? IT ASK QUESTIONS ALONG THE LINES OF, UM, AROUND THE AREAS OF AFFORDABILITY, UH, CULTURAL PRESERVATION, HEALTH SAFETY AND SECURITY, AND ACCESS AND ACCESSIBILITY. UM, AND SO THIS IS A KEY COMPONENT GOING FORWARD. THE OTHER THING WE DID AROUND EQUITY WAS, AS PART OF ALL OUR ENGAGEMENT, WE ALWAYS ASK DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS. WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE [00:30:01] TRACKING, UM, OUR, OUR PROGRESS. AND IT'S NOT JUST WHO WE ARE HEARING FROM, BUT WHO ARE WE MISSING? AND WE FOUND THAT WE WERE MISSING, UM, UH, KEY, UH, DEMOGRAPHICS. SO WE HAD, UH, ENGAGED A, A CLIMATE EQUITY FELLOW WHO DEVELOPED A CRITERIA TO HELP US REALLY NARROW DOWN WHERE DO WE GO. AND SO, AS PART OF THIS CRITERIA, UM, SHE LOOKED AT, UH, A DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES INDEX, LIFE EXPECTANCY, TREE CANOPY, URBAN HEAT ISLAND, FLOOD RISK RACE, AS WELL AS OTHER TARGET DEMOGRAPHICS. AND FOUND THAT DISTRICTS 1, 2, 3, 4, AND FIVE ARE PRIORITY AREAS. AND NOT ONLY THAT, SHE WAS ABLE TO DRIVE THAT DRIVE DOWN INTO EVEN SPECIFIC ZIP CODES. SO, AS A PART OF THAT PROCESS, UH, AS WELL AS BRINGING ON, UH, TWO TEMPORARY OUTREACH WORKERS, WE WERE ABLE TO, UM, GET AN ADDITIONAL 2,500, UH, RESIDENTS FROM THOSE AREAS TO TAKE SURVEYS AND PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM. SO WE RELEASED THE PLAN IN JANUARY. LOTS OF FEEDBACK. UM, WHAT WERE OUR OBJECTIVES AS FAR AS UPDATING THIS PLAN? UH, ONE, WE WANTED TO REALLY LISTEN TO THAT STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK, AS WELL AS CONTINUE STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK. UM, WE REALLY SPENT MANY MONTHS WORKING WITH BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY, SITTING DOWN WITH THEM AND HEARING WHAT THEIR CONCERNS ARE, AND, UM, DETERMINING A WAY TO, TO ADDRESS THEM. UH, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PLAN WAS CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, UH, RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT. WE ALSO WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE RETAINED ALL THE STRATEGIES IN THE PLAN. ALL THOSE STRATEGIES ARE IN THE PLAN FOR A REASON. IT'S 'CAUSE THEY TRANSLATE EITHER INTO DIRECT CARBON REDUCTIONS OR THEY HELP PREPARE OUR COMMUNITY. UM, AND THEY ADD UP TO REACHING THAT CARBON NEUTRAL GOAL BY 2050. SO WE WANTED TO RETAIN THEM. WE COULD WORK ON THEM. WE COULD, UM, UH, REFINE THEM, BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE ALL IN THERE. WE WANTED TO FIRST AND FOREMOST, MAKE SURE IT WAS READABLE, THAT IT FLOWED. UH, WE ALSO, UM, WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, IT WAS SPECIFIC TO SAN ANTONIO. UH, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HEARD LOUD AND, AND CLEAR. AND SO WORKING WITH SEVERAL COUNCIL MEMBERS, WORKING WITH OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS, I THINK WE, WE, WE, WE ACCOMPLISHED THAT. IT'S A MUCH BETTER DOCUMENT. THE OTHER THING WE DID WAS WE REALLY WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS WORK. UM, SAN ANTONIO HAS BEEN COMMITTING BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVER THE YEARS IN WORK THAT DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTES TO CLIMATE ACTION, WHETHER IT'S CP S'S STEP PROGRAM, THE, UH, EDWARDS ACT FOR PROTECTION PROGRAM, OUR VERY OWN ENERGY EFFICIENCY FUND. WE NEEDED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS WASN'T SOMETHING NEW, BUT IT'S A CONTINUATION OF THAT COMMITMENT. AND THEN FINALLY, WE REALLY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS A, WAS A CLEAR PROCESS FOR REPORTING, UPDATING THE PLAN AND IMPLEMENTING IT. BECAUSE AGAIN, WE DON'T WANT A PLAN THAT IS JUST SITTING ON A SHELF. IT NEEDS TO BE KEPT, UH, AS A LIVING DOCUMENTS AND CONTINUALLY REFLECTING, UH, TECHNOLOGY, NEW SCIENCE, AND THE DESIRES OF THE COMMUNITY. SO WHAT ARE SOME OF THE, THE UPDATES THAT WE HAD MADE? UM, WE DID PRESERVE THE MAJORITY OF THE CONTENT OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFT. ALL THE STRATEGIES ARE THERE. UH, WE BELIEVE THAT THE INTENTS AND ALL THAT CONTENT THAT THE PLAN IS IN PLACE. UH, WE HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS AROUND COST. AND THE DECISION THAT WE MADE, UM, TO REMOVE COST WAS NOT DONE LIGHTLY. UH, WE HAD SPOKEN WITH MANY STAKEHOLDERS ACROSS SECTORS, BOTH FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL AS WELL AS THE BUSINESS SIDE. AND THE DETERMINATION TO REMOVE THOSE DOLLAR AMOUNTS WERE FOR NUMEROUS REASONS. UH, ONE, UH, THIS PLAN IS JUST A FRAMEWORK. WE HEARD THAT FROM SOME BUSINESS INTERESTS, THAT WITHOUT KNOWING THOSE DETAILS, WITHOUT KNOWING HOW THIS IS ALL GONNA PLAY OUT, IT WAS PREMATURE TO START PUTTING DOLLAR AMOUNTS ON IT. UH, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TECHNOLOGIES ARE GOING TO BE. WE DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO IMPLEMENT MANY OF THESE STRATEGIES. WE ALSO WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE INCLUDING, UH, AS MANY, UM, IMPLEMENTATION OPTIONS AS THE PROCESS. SO UNTIL WE SIT DOWN WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND REALLY WORK ON THOSE DETAILS, IT'S DIFFICULT TO QUANTIFY WHAT THAT COST IS GOING TO BE. THE OTHER THING WE DID WAS WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE WERE BENCHMARKING OURSELVES AGAINST OTHER CITIES. SO WE LOOKED AT 31 LEADING CITIES WITH SIMILAR PLANS, UH, TO SEE IF ANY OF THEM HAD DETAILED ECONOMIC ANALYSIS. AND WHAT WE FOUND WAS NONE OF THEM DID. UH, AND THREE HAD, UM, ONLY IDENTIFIED STRATEGIES IN TERMS OF COST, UM, FROM LOW TO HIGH. UM, SO KEY TO THIS THOUGH, IS WE DIDN'T WANNA RUN AWAY FROM COSTS. I MEAN, WE, WE CLEARLY RECOGNIZE THAT THAT IS A HUGE PRIORITY, AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THIS IN A, IN A SLIDE COMING UP. BUT KEY TO THIS WAS REALLY MAKING SURE THAT THE IDEA OF COST WAS BUILT IN TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PLAN, OF THIS PLAN. AND, AND, AND IT WASN'T BASICALLY GLOSSED OVER. GOING FORWARD, AGAIN, WE'D RERAN REARRANGE THE PLAN TO MAKE SURE IT WAS MORE READABLE. UM, AND THEN, DID I JUST GO BACK? UM, THEN, UM, WE ALSO WANTED TO RECOGNIZE, AND THIS WAS BASED UPON SOME FEEDBACK THAT WE [00:35:01] RECEIVED, THAT THIS PLAN ISN'T SIMPLY PIE IN THE SKY. A LIST OF STRATEGIES THAT ARE GONNA BE VERY EASY TO ACCOMPLISH. AND SO, UM, FOR EVERY STRATEGY, WE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY CONSTRAINTS. UH, WHETHER IT IS WE NEED MORE PUBLIC AWARENESS REQUIRES BEHAVIOR CHANGE INVESTMENTS, IT REQUIRES A NEW POLICY, OR IT REQUIRES TECHNOLOGICAL INVEST, UH, UH, TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT. WE WANTED TO RECOGNIZE THAT THERE'S CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. AND SO EVERY STRATEGY HAS SOMETHING. WE ALSO WANTED TO RECOGNIZE THAT, UM, AS I MENTIONED IN THE BEGINNING, THIS PLAN REFLECTS A LOT OF OTHER ACTIVITIES THAT ARE ALREADY GOING ON. SO, UH, WE WENT THROUGH EVERY STRATEGY AND LOOKED AT MANY, MANY OTHER PLANS, WHETHER THEY'RE CITY ADOPTED PLANS SUCH AS SA TOMORROW, OR THE SAWS WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN, OR VIAS 2040 PLAN. AND WE CAN SEE THAT THERE IS A LOT OF OVERLAP. SO AGAIN, THE INTENT IS TO BRING ALL OF THESE STRATEGIES UNDER THIS CLIMATE UMBRELLA AND USE THAT GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION METRIC TO TRACK PROGRESS. AND THEN FINALLY, WE HAD INCLUDED, UH, INTERIM GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION TARGETS, UM, FOR SPECIFIC SECTORS. UH, WE HAD HEARD THAT FROM SOME STAKEHOLDERS THAT WE NEEDED SOME MORE, UM, INTERIM TARGETS. SO YOU CAN SEE FOR STATIONARY EMISSIONS, THOSE ARE EMISSIONS THAT WE CAN DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTE TO A SPECIFIC BUILDING OR LOCATION. UM, TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS, SOLID WASTE EMISSIONS EMISSIONS ASSOCIATED WITH, UM, OUR WATER SUPPLY. IT TAKES ENERGY TO MOVE WATER AROUND THE CITY. AND INDUSTRIAL PROCESS. EMISSIONS ARE EMISSIONS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH, UM, UH, INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE CITY, BUT THAT USE ONSITE, UM, UH, ENERGY, UH, AS OPPOSED TO JUST RECEIVING NATURAL GAS OR ELECTRIC FROM THE GRID. THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE KEY EDITS THAT WE MADE. UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, THAT I MENTIONED THAT WE HEARD WAS THAT, HOW ARE WE GONNA IMPLEMENT THIS? WHERE ARE COSTS? WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO? AND, AND SO WE CLEARLY WANTED TO MEMORIALIZE THE PROCESS. UM, SO EVERY STRATEGY, UH, BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD WITH IT, UM, NEEDS TO IDENTIFY COSTS. AND THAT'S COST DIFFERENT SECTORS. WE ALSO WANT TO QUANTIFY THOSE OTHER BENEFITS ASSOCIATED TO IT. WE ALSO WANT TO LOOK AT WHAT'S THE BENEFIT IN TERMS OF COST AVOIDANCE, AS WELL AS IDENTIFYING FUNDING MECHANISMS IF NEEDED. WE REALLY WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE LOOKING AT TECHNOLOGY. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT ANY STRATEGY THAT IT'S PROPOSED, THE TECHNOLOGY IS THERE, IT'S COST EFFECTIVE, IT'S RELIABLE, UM, AND, UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN MEET THE PERFORMANCE THAT WE NEED. IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO SAY THAT WE WANT TO DO THIS IF IT'S NOT GONNA ACCOMPLISH THE JOB THAT WE NEED TO DO IT. WE ALSO NEED TO PROVIDE A CLEAR TIMELINE FOR WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IN TERMS OF IMPLEMENTATION, AS WELL AS WHAT ARE THOSE REDUCTIONS THAT WE EXPECT OVER TIME. AND THEN FINALLY, THE IDEA OF EQUITY, EQUITY AND AFFORDABILITY. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO IMPLEMENT THIS STRATEGY? AND SO WE, I IDENTIFY A SPECIFIC PROCESS. WE'LL BE WORKING WITH, UM, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, COMMUNITY GROUPS, I'LL TALK ABOUT IN THE NEXT SLIDE, AS WELL AS, UM, DIFFERENT CITY DEPARTMENTS AND, AND COUNCIL TO IDENTIFY PRIORITIES ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. CONVENE OUR STAKEHOLDERS ACROSS SECTORS, UM, UNDERTAKE A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS. UH, ONCE WE KNOW WHAT THOSE COSTS ARE, WELL, LET'S LOOK AT THE EQUITY IMPACTS OF THAT AND THE AFFORDABILITY ISSUES. UH, IDENTIFY WHAT THE SPECIFICS ARE OF THE STRATEGY, UNDERTAKE COMMUNITY, UM, UH, INPUT. AND THEN ONCE WE'RE COMFORTABLE THAT WE HAVE CONSENSUS, BRING IT BACK TO CITY COUNCIL AND HAVE A DISCUSSION THERE. THIS IS ALSO ANOTHER KEY PART OF THE PLAN, AND WE'VE HEARD THIS FROM ACROSS THE CITY, FROM DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS. WHO'S IN CHARGE OF THIS? UM, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE ANSWER IS CITY COUNCIL. UM, BUT WE ARE PROPOSING CREATING, UM, UH, SOME GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS. ONE IS A, UH, TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE. UH, THE CHANGE FROM THE PREVIOUS DRAFT WAS THAT WAS ORIGINALLY JUST A COMMUNITY ADVISORY ADVISORY COMMITTEE. BUT AS WE LOOKED AT THE PLAN AND SPOKE TO STAKEHOLDERS, WE QUICKLY REALIZED THAT THIS PLAN IS VERY MUCH DRIVEN BY TECHNICAL EXPERTISE. IT CAN'T SIMPLY BE THIS IS WHAT WE WANT. UM, AND SO, UH, THIS, THIS COMMITTEE NEEDS TO BE BALANCED. UH, IT NEEDS TO REPRESENT COMMUNITY INTEREST AS WELL AS TECHNICAL EXPERTISE. UH, WE ALSO ARE, UM, PROPOSING A, A CLIMATE EQUITY, UM, SUBCOMMITTEE TO THAT GROUP, UH, THAT WILL BASICALLY WORK WITH CITY STAFF IN THE OFFICE OF EQUITY TO ENSURE THAT AS, UH, IMPLEMENTATION ACTIVITIES MOVE FORWARD. THERE'S A VOICE BROUGHT TO THAT PROCESS FROM, UM, OUR, OUR VULNERABLE AND MARGINAL, UH, MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES. WE'RE ALSO PROPOSING SOME INTERNAL, UM, UH, STRUCTURE, UH, TO HELP ENSURE THAT THE CITY ORGANIZATION IS KEEPING AN EYE ON THIS AND, AND IS MOVING IT FORWARD. ONE IS A, UM, AN EXECUTIVE TEAM TEAM, WHICH, UM, MAY INCLUDE ROD SANCHEZ, LUCKY, LUCKY ROD, UM, MYSELF AND OTHER KEY DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS, WHO WILL, AGAIN, ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, LOOK AT WHAT THOSE PRIORITIES ARE AND MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY ORGANIZATION IS, IS MOBILIZING TO MOVE FORWARD, AS WELL AS A ORGANIZATIONAL DELIVERY TEAM, WHICH WILL BE MORE, [00:40:01] UM, AT THE DEPARTMENTAL, UH, MID-MANAGER LEVEL, WHO WILL HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH SPECIFIC ACTIONS AT THE DEPARTMENT LEVEL. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE DON'T WANT A PLAN THAT JUST SITS ON THE SHELF. AND SO THE PLAN PROPOSES TO UPDATE OUR GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY EVERY TWO YEARS. UH, THAT WILL GIVE US A VERY CLEAR BENCHMARK OF WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. AND THEN WE ARE ALL PROPOSING TO REASSESS AND UPDATE THE, THIS PLAN EVERY THREE TO FIVE YEARS, UM, DEPENDING UPON CHANGING COMMUNITY PRIORITIES, UH, CHANGES IN TECHNOLOGY, CHANGES IN CLIMATE SCIENCE, OR, UM, AT THE DIRECTION OF, OF CITY COUNCIL. SO HERE'S JUST A VERY QUICK SUMMARY ON PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT. THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE BEHIND THAT, BUT I JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A BRIEF SNAPSHOT. UM, SINCE WE INITIATED THIS PROCESS, WE'VE HELD ABOUT 288 EVENTS. UH, WE'VE HAD JUST UNDER 10,000 ATTENDEES. UM, A TOTAL OF FIVE, TH ACTUALLY, IT'S MORE THAN 5,731. IT WAS UPDATED LAST NIGHT. WE ARE UP TO, SORRY, 5,731 SURVEYS AND SPECIFICS FOR THE, UM, UH, RESPONSES THAT WE'VE RECEIVED ON THE DRAFT PLAN. WE RECEIVED OVER 4,500 WRITTEN COMMENTS. UM, WE ALSO HAD A SURVEY AS A PART OF THAT, UH, RELEASE OF THE DRAFT PLAN. IT WAS ON A ONE TO FIVE STAR SCALE. UH, AND WHAT WE DID WAS WE WANTED TO, UM, QUANTIFY, UM, WHAT SURVEY, WHAT SURVEYS WERE POSITIVE, NEUTRAL, OR NEGATIVE. AND WHAT WE SAW WAS 78% OF THE RESPONDENTS HAD A POSITIVE, UM, VIEW OF THE PLAN. 8% WERE NEUTRAL, AND 14% WERE NEGATIVE. SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? UM, OUR NEXT STEP IS, I THINK THIS AFTERNOON WE WILL BE RELEASING THE, THE UPDATED DRAFT, UH, TO THE COMMUNITY AND SENDING IT OUT TO STAKEHOLDERS. UM, WE WILL HAVE, UM, A MINIMUM OF TWO WEEKS. UH, THIS IS OUR SECOND ITERATION. THERE'S BEEN A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF, OF, OF ENGAGEMENT AROUND THIS PLANNING PROCESS, BUT WE'LL HAVE A TWO WEEK COMMENT PERIOD. WE WILL WRITTEN A REALITY, BE ACCEPTING COMMENTS THROUGH THE, THROUGH ADOPTION. UM, I THINK WE, WE AREN'T GONNA TURN AWAY, UM, ANY, ANY COMMUNITY, UH, OR STAKEHOLDER INPUT. WE'LL BE GOING TO PLANNING COMMISSION, UH, AUGUST 28TH, AND THEN ON, UH, SEPTEMBER 11TH, LOOKING FOR A, A RECOMMENDATION. THEN SEPTEMBER 20TH, UH, PRESENTING TO COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EQUITY. AND THEN A B SESSION PRESENTATION OCTOBER 2ND. AND THEN FINALLY, UM, UH, PROPOSING COUNCIL CONSIDERATION ON OCTOBER 17TH. AND WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DOUG. AND, UH, ON BEHALF OF ME AND MY COLLEAGUES IN THE COMMUNITY, I WANT TO JUST COMMEND YOU PUBLICLY, UM, FOR ALL THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE. UM, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF COMMUNITY, UH, OUTREACH AND COORDINATION THAT HAD TO OCCUR TO GET TO THIS POINT OF A DRAFT. AND I KNOW THAT YOU'VE BEEN KIND OF IN THE CRUCIBLE FOR A LONG TIME ON THIS PLAN. IT'S NOT EASY WORK. IT'S CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO BE EASY WORK GOING FORWARD. BUT, UH, YOU'VE DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB, AND WE'RE VERY PROUD TO HAVE YOU, DOUG, LEADING THIS EFFORT. UH, I ALSO WANNA THANK THE MANY COMMUNITY MEMBERS, SOME OF WHOM ARE PRESENT IN THE AUDIENCE TODAY THAT HAVE COLLABORATED ON THIS PLAN, UH, THROUGH THE TECHNICAL GROUPS, UH, THROUGH OUR EQUITY GROUP, UM, OR JUST IN GENERAL BY PROVIDING VERY VALUABLE COMMENTS. THIS IS A DOCUMENT THAT IS REFLECTIVE OF THE COMMUNITY THAT WE LIVE IN, BUT ALSO THE GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS THAT WE HAVE, UH, FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT WE WANT TO, UH, LEAD TO OUR CHILDREN AND OUR GRANDCHILDREN. SO I WANNA THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INPUT NOW IN THE PAST, BUT ALSO ONGOING AS WE, UH, GET TOWARDS RATIFICATION AND ULTIMATELY, UH, IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PLAN. UH, WE HAVE SEVERAL CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. UM, AND THEN I'LL MOVE TO COUNCIL COMMENTARY. UH, WE'LL START WITH BILL HURLEY AND MR. HURLEY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY RUSSELL SEALE. I HAVE SOME SOMETHING TO SHOW. THANKS, MAYOR. AND HELLO, UH, CITY OF COUNCIL. UM, I'M NOT ONLY IN FAVOR OF THE, UH, CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION PLAN. I'M STAUNCHLY IN FAVOR OF IT AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY IN FAVOR OF IT. I'VE BEEN WRITING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE EXPRESS NEWS AND IN THE ARD REPORT FOR PROBABLY 10, 15 YEARS. AND, UH, AND I SEE A LOT OF ACTION AND A LOT OF, UH, PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDES ABOUT THIS. AND, AND I, WHAT I WANTED TO ADDRESS YOU GUYS ABOUT WAS, I WAS JUST SPEAKING EARLIER. I'M, I'M GONNA BE TALKING MORE ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE IN MY THREE MINUTES. UH, NOT ABOUT THE WEEDS, BUT ABOUT THE LAWN. YOU KNOW, UH, 'CAUSE I FIND THAT [00:45:01] MOST PEOPLE THAT I TALK TO, THE AVERAGE JOE OUT THERE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE BIG PICTURE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. AND PERHAPS IT'S ALSO TRUE WITH MY CONGRESSMAN, WHO, I WON'T MENTION HIS NAME. I'M ON CITIZEN CLIMATE LOBBY, AND THEN WE'RE NONPARTISAN, SO I CAN'T MENTION HIS NAME. BUT HE RECENTLY TALKED ABOUT CAPITALISM, AND HE WAS TEARFULLY, UM, SAYING THAT THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY, I, I GOT THE IMPRESSION HE WAS SAYING THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY AND OTHER LIBERAL PEOPLE ARE AGAINST CAPITALISM. AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT CATHERINE HAYHOE, DOCTOR FROM DOCTOR OF CLIMATOLOGISTS THAT YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF, UH, RECENTLY TALKED IN D WASHINGTON, DC AND SAID, AND POINTEDLY SAID, THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CAPITALISM. UH, THE FREEDOM TO BE A CAPITALIST IS JUST LIKE IN A, A ROAD INTERSECTION. YOU HAVE A STOPLIGHT THERE, BUT YOU DON'T NEED ONE IF THERE'S ONLY 30 PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. BUT IF THERE'S 300 PEOPLE OR 3000 PEOPLE, YOU'RE GONNA NEED THAT. UH, SO THAT'S WHAT THE CAP IS ALL ABOUT, AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF WHAT THE CITY HAS BEEN DOING IN, IN THAT REGARD. UH, CAN YOU SHOW THE, OH, YOU ALREADY SHOWN THAT. OKAY. IF YOU'RE, I'M SPEAKING TO A LOT OF POLITICIANS HERE, , AND IF YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT POLITICS, THE MOVEMENT IN THE COUNTRY IS, AS YOU ARE WELL AWARE, HAS BEEN VERY MUCH, UM, MORE ALARMED. AND THAT'S A YALE COMMUNICATIONS CENTER, UH, STUDY THAT'S BEEN IN EXISTENCE SINCE 2007, I THINK. AND WHEN I FIRST WAS AWARE OF IT, THE DISMISSIVE END, THE DISMISSIVE OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE FOX NEWS KIND OF PEOPLE AND THE, AND THE PRESIDENT KIND OF PEOPLE, THEY WERE A BIGGER CIRCLE THAN IT IS NOW. IT'S NOW AT 9%. AND SO WE'RE MOVING IN THIS DIRECTION, AND I THINK IT'D BE WISE TO PREPARE. THE WORD IS PREPARE. UH, GRETA THUNBERG IS THE 16 YEAR OLD SWEDISH GIRL THAT HAS MADE THIS ISSUE A REAL INTERNATIONAL ISSUE. AND CAN I PUT THIS UP TOO? THANK YOU, MR. HURLEY. UH, ONE REAL QUICK THING, UH, ON THE, THE WEEK OF THE 20TH THROUGH THE 27TH IS THE CLIMATE STRIKE THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IN SAN ANTONIO, AS WELL AS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. GRE UH, GRETA BERG IS SPEAKING TO THE UN ON THE 23RD. AND SO, THANK YOU, MR. EARLY. THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT THAT. YEAH, WE CAN GET THAT DISTRIBUTED TO COUNCIL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. RUSSELL SEALE, MR. SEALE WILL BE FOLLOWED BY PETER BELLA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I'M GOING TO UTILIZE, UH, MR. BELLA'S TIME, UM, AND HOPEFULLY I'LL BE SHORTER THAN THAT. UH, RUSSELL SEALE AND I HAVE, UH, BEEN WORKING ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, UH, HERE IN SAN ANTONIO FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, PROBABLY MUCH LONGER THAN THAT. UH, AND I HAVE BEEN PROUD TO SERVE, UH, MAYOR ON THE, UH, ADVISORY, THE ENERGY AND BUILDING COMMITTEE FOR THE CAP. I'M ONE OF THE, UH, 80 PLUS MEMBERS WHO'VE SERVED ON IT. I'VE ALSO SERVED ON COMMITTEES WITH ACOG FOR OZONE, AND I'M STILL SERVING ON YOUR TASK FORCE FOR YOUR, UH, SOLAR READY AND EV READY. SO, NEEDLESS TO SAY, I AM VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF PASSING THE, UH, THAT Y'ALL PASSING THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN. AND WE HAVE TO CONSIDER AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER IT AS A WHOLE, IS EVERYTHING THAT'S IN IT. BUT I AM GONNA GET INTO THE WEEDS A LITTLE BIT. UM, WE SERVING ON THESE COMMITTEES, WE'VE BEEN PRIVY TO GETTING THE COMMENT LETTERS AND REALLY LOOKING AT THE DETAILS. AND WE JUST RECEIVED MONDAY, A LETTER FROM THAT WAS WRITTEN APRIL 25TH BY PAULA GOLD WILLIAMS. UH, COMMENTS TO THE BOARD. AND IT WAS, UM, THESE COMMENTS I WANNA READ. UH, HOPEFULLY Y'ALL WILL READ THESE IN THE FULL, BUT IT'S HOW C P S ENERGY PERCEIVES ITSELF IN THE COMMENTS SHE, UH, LISTS, AND I'M GONNA READ THIS PARAGRAPH QUICKLY. PROPOSED NEW ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THE CAP STATES, THE CITY WILL INITIATE AN ONGOING PLANNING PROCESS WITH ITS KEY PARTNERS, INCLUDING C P S, ENERGY KEY STAKEHOLDERS, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO SERVE AND ENSURE THE CONTINUED COLLABORATION TOWARDS CARBON REDUCTIONS GOALS. WE UNEQUIVOCALLY WELCOME AND VALUE FEEDBACK. THAT SAID, CREATING A NEW GOVERNING COMMITTEE SOLELY FOCUSED ON OUR ENVIRONMENTAL GENERATION PLANNING IS PROBLEMATIC AND PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES TO OUR HISTORICALLY HIGH EFFECTIVE BUSINESS MODEL AND APPROACH. AS THE ENTITY TRADITIONALLY CHARGED WITH ENSURING RELIABILITY, RESILIENCY, AFFORDABILITY TO ALL OUR CUSTOMERS, IT HAS BEEN INVALUABLE [00:50:01] THAT WE MAKE DECISIONS THAT ADDRESS MULTIPLE EMISSIONS OF CONSIDERATIONS WHILE THEY INCLUDE MAKING THE ENVIRONMENT INCREASINGLY BETTER. WE ARE STILL A BUSINESS OWNED BY A COMMUNITY. WE MUST CONSIDER ALL OF OUR INVESTORS WHO ARE OUR CUSTOMERS, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO HAVE PRUDENTLY LOANED US MONEY TO MAINTAIN AND PROVE OUR COMPLEX SYSTEM. READ THE LETTER COMPLETELY, UH, PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO HOW, UH, PAULA GO. WILLIAMS PERCEIVES, UH, C P SS ENERGY AS BEING, UH, SEPARATE AND APART. THAT RIGHT NOW IT, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, YOU CAN JUST APPOINT A BOARD MEMBER AND YOU CAN, UH, VOTE ON RATE INCREASES. AND THEY HAVE SET THEM STUFF UP STRUCTURALLY TO MUCH DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER UTILITY AROUND, UH, THE STATE AND NATION. UH, WE HAD PROBLEMS IN THE PAST WITH C P S ENERGY. UH, PAULA GOLD WILLIAMS WAS PART OF THE MANAGEMENT TEAM A DECADE AGO THAT, UH, TOLD A $5 BILLION LIE AND LED TO THE MELTDOWN OF C P S ENERGY YOU HAD TO COUNCIL. THEN, WHEN THAT WAS LOOKING TO IMPLEMENT THOSE STRUCTURAL CHANGES, UH, WE BROUGHT IN DOLE BENEBY, WHO TOOK US IN A DIRECTION WHERE WE WERE MAKING, UH, CHANGES VERY QUICKLY, FASTER THAN WE COULD IMAGINE. SIERRA CLUB GAVE DOLE BEN A BE AN AWARD FOR, UH, HIS STRUCTURE. HE LEFT US. WE DID NOT GET THE STRUCTURAL CHANGES. AND PAULA HAS REALLY REIGNED BACK ON SOME OF THIS STUFF, WHICH HE'S SAYING, YES, YES, YES, THAT WE'RE GONNA DO THIS STUFF, BUT THE ACTIONS, WE HAVE THESE COAL PLANTS THAT DO NOT HAVE ALL THE EMISSIONS CONTROL ON THEM AVAILABLE. WE ASK THAT YOU NOT SPEND THE $140 MILLION TO PUT THE SCRS ON THAT PLANT. RETIRED EARLY, THEY DECIDED TO HEAR ONLY DON'T SPEND THE $140 MILLION ON THE S C R. AND THEN WE GO WITH ON PAGE 34 OF THE, THE, UH, MITIGATION STRATEGIES. STRATEGY NUMBER ONE CHANGED TO, FROM OUR ORIGINAL, WHAT WE HAD RECOMMENDED, DECARBONIZING THE GRID LANGUAGE TO REDUCE THE CARBON INTENSITY AND WORK WITH C P S ENERGY FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FLEX PATH TO DRIVE TOWARDS CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2050. THE FLEX PATH IS NOT AGGRESSIVE ENOUGH. WE HAVE TO GET OFF THE COAL PLANTS. THERE'S OTHER WAYS WE HAVE TO MOVE THE DEMAND CURVES. WE HAVE TO GET THE COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND HOW THEY HAVE TO PLAY A PART AND GET COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT WITH THIS. THIS NEEDS TO BE LED BY COUNCIL. COUNCIL NEEDS TO TAKE A LEADERSHIP ROLE WITH C P SS ON HOW TO GET THE COMMUNITY INVOLVED TO BEND THE CURBS, TO CLEAN EVERY HOUR OF THE GRID UP AS MUCH AS WE CAN TO MAKE THE, AND TO MAKE THOSE CHANGES. THE WAY THE BUSINESS MODEL THAT SHE IS PERCEIVING THEMSELVES IS SEPARATE AND APART IS NOT GONNA GET US THERE. UH, PASS THE PLAN, LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE, AND SEE IF WE CAN GET THOSE STRUCTURAL CHANGES DONE AT C P S ENERGY TO ENSURE THE IMPLEMENTATION IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO GET THE IMPLEMENTATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. SEAL, JACK FINGER. WELL, MAYOR NURENBERG AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JACK M. FINGER CLIMATE ACTION ADAPT ACTIVATION PLAN. UH, IT WAS CRITICIZED ORIGINALLY BECAUSE, UH, IT WAS LONG ON, UH, IDEALS GOALS, HIGH IDEALS AND SO FORTH, BUT VERY SHORT ON SPECIFICS. UH, THE LANGUAGE. AND IT, UH, JUST WAS, QUITE FRANKLY, A LOT, SOME PEOPLE WOULD SAY GOBBLEDYGOOK, BUT, UH, IN DECIPHERING IT, PEOPLE FOUND THAT IT WAS, UH, UH, BASICALLY WE, THEY, THE, THE, THE PLAN REQUIRES YOU AND ME, THE MOTORIST TO GET OUT OF OUR CARS AND START WALKING TO WORK OR BICYCLING. YEAH. THAT'S WHY WE HAVE INSTITUTED MORE AND MORE BICYCLE LANES THERE AT THE COST OF MOTORIST LANES. YOU KNOW, PART OF THAT TRAFFIC CALLING THING WE, WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER. YEAH. UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE THAT. AND [00:55:01] SO THE POWERS THAT BE, Y'ALL BACKED OFF A LITTLE BIT, BUT A LOT OF IT IS STILL HERE. AND, AND, RIGHT. RIGHTLY SO. I MEAN, UH, GLOBAL WARMING VERY REAL, ISN'T IT? I MEAN, LOOK AT ALL THE 100 DEGREE PLUS TEMPERATURE DAYS WE'VE HAD THIS YEAR, SEVERAL DOZEN, OVER A DOZEN OR SO. WE'VE NEVER HAD THAT HAPPEN HERE IN SUMMER, HAVE WE? YEAH. OH YEAH. GOOD. CLIMATE CHANGE. CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSING ALL OUR TORRENTIAL RAINS. YEAH, TORRENTIAL RAINS, FLOODING AND SO FORTH. WE'VE NEVER HAD THAT EITHER, HAVE WE? YEAH. YEAH. UH OH. YES. WE'VE GOT TO HAVE A PLAN. GOT TO HAVE A PLAN TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE REACH, UH, ZERO. YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. REACHING NET ZERO IN OUR C O TWO EMISSIONS HERE. RIGHT HERE IS WHAT IT SAYS. I, UH, YOU KNOW, I WAS WONDERING, MR. MAYOR, C C O TWO TWO EMISSIONS NEED TO DECLINE BY ABOUT 45% IN 2010, AND ABOUT AT, ABOUT REACHING NET ZERO AT 2050 CARBON DIOXIDE, MR. MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ISN'T, DON'T WE AS HUMAN BEINGS BREATHE IN AND OUT CARBON DIOXIDE? YEAH. I MEAN, TO, BUT TO, TO BAN CARBON DIOXIDE, IT MEANS YOU'LL HAVE TO BAN HUMAN BEINGS, RIGHT? DOG GUN. HOW ARE WE GONNA DO THAT? WELL, I'M SORRY. THE, THE MASS SHOOTINGS JUST AREN'T DOING THE JOB. SO, BUT DON'T WORRY, MR. MAYOR. UM, YOU AS A CITY COUNCILMAN SOME TIME AGO, YOU ACTUALLY SUPPORTED PLANNED PARENTHOOD OVER IN BABCOCK AND BY GUY. PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOES AN EXCELLENT JOB OF BANNING HUMAN BEINGS EVERY DAY WITH ITS ABORTIONS. THERE, IT CAN BE DONE. THANK YOU, MR. FINGER. YES. WELL, OKAY. FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR AUDIENCE, I FAILED TO MENTION THAT THE NEW DRAFT PLAN, UH, WILL BE UPLOADED TO THE SA CLIMATE READY.ORG WEBSITE. IF IT'S NOT ALREADY DONE NOW, IT WILL BE UP BY NOON. UH, FOR THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO READ THE PLAN, IT WILL BE LIVE, UH, TODAY. MOVE NOW TO COUNCIL, COMMENT, UH, AND QUESTIONS. COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL, THANK YOU FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE. I'M STARTING A BOOK CLUB, AND THE FIRST THING WE'RE GONNA READ IS THE CLIMATE PLAN. JUST KIDDING. ANYONE WHO WANTS TO JOIN , COME ON, . OKAY. UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR. UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DOUG, FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE ON THIS. I KNOW IT'S BEEN, UH, A LONG TIME COMING EVER SINCE THE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN. UM, I WANNA THANK ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS. SOME OF THEM ARE, ARE HERE TODAY. UH, THANK YOU FOR, FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK, YOUR PATIENCE, UM, YOUR, UH, YOUR HOPEFULNESS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE PROCESS. UM, AND I KNOW MOVE IS HERE IN, IN SUPPORT OF CLIMATE ACT. I BELIEVE YOU'RE HERE IN SUPPORT OF CLIMATE ACTION AS WELL. SO THANK YOU FOR, FOR, FOR BEING HERE. UM, I JUST A FEW COMMENTS ON, ON THE PROCESS, AND I SAID THIS AT THE STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING, UH, THE OTHER DAY IS, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME OUR CITY DOES THIS. AND IF WE THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE EASY, WE WERE, WE WERE MISTAKEN. THERE WERE, UH, A LOT OF, UM, LITTLE MINDS IN THE WAY THAT PERHAPS WE HADN'T FORESEEN. SO I WANNA THANK THE COMMUNITY AND THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEES FOR BEING PATIENT WITH US AS WE WORKED, AS WE WORKED THAT OUT. UM, BUT WE NEEDED SOMETHING THAT WAS GOING TO BE UNIQUE TO SAN ANTONIO, AND THAT CONSIDERED THE, THE FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THE, THE CULTURAL HERITAGE STUFF, THE TYPES OF INDUSTRIES THAT WE HAVE HERE. UM, SO THANK YOU. WE'RE, WE'RE HERE NOW. IT'S STILL NOT FINAL, BUT WE'RE AT A, AT A TREMENDOUS MILESTONE, UH, TODAY. SO THANK YOU. UM, THERE WAS SOME DISAPPOINTMENT, I KNOW WHEN WE HAD TO, UH, POSTPONE THE ADOPTION DATE. UM, BUT I THINK THAT REALLY ALLOWED US AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO BACK, REVIEW AND THINK, AND COME BACK WITH SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE IS MUCH STRONGER, UM, AND, AND MORE THOUGHTFUL PERHAPS THAN, THAN WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE FIRST TIME AROUND. UM, I ALSO WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE OTHER STAFF THAT WAS INVOLVED IN THIS G P A, YOU REALLY, UM, CAME, CAME THROUGH FOR US, UH, IN THE, IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS. THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, TO YOUR, TO YOUR STAFF, JEFF, FOR, FOR DOING THAT. UM, WHEN WE HEAR SOME CRI, I'LL START WITH THE CRITICISMS. WHEN WE HEAR SOME CRITICISMS ABOUT TAKING, UH, CLIMATE ACTION, THEY USUALLY START WITH, UM, THE REDUCTION PORTION, THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE NEW [01:00:01] TECHNOLOGY, THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT I, I WANNA FOCUS ON THE ADAPTATION PART OF THIS PLAN FOR A FEW MINUTES. UM, IN THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, WE'VE HAD SOME TREMENDOUS WEATHER. IT'S IT PROP. IT HAS NOT COOLED DOWN AT NIGHT, WHICH MEANS WE HAVE A MUCH BIGGER LOAD ON OUR UTILITY GRID, AND THAT'S JUST A SMALL TASTE OF SOME OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE THAT WE'RE ALREADY EXPERIENCING. UM, BUT WHETHER OR NOT, UH, WE GET TO THE LOW EMISSION SCENARIO, WE NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IN JUNE, WE HAD, UH, AN UNEXPECTED STORM THAT RIPPED THROUGH THESE DISTRICTS. FIVE, ONE, AND SEVEN, UH, DOWNING OUR POWER LINES FOR DAYS AT A TIME IN SOME COMMUNITIES. AGAIN, WE NEED TO BE PREPARED FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, UH, IF IT GETS WORSE OR EVEN AT THE LEVEL THAT WE ARE. AND THAT'S WHAT WE CALL ADAPTATION OR RESILIENCE. IN OTHER WORDS, OUR NEW NORMAL, WHICH ISN'T EXACTLY NORMAL OR PREDICTABLE. AND I BELIEVE THAT IT IS MY JOB TO ENSURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS PREPARED FOR THAT. UM, OUR RESIDENTS EXPECT RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP FROM US. AND, UH, THESE TYPES OF CHANGES THREATEN, UH, TO HARM THE PEOPLE AND THE PLACES THAT WE LOVE. SO THAT IS A FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PLAN. UM, SO I, I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR THAT THAT'S, THAT'S HALF THE PLAN, RIGHT? IS PREPARING FOR, FOR THINGS LIKE THAT. THEY'RE PRACTICAL COMMON SENSE, UH, STEPS TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY. NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE OTHER PART, . UM, SO I HAVE, UH, SOME OF, YOU KNOW, I HAVE A BACKGROUND IN AIR POLLUTION MODELING AND CLIMATE, UH, MODELING. SO, UH, IT'S ACTUALLY KIND OF NERD. I FEEL LIKE A NERD, BUT VERY EXCITED THAT THIS IS FINALLY HAPPENING HERE IN, IN, UH, IN SAN ANTONIO. UM, BUT THE TRUTH IS, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF A CHANGING CLIMATE, THEY'RE VERY SCARY AND THEY ARE VERY HARD TO, TO FATHOM THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT COULD, COULD HAPPEN HERE. THAT WE COULD LOSE THE ENVIRONMENT THAT WE HAVE. UM, BUT WE DO, WE NEED TO GET PAST THE FEAR AND TAKE, UH, AND TAKE THAT ACTION. AND I KNOW SOME, UH, THERE'S ALSO CONCERN ABOUT, UH, GOVERNMENT INTERACTION, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT TOO, TOO MUCH, SORRY, GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION. BUT THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE NO ONE PERSON CAN DO THIS ALONE. AND, UH, THAT'S WHAT GOVERNMENT IS FOR, TO DO THINGS TOGETHER THAT WE CAN'T DO ALONE, THAT WE NEED. SO, UM, I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE TAKING THIS ON AND, AND PLAYING A ROLE. I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO CLARIFY A COUPLE OF THINGS IN THE PLAN THAT I THINK DESERVES SOME HIGHLIGHTING. UM, NUMBER ONE, COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHAT CARBON NEUTRAL MEANS AGAIN? YES, MA'AM. SO, CARBON NEUTRALITY, AND I THINK WE, THERE'S LOTS OF TERMS THROWN AROUND. YOU HEAR ABOUT ZERO NET ENERGY. UM, UH, AS WELL, CARBON NEUTRAL, UM, BASICALLY MEANS THAT WE WILL BE EMITTING, OR IT COULD BE A BUILDING, UH, IT COULD BE A COMMUNITY, UH, EMIT NO NET CARBON TO THE ATMOSPHERE. IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE WILL BE EMITTING ZERO, BUT IT MEANS THAT, UH, WE WILL NEED TO, UM, EITHER STORE OR OFFSET ANY OF THOSE SUPPLEMENTAL EMISSIONS THAT WE CAN'T ACTUALLY, UM, REDUCE COMPLETELY. UH, SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, UH, IF WE CAN HIT 88% REDUCTION IN TERMS OF ALL OF OUR, ALL OF OUR EMISSIONS, THERE'LL BE 12% LEFT OVER. THOSE ARE THE EMISSIONS THAT WE'LL HAVE TO FIND OTHER MECHANISMS TO, UH, TO ADDRESS. IT COULD BE, UM, A TARGETED TREE PLANTING PROGRAM. 'CAUSE WE KNOW THAT, UH, TREES, UH, CAN, UH, CAPTURE AND STORE CARBON. SO I THINK IT'S, IT'S WHAT ZERO ACTUALLY MEANS, AND HAVING SORT OF THE TECHNOL TECHNOLOGICAL ABILITY TO GET TO ZERO. SO ONE OF THE WAYS WE CAN DO THAT IS BY PLANTING LOTS OF TREES. SO THAT COULD BE A QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENT THAT COMES FROM THE IMPLEMENTATION OF, IT'S, IT WOULD HELP WITH OUR MITIGATION SIDE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT WOULD HELP WITH ADAPTATION IN TERMS OF, UH, STORMWATER, UH, MANAGEMENTS, UH, PROVIDING COOLING, UH, AT BUS STOPS ALONG, UH, KEY PEDESTRIAN CORRIDORS. I THINK THAT'S THE OTHER, ONE OF THE NEXT STEPS WITH THIS PLAN THAT WE'RE VERY INTERESTED IN PURSUING, UH, ONCE ADOPTED IS, UH, THERE IS VERY MUCH THIS EMERGING FIELD THAT'S GOING ON ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT REALLY WANTS TO, UH, WE REALLY WANNA LOOK AT THE OVERLAP BETWEEN GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTIONS, ADAPTATION, AS WELL AS EQUITY. AND HOW DO YOU START PRIORITIZING THESE HUNDREDS OF STRATEGIES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BEING MOST EFFECTIVE AS POSSIBLE. OKAY. ARE THERE CURRENTLY ANY TECHNOLOGIES AVAILABLE TO, UM, OFFSET CARBON EMISSIONS BESIDES TREES? SURE. OTHER THAN NATURAL SYSTEMS. AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THAT'S SUCH A BIG PROPONENT, A [01:05:01] BIG COMPONENT OF THE PLANT IS RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR, OUR BIODIVERSITY IN OUR ECOSYSTEMS. BUT THERE'S ONLY EXPERIMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES, UH, OUT THERE, OUT RIGHT NOW, UM, THAT ARE LOOKING TO ACTUALLY PULL, PHYSICALLY PULL, UH, C O TWO OUT OF THE ATMOSPHERE WITH, UH, TECHNICAL MEANS. THERE'S NO CURRENT CARBON CAPTURE GOING ON, SAY RIGHT NOW AROUND CEMENT PLANTS OR SOMETHING. YES, MA'AM. SO, YES, THERE, THAT'S, THANK YOU FOR THE POINT. THERE HAVE BEEN, UM, TECHNOLOGIES AROUND CEMENT THAT ARE ACTUALLY PULLING CARBON OUT AND THEN INSTALLING IT IN AND PRODUCING IT INTO A CEMENTS, WHICH ACTUALLY IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF THAT, THAT PRODUCT, BUT ALSO DOES REDUCE, UM, UH, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, I WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE EQUITY, UH, SCREENING TOOL OR MECHANISM. AND I KNOW IT'S A VERY LONG NAME, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAD, UH, CONCERNS FROM, FROM A NUMBER OF PEOPLE, AND RIGHTLY SO, THAT SOME OF THESE CHANGES MAY END UP COSTING MORE FOR PEOPLE WHO CANNOT AFFORD IT. CAN YOU TELL ME HOW THIS TOOL WILL BE USED? YES. AND THE, THE ONE CAVEAT I WOULD GIVE IS THIS IS VERY MUCH, UH, THIS PLAN PLACES SAN ANTONIO AT THE FRONT OF THIS EQUITY DISCUSSION AS IT RELATES TO CLIMATES. UM, I THINK THE, WE DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY OF LOOKING AT OTHER CITIES FOR THE MOST PART, THAT HAVE GOTTEN THIS FAR. SO THIS IS VERY MUCH AN EVOLVING PROCESS THAT WE ARE LOOKING TO REFINE WITH EQUITY LEADERS AND OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS WE GO FORWARD. UH, THE INTENT IS, AS WE IDENTIFY KEY STRATEGIES, UM, WE RUN THROUGH THIS CHECKLIST, WE RUN THROUGH AND MAKE SURE WE ARE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE. SO THE BIG ASPECT OF THIS IS IT'S NOT CITY STAFF ASKING THESE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERING IT. IT'S ASKING EQUITY EXPERTS IN OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THE AFFECTED MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. SO, QUESTIONS SUCH AS, UM, WOULD THE STRATEGY EXPAND TO ACCESS TO HEALTHY CLEAN TRANSPORT SYSTEMS? THAT'S A POSITIVE. ANOTHER QUESTION WOULD BE, WILL THIS PLAN, WILL THIS STRATEGY RESULT IN AN INCREASE IN UTILITY RATES? THAT'S A RED FLAG. UM, SO IT'S, THIS WAS A FIRST BLUSH BY THE CLIMATE EQUITY TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP. UM, BUT I THINK IT'S GONNA REQUIRE A LOT MORE, UM, REFINEMENT. THE OTHER THING I WOULD SAY, WHILE IT APPLIES TO THIS PLAN, UH, AS WELL AS THE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN, I THINK IT COULD SERVE AS A VERY GOOD MODEL, UM, FOR HOW OUR ORGANIZATION AS WELL AS OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, UH, START TAKING THESE CONSIDERATIONS. SO THAT'S THE POINT I WANTED TO MAKE. RIGHT NOW, WHEN A DECISION COMES TO CITY COUNCIL, THERE IS, WE DO NOT HAVE A TOOL LIKE THAT TO EVALUATE, SAY, UM, A U D C CODE CHANGE OR, UH, A NEW REGULATION BEING PUT FORWARD. UH, THERE, WE DO NOT HAVE THAT FOR ANY OTHER DECISIONS THAT THE COUNCIL MAKES. I'M NOT AWARE OF, OF ONE. ERIC, WOULD THIS BE A, A FIRST? UH, YES. POTENTIALLY COUNCILWOMAN. OKAY. SO WE ARE GOING TO BE PUTTING THESE, UM, THESE PROPOSED STRATEGIES THROUGH A MUCH MORE RIGOROUS PROCESS THAN ANY OTHER DECISION THAT COMES BEFORE THIS, THIS BODY THAT IS, THAT IS THE INTENT. YES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, UM, I WANNA THANK YOU AND, AND COMMEND YOU FOR YOUR WORK. AND, UH, ALSO THANK THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE THAT, THAT REVIEWED THE UPDATES AS, AS THIS WAS COMING UP. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN ELIAS, FOR YOUR, YOUR RIGOROUS FEEDBACK THAT HAS MADE THIS A, UH, A STRONGER DOCUMENT, UM, AS WELL. UM, SO WITH THAT, I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING THE COMMENTS FROM MY, MY COUNCIL MEMBERS, ESPECIALLY COUNCILWOMAN, UH, GARCIA ROCHA, WHO JUST FINISHED READING THE, UH, SUMMARY FOR POLICY MAKERS FROM THE I P C C. I'D LOVE TO HEAR WHAT YOU'RE GONNA SAY. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. GOOD MORNING, DOUG. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TEAM AND, AND YOUR WORK ON THIS PLAN. UM, THANK YOU ALSO TO THE COMMITTEE. IF THERE'S ANY COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN HERE THAT HELPED WITH THE PLAN. UM, I AM DELIGHTED TO SEE THE NEW VERSION OF THE PLAN. I HAD READ THE FIRST ONE THOROUGHLY AND PROVIDED SOME FEEDBACK, AND I HAVE, UH, READ THE SECOND ONE THOROUGHLY. I HAVE ABOUT 60 QUESTIONS. THEY WON'T ALL BE ASKED TODAY, SO DON'T WORRY. UM, BUT I DID WANNA JUST APPRECIATE YOU ALL. THANK YOU ALSO FOR INCORPORATING THE FOOD INSECURITIES PORTION THAT I, I HAD MENTIONED YESTERDAY. I KNOW YOU REFERENCED IT TODAY. THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO ME. UM, I BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUOUSLY REVISIT AND ADAPT THIS ROADMAP, UH, TO MEASURE PROGRESS, EVALUATE THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, AND REVIEW THE METRICS USED. UH, THIS SHOULD NOT BE A PLAN, LIKE YOU SAID, DOUG, THAT SHOULD JUST BE PLACED ON THE SHELF. UM, I ALSO AM CONCERNED WITH THE REASSESSMENT AND UPDATES EVERY THREE TO FIVE YEARS FROM THE ADOPTION DATE. I THINK WE NEED TO DO IT A LOT, UM, MORE OFTEN. SO THE THREE [01:10:01] TO FIVE YEARS, MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BECAUSE OF COST, IS IT STAFFING? I'M NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHAT IT IS, BUT I'D LIKE FOR YOU ALL TO CONSIDER REVISITING THAT. BUT IN THE MOST RECENT REPORT FROM THE, UM, INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, WHICH I UNDERSTAND YOU ALL HAVE BEEN USING, UM, THEY MAKE REFERENCE TO TECHNOLOGICAL, BIOPHYSICAL, SOCIOECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND CULTURAL BARRIERS THAT CAN LIMIT THE ADOPTION OF SOME OF THESE THINGS. UM, ESPECIALLY UNCERTAINTY ABOUT BENEFITS. BUT THEY ALSO SAY THAT PUBLIC DISCOURSE CAREFULLY DESIGNED POLICY INTERVENTIONS AND INCORPORATING SOCIAL LEARNING AND MARKET CHALLENGES CAN TOGETHER HELP REDUCE THESE BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTATION. AND I'M IN FAVOR OF ANYTHING THAT HELPS REDUCE BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTATION. BUT I'M ALSO IN FAVOR OF STAKEHOLDER SUPPORT. UM, I WANT TO MAKE PARTICULAR REFERENCE THAT THEY MAKE, UH, THEY, THEY MAKE A BIG, I DON'T WANNA SAY THIS, BUT THEY MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT ADDRESSING GAPS IN IMPLEMENTATION. I WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE AS MANY GAPS, UH, AS WE, YOU KNOW, MAY HAVE IF WE DON'T HAVE A FULL STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION. I ALSO BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A WAY TO MAKE THIS ROADMAP STILL MORE RELEVANT TO SAN ANTONIO. I APP APPRO. I, UM, I APPRECIATE SOME OF THE EFFORTS THAT WERE MADE. ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT I HAD GIVEN ON THE FIRST ROUND WAS THAT I THINK THAT WE NEEDED TO HIGHLIGHT SOME ADDITIONAL, UH, ADDITIONAL SAN ANTONIO COMPANIES. SO ON PAGE 19 OF THE PLAN, FOR INSTANCE, I HAD ASKED FOR CONSIDERATION OF HIGHLIGHTING SOME GOOD CORPORATE CITIZENS TRYING TO, UH, IMPROVE OUR COMMUNITY. AND SINCE THAT WASN'T DONE, I TOOK A PERSONAL TOUR OF A COMPANY THAT I HAD HEARD WAS SETTING THE BAR. UM, AND THAT I USE IN MY CLASSES AS, UH, SOMEONE TO HIGHLIGHT. AND I WANT TO TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW TO HIGHLIGHT OUR LOCAL COCA-COLA COMPANY. UH, THEY'RE THE SECOND PLAN IN THE SOUTHWEST TO IMPLEMENT, UH, INLINE BLOW MOLDING. SO THAT'S REDUCED OUR ENVIRONMENTAL EMISSIONS FROM 15 TO ONE, UH, ON THEIR TRANSPORT LOADS. ADDITIONALLY, THEY HAVE THIS AWESOME LEAK DETECTION PROGRAM. AND SO, AND I ENCOURAGE ALL MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO GO AND TAKE A TOUR OF THE COCA-COLA PLANT. I'M NOT BEING PAID TO SAY THAT. UM, BUT ALSO THEY HAVE, UH, THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE CAPTURED THE, THE RETURN STEM CONDENSATION IS CAPTURED AT MORE THAN 75%. THEY HAVE 30% HYBRID TRUCKS. AND, UM, I THINK THAT THEY ARE REALLY ONE OF THESE MODELS. THEY'RE TRULY COMMITTED TO A WORLD WITHOUT WASTE, WHICH IS MORE THAN A MOTTO TO THEM. AND I THINK THAT WE SHOULD START LOOKING AT COMPANIES LIKE THEM AROUND SAN ANTONIO. UM, I, YOU KNOW, COULD GO ON AND ON ABOUT THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE DOING, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY DID ALSO IS THEY'RE PLANNING AHEAD IN REDUCING THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF THE DRINK IN YOUR HAND BY 14% BY 2020. AND I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT AND APPRECIATE THOSE EFFORTS BEFORE I WENT ON. BUT ON PAGE 53, I WANTED TO ASK, UM, WELL, NO, ACTUALLY, I'M SORRY. ON PAGE 35, WHAT IS THE SA 2030 DISTRICT? AND I'M NEW. SO MAYBE IF YOU CAN JUST HELP ME WITH SA 2030 DISTRICT. YES, MA'AM. SO, UH, THE SA 2030 DISTRICT WAS, UH, THE 20, 20, 30 DISTRICTS IS A NATIONAL, UM, PROGRAM. IT WAS STARTED BY ED MAR, I THINK, I BELIEVE HIS LAST NAME WAS MARZA. UM, AND IT BASICALLY IS A VOLUNTARY, UM, EFFORT OF CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO DESIGNATE A DISTRICT. USUALLY IT'S IN A, IN A, IN A DOWNTOWN AREA WITH LOTS OF BUILDINGS TO DEVELOP A VOLUNTARY PROGRAM, UM, WHERE, UM, PROPERTY OWNERS COMMIT TO BENCHMARKING THEIR ENERGY AND WATER USE, UM, AND STRIVING TOWARDS, UH, REDUCTIONS AS A, AS A DISTRICT. SO OUR S A 20, OUR 2030 DISTRICT HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL. GOOD. UM, THERE'S MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF SQUARE FEET THAT ARE, UH, INCLUDED IN THIS DISTRICT. UH, MANY OF OUR OWN CITY, UM, PROPERTIES ARE A PART OF IT. AND IT PROVIDES A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW PROPERTY OWNERS CAN IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THEIR BUILDINGS. AND IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT REDUCING EMISSIONS. IT, IT HELPS THEIR BOTTOM LINE. AND THAT'S REALLY THE BIG POINT OF IT. GREAT. AWESOME. ALSO, YOU MENTIONED EARLIER ZIP CODES, AND I'D LIKE TO SEE HOW MANY, UH, ZIP CODES IN DISTRICT FOUR, UM, ARE, ARE IN THAT STUDY. YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO IT NOW, YOU CAN JUST TELL ME LATER. I'D ALSO LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY DISTRICT FOUR RESIDENTS ACTUALLY TOOK THE SURVEY. UM, IF I CAN ACTUALLY SEE A COPY OF THIS SURVEY INSTRUMENT, I WOULD BE REALLY HAPPY. AND I DO HAVE TO ASK IF IT WAS TRANSLATED. YES. I, UM, YES, I BELIEVE SO. ALL, ALL THE, THE SURVEYS WERE, UH, IN SPANISH AS WELL. OKAY, GREAT. ON PAGE 46, YOU HAVE, UH, ITEM NUMBER 25. UM, AND SO YOU REFERENCE REGULAR UPDATES. THAT'S NOT GONNA BE IN THE PROPOSED THREE TO FIVE. IT'S GONNA BE MORE REGULAR, I'M ASSUMING MAYBE QUARTERLY. THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR, UM, WE WILL HAVE TO WORK WITH PARTNER AGENCIES AS WELL. UM, THE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT THAT WAS COMPLETED AS A PART OF [01:15:01] THIS PLANNING PROCESS WAS FAIRLY HIGH, HIGH LEVEL. UH, I THINK THE KEY IS TO TAKE THIS DOCUMENT, TAKE THOSE CLIMATE PROJECTIONS AND WORK WITH, UM, PARTNER AGENCIES TO DRILL DOWN TO A LITTLE MORE DETAIL. UM, I'M NOT SURE OF THE TIMING ON IT. I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WILL WANT TO EVALUATE IN TERMS OF NOT JUST UPDATING THAT, BUT THE WHOLE PLAN IN GENERAL, AS YOU, AS YOU HAD MENTIONED, IS, UM, GIVING ENOUGH TIME FOR STRATEGIES TO BE IMPLEMENTED TO TRACK PROGRESS. BUT I THINK, UM, WE CAN UPDATE THE PLAN BASED UPON IF THERE'S SOME SORT OF TRIGGER, UH, IF WE SUDDENLY SEE, PARTICULARLY AROUND THE VULNERABILITY SIDE, THAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING CONSIDERABLY MORE DAYS OVER A HUNDRED DEGREES. WE'RE HAVING CHALLENGES, UM, WITH, UM, SOME OF OUR TARGET POPULATIONS. THAT WOULD, I WOULD THINK WOULD BE A TRIGGER WHERE WE REALLY WANT TO SIT DOWN WITH, UM, OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND OTHER KEY PARTNERS, METRO HEALTH TO REASSESS, UM, OUR VULNERABILITY, UH, STATUS. THANK YOU, DOUG. ALSO, I DO HAVE TO SAY THAT I DO LOVE THE MOBILE HEALTH CLINICS COMPONENT ON PAGE 44. UH, AND THEN YOU ALSO HAD REFERENCED 31 CITIES THAT WE WERE BENCHMARKING. AND SO I'D LOVE TO SEE WHAT THOSE 31 CITIES ARE. UM, AND THEN ON PAGE 53, HOW DID YOU DETERMINE THE MAKEUP OF THE COMMITTEE? AND DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY DISTRICT FOUR RESIDENTS WERE A PART OF THOSE COMMITTEES? SO ROD WHISPERED IN MY EAR. SO, UM, , I'M SORRY, COULD YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION? IT'S OKAY. HOW DO, HOW DID YOU DETERMINE THE MAKEUP OF THE COMMITTEES THAT ARE REFERENCED ON PAGE 53 AND HOW MANY DISTRICT FOUR RESIDENTS PARTICIPATED? AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER RIGHT NOW, IT'S OKAY. YOU CAN GET BACK TO ME. WELL, UM, SO WE CAN GET BACK TO YOU ON THE, UM, COMPOSITION OF THE, UM, PLAN COMMITTEES TO HELP DEVELOP IT. THE PLAN, THE, WHAT GOVERNANCE IS RE RE REFERENCING ON THIS, UH, SECTION. THOSE AREN'T, UM, ESTABLISHED. I THINK, OH, I'M SORRY. WE, WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO WORK WITH COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER'S, OFFICE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S THE PROCESS AND COMPOSITION OF THOSE, OF THOSE COMMITTEES. OKAY. BECAUSE, AND THAT I THINK IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO YOUR POINT ON PAGE 55 WITH LACK OF REPRESENTATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT. AND, AND, UH, I, I THINK THAT WE COULD MANAGE THAT NOW THAT, THAT, YOU'VE ANSWERED THAT, UM, ON PAGE 69. SO IS THAT A COMMITTEE THEN? THAT'S ONE OF THE ONES THAT WE ARE STILL GOING TO WORK ON THE COMPOSITION OF AS WELL, UM, STEERING COMMITTEE AND TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP THAT REPRESENTS THE COMMITTEES THAT, UM, THE 80 PLUS MEMBERS WHO ACTUALLY HELPED DEVELOP THE PLAN. MAY I SEE THAT? UH, YES. IT'S ACTUALLY IN, IN THE, UH, THE SECOND LAST PAGE. THE SECOND, THE FIRST VERSION, YES. THE SECOND PA SECOND TO LAST PAGE OF THE DOCUMENT. SO THAT ONE HASN'T BEEN UPDATED. THAT HASN'T CHANGED. SO, OKAY. AND THEN ALSO, CAN YOU DEFINE WHAT YOUR TARGETED STAKEHOLDERS WERE ON PAGE 69? THE NUMBER OF TARGETED STAKEHOLDER EVENTS WAS 164. NUMBER OF TARGETED STAKEHOLDER, EVENT ATTENDEES WAS 3,581. SO THE NUMBER OF TARGETED STAKEHOLDER EVENTS INCLUDES QUITE A FEW, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, UM, UH, INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS, UH, HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS. UM, IT, IT'S SORT OF A CATCHALL FOR LOTS OF DIFFERENT, UM, BREAKOUTS. BUT I CAN WE, WE HAVE A SUMMARY DOCUMENT THAT WE COULD PROVIDE THAT BREAKS THAT DOWN FURTHER. THANK YOU. 'CAUSE THAT'S MY NEXT QUESTION IS THE BREAKDOWN FOR D FOUR. AND THEN ON PAGE 77, I THINK THAT THIS CHART, THE BOTTOM CHART ON HOUSEHOLD INCOME, IT'S DISTURBING TO ME BECAUSE DISTRICT FOUR, UH, RESIDENTS, UM, ARE IN THAT LOWER TIER, BE BELOW THE $25,000, UM, AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD. SO I JUST WANT TO KEEP SAYING THAT, THAT LOWER INCOME BRACKET NEEDS TO DEFINITELY BE REPRESENTED. AND SO, AND THAT WAS JUST KIND OF ONE OF THE BIG RED FLAGS FOR ME WHEN I SAW THIS, AND THAT'S ACTUALLY WHY I WANTED TO SEE THE SURVEY INSTRUMENT ITSELF. UM, AND THEN ON PAGE 81, WHO WILL DETERMINE THE LONG-TERM ECONOMIC VITALITY AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS ROADMAP? THAT'S THE SECOND BULLET POINT, I BELIEVE. OR NO, ACTUALLY IT'S IN, IT'S THE SECOND SECTION, THE THIRD BULLET POINT, SECOND SECTION ON PAGE 81, 81. AND I'M SORRY, I'M, I'M REVIEWING THE ONE THAT WAS PROVIDED TO ME ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, NOT THE ONE FROM THIS MORNING. SO I DON'T KNOW IF PAGE NUMBERS HAVE CHANGED. OH, I, UM, SO WHAT, WHAT DID THIS, WHAT DID THE STRATEGY SAY? THIS ONE TALKS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT ASSESSING LONG-TERM ECONOMIC VITALITY, VI VIABILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFECTIVENESS. SO I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO'S GOING TO MEASURE THAT LONG-TERM ECONOMIC VITALITY AND HOW WE'RE HOPING TO OH, AH, THANK YOU. OKAY. SO THIS IS RELATED TO, UM, FUEL SWITCHING. UH, AND THAT'S BASICALLY FOCUSED ON IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF EXISTING BUILDINGS. UM, IN TERMS OF ASSESSING THAT WOULD BE, UM, AND THIS WILL BE A, A LONG TERM STRATEGY THAT WILL BE WORKING WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS, UH, C P S, ENERGY, BUSINESS COMMUNITY, UH, RESIDENTS. I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO, UM, HAVE A, A, A, A COMPREHENSIVE DIALOGUE ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS. UM, THERE'S [01:20:01] COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH IT, AND IT'S WHO BEARS THAT BURDEN. UM, SO I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE A VERY ROBUST CONVERSATION WHEN, WHEN WE COME TO IT. GREAT. I LOVE IT. UM, THE G H UH, G INVENTORY EVERY TWO YEARS, IS THERE A REASON WHY EVERY TWO YEARS INSTEAD OF EVERY YEAR WHEN WE HAVE ANNUAL AS BEST PRACTICE? I THINK IT, IT'S BASED UPON BEST PRACTICE. AND AGAIN, IT'S ALLOWING SOME TIME BETWEEN INVENTORIES TO SEE THE STRATEGIES TAKE EFFECT. SO, UM, IF WE UPDATED IT EVERY YEAR, UM, WHILE WE'RE TRYING TO IMPLEMENT STRATEGIES, WE MIGHT NOT SEE ANY, UM, UH, DECREASE OR INCREASE. AND, UH, IT IS FAIRLY STAFF INTENSIVE. SO I THINK JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A, A REGULAR CADENCE OF EVERY TWO YEARS SO WE CAN TRACK PROGRESS. OKAY. AND THEN I THINK WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY TO MAKE THIS WORK. UM, AND I'LL END MY COMMENTS BY QUOTING, UH, POPE FRANCIS IN HIS BOOK ON CARE FOR THE COMMON HOME. SO I'VE BEEN STARTING A BOOK CLUB WITH COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL OVER THERE, BUT WE COULD WORK TOGETHER TO GENERATE INTELLIGENT AND PROFITABLE WAYS OF REVISING, REVAMPING, AND RECYCLING, WHILE ALSO IMPROVING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF CITIES. SO, THANK YOU. AND COUNCILMAN, WE'RE GONNA, I, I THINK WE'RE GONNA GOING TO REVISIT YOUR SUGGESTION, UH, REGARDING HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF THOSE SPECIFIC, UM, BEST PRACTICES IN THE, IN THE BUSINESS SECTOR. AND I'M SURE WE CAN FIND SOME PLACE TO INCLUDE THAT. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE YOU AND EVERYONE THAT GAVE INPUT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. THANK YOU. UH, AND I THINK I WOULD LIKE SOME OF THE SAME ANSWERS AS COUNCILMAN ROCHA HAD REGARDING STATS IN HER DISTRICT. I KNOW YOU DO HAVE THEM BROKEN DOWN, SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THOSE. UH, AND, UM, I, I'M VERY GRATEFUL TO COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL AND THE MAYOR FOR, UM, GETTING US TO ACT ON SOME OF THESE THINGS. AND, UH, AS I'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE, THE LATEST, UH, UPDATED VERSION, UM, I, I GUESS I, I, I WANTED TO FOCUS MY COMMENTS PRIMARILY ON THE EQUITY PORTION, UH, AS WE ARE WORKING THROUGH THIS. AND I UNDERSTAND THIS IS A FRAMEWORK, THERE'S NO DOLLAR AMOUNT ASSOCIATED WITH IT. UH, BUT I FELT LIKE A LOT OF THE CONVERSATIONS EARLY ON HAD TO DO WITH HOW WOULD FOR EX, UH, A PERSON ON A FIXED INCOME, POOR COMMUNITY, UH, HOW WOULD THEY PHYSICALLY BE ABLE TO PAY FOR IT? AND SO I FEEL LIKE THAT CONVERSATION HAS CHANGED NOW AS WE UNDERSTAND, LIKE HOW WE, UM, ARE IMPACTED MORE FROM, UH, AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE, MEANING MORE PRONE TO MORE FLOODING PROPERTY DAMAGE. UH, AND I THINK WE, WE DID EXPERIENCE SOME OF THAT IN THOSE RECENT STORMS, UM, WHEN WE HAD POWER OUTAGES OUT FOR A LONG TIME. OR, AND, AND I, I DO HAVE TO SAY, I KNOW THAT C P S WORKED VERY QUICKLY TO RETURN THE POWER, UH, AND THERE WAS SOME COMMENTS PERHAPS THAT MY DISTRICT TOOK LONGER TO RESPOND TO, WHICH I THINK THOSE ARE NOT TRUE. THE ISSUE REALLY COMES IN THE FACT THAT WHEN THE POWER'S OUT, UH, AND ALL THE FOOD IN YOUR REFRIGERATOR IS LOST, POOR PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO OUT AND BUY MORE FOOD. UM, WHEN I WENT OUT TO VISIT MY CONSTITUENTS DURING THE FLOOD, OR I'M SORRY, DURING THE, UM, THE POWER OUTAGE, MANY OF THEM JUST DIDN'T WANNA LEAVE THEIR HOMES BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID OF BEING VANDALIZED. THEY WERE AFRAID THEIR HOMES WOULD GET BROKEN INTO SOME PEOPLE, UH, WERE, IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO PHYSICALLY MOVE. UH, AND SO THEN, UM, WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT WE WERE TURNING THE POWER BACK ON AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, UM, THERE WAS SOME HOPE THAT IT WOULD BE HARDER FOR THEM TO PHYSICALLY GET OUT THAN IT WOULD BE FOR THEM TO JUST STAY. AND, AND, UH, MOST OF THEM DID GET POWER RESTORED WITHIN 24 HOURS. UH, BUT IT WAS VERY, VERY HOT DAY, AND IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE BURDEN FOR PEOPLE. SO MY COMMENTS REGARDING THE EQUITY, UM, AND I HOPE THAT ERIC, AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS, AND OUR BUDGET DEPARTMENTS WORKS THROUGH THIS, THAT WE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THAT MANY OF THE REASONS WHY WE HAVE SUFFERED DISPROPORTIONATELY IN POOR COMMUNITIES IS BECAUSE WE WERE NEVER INVESTED IN TO BEGIN WITH. SO IN, I WAS DOING SOME RESEARCH ABOUT THE 1921 FLOODS, ABOUT THE 1945 FLOODS. UM, THOSE WERE NOT A CONVERSATION ABOUT CLIMATE, BUT THE REASON SO MANY PEOPLE DIED, UH, IS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO INVESTMENT IN DRAINAGE IN OUR DISTRICT. AND IT WAS ONLY BECAUSE, UM, IN THE 1946 FLOODS, WHEN IT HAPPENED AGAIN, SHORTLY AFTER THAT, CITIZENS FOR, UM, UH, ORGANIZED FOR PUBLIC SERVICE GOT TOGETHER AND FORCED THE CITY TO FINALLY INVEST IN SOME INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS THAT HAD BEEN DELAYED, UH, OVER $125 MILLION OF PROJECTS THAT HAD BEEN SORT OF NEVER COMPLETED, UM, STARTED, BUT NEVER COMPLETED IN OUR, UH, IN OUR WEST SIDE COMMUNITIES. SO I JUST AS [01:25:01] WE ARE WALKING THROUGH THIS, UM, AND DISCUSSING EQUITY THAT WE USE THAT INFORMATION TO INVEST THE INFRASTRUCTURE DOLLARS WHERE THEY SHOULD GO. UH, ONE OF THE ISSUES AND WHY I KEPT, I WAS ASKING SOME OF MY QUESTIONS YESTERDAY ABOUT STORM WATER, UH, AND HOW MUCH WE SPEND ON DRAINAGE IS BECAUSE ONE THING WE KNOW IS THAT IT'S HARD TO SEPARATE DRAINAGE CONCERNS BY DISTRICT. UM, IT'S MUCH EASIER TO DO WITH STREETS AND SIDEWALKS. WE ALSO HAVE MORE DATA FOR STREETS AND SIDEWALKS. AND THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING THE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IS THE EXTENT OF NEED JUST BASED ON DRAINAGE IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND I THINK THOSE NUMBERS ARE IN THE $2 BILLION RANGE. UM, NEVER, NEVER LIKELY TO BE ADDRESSED, UH, GIVEN THAT WE, A CITY THAT I BELIEVE HAS GROWN BEYOND, UH, WHAT IT CAN CURRENTLY SUSTAIN. AND SO THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TO MAKE THOSE CHANGES ABOUT INVESTING IN OUR CORE. UH, AND THE REASON THAT WE SUFFER DISPROPORTIONATELY IN FLOOD EVENTS AND, UH, IN STORM EVENTS IS BECAUSE WE WERE NEVER PROPERLY INVESTED IN. UH, AND SO HOW WE START TO MAKE THOSE CORRECTIONS, I THINK IS IMPORTANT AS WE ADJUST THE BUDGET. I THINK THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN IS JUST HIGHLIGHTING THAT, UH, I RECOGNIZE THAT, UM, THESE ARE BIG PICTURE ITEMS AND, AND IT'S HARD TO REALLY TARGET DOWN. AND, AND IT'S NOT JUST POOR COMMUNITIES THAT ARE IMPACTED, IT'S ACTUALLY OLD COMMUNITIES. SO ANYTHING THAT WAS BUILT BEFORE 1950 HAD A DIFFERENT STANDARD OF DRAINAGE. SO THAT'S WHY IT FLOODS A LOT IN OUR OLD COMMUNITIES. SO I DON'T, I'VE ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS LIKE, IS IT POSSIBLE IF WE HAD THE MONEY, ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, COULD WE GO BACK AND FIX THOSE? AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE CANNOT, THAT IT IS, UH, WOULD BE MORE DISRUPTIVE, UH, THAN IT WOULD BE POSITIVE TO GO BACK AND TRY AND FIX THAT OLD INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, BECAUSE OUR STREETS WERE DESIGNED TO CARRY WATER, UH, AND THAT WAS THE, THE, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE AT THE TIME. SO I, I'M, I'M, I'M EXCITED TO SEE THAT WE'RE DOING THIS. UM, I, I JUST HOPE THAT IT, THAT RATHER THAN THE CONVERSATION GOING TOWARDS, UM, THE COMMUNITY, UM, BEING IMPACTED MUCH MORE GLOBALLY, THAT WE SORT OF BRING IT DOWN TO THE LOCAL LEVEL AND INVEST OUR INFRASTRUCTURE DOLLARS WHERE THEY NEED IT MOST. AND, AND, AND ALSO, AS ANOTHER ASIDE, SOMETHING I THINK WE CAN DO AS WE ARE HAVING SOME REALIZATION, UH, THAT OUR OLDER COMMUNITIES ARE BEING IMPACTED MORE BY CLIMATE, UH, IS THAT WE A ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF TITLE CLEARANCES. AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN READING OTHER, UH, STUDIES THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN OTHER CITIES. AND ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT HAPPENED IN KATRINA, FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN MANY COMMUNITIES WERE WIPED OUT, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY MORE A LOT OF HOMES COULD NOT GET REHABILITATED IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE CLEAR TITLE. AND SO THEN THEY COULD NEVER CLAIM THAT THAT WAS THEIR HOMESTEAD. SO THAT'S SOMETHING VERY SIMPLE THAT WE CAN DO SORT OF ON ANOTHER SIDE. WE'VE BEEN PILOTING IT IN DISTRICT FIVE FOR A COUPLE OF, UM, YEARS NOW, AND TRYING TO PERFECT THAT, UH, IN, JUST IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, I KNOW WE'VE CLEARED 120 PLUS SIMPLE TITLES IN THE COMMUNITY SO THAT WE, WE DO THE SIMPLE THINGS THAT WE CAN TO PROTECT PEOPLE, WHICH WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A NATURAL DISASTER. I MEAN, I, I THINK IT'S JUST A QUESTION OF WHEN AND HOW SEVERE WE'VE HAD IT ALREADY. UH, BUT THERE ARE SOME SIMPLE THINGS WE CAN DO ON THE FRONT END, AND I JUST WOULD HOPE THAT WE, UH, OR RATHER, NOT THAT I WOULD HOPE, BUT THAT WE MAKE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE DOLLARS DECISIONS ALSO BASED ON THE REALITY OF WHAT OUR COMMUNITY WILL FACE, UH, IN THE EVENT OF THESE STORMS. SO, UM, THANK YOU. I THINK, UH, NO QUESTIONS REALLY THERE, DOUG. JUST, UM, GREAT. UH, I, I DO THINK THAT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT WORK, UH, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, THE PROPER INVESTMENT IN OUR COMMUNITY TO, TO KEEP US SUSTAINABLE FOR A HUNDRED MORE YEARS TO COME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. THANKS, DOUG. AND THANKS FOR EVERYONE, UM, ON THE COMMITTEE. UM, TO MY FELLOW COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, AS WE PUSH FORWARD, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT WE CAN DO TO ACTUALLY MAKE THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND THE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE HERE BREATHE BETTER AND HAVE A LONGER LONGEVITY OF LIFE. UM, WITH THAT BEING SAID, I DO HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. AND, UM, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL HAS TOUCHED ON A FEW. AND THEN, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, ROCHA GARCIA HAS ALSO TOUCHED ON A FEW OF THOSE AS WELL. UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO, UM, THE OXYGENATED [01:30:01] PLANTS AND TREES, SOMETHING THAT WE CAN START IMPLEMENTING AHEAD OF TIME, UM, EVEN THROUGH THE NEW DEVELOPMENT THAT IS COMING IN WITH OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING INITIATIVE THAT WE'RE PUSHING FORWARD, THOSE THINGS CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IMMEDIATELY. THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT SOMETHING WE HAVE TO WAIT ON. UM, WHEN IT COMES TO COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ, UM, INFORMATION THAT SHE GAVE IN 1998 ON THE DISTRICT TWO SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO, THERE'S AN AREA WITHIN THE WHEATLEY HEIGHTS COMPLEX THAT, UM, WE HAVE A SOCCER FIELD. THAT SOCCER FIELD IS, IS NOT USED AT ALL, UM, IMPLEMENTING COMMUNITY GARDENS THAT WE CAN START DOING NOW. THESE ARE JUST THINGS THAT WE CAN, CAN TRULY START LOOKING AT. UM, WITH THOSE COMMUNITY GARDENS, WE CAN START LOOKING AT HOW CAN WE AS A COMMUNITY PRODUCE OUR OWN VEGETABLES AND FRUITS? AND SO THAT IS ANOTHER THING, UM, HELPING TO CUT DOWN ON THE EMISSIONS OF TRANSPORTING, UM, WITH THE BIG 18 WHEELERS, THINGS THAT WE CAN DO WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES. UM, I KNOW C P S HAS A HUGE OUTSTANDING BILL ON THE COAL PLANTS. IF WE ARE TO LOOK TO CLOSE THOSE, WILL THAT COST NOW BE TRANSFERRED THROUGH THE C P S BILLS TO THOSE FAMILIES THAT ARE STILL STRUGGLING TO KEEP THEIR BILLS AND THEIR COSTS AT A MINIMUM? WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT AS FAR AS THE, THE CLOSURE OF THOSE PLANTS? HOW DOES THAT TRANSFER? UM, ALSO, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE EQUITY OF THE LOWER INCOME FAMILIES, ARE WE LOOKING TO DO ANY PARTNERSHIPS TO BRING IN AIR FILTRATION SYSTEMS TO THOSE THAT WE KNOW HAVE C O P D OR ASTHMA WITHIN THE HOME, UM, THAT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET THOSE ENERGY EFFICIENT, UM, PRODUCTS THAT THEY NEED? UM, ARE WE PARTNERING RIGHT NOW WITH ANYONE TO LOOK AT TAKING OUT THE HOMES THAT WE HAVE THAT ARE OLDER, THAT HAVE THE WINDOW AC UNITS? ARE WE LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH BRINGING IN ENERGY SUFFICIENT UNITS FOR OUR MOST VULNERABLE, THOSE THAT CAN'T AFFORD TO GET THOSE REPLACED? UM, A LOT OF THAT IS CAUSING OUR ENERGY BILLS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE HEAT, AS WE KNOW IN SAN ANTONIO. UM, THEY HAVE TO CONTINUOUSLY RUN THOSE SYSTEMS. YOU HAVE A LOT OF THE HOMES THAT STILL HAVE THE GAS HEATER SYSTEMS IN THEM. UM, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT AS FAR AS GETTING THOSE REDUCED WITHIN OUR OLDER COMMUNITIES? UM, AND THEN WHEN YOU LOOK AT PARTNERSHIPS, ARE WE BRINGING IN COMPANIES LIKE LOWE'S, COMPANIES LIKE HOME DEPOT THAT CAN GO IN AS WELL AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE CAN PARTNER WITH THE CITY TO PROVIDE ENERGY SUFFICIENT AC UNITS. I KNOW THAT, UM, THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE DID WHEN WE CAME INTO OFFICE. AND WE DO HAVE A WAY TO GET THOSE, UM, UNITS, AND WE'RE LOOKING TO FIND A PARTNER WITHIN THE CITY THAT CAN HELP US GET THOSE UNITS OUT TO SOME OF OUR MOST V VULNERABLE RESIDENTS WITHIN DISTRICT TWO. UM, WHEN IT COMES TO THE BREAKDOWN OF THE ZIP CODES, UM, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT AS WELL FOR DISTRICT TWO. I WAS WONDERING HOW THE COMPOSITION OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE COMMITTEES WERE MADE UP, UM, TO REFLECT WHAT THE TRUE SAN ANTONIO IDEOLOGY LOOKS LIKE, AND BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER. BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE FAMILIES THAT ARE LIVING ON A CONTINUOUSLY FIXED INCOME, ENERGY IS A PRIORITY AND A MUST, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THEY CANNOT AFFORD IT. SO YOU, YOU HAVE, UM, FAMILIES WITHIN OUR AREA WHO ARE LIVING WITHOUT WATER BECAUSE THERE'S NO, WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR, OUR SOFTENING AND, AND THE CALCITE, UH, CALCIFICATION THAT COMES WITH THE HARD WATER THAT WE HAVE WITHIN OUR CITY, WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT THE USE OF HARD CHEMICALS TO GET RID OF THAT. AND OUR PIPES ARE CONTINUOUSLY ERODING AND, AND ROTTING. SO IS THERE A FILTRATION OR A SOFTENING SYSTEM THAT WE CAN USE WITHIN OUR CITY'S WATER SYSTEM TO KINDA ALLEVIATE THE HARSH CHEMICALS THAT WE HAVE TO CONTINUOUSLY USE? UM, THOSE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE WITHIN THIS PLAN AS WELL. SO THANK YOU, DOUG. YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND WE'LL, WE WILL SIT DOWN AND WE CAN TALK THROUGH THESE, UH, THESE QUESTIONS WITH YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREWS SULLIVAN, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND, AND DOUG, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK. YOU AND, AND ALL OF THE 80 OR SO, UH, DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS AND PARTICIPANTS, UH, HAVE PUT INTO THIS. UH, I JUST WANT TO, UH, CLARIFY MY PERSONAL, UH, UNDERSTANDING AND BELIEF AND WHERE WE'RE GOING ON ALL OF THIS. AND I BELIEVE CLIMATE CHANGE IS OCCURRING, BUT NOT JUST HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, BUT AROUND THE WORLD. AND WE IN SAN ANTONIO DO NOT LIVE IN A BUBBLE. UH, WE ARE PART OF THE WORLD. AND [01:35:01] WITH THE POTENTIAL ADOPTION OF THIS CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION PLAN, WE JOIN HUNDREDS OF CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD THAT ARE ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE IN THEIR PART OF THE WORLD. SO I BELIEVE TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE RECENT DRAFT OR ITERATION OF THE, OF THE CAP IS A VALUABLE GUIDE ON WHAT TO LOOK FOR AND WHAT OUR CITY GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK TOWARDS TO PREPARE FOR THE SAN ANTONIO OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL LIVE WITH AND DESERVE. I'VE STUDIED THIS GUIDE. I'VE NOTED THAT THERE ARE 28 COMMUNITY-WIDE STRATEGIES WITH 86 POTENTIAL MEASURES TO CONSIDER. THERE ARE ALSO 13 MUNICIPAL STRATEGIES AND 26 POTENTIAL MEASURES TOWARD IMPLEMENTATION. WE'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK AHEAD OF US. I WANNA MAKE IT CLEAR I SUPPORT THIS DRAFT OF THE CLIMATE ADAPTATION ACTION PLAN. HOWEVER, I'M NOT PREPARED TODAY TO SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ANY OF THESE STRATEGIES OR MEASURES UNTIL THIS COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY AND STAKEHOLDERS UNDERSTAND AND SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION. AND TO DO THAT, I BELIEVE WE NEED TO DO, UH, THE FOLLOWING OR, OR HEAR MORE ABOUT THE FOLLOWING. FIRST, I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE THE DETAILS ON HOW WE PLAN TO IMPLEMENT EVERY ONE OF THESE STRATEGIES. THEN I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT ARE THE PRIORITIES FOR IMPLEMENTING THESE STRATEGIES, AND THEN WHAT WILL BE THE TIMELINE FOR IMPLEMENTATION? AND THEN WHAT MAY BE THE COST TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT MAY BE THE POTENTIAL COST TO THE INDIVIDUAL ECONOMIES OF THE CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO? AND FINALLY, WHAT MECHANISM WILL BE EMPLOYED TO MONITOR AND TRACK THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF ALL OF OUR EFFORTS? WHEN I SEE THOSE, WHEN THE, WHEN THE COMMUNITY HAS A CHANCE TO UNDERSTAND ALL OF THOSE PARTS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A PLAN, I THINK WE'LL EARN THE FULL SUPPORT OF OUR COMMUNITY. NOW, THIS MAY TAKE A LOT MORE TIME TO DEVELOP THAN SOME PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE US MOVE. I MEAN, WE HEAR ALREADY OF PEOPLE WHO SAY, WELL, WE WANT TO SHUT DOWN COAL IN FIVE YEARS. UM, I ASK THEIR PATIENTS, BECAUSE WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE KIND OF PLAN THAT WILL GET THIS RIGHT. AND IF IT TAKES ANOTHER SIX MONTHS OR A YEAR TO DEVELOP ALL OF THESE THINGS FOR ME TO SUPPORT, I'M WILLING TO WAIT BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO AFFECT THE LIVES OF EVERYBODY IN THIS COMMUNITY FOR 30 OR 40 YEARS GOING FORWARD. THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. UH, THANK YOU MAYOR. AND THANK YOU DOUG, FOR THAT PRESENTATION. UH, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN WORKING VERY, VERY HARD ON, ON THIS VERY COMPLEX ISSUE. THANK YOU TO COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL, UH, FOR HELPING TO, UM, SHEPHERD THIS ALONG. AND I WANT TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO ALSO THANK, UH, DR. AMY WHO'S IN THE AUDIENCE. UM, SPECIFICALLY ON THESE OPPORTUNITIES, WE HAVE TO PARTNER WITH U T S A AS A, AS AN INCREDIBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTION. UH, I WANT TO SPECIFICALLY CALL OUT, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY TO THANK HIM, UH, AND, UH, DR. HASSAM RASH ALI FOR THE RESEARCH HE DID FOR THE UNDER ONE ROOF PROGRAM THAT RECENTLY WON, UH, A STATE AWARD, UH, FOR ITS EFFECTIVENESS. AND AT THE HEART OF THAT WAS THE RESEARCH THAT DR. ASEM ALI PRODUCED FOR US THAT DEMONSTRATED. AND I, I'M GLAD TO SEE, YOU KNOW, AS ONE OF THE KEY CATEGORIES IS BUILDING ENERGY, UH, HOW WE'RE ABLE TO REDUCE AS, AS A BENEFIT TO A ROOF REPLACEMENT PROGRAM, UH, THE TEMPERATURE OF A HOME, THAT, THAT OBVIOUSLY HAD SOME REAL BENEFITS, UH, ADDITIONAL BENEFITS FROM NOT JUST REPAIRING ROOFS, BUT BEING SMARTER ABOUT HOW WE BUILD. AND I THINK THAT, THAT THIS IS, UH, AT THE HEART OF, OF WHAT WE CAN BE LOOKING AT WHEN IT COMES TO, TO BUILDING ENERGY. IT'S, UH, IT'S NOT JUST WHEN WE CONSTRUCT SOMETHING, BUT HOW IT'S MAINTAINED AND, AND HOW WE LOOK AT, UH, A LOT OF THE AGING INFRASTRUCTURE IN OUR CITY. AND I THINK YOU, YOU'VE HEARD A LOT OF MY COLLEAGUES SPEAK TO THAT. UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN BUILDING A CITY OVER, OVER MANY, MANY DECADES, AND WE'VE LEARNED A LOT. AND I THINK THAT THIS IS THE KIND OF THING THAT, UM, CAN HELP EDUCATE FOLKS, HELP 'EM AT HOME, AND, AND HELP [01:40:01] THOSE THAT ARE MOST VULNERABLE. UM, SO I'D, I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU MAYBE JUST A FEW QUESTIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, ON THE BUYBACK PROGRAM. UH, HOW CAN, HOW CAN WE, HOW CAN THE BUYBACK PRO A BUYBACK PROGRAM BE A HUGE BENEFIT TO CITIZENS IN SAN ANTONIO? AND I, WHAT I, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF TALK ABOUT THINGS LIKE INEFFICIENT, UH, VEHICLES. UH, BUT WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS EXPANDING THAT TO, TO BE, UH, SOMETHING MORE THAN JUST VEHICLES, BUT RATHER, UH, APPLIANCES AND HOMES AND, AND, AND HOW PEOPLE GENERALLY LIVE IN THE CITY, AND HOW WE CAN LOOK AT JUST KIND OF A SMARTER APPROACH IN HOW THESE LITTLE THINGS CAN BE, UH, CAPTURED. LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE BENEFIT OF REPLACING A, AN OLD REFRIGERATOR AS AN EXAMPLE WITH A, WITH A NEAR ONE? AND HOW CAN WE HELP WITH THAT? SO, CAN, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? I THINK, AND I THINK THAT'S A, UM, A GREAT POINT. AND WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING THAT AS, AS WE, AS WE START LOOKING AT WHAT MECHANISMS ARE AVAILABLE, UM, I, I LOVE THE IDEA OF REACHING OUT TO, AND I THINK WE, WE ACTUALLY DISCUSSED THIS SINCE, AND, AND WITH OUR STAFF A FEW WEEKS AGO, REACHING OUT TO LOWE'S, REACHING OUT TO HOME DEPOT, WILL THEY BE WILLING TO PARTNER US, PARTNER WITH US? I THINK A GOOD, REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY. UM, RELATED TO, UM, YOUR POINT, UH, COUNCILMAN TREVINO IS, UM, SITTING DOWN WITH C P S ENERGY, UH, AS THEY ARE CURRENTLY REEVALUATING, UH, THEIR STEP PROGRAM. UM, THEY'RE CURRENTLY, UH, ASSESSING WHAT WE'RE THE OVERALL, UM, IMPACTS OF THE INVESTMENTS. AND SO I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT A DATA-DRIVEN, QUANTIFIED APPROACH TO WHERE ARE WE GONNA GET THE BIGGEST BANG FOR OUR BUCK IN TERMS OF NOT JUST, UM, REDUCING EMISSIONS, BUT LOOKING AT THE EQUITY ISSUE, LOOKING AT IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OUR RESIDENTS. SO I THINK WE'LL HAVE TO, UH, LOOK AT THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE AND DETERMINE WHERE'S THE BEST USE OF THOSE, THOSE FUNDS TO GET THE, BASICALLY ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO, TO, UM, TO GET TO. YEAH. AND I THINK, I THINK, UH, YOU'RE HEARING FROM THIS COUNCIL THAT THERE'S A REAL CONCERN FOR OUR MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. AND, UH, WE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THESE TRANSITIONS DON'T CREATE A, A COST BURDEN OR AN UNNECESSARY OR UNDUE BURDEN ON THOSE POPULATIONS. SO WHAT, WHAT CAN THE STRATEGY THAT, THAT, UH, AS WE IMPLEMENT THIS, WHAT WHAT STRATEGIES CAN ACTUALLY HELP THEM IN THE LONG RUN? SO, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT A COUPLE DEMONSTRATIONS, AND AGAIN, I, WITH WORKING WITH U T S A, WE, WE CHANGED A SIMPLE ROOF REPLACEMENT PROGRAM INTO A PROGRAM THAT ACTUALLY SAVES, UH, AN OWNER OCCUPANT ALMOST $2,000 ON A YEAR ON THEIR UTILITY BILLS. SO THAT'S, THAT'S MONEY THAT THAT PERSON CAN, CAN UTILIZE FOR, FOR FOOD, FOR, FOR MEDICINE. AND, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO SEE US SORT OF THINKING IN, IN THAT PERSPECTIVE, HOW CAN WE CREATE A, A LAYERED IMPACT THAT ACTUALLY BENEFITS FOLKS? AND, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, JUST TO, UH, TO, UH, USE AN ANALOGY THAT, UH, MY FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER, A COLLEAGUE, UH, SALANA WOULD APPRECIATE, UH, IT'S OFTEN BASE HITS THAT WINS GAMES, UH, AND NOT THE INTERMITTENT HOME RUN. AND SO I, I'D LIKE US TO SEE HOW CAN WE SCORE SOME BASE HITS HERE AND, UM, YOU KNOW, REALLY HELP TO, UH, YOU KNOW, GET THE COMMUNITY TO, TO TRULY BENEFIT FROM, FROM A PLAN LIKE THIS. 'CAUSE AT THE HEART OF THIS IS NOT JUST TO CREATE A, A RULE OR A REGULATION, BUT A, A REAL COMMUNITY BENEFIT. AND, UH, AND I THINK WE CAN GET THERE. UM, I ALSO, YOU JUST WANNA TALK ABOUT, I THINK IT WAS TWO DAYS AGO, WE WERE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THEIR, UM, MOBILE INTEGRATED HEALTH HEALTHCARE AND HOW THEY GO INTO HOMES AND THEY SEE, UH, YOU KNOW, FIRSTHAND A LOT OF THE NEEDS. I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT I ASKED, UH, CHIEF HOOD WAS TO HELP US KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHERE, WHERE ARE SOME FOLKS THAT MIGHT NEED SOME OF THESE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE, AND HOW CAN WE, CAN WE COLLECT THAT DATA TO, TO SORT OF MODIFY SOME OF THESE STRATEGIES? SO I WOULD ASK THAT WE ALSO SORT OF INCLUDE THAT AS PART OF THIS IS HOW DO WE EXPAND OUR OWN SORT OF COMMUNICATIONS ACROSS ALL DEPARTMENTS, UH, WHERE THEY'RE ACTUALLY TOUCHING PEOPLE. MM-HMM. . UM, AND, UM, I GUESS, I GUESS THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY IT. I MEAN, UH, HONESTLY, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE'LL CONTINUE OUR, OUR CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT, UH, SUBJECT THAT, UH, WE HOPE WE CAN LAYER IN. OH, THERE'S, THERE'S ONE LAST THING. UM, I WANNA MENTION, UH, YOU KNOW, A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN WE STARTED THE ROOF PROGRAM, I'M, I MENTIONED THIS TO ROD AND, AND, AND, AND MIKE SHANNON ABOUT, YOU KNOW, USING OUR CODES TO ALSO [01:45:01] HELP WITH, WITH SOME OF THAT COST BENEFIT. AND, UH, IN FACT, I REMEMBER ONE OF MY FIRST MEETINGS WITH COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL WAS GET THAT ROOF PROGRAM EVERYWHERE. AND I'M LIKE, I'M TRYING. AND, UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE US TO SEE, YOU KNOW, HOW WE CAN MAKE IT PART OF OUR, YOU KNOW, PART OF OUR STANDARD TO, TO SAY HIGH REFLECTANCE ROOFS ARE A MUST IN SAN ANTONIO. I MEAN, JUST EVERYBODY, EVERY DAY THERE'S ROOFS GOING UP. AND IT'S AMAZING TO ME HOW MANY TIMES I SEE MOSTLY, YOU KNOW, THESE REALLY DARK OR BLACK ROOFS GOING UP ON NEW HOMES. UM, YOU KNOW, UH, I THINK THAT WE CAN INCENTIVIZE OR DISINCENTIVIZE THOSE, THOSE KINDS OF ACTS IN CONSTRUCTION. SO THAT'S ABOUT IT. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. COUNCIL MEMBER COVEO. HDA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, DOUG AND YOUR DILIGENT WORK ON CREATING THIS PLAN, YOU AND YOUR YOUR TEAM. THIS IS IMPORTANT AND LASTING WORK. THAT'S AN UNDERSTATEMENT. IT'S LASTING WORK, UH, YOU AND YOUR TEAM ARE DOING FOR OUR COMMUNITIES. I UNDERSTAND THAT CAP ENJOYS THE, UH, SUPPORT OF STAKEHOLDERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. WILL YOU CONFIRM SOME OF THE STAKEHOLDERS WHO ARE IN SUPPORT, OR AT LEAST NOT OPPOSED TO THE, THE CURRENT VERSION? WE, WE HAVE, UM, MET WITH, UM, INDUSTRY, ENERGY INDUSTRY, UM, REPRESENTATIVES, UM, UH, AUTO DEALERS, UH, REAL ESTATE COMMUNITY, UM, THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, UH, AND, UM, REALLY WORK THROUGH SOME OF THEIR CONCERNS. AND WE FEEL, UH, THAT WE HAVE THEIR, UM, SUPPORT THAT THEY, THEY, THEY CAN LIVE WITH THIS PLAN. I, I, YOU KNOW, I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THINK THERE'S ALWAYS CONCERNS. UM, BUT I THINK THEY, THEY APPRECIATE THE IMPORTANCE OF TAKING ACTION. I THINK THEY WERE VERY MUCH LOOKING FOR, UM, A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. WE'VE ALSO MET WITH, UM, MANY ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE NATURE CONSERVANCY TO, UM, THE SAN ANTONIO ZOO TO BRIEF THEM. AND, AND THEY'RE VERY SUPPORTIVE. UM, SO I THINK WE, WE HAVE OVERALL, UM, SUPPORT. THERE'S THOSE ON BOTH SIDES. ON BOTH EDGES. UH, THERE'S THOSE THAT BELIEVE WE'RE NOT BEING AGGRESSIVE ENOUGH, AND THEN THERE'S THOSE THAT DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE DOING AT ALL. BUT WE, WE BELIEVE THAT THE MAJORITY OF, OF OUR COMMUNITY BELIEVES WE NEED TO TAKE THIS FIRST STEP. MM-HMM. , I THINK IT'S A TESTAMENT TO THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING, THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO, UM, GET BOTH ADVOCACY AND BUSINESS GROUPS TO, TO SUPPORT IT. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. THANK YOU. UM, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE A SUMMARY OF THE BREAKDOWN OF STAKEHOLDERS IN DISTRICT SIX. WE'LL GET THAT FOR ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS. OKAY. BREAKDOWN. THANK YOU. AND I HAVE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER KEO, HOWEVER, TO COUNCIL MEMBER GRO, THANK YOU, DOUG, FOR THE PRESENTATION. AND, UH, THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES MAYOR FOR HAVING THIS COME TO A BRIEFING SESSION. I UNFORTUNATELY DON'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN THE COMMITTEE THAT HAS SEEN THIS MULTIPLE TIMES. SO I ALSO APPRECIATE YOU, DOUG, AND ROD, FOR COMING AND, AND SPEAKING TO ME AND, UH, SHARING ALL OF THIS INFORMATION TO ME AND ALL OF THOSE, UM, ALSO CONSTITUENCY GROUPS THAT HAVE COME AND SAT DOWN AND MET WITH ME ON, ONTO THIS. IT'S BEEN, UM, A LONG TIME AND IT'S ALSO BEEN A LOT OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS HERE. I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS, AND I DO WANNA START BY THANKING MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, DR. ROCHA GARCIA, FOR HER, UH, HER THOUGHTFULNESS AND HER INTENTIONS AND HER QUESTIONS. SAME EXACT LIST. THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. I'D ALSO LIKE TO SEE THE LIST OF THE, WHO ARE THESE EQUITY LEADERS AND EXPERTS THAT YOU, UM, HAVE USED AND BROUGHT FORWARD. UM, PLEASE. AND I WANNA ALSO THANK YOU AND COMMEND YOU AND THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION, DOUG, FOR THE WORK THAT YOU ALL BEEN DOING WHEN IT COMES TO THE U UNESCO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND CLIMATE HERITAGE. BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST THREATS WHEN IT COMES TO OUR WORLD HERITAGE IN OUR NATURAL AND MANMADE. UH, WE SEE THAT WITH THE ALAMO, WE SEE THAT WITH OUR MISSIONS AND WITH OUR RIVERS. SO THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THAT AND HAVING, HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER LEADERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ACROSS THE GLOBE OF WHAT WE NEED TO DO. UM, COMING WITH THE FIRST ELEMENT, UH, THE FIRST ELEMENT ON YOUR, WHAT IS SA CLIMATE READY? I THINK WHAT I'D LIKE MORE CLARIFICATION FROM YOU AS WE LOOK AT THIS, AGAIN, WE'VE HEARD THIS USED, WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF TERMS USED. IS THIS, THIS IS AN ADAPTATION. IS IT A PLAN? IS IT A FRAMEWORK? IS IT A STRATEGY? IF WE CAN, IS IT ALL OF THOSE THINGS? BUT I THINK WE NEED CLARITY AND JUST STREAMLINE OF WHAT IS THIS? UM, AND IF IT'S THE SAME THING, IF IT'S ALL TOGETHER, BUT WE NEED CLARITY TO [01:50:01] MARK OUT IF IT'S A FRAMEWORK, IF IT'S A STRATEGY, IF IT'S A PLAN. SO IF WE CAN HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND CLARITY OF THE DIRECTION OF THIS, I'D REALLY APPRECIATE IT. 'CAUSE I THINK WE'VE HEARD ALL OF THE ELEMENTS IN THIS PRESENTATION AND OUT IN THE COMMUNITY TOO. SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE, UM, VERY HELPFUL IN THE, UH, WHAT IS ESSAY CLIMATE READY? I DON'T, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT SLIDE THAT IS. I'M JUST LOOKING THROUGH THIS. UM, PAGE 11, I THINK ON THE UPDATED VERSION IS, UM, SA, CLIMATE READY SUPPORTS MARKET TRANSITIONS, CONSUMER OPTIONS, AND PREPARES RESIDENTS BUSINESSES, INSTITUTIONS FOR AN UN UNPREDICTABLE CLIMATE, I THINK SUPPORTS MARKET TRANSITIONS, UM, WHEN READY AND AFFORDABLE FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 'CAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT'S AFFORDABLE FOR OUR, OUR COMMUNITY AND TOO MANY OF THE, THE SAME THINGS THAT MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED. UM, ONE OF THE ITEMS HERE, I FORGOT WHAT, OH, I'M JUST GONNA GO AHEAD. THANK YOU FOR THE ACRONYMS AND DEFINITIONS. I THINK IT'S, IM IMPORTANT THAT WE HAD US LAUNCHING PAD IN A, YOU KNOW, A BASE UNDERSTANDING FOR ALL OF US. SO I APPRECIATE THAT, UM, THAT YOU HAD THAT IN HERE SO WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT. AT THE SAME TIME, ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT IS JUST SOME, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENT INNOVATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATIONS AND, AND, UH, NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE COMING IN WHEN IT COMES TO COMMUN COMMERCIAL WASTE REDUCTION AND RESIDENTIAL WASTE REDUCTION, TO START TO DEFINITELY LOOK AT THOSE NEW TECHNOLOGIES. ONE, FOR EXAMPLE, WE, WE LEARNED ABOUT IT AT THIS WOMEN IN THE WORLD CONFERENCE THAT HAPPENED THIS PAST YEAR. IT'S CALLED BIO SELECTION. AND IT'S A CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY THAT INVENTED A PROCESS TO BREAK THE CHEMICAL BONDS BETWEEN PLASTIC MOLECULES TURNING PLASTICS THAT WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE BEEN NON-RECYCLABLE, RECYCLABLE INTO CHEMICALS THAT ARE NOW SUSTAINABLE AND RECYCLABLE RECYCLABLE. SO IF WE CAN LOOK AT THOSE TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATIONS THAT ARE HAPPENING, AND I KNOW THEY HAVE A PILOT PROGRAM, I BELIEVE IT'S IN THE CITY OF SAN JOSE, TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO OF IMPLEMENTATION. IF WE'RE LOOKING AT WASTE REDUCTION IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, UH, WHICH IS DOING A GREAT JOB, BY THE WAY, OUR, UH, SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT. SO IN THE, I WANNA JUST CONTINUE ON THE CONVERSATION OF SAN ANTONIO'S COMMITMENT TO CLIMATE EQUITY IN PARTICULAR. UM, NUMBER THREE, WHERE IT SAYS, REDUCE BURDENS AND BAR ADDITIONAL BURDENS TO THESE, UH, COMMUNITIES. I THINK WHAT THIS HELPS ME, UM, FOCUS ON IS JUST WHAT WE HAVE INHERITED IN THIS CITY. WHAT WE HAVE INHERITED, I THINK IN PARTICULAR IN DISTRICT THREE AND THE SOUTHERN SECTOR OF SAN ANTONIO AND THE SOUTH SIDE, WE HAVE INHERITED THE MISSIONS. WE'VE INHERITED THE SAN ANTONIO RIVER, UM, SALADO CREEK, MEDINA RIVER. WE'VE ALSO INHERITED, UM, THOSE RIOS, WE'VE INHERITED, UH, THE CALUMET REFINERY. WE'VE INHERITED MITCHELL LAKE, WHICH USED TO BE THE WASTE MANAGEMENT AREA FOR SAWS. WE ALSO HAVE INHERITED GALA, VERAS LAKE BRO, AND FOOD INSECURITY. AND THIS HAS HAPPENED, UM, BECAUSE OF LACK OF REPRESENTATION. EVEN BEFORE WE HAD SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICTS, THESE AT LARGE DISTRICTS SAID, YES, WE'RE GOING TO PUT THIS STUFF OVER HERE. THIS IS HOW WE'RE GONNA DESIGN IT. THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE IT HERE. AND SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IS HOW ARE WE, YOU TALK ABOUT KNOWING THE HISTORY, RECOGNIZE THE HISTORY TO ADDRESS THE FUTURE. AND I VERY APPRE I APPRECIATE THIS VERY, VERY MUCH. UM, WE ALSO NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICAL LEGACY STRUCTURES AND POLICIES THAT HAVE RESULTED AND CONTINUE TO PER, PER PERPETUATE RACIAL AND ECONOMIC INEQUITIES IN SAN ANTONIO. YOU MENTIONED THE REDLINING, WHICH I'M VERY HAPPY YOU HAVE IN HERE, BUT I THINK WE ALSO, WE, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MENTION IN HERE THE HISTORY OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH AT LARGE MEMBERS AND THE POLICY AND HOW IT DID THEN DICTATE WHERE CERTAIN THINGS WERE PLACED IN THIS CITY AND HOW WE ARE HAVING TO OVERCOME THAT NOW. UM, 'CAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW OUR, OUR, OUR HISTORY AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, UM, WE KNOW WHERE WE'RE STARTING FROM IN THIS AREA. ANOTHER THING THAT YOU MENTIONED IN HERE WAS ABOUT, UM, I THINK IT WAS THE SOIL OR THE INFRASTRUCTURE COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ MENTIONED IT. AND I THINK THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT [01:55:01] THING OF HOW CLIMATE, UM, THIS CLIMATE ACTION PLAN IS GOING TO HELP IMPACT OR MAKE SENSE OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE BECAUSE OF THE EXPANSIVE SOILS THAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE SOUTHERN SECTOR OF SAN ANTONIO. THE LONGER IT'S DRIER, THE MORE COMPACT OUR SOIL GETS, THEN IT GETS, UH, THE, THEN THE MORE FLOODS THAT WE HAVE, THEN OUR SOIL EXPANDS. AND SO THAT THEN, ONE, WE HAVE TO PUT MORE DOLLARS INTO OUR STREETS FOR FIXING, AND THEN WE HAVE TO PUT, THEN IT'S TOSS MORE TO BUILD HOUSES IN OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL. SO CLIMATE DOES IMPACT EVEN THE DEVELOPMENT IN OUR COMMUNITIES. AND SO THAT'S WHAT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO HAVE OUR EYES, UM, MOVING FORWARD IN THAT DIRECTION. BECAUSE THIS IS, UM, AND YOU KNOW, AND I UNDERSTAND AND I SEE ABOUT INCENTIVIZING CERTAIN, YOU KNOW, INVEST IN NEW ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGHOUT THE CITY. I WOULD LOVE IF WE COULD HAVE MORE PEOPLE IN DISTRICT THREE MAYBE HAVE TESLAS, BUT THEY DON'T, AND THEN TO HAVE THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T, MANY OF US IN THE DISTRICT CAN'T AFFORD THESE, THESE THINGS. SO MAKING SURE THAT IT IS EQUITABLY DISTRIBUTED IN HOW WE ARE GOING TO BALANCE THAT WITH OTHER OPTIONS. AND I THINK SOMEBODY ELSE MENTIONED IT ON THE, ON THE COUNCIL DIES HERE. SO THOSE ARE SOME ITEMS AND ISSUES I WANTED TO BRING UP. I THINK WE ARE ON A GOOD, GOOD, UM, DIRECTION HERE. AND WHEN IT COMES TO, I'M JUST GOING TO REITERATE THIS AGAIN, THE FOOD INSECURITY, UM, THAT IS HAPPENING THROUGHOUT CERTAIN PARTS OF, OF THE DISTRICT AND IN THE ENTIRE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO THAT WE CAN WORK TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY. THANK YOU, DOUG. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER RINE. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. THANK YOU, SIR. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DOUG. THANK YOU. UM, AND THANK YOU FOR THE TEAM PUTTING THIS TOGETHER. LEMME TELL YOU, I'VE GOT A TON OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS, BUT I'M NOT GONNA GO INTO THAT AT THIS POINT. WE HAVE A B SESSION SCHEDULED ON THIS, AND THEN WE HAVE A VOTE ON THIS LATER. SO, UM, WE'LL GO THROUGH THOSE QUESTIONS, BUT I'LL SHARE THOSE QUESTIONS WITH YOU BETWEEN NOW AND THEN SO THAT Y'ALL CAN BE PREPARED AT THE B SESSION, UH, FOR ALL THESE QUESTIONS. BUT SOME OVERALL COMMENTS, I, YOU KNOW, I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED, RIGHT ON THE OUTSET, MY MAIN CRITICISM LAST TIME WAS, WHAT'S THIS PLAN GONNA COST US? AND THERE WERE SOME BROAD, BROAD PARAMETERS ON POTENTIAL COSTS IN THE PLAN, WHICH I, I SAID WERE BASICALLY WORTHLESS, BUT THEY WERE SOMETHING IN THERE TO PUT SOME KIND OF A WRAPPER AROUND HOW MUCH THIS STUFF IS GONNA COST. WELL, I GUESS THE ANSWER TO THAT IS, LET'S TAKE IT COMPLETELY OUT OF THE PLAN. THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO GO ON THIS. AND I FIND IT ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING THAT THERE IS A SECTION IN HERE, A VERY DETAILED SECTION IN HERE CALLED THE COST OF DOING NOTHING. UM, I LOOK AT THIS AS, YOU KNOW, ALARMING, IT'S AN ALARMIST TYPE OF DOCUMENT IN THIS THING, BUT GUESS WHAT? THERE'S COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH EVERY ONE OF THOSE ALARMING THINGS OF DEATHS. WHAT IT'S GONNA DO TO THE ECONOMY. YOU KNOW, IT'S SAYING 28 BILLION AND $19 BILLION PER YEAR BY THE YEAR 2090. I MEAN, IF WE'RE ABLE TO FORECAST THESE COSTS OUT TO 2090, WHAT THE IMPACTS OF THE COST OF DOING NOTHING, WHY CAN'T WE PUT COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH WHAT WE'RE WANTING TO DO OR WHAT THE PLAN IS TO DO? I I JUST FIND THAT COMPLETELY FASCINATING THAT YOU CAN TAKE OUT ALL REFERENCE TO COSTS ON THIS DOCUMENT. AGAIN, THAT'S A BLANK CHECK THAT WE'RE GIVING TO THE TAXPAYER SAYING, TRUST ME, HERE, SIGN THIS, WE'RE GONNA APPROVE THIS AND WE'RE GONNA MARCH ON. OH, WE'LL GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, MAKE COMMENTS ON IT ON EACH PORTION OF THAT, ON DOWN THE ROAD. BUT HOW MUCH HAVE WE SPENT TO DATE, LET'S SAY OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS? NOT ONLY THE SAN ANTONIO, BUT ACOG, THE COUNTY, SARAH, ALL THESE ORGANIZATIONS. YOU DO HAVE SOME THINGS IN HERE, LISTED A TRACK RECORD OF INVESTMENT INVESTMENTS FOR OUR [02:00:01] FUTURE. AND YOU HAVE SOME COSTS IN THERE, BUT HOW ABOUT CONVERTING OUR BUSES TO C N G? THAT'S NOT IN THERE. HOW ABOUT, UM, THE SAN ANTONIO RIVER, WHAT WE'VE DONE TO THAT? THAT'S NOT IN THERE. EDWARDS AQUIFER PROTECTION, THAT'S NOT IN THERE AND AIR QUALITY. WHAT ABOUT AIR QUALITY? WHERE ARE WE AT TODAY? ARE WE MEETING, ARE, ARE WE MEETING THE, UM, THE OZONE STANDARD? NO. OKAY. WERE WE EVER MEETING IT? MM-HMM. , HOW LONG AGO WERE WE MEETING THAT THE OZONE STANDARD WAS JUST LOWERED A COUPLE YEARS AGO. OKAY. AND THAT'S MY POINT. SO WE WERE, WE WERE JUST DESIGNATED THE LAST YEAR, THAT'S MY POINT. THE LEVEL THE GOALPOST WAS MOVED TO MAKE IT MORE STRINGENT. WE WERE ON TRACK TO MEET, WHAT WAS IT, 75 AT ONE TIME? MM-HMM. , HOW MANY YEARS AGO DID THEY MOVE THE, IT WAS DOWN TO 70 JUST A FEW YEARS AGO. JUST MOVED IT DOWN TO 70. AND I SAY ARBITRARILY BECAUSE THAT NOW TRIGGERED US TO GO INTO THE NON-ATTAINMENT. BUT WHERE, WHAT PROGRESS HAVE WE MADE OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS? WHERE, WHERE WERE WE BEFORE? I DON'T HAVE THOSE EXACT NUMBERS, BUT WE HAVE SEEN A DECREASE. WELL, WE WERE OVER 90 AND WE'RE DOWN TO 72 NOW. SO WHAT INVESTMENTS DID WE MAKE TO GET DOWN TO THAT LEVEL? WE WE'RE NOT SHOWING THAT KIND OF INVESTMENT AND HOW MUCH WE HAVE DONE TO GET TO THOSE POINTS. A SUBSTANTIAL, VERY SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY. SO I'M, I'M TOTALLY UNWILLING TO SUPPORT THIS PLAN AT THIS POINT UNTIL THESE BASIC THINGS ARE ANSWERED. HOW MUCH IS IT GONNA COST? AND TO HAVE THIS DO NOTHING THING IN HERE WITH POTENTIAL COST OUT TO 2090. YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE COME UP WITH THOSE FIGURES? THOSE WERE BASED UPON, UM, RESEARCH THAT WAS CONDUCTED AND REPORTS FROM, UH, THE E P A, UH, AS WELL AS THE NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT. OKAY. AND, AND THOSE, AND THOSE, THE, I THINK THE ONE CLARIFICATION, I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT, WOULD BE THAT THOSE ARE FOR A, UM, UH, NOT FOR SAN ANTONIO SPECIFIC. IT'S FOR A REGION THAT BASICALLY SPANS FROM TEXAS TO, TO OKLAHOMA. SO IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A, THE INTENT IS TO PAINT A PICTURE OF THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS A SERIOUS ISSUE THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS. MAN, YOU HIT THAT ON THE NAIL, DOUG. WE'RE PLANNING AND IN THIS PLAN TO DO THINGS THAT ARE A REGIONAL APPROACH AND NOT SPECIFIC FOR SAN ANTONIO ON ALL THIS STUFF THAT IS MENTIONED IN HERE IS NOT SPECIFICALLY FOR SAN ANTONIO ON ALL OF THESE ESTIMATES, ON WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE IF WE DO DO NOTHING. SO I, AGAIN, WE'RE NOT BEING SPECIFIC FOR SAN ANTONIO AND WHAT THE COST IS GONNA BE, NOT ONLY TO SAN ANTONIO, BUT FOR THE COUNTY, FOR THIS REGION THAT'S ALREADY INVESTING BILLIONS, UH, I MEAN BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS TO DO WHAT'S ALREADY IN THIS PLAN. HAVE WE ACTUALLY BENCHMARKED WITH OTHER CITIES? HAS ANYBODY ELSE ADAPTED A, A ADOPTED A THIS PLAN OR SIMILAR PLAN? YES. I ACTUALLY HAVE A BACKUP DOCUMENT, HOPEFULLY. OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR. SO THIS IS A, UH, LIST OF PEER CITIES. UM, WE LOOKED AT THE TOP 11 BY POPULATION, UH, AND THEN HIGHLIGHTED A FEW OTHERS THAT, UM, ARE SIGNIFICANT. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, EITHER THEY ALL HAVE A PLAN OR HAVE A PLAN IN DEVELOPMENT. UH, WHAT'S THE OLDEST PLAN OUT THERE? DO YOU KNOW? OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I'D HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU. I BELIEVE, UM, IF I'M LOOKING AT THIS LIST, I THINK CHICAGO IS ONE OF THE OLDEST. CHICAGO, CHICAGO IS, IS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ONES. SO HOW MUCH HAVE THEY SPENT ON THIS PLAN AND WHAT'S THEIR RETURN ON INVESTMENT? UM, I HAD ACTUALLY, I HAD ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO THESE CITIES WITH THAT VERY QUESTION TO SEE IF THEY'VE BEEN QUANTIFYING IT. AND, UM, BASICALLY WAS, WAS INFORMED THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE THAT, THAT DATA. I THINK THE CHALLENGE THAT THAT CITIES HAVE IS [02:05:02] THERE AREN'T CLIMATE SPECIFIC ACTIONS. I, I THINK THEY'RE INVESTING IN MOBILITY. THEY'RE INVESTING IN RENEWABLE ENERGY. UM, AND SO I THINK IT'S A GOOD POINT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, SO FOR INSTANCE, WHEN WE START LOOKING AT ALL THE, THAT WE'VE INVESTED IN SAN ANTONIO, UM, WE CAN START TRANSLATING THOSE INTO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS. 'CAUSE CARBON IS THE, THE UNIT OF MEASURE. BUT I DON'T, I WASN'T ABLE TO HEAR BACK FROM MANY OF THOSE AS FAR AS WE HAVE. HERE'S HOW MUCH WE'VE SPENT OVER THE, THE LIFE OF THE PLAN. WELL, I WOULD CERTAINLY BE INTERESTED IN THAT. HOW MUCH HAVE THEY SPENT AND WHAT'S BEEN THEIR RETURN ON INVESTMENT? OH, I GOT TO WORK THAT IN THERE, RETURN ON INVESTMENT HERE. BUT, UH, YEAH, TO NOT BENCHMARK, WE BENCHMARK WITH OTHER CITIES ALL THE TIME, FOR ALL, I MEAN, EVERY DEPARTMENT WE'D BENCHMARK, BUT WE'RE NOT BENCHMARKING HERE. AND I THINK THAT'S A MISTAKE. SO AGAIN, I DON'T WANT TO SIGN A BLANK CHECK FOR OUR CITIZENS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. AND, UH, WHEN I LOOK AT THE GOAL, THE GRAND GOAL IS TO BASICALLY BE, LET'S SEE, WHAT DOES A GRAND, WHAT DOES YOUR GRAND GOAL SAY, DOUG? CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2050, CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2050. AND AGAIN, THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER STUFF IN HERE THAT DOESN'T DEAL WITH BEING CARBON NEUTRAL. AND THAT'S FINE, BUT WE'RE NOT QUANTIFYING IT HOW MUCH WE HAVE SPENT ALREADY AND WHAT WE'RE PLANNING ON SPENDING TO DO THIS. AND YES, WE CAN FIND THAT DATA. AND I'M SURPRISED THAT THE CONTRACTOR DIDN'T PULL THAT DATA TOGETHER. WEREN'T THEY REQUIRED IN THE CONTRACT TO PROVIDE DATA, BASICALLY COST DATA? BASICALLY WHAT THEY WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE WAS USING SOME EXISTING GREENHOUSE GAS ACCOUNTING TOOLS, UM, THAT USE, UH, DATA INPUTS SUCH AS OUR POPULATION, OUR POPULATION GROWTH, GROWTH PROJECTIONS, AS WELL AS OUR, UH, ENERGY MIX TO ESTIMATES, UM, WHAT THE POTENTIAL, UH, INVESTMENT WOULD BE BASED UPON THESE DIFFERENT STRATEGIES. BUT AS FAR AS DETAILED LEVEL STRATEGY, UH, STRATEGY COSTS THAT WE HAVE A DEGREE OF CERTAINTY WITH, UM, THAT THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO DO THAT. OKAY. WELL, SO THEY DIDN'T, THEY DIDN'T, UH, THEY DIDN'T PROVIDE THAT THEN IN THE CONTRACT. DID WE GET A REDUCTION IN THE CONTRACT? WELL, THEY, WELL, I THINK THEY PROVIDED US WITH THOSE INITIAL COST ESTIMATES. IS, IS THAT WHAT WAS IN THE FIRST DRAFT? THAT WAS WHICH, WHICH, WHICH, OKAY. YES. AND THERE'S, AND THERE IS ADDITIONAL DETAIL BEHIND THAT AS, AS WELL. OKAY. ALRIGHT, GREAT. WELL, AGAIN, I'VE GOT A TON OF OTHER QUESTIONS. I DON'T WANNA GET INTO THAT. NOW, AGAIN, MY COST IS FOR THE RATE PAYER AND TAXPAYER HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, AND EVEN THOSE OTHER CITIES WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF SAN ANTONIO AND THE COUNTY AND OUR REGION. BECAUSE IT DOESN'T JUST AFFECT TO MY COLLEAGUES' COMMENTS. WE'RE NOT IN A BUBBLE HERE. YOU KNOW, I, I CAN GO ON AND ON. HOW MANY COAL PLANTS ARE WE OPERATING IN THE US? HOW MANY ARE BEING BUILT? ZERO. HOW MANY ARE BEING BUILT IN INDIA? HOW MANY ARE BEING BUILT IN CHINA? WE'RE NOT IN A BUBBLE. AND WHAT ARE WE GONNA AFFECT HERE IN SAN ANTONIO BY DOING THAT? SO, LOTS MORE COMMENTS, DOUG? YES, SIR. GREAT TRY. BUT IT'S NOT THERE YET IN MY BOOK. SO, WITH THAT, SIR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, COUNCIL MEMBER PALIS. THANK YOU, MAYOR, UH, DOUG, I, UM, I'VE PUSHED HARD ON YOU OVER THE PAST YEAR OR TWO JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THIS RIGHT. UH, MOST OF ALL MY PUSHING ON YOU HAS REALLY BEEN FOCUSED ON MAKING SURE THAT EVERY STAKEHOLDER, UM, HAS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN ON THIS. I'M, I'M SATISFIED. UH, YOU, YOU, UH, YOU TOOK MY CHALLENGE VERY SERIOUSLY, AND YOU WENT OUT AND YOU TALKED TO EVERY STAKEHOLDER. UH, I AM ALSO AWARE THAT, YOU KNOW, A DOCUMENT THAT IS A CONSENSUS DOCUMENT, LIKE THE ONE THAT YOU'VE PUT TOGETHER IS ALWAYS GONNA BE AN IMPERFECT DOCUMENT. UM, BUT THE TRUE TEST OF WHETHER OR NOT IT'S A GOOD DOCUMENT IS, UH, IF YOU TAKE ALL OF YOUR STAKEHOLDERS, THEIR NEEDS AND THEIR, UM, THEIR POSITIONS, UM, AND ALL OF THEM WALK AWAY FROM THAT DOCUMENT JUST A LITTLE BIT UNHAPPY, YOU KNOW, YOU DID THE RIGHT THING. AND, UM, IN THIS INSTANCE, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY, UM, IS GONNA SAY, THIS IS A PERFECT DOCUMENT. UM, AND, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S OKAY. 'CAUSE WE'RE NOT GONNA LET PERFECTION BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD IN THIS INSTANCE. UH, I, I WILL TELL YOU, UH, I HAD A CHANCE, UM, AND IT DIDN'T TAKE ME VERY LONG TO GO LOOK UP OTHER CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLANS BECAUSE I, I SAW THE LIST OF OTHER CITIES. BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ALSO TO POINT OUT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, TONIGHT [02:10:01] ALL OF US ARE GONNA DRIVE HOME. AND AROUND FIVE 30, YOU'RE GONNA HEAR THE AM RADIO SHOCK JOCKS DECRYING THE CITY COUNCIL'S, UH, YOU KNOW, CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLAN AS SOMETHING VERY EXOTIC OUTTA THE ORDINARY, ABSURD OR CHOOSE YOUR HYPERBOLIC, UH, ADJECTIVE. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, BAD FOR BUSINESS, BAD FOR BUSINESS, BAD FOR BUSINESS. UM, SO I'M JUST GONNA READ OFF A LIST, UM, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AND SEE IF ANY OF YOU GUYS RECOGNIZE THESE NAMES. TOYOTA, MICROSOFT, BRITISH PETROLEUM, UNITED AIRLINES, I B M, MARRIOTT HOTELS, CHEVRON UNION, PACIFIC GENERAL MOTORS, EXXONMOBIL, COSTCO, SHELL OIL, AT AND T. THESE ARE SOME OF THE LARGEST CORPORATIONS ON THE PLANET, AND THEY ALL HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON. UM, AND THIS IS JUST A FEW OF 'EM. THEY ALL HAVE CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLANS, AND THE MAJORITY OF 'EM HAVE AS A GOAL CLIMATE NEUTRAL, I'M SORRY, CARBON NEUTRALITY, UM, WITHIN THIS, UH, NEXT 50 YEARS. SO APPARENTLY THEY DIDN'T GET THE MEMO THAT THIS IS TERRIBLE FOR BUSINESS OR PEOPLE WHO ARE DECRYING THIS AS JUST, YOU KNOW, UM, BAD FOR BUSINESS, YOU KNOW, ACROSS THE BOARD, UM, WITH A VERY BROAD BRUSH, UM, HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. AND SO, I, I'M GOING TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF WHAT EXPERTS, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, AT THESE VERY LARGE COMPANIES WHO HAVE TO ANSWER TO, UM, THEIR INVESTORS AND, UM, HAVE FIDUCIARY DUTIES TO MAKE SURE TO MAINTAIN, UM, YOU KNOW, RESPONSIBLE OPERATIONS. I'M GONNA ERR ON THE SIDE OF TRUSTING THEM, UH, AS OPPOSED TO PEOPLE, UM, WHO REALLY JUST READ BUMPER STICKERS TO INFORM THEIR WORLDVIEW. AND SO, WITH THAT SAID, I'LL, UM, YOU, YOU GOT MY SUPPORT ON THIS ONE, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK. THANKS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PIAS. UM, AND I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES AND, UM, COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL, UM, THE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND EQUITY, UH, FOR THEIR GREAT WORK, AND OF COURSE, YOU AND YOUR TEAM. DOUG. UH, I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME. I DID WANNA MAKE A FEW STATEMENTS. SO, UH, THIS WAS A LONG TIME COMING. UM, AND IT WAS, IT WAS STRATEGIC AND IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR ME, UH, IN MY FIRST DAY, UH, WITH YOU ALL AS MY COLLEAGUES AS MAYOR, UH, FOR US TO SIGN ONTO AND, AND, UH, DECLARE OUR SUPPORT FOR THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD. UH, IN RECOGNITION OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY, NOT JUST TO OUR CITIZENS HERE AND FUTURE GENERATIONS, BUT ALSO OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD AS WE, UH, WORK TOGETHER WITH GLOBAL COMMUNITIES, 400 PLUS OF THEM TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE ON THE WORLD WE LEAVE BEHIND TO OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. UH, WE ALSO SIGNED, UH, ON TO THE CHARTER FOR COMPASSION. AND BOTH OF THOSE TWO THINGS HAVE FUELED WHAT HAS COME AFTER. AND SO THIS WAS A LONG TIME COMING, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS THE EASY PART. PASSING AND RATIFYING OUR FIRST CLIMATE ACTION ADAPTATION PLAN IS THE EASY PART. THE DIFFICULTY IS GOING TO COME IN ALL THE DISCUSSIONS AND ANALYSES THAT LEAD TO ACTION OVER THE NEXT 30 YEARS TO ACHIEVE OUR ULTIMATE GOAL. THERE IS NO FINISH LINE WITH CLIMATE ACTION ADAPTATION. SO LONG AS THERE ARE PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET, THERE IS NO FINISH LINE IN THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING. THE GOAL OF THE PARIS AGREEMENT AND THE PRIMARY FOUNDATION FOR OUR CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION PLAN IS TO LIMIT THE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE INCREASE TO ONE AND A HALF DEGREES CELSIUS THIS CENTURY, RATHER THAN THE PROJECTED 2.0 DEGREES. IF WE DO NOTHING, AND WE CAN COUNT WHAT THAT MEANS, BECAUSE IT WOULD MEAN WHAT WE'RE DOING CURRENTLY, WE MAY EXPERIENCE DOUBLE THE GLOBAL HUMAN POPULATION EXPOSED TO SEVERE HEAT AT LEAST EVERY FIVE YEARS. AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I SIMPLY CAN'T IMAGINE SAN ANTONIO SUMMERS ANY HOTTER FOR OUR RESIDENTS OR OUR VISITORS. THE DEATH RATE FOR ELDERLY POPULATIONS WITH CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS RISES WITH TEMPERATURE AS MUCH AS 4% FOR EVERY ONE DEGREE CELSIUS POLLUTANTS RESULTING IN EXCESS GROUND LEVEL OZONE LEVEL LEVEL, WHICH HAVE THRUST US INTO NON-ATTAINMENT STATUS, RECENTLY MAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR AN ESTIMATED 19 ADDITIONAL DEATHS PER YEAR IN BEXAR COUNTY. AND THAT'S ON TOP OF THE DEATHS WE KNOW ARE ASSOCIATED THROUGH THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS THAT ARE ALREADY PRESENT, UH, AND, AND FOLKS BEING, UM, AFFECTED BY EXISTING POLLUTION LEVELS. HOW MANY HUNDRED YEAR FLOODS ARE WE PREPARED TO HAVE AS STORMS INTENSIFY? THERE WAS AN ITEM ON OUR AGENDA TODAY. IT PASSED ON CONSENT. I'M NOT SURE HOW MANY PEOPLE NOTED, BUT IT HELPED RESTORE TREES LOST DURING THE BRIEF, YET FIERCE STORMS THAT TORE THROUGH OUR REGION, PARTICULARLY IN THE WOODLAWN LAKE AREA, THAT CONCRETELY SHOWS HOW MUCH A RAPIDLY CHANGING CLIMATE COULD COST SAN ANTONIO IN TERMS OF DOLLARS IN QUALITY OF LIFE. AND WITHIN OUR CITY LIMITS, THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HOMES AND AREA AREAS OF FLOOD OR [02:15:01] WILDFIRE RISK. A FEW YEARS AGO, WE ACTUALLY CLEARED TITLE ON A NUMBER OF THOSE HOMES SO THAT THEY COULD BE MOVED TO SAFER PLACES. THESE ARE NOT SCARE TACTICS. THIS ISN'T A STATS GAME, IT'S A FACTS REALITY. AND SAN ANTONIO RESIDENTS SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD FOR US TO DO NOTHING. SO, SAN ANTONIO MUST COMMIT TO A GOAL OF MAKING OUR CITY CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2050, ALONG WITH HUNDREDS OF OTHER COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND BEYOND. AND THE CITY IS ALREADY DOING INCREDIBLE WORK ON THIS FRONT. WE'VE BEEN DOING IT. 61% OF OUR STREETLIGHTS ARE ALREADY POWERED BY L E D BULBS, UTILIZING AN ENERGY EFFICIENCY FUND. WE'VE DECREASED ELECTRICITY USAGE BY 16% OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS IN MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS. AND THE CITY IS HEADED TOWARD SWITCHING OUR MUNICIPAL VEHICLE FLEET TO CLEANER ALTERNATIVES ENTIRELY BY 2025. WE'RE IN THE BEGINNING STAGES OF BENCHMARKING AND TRACKING ENERGY USAGE USAGE ACROSS LARGE BUILDINGS ACROSS OUR CITY, AND EVALUATING POTENTIAL CODE CHANGES TO INCLUDE HOOKUPS FOR SOLAR PANELS AND ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND NEW CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. BUT I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR, THE MOST AGGRESSIVE STRATEGIES IN THIS PLAN WILL COME FROM POLICIES THAT THIS COUNCIL CAN CONTROL. AT THE MUNICIPAL LEVEL, THIS COUNCIL AND FUTURE CITY COUNCILS, WE DO NOT SET POLICY FOR ANY OTHER PUBLIC ENTITY. SO I DO HOPE, AND THIS IS THE HARD PART, THAT AS WE WORK THROUGH MORE OF THE PUBLIC INPUT PROCESS, AND AS WE NEAR RATIFICATION ON OCTOBER, OTHER MAJOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTITIES WILL ENDORSE CLEARLY THEIR THIS FRAMEWORK SO THAT WE CAN ALL COLLABORATE ON MAKING SAN ANTONIO A CLEANER, HEALTHIER, AND MORE RESILIENT COMMUNITY. AND THE IMMEDIATE AFTER PATH OF PASSING THIS PLAN, THIS FALL, WE'LL INSTALL PERMANENT CITIZEN OVERSIGHT TO ENSURE THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO REMAINS COMPLIANT AS WE WORK ON OUR POLICIES TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS. AND AS TECHNOLOGIES AND MARKETS EVOLVE, WE'LL COME BACK EVERY FEW YEARS TO RE REFINE THIS DOCUMENT, A LIVING DOCUMENT, CLARIFYING OUR POLICIES AND STRATEGIES TO OBTAIN CARBON NEUTRALITY BY THE YEAR 20 20 50. SO AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WORKED ON THIS PLAN. IT'S STILL IN PROGRESS. UH, IT WILL BE FOR A WHILE, UM, EVEN THROUGH THE LIFE OF IMPLEMENTATION. BUT THANK YOU, ESPECIALLY TO OUR OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY, AS WELL AS THE CAPS, TECHNICAL WORKING GROUPS AND STEERING COMMITTEE, AND ALL OF THE AREA STAKEHOLDERS WHO HAVE HELPED WORK THIS PLAN INTO A DOCUMENT THAT WE CAN ALL BE SERIOUSLY PROUD OF. WE ARE AT A CRITICAL POINT IN OUR HISTORY AND THE TIME FOR ACTING IS NOW, AND I'M CONFIDENT WE'RE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. IN CLOSING, THERE IS AN ADAGE, AN OLD ADAGE IN MANY TRADITIONS, SAY IT DIFFERENTLY, BUT IT GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS. WE DID NOT INHERIT THE EARTH FROM OUR FATHERS. WE'RE BORROWING IT FROM OUR CHILDREN. AND I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT AS POLICYMAKERS AND AS REPRESENTATIVES OF OUR PUBLIC, IT WOULD BE ENTIRELY RECKLESS TO IGNORE THE REALITY OF THE CHANGING CLIMATE AS WE WORK TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF OUR CITIZENS AND THOSE WHO COME AFTER US. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, FOR THE PRESENTATION. I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY AS WE GET TOWARDS RATIFICATION IN OCTOBER. THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH. THAT'S ALL THE ITEMS, UM, WE HAVE ON OUR AGENDA FOR BUSINESS TODAY. UH, IS THERE A CITY MANAGER'S REPORT? JUST ONE ITEM, MAYOR. UM, I WANTED TO LET THE, YOU AND THE REST OF THE COUNCIL KNOW THAT THE CITY LAST WEEK, UH, AS AN ORGANIZATION KICKED OFF THE, UH, 2020 CHARITABLE CAMPAIGN. UM, UM, WE ARE ONE OF EIGHT PACESETTER ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY. UM, SO WE START THE COUNT, THE, UH, CITYWIDE THE COMMUNITY-WIDE, UH, CAMPAIGN, UH, FOR UNITED WAY IN CONTRIBUTIONS, AND, UH, WE HAD AN EVENT LAST FRIDAY AT THE ALAMO DOME. WE HAD OVER 1300 EMPLOYEES COME TO THE ALAMO DOME LAST, UM, THUR, UH, FRIDAY MORNING, UH, AND PARTICIPATE IN A NUMBER OF EVENTS. UM, OUR GOAL AS AN ORGANIZATION IS TO RAISE, UH, $1,060,000, UH, FOR THE COMMUNITY, UH, AS AN ORGANIZATION. AND, UM, I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT, UH, THERE AT LAST FRIDAY'S EVENT, UH, WITH THE 1300 EMPLOYEES, UM, WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY FOR EMPLOYEES TO SIGN UP AND E PLEDGE, AND WE RAISED $123,000 TOWARDS NEXT YEAR'S CAMPAIGN. UH, AND I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE FACT THAT, UH, THE EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE CONSISTENTLY AND HISTORICALLY BEEN PART OF THAT, UM, IT WAS A GREAT TURNOUT LAST FRIDAY, SO WE'LL BE GOING THROUGH THAT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF, UH, WEEKS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION. AND, UH, I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT. I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE FACT THAT THE EMPLOYEES THAT PARTICIPATED LAST FRIDAY, UM, UH, WE, WE WENT OVER 10% OF OUR GOAL JUST IN ONE MORNING. SO [02:20:01] THAT'S A GREAT, THAT'S A GREAT HONOR. AND I'M, I'M PROUD THAT THE OTHER, THE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE PACESETTER ORGANIZATIONS, THIS COMMUNITY ARE THE, UH, VALERO U S A A C P S, UH, C P S AND, UH, THE CITY ARE THE ONLY TWO PUBLIC ENTITIES IN THAT, UH, IN THAT PACESETTER CATEGORY. SO I WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU. GREAT. THANK YOU, ERIC. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN, CONGRATULATIONS, ERIC AND ALL THE CITY STAFF, BUT WE AS A CITY COUNCIL HAVE OUR UNITED WAY AUCTION TOMORROW, SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYBODY CAN COME TO THE PLAZA DE ARMAS GALLERY. I KNOW IF YOU BID FOR DISTRICT THREE, YOU'LL GET A ROUND OF GOLF AND SOME OF THE BEST BARBECUE IN ALL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WITH TWO M SMOKEHOUSE AND BIG LOOSE PIZZA. SO THAT'S MY CALLING OUT OF ALL MY COLLEAGUES. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, LET'S DO A, OOPS, SORRY, . LET'S DO IT. LET'S DO IT. LET'S DO THAT COMPETITION. BARRY WANTS TO MEET. ALL RIGHT. UM, BEFORE WE RECESS AND WE WILL RECONVENE AT 2:00 PM FOR OUR ZONING AGENDA, WE DO HAVE A BIRTHDAY TO CELEBRATE. IT IS OUR COLLEAGUE ADRIANA ROCHA GARCIA'S BIRTHDAY TOMORROW. OH, AWESOME. AND WE HAVE CAKE IN THE BACK TO CELEBRATE HER BIRTHDAY. SO LET'S SING HER HAPPY BIRTHDAY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADRIANA. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU. OKAY. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL ZONING AGENDA. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. IT'S 2:08 PM WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED. I HAVE THREE ITEMS LISTED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION TODAY ON OUR ZONING AGENDA, ITEMS 29 P FOUR Z SEVEN Z 18. I ALSO HAVE A, UM, ITEM 29 INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. UH, ARE THERE ANY OTHER ITEMS FROM WHICH MY COLLEAGUES WOULD LIKE TO PULL FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA? ALRIGHT, HEARING NONE, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. MOTION TO APPROVE. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT ZONING AGENDA. WE DO HAVE CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEMS REMAINING ON CONSENT, UM, AND WE HAVE A GREAT NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE TO SPEAK. SO, UM, THESE ARE IN ORDER. YEAH. OKAY. UM, BEFORE WE DO THAT, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND ROLL THE, UM, TRANSLATION VIDEO, AL SAN ANTONIO. ANTONIO. OKAY. UH, AND TO NOTE FOR THE RECORD, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, KEO HDA HAS RECUSED HERSELF, UH, UH, FROM THE CONSENT ITEMS, JUST , SHE'S CONS. SHE IS RECUSED FROM THE CONSENT VOTE. SO, UM, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED WITH THE ITEMS ON CONSENT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. UH, WE'LL START WITH JACK FINGER. WELL, MAYOR NURNBERG, OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR ILLUSTRIOUS SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JACK M FINGER. FEW ITEMS I WISH TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION ON THIS PORTION OF THE AGENDA. ONE OF THE FIRST ONES I SEE HERE IS, WELL, THE VERY FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA, ITEM 29 IS SOMETHING CALLED AN ALCOHOL VARIANCE, WHEREBY THE CITY COUNCIL IS ALLOWED TO OVERRIDE THE RULES SAYING YOU CANNOT SELL LIQUOR WITHIN 300 FEET OF A SCHOOL CAMPUS. YEAH. AND SO WE'LL SEE WHAT THE CITY COUNCIL DOES REGARDING THIS ONE, BECAUSE RIGHT IN MR. PALAIS DISTRICT, MR. MANNY PALAIS DISTRICT, MR. MANLY DISTRICT, YES. YOU, MR. PLY DISTRICT. YES, THAT'S RIGHT. YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE AN ALCOHOL VARIANCE SITUATION SERVED. NOW THE QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO IN THE, THIS AREA WHERE THE PRE-K FOR SA IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE? ALCOHOL [02:25:01] SOLD WITHIN 300 FEET OF SCHOOL, KIDS PLAYING THERE AS HE WHISPERS TO MRS. SANDOVAL SUING MOST OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, I'M SURE. YEAH. WE, THE, UM, A COUPLE OTHER RED FLAGS, UH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CITY COUNCIL THAT I WISH TO BRING YOUR ATTENTION. AND THAT'S, UH, ITEMS P FOUR AND Z SEVEN. THIS IS IN, UH, MR. TREVINO'S DISTRICT. YES, SIR. THE IDEA THAT, UH, THE, THE ZONING STAFF SAID THEY SHOULD DENY THIS ITEM FOR, FOR CONSIDERATION. YEAH. THIS IS, UH, THE ONE ON, UH, ON REXFORD AVENUE, SIR. YES. THE IDEA YOU'RE GONNA WANT TO SHOE SHOEHORNS 10 UNITS, 10, UH, RESIDENTIAL UNITS INTO THIS AREA. AND THE STAFF SAID THAT IT HAS A VERY BAD ADVERSE IMPACTS, EXCESSIVE DENSITY, INCONSISTENT WITH THE RESIDENTIAL CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SIR, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT, SIR? YEAH, ELSEWHERE ON THE AGENDA, THE, UH, AND, UH, MS. SHIRLEY GONZALEZ, YOUR DISTRICT, MADAM, ONCE AGAIN, THE, THE ZONING COMMISSION THIS TIME THOUGHT IT WAS A BAD IDEA TO PUT ANOTHER USED CAR LOT OVER ON WEST COMMERCE STREET. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT ONE, MA, MS. GONZALEZ? YES. UM, ELSEWHERE ON THIS PORTION OF THE AGENDA, THE, UH, YOU'VE GOT A FEW OTHER, OH, RED FLAGS. AND IN, UH, Z 16, ONCE AGAIN, MS. GONZALEZ, IN YOUR DISTRICT, YOU HAD AS MANY AS SIX PEOPLE SPEAK AGAINST THE IDEA OF SHOEHORNING 90 90 RESIDENTIAL UNITS ONTO THIS LITTLE AREA HERE ON, ON, UH, WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE STREET? UM, TOON STREET. YES. UH, WHEN YOU HAVE ANYWHERE MORE THAN TWO OR THREE, THAT'S A RED FLAG. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. FINGER, KENNY WILSON. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. AND I'M HERE TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT, UH, ON BEHALF OF HAVEN FOR HOPE AND FOR SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY WITH WHOM WE HAVE PARTNERED SINCE, UH, HAVEN'S INCEPTION, UH, IN 2010, UH, WE'RE OUR PARTNERS. I SAID WE'RE A SUPPORTER OF, UH, SAHA, AND THEY ARE, UH, VERY ACTIVE IN HELPING US, UH, WITH THE MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE HOUSED FROM HAVEN FOR HOPE. WE'RE ALSO AT AS HAVEN FOR HOPE, A NEIGHBOR AND DISTRICT FIVE, AND PROUD TO BE SO AND SO, I'M SPEAKING HERE, UH, ABOUT THE, UH, PARTNERSHIP WITH SAHA AND THE, UH, PROJECT THAT, UH, OF ZA, UH, THAT THEY ARE WORKING ON. THAT IS FABULOUS. UM, AS YOU KNOW, AS I JUST SAID, MANY THOUSANDS HAVE LEFT, UM, HAVEN IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS SO KEY TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES MOVING ON TO A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE, A SAFE, AFFORDABLE PLACE TO LIVE, CHANGES LIVES AND CHANGES FAMILIES. JUST THIS MORNING, I WAS WITH ONE OF OUR OUTREACH PEOPLE, AND MOST OF YOU HAVE MET THEM, AND I WAS WITH A FAMILY THAT WAS LIVING IN ESSENTIALLY A HUTT. THERE WERE SIX CHILDREN AND FOUR ADULTS, AND WITH OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CO COMPLIANCE, WE WERE ABLE TO GET THEM TO A BETTER PLACE. AND ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WE SAID TO THEM WAS, WE HAVE TO GET YOU CONNECTED TO SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY. THIS PROJECT THAT IS BEING DISCUSSED, UH, HONORS THE NEIGHBORHOOD. IT HONORS THOSE WHO HAVE LIVED THERE FOR SOME 80 YEARS, I BELIEVE. AND, UH, IS IS ONE THAT IS WELL DESIGNED, WELL CONSIDERED BY THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THE DEVELOPERS, UH, AND AGAIN, AS A NEIGHBOR TO IN THE, IN THE AREA. WE ARE IN GREAT SUPPORT AND WE'RE ALWAYS IN SUPPORT IN ANY EFFORT THAT CAN LEND ITSELF TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING, HOUSING THAT IS SAFE, CLEAN, COMFORTABLE, AND AFFORDABLE FOR, UH, RESIDENTS OF HAVEN AND ANYONE IN SAN ANTONIO. WE THINK THIS PROJECT FITS THAT BILL AND, UH, AS THE C E O OF HAVEN FOR HOPE, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO, UH, TO GIVE IT FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. WILSON. THANK YOU, LEONARD RODRIGUEZ. MR. RODRIGUEZ, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED [02:30:01] BY LINDA ORTEGA. UH, MR. MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, I'M HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF THE WEST SIDE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR THE SAHA ALZA REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT. UH, FOR SEVERAL REASONS. ONE, IT'S A GREAT USE TO, UH, DEVELOP, UH, UNDEVELOPED REAL ESTATE. UH, AND WE SEE THIS AS BEING A PRO, UH, WITH THIS PROJECT. UH, WE ALSO ARE VERY AWARE OF THE AMOUNT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES THAT SAHA PUTS OUT INTO THE WEST SIDE SPECIFICALLY. UH, WE'VE WORKED WITH THEM ON THE MEETA SOUL HOMES, WHICH ARE NEW HOMES IN THE WEST SIDE. WE WORK WITH THEM ON THE SAN JUAN GARDENS, UH, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THEM ON THE ALLAN PROJECT. THE LAST THING I WANTED TO EXPRESS IS THAT, UH, OUR SOUTH SIDE, OUR WEST SIDE, AND OUR EAST SIDE, UH, IT'S A RACE FOR THESE COMMUNITIES TO CATCH UP WITH THIS WONDERFUL DOWNTOWN AND THIS WONDERFUL NORTH SIDE. AND WE SEE THIS HOUSING PROJECT AS BEING A WAY OF BRINGING PARODY TO THAT, UH, RACE. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, AND WE HOPE TO HEAR GOOD NEWS. THANK YOU, MR. RODRIGUEZ. LINDA ORTEGA, FOLLOWED BY, FOLLOWED BY GLORIA REYES. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS LINDA ORTEGA FROM VIVA AND THE OUTREACH COORDINATOR OF THE OFFICIALLY REGISTERED HISTORIC WEST SIDE RESIDENT ASSOCIATION. WE ARE COMMITTED TO CHALLENGING THE ONGOING GENTRIFICATION OF THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE. WE WANT TO HELP OUR FAMILY STAY IN THE HISTORIC WEBSITE, ENSURING WE CONTINUE TO PRESERVE AND CELEBRATE THE VERY CULTURE THAT SHAPES OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. IT SEEMS THAT NOW THE INNER CITY WEST WEBSITE IS PRIME LAND. WHAT HAPPENED? WHERE WERE WE? NOT THE RIO. DON'T GO THERE. IT'S FULL OF BAD PEOPLE, BUT LET US BUILD A JAIL THERE. LET US PUT A BRIDGE TO KEEP THEM DOWN FROM DOWNTOWN. PUT THE HOMELESS SHELTER THERE, PUT THE COURTS THERE. AH, THE COURTS. WHAT HAPPENED? WELL, THE NRPS OF THE WORLD PUT A BUG IN SASHA'S EARS BUILD, AND THOSE WHO WERE AFRAID TO COME BEFORE WILL COME. WE WILL HAVE THE MARKET RATE HOUSING FOR THEM. SJA SAID, WE HAVE JUST A PLACE DIALAN COURTS, BUT WE WILL CALL 'EM THEON LOVES. THEY WILL NO LONGER BE CORDS. LOOK WHAT WE DID ON THE EAST SIDE. LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL HOUSING THAT WE DID THERE. BUT WAIT, IS THIS THE SAME HO SAKA THEN NEGLECTS TO FIX MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS OF THE OCCUPANTS OF THE ALLAN AND CASTANO HOMES? IS THIS THE SAME SAHA THAT HAS NO AC FOR SOME OF THEIR APARTMENTS? THANK GOODNESS FOR SENATOR BERARD WHO HEARD THAT CRY. AND THAT IS CRUEL THAT TO HAVE AC YET THEY EXTOLL THEMSELVES AS THE SAVIORS OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE COURTS. BUT IN REALITY, THEY ARE. THE SLUM LANDLORDS OF SAN ANTONIO. LET IT BE KNOWN THAT WE ARE NOT AGAINST POSITIVE CHANGES AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. AFFORDABLE HOUSING HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CHALLENGE ON THE WEST SIDE, BUT WE HAVE PREVAILED IN THE PAST. MANY OF US HERE HAVE WORKED WITH THE CITY TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS AFFORDABLE HOUSING. I GUESS WE COULD SAY THAT OUR LEADER WAS FATHER TR CASEY, WHO IS OTHERS, BILL, THE, THEY KNEW AON COURTS. SO TODAY WE ARE HERE, MR. MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, AND IN PARTICULAR YOU MRS. GONZALEZ. WE ASK THAT YOU LISTEN TO WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY. THIS GENTRIFICATION OF THE COURTS WILL AFFECT ALL OF US WHO LIVE IN THAT AREA. THIS WILL CHANGE THE FACE OF THE WEST SIDE AS WE NOW KNOW IT. BUT WHAT IS THE MOST DISTURBING IS THAT THE I D C THREE DOES NOT MEET THE GUADALUPE WEST COMMUNITY PLAN. THIS PLAN CALLS FOR TWO STORIES ONLY. WE HAVE LITTLE COTTAGES AND BUNGALOWS. LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE HERE BEFORE YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO PARA FACE AN OLD JEWISH HARVARD. GOD LOVES THE POOR, BUT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND SAHA LOVE THE NRP OF THE WORLD. THANK YOU, MRS. ORTEGA. SO THOSE THAT ARE SUPPORTING THE BELOVED SIDE, PLEASE STAND AND BE RECOGNIZED. THANK YOU. MRS. ORTEGA. GLORIA REYES. GLORIA REYES. SHE'S GIVING, SHE'S GIVING UP HER TIME. OKAY. TO WHO? OKAY. IRMA HOFFMAN. YES. IRMA? YES. OKAY. COME ON UP. AND YOU HAVE GLORIOUS TIME. [02:35:01] YES. GLORIA, COULD YOU RAISE YOUR HAND AGAIN? OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES, MS. MRS. HOFFMAN. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. AND THIS IS DIRECTED TO COUNCILWOMAN SHIRLEY GONZALEZ. FIRST OF ALL, LET IT BE CLEAR THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE WEST SIDE ARE IN FAVOR OF A POSITIVE AND BENEFICIAL RENOVATION OF THE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY. COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ, IN YOUR ARTICLE YESTERDAY, YOU POSED AN IMAGE OF SOMEONE WHO CARESS DEARLY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THE WEST SIDE. ACTUALLY, YOUR ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN YOUR WORDS. YOU HAVE FAILED TO MENTION THAT OVER THE PAST YEAR AND MORE, YOU HAVE AVOIDED MEETING FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE WEST SIDE RESIDENTS AND NUMEROUS WEST SIDE ORGANIZATIONS TO INCLUDE 11 NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS TO DISCUSS THE CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN OF THE AAND LS. YOUR AVOIDANCE TO MEET WITH THE WEST SIDE RESIDENTS HAS BEEN CHRONIC EXAMPLES. AND WE HAVE FOUR. NUMBER ONE, A MONTH AGO ON JULY 16TH, THE ZONING COMMISSION HELD ITS MEETING FOR ALAS, FOR HIGH DENSITY I D D THREE OVER 40 PEOPLE CAME TO SPEAK TO ADVOCATE FOR THE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY PLAN. AND THERE WERE ALSO OVER 300 SIGNATURES THAT ADVOCATED FOR THE GUADALUPE WEST SIDE PLAN. THE PEOPLE WHO WERE IGNORED AND THE I D Z ZONING WAS APPROVED. WHERE WERE YOU? COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ. WHY WERE YOU NOT THERE? REPRESENTING THE GUADALUPE WESTSIDE COMMUNITY PLAN, WHY ARE YOU NOT LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE? ON JULY 29TH, A FORMAL LETTER WAS SENT OUT TO MAYOR NUREMBERG, TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY. AND TO YOU FOR CONCERNS SUBMITTED THAT SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY HAD CLAIMED THAT THEY HAD 17 PUBLIC MEETINGS OF ONLY TWO THAT WE WERE AWARE OF. AT LEAST THE ASSOCIATIONS, THE 11 ASSOCIATIONS WERE NOT AWARE OF IT. COUNCIL GONZALEZ, WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE FROM THAT LETTER THAT WAS JUST SENT A FEW WEEKS AGO. DO YOU NOT RESPECT OR BELIEVE YOUR COMMUNITY AS WE, AS WE VOICE OUR CONCERNS TO YOU? ALSO, LAST WEEK, AUGUST 14TH, SAHA SURPRISINGLY THAT GRATEFULLY HAD A PUBLIC MEETING TO CALL FOR THE ALZA L'S, UH, DISCUSSION. THERE WERE MANY, MANY COMMUNITY LEADERS THERE THAT WENT UP AND SPOKE. THEY HAD QUESTIONS, THEY WANTED ANSWERS. WHERE WERE YOU? COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ. YOU WERE NOT THERE. 10 11 SOUTH BRAZOS. WE WERE WAITING FOR YOU AGAIN. AUGUST 18TH. LAST SUNDAY, WE SENT A, AN EMAIL LETTER TO YOUR OFFICE ASKING TO MEET WITH YOU. YOUR SECRETARY WROTE BACK TO US AND SAID THAT YOUR SCHEDULE WAS FULL AND DID NOT ALLOW MEETING TIME WITH US. NOW, TELL THIS COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ, SOME OF OUR ASSOCIATE MEMBERS AND AND COALITION MEMBERS WERE ABLE TO MEET WITH OTHER CONSUL PERSONS HERE IN THIS CIRCLE. THEY GAVE US 15, 30 MINUTES OF THEIR TIME. YOU HAVE NOT EVEN GIVEN ONE MINUTE OF YOUR TIME FACE TO FACE WHY COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ IF YOU REPRESENT THE WEST SIDE AND YOUR DEAR RESIDENTS, AS YOU SAID IN YOUR ARTICLE FOR SAN ANTONIO EXPRESSING NEWS WHY YOUR ACTIONS ARE SPEAKING LOUDER. SO AS YOU SIT THERE IN YOUR COUNCILWOMAN CHAIR AND YOU CAST YOUR VOTE, PLEASE REMEMBER THESE THINGS. YOU HAVE MADE DECISIONS OF YOUR OWN LIKING WITH VERY MINIMAL NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PEOPLE. NUMBER TWO, YOU HAVE NOT RESPECTED THE GUADALUPE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY PLAN. AND NUMBER THREE, YOU HAVE AVOIDED FACE-TO-FACE MEETING WITH ENTE WITH THE PEOPLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. HOFFMAN. JANET GARCIA. MS. GARCIA, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY A GROUP. AMELIA VALDEZ, LETICIA RUSO, AND NATALIE GUERRERO. GOOD AFTERNOON, [02:40:01] CITY COUNCIL MAYOR, DISTRICT COUNCILWOMAN SHIRLEY GONZALEZ. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. MY NAME IS JANET GARCIA. I'M A SINGLE MOTHER OF TWO SMALL CHILDREN. I'M HERE REPRESENTING MYSELF AND THE RESIDENTS AT THE ALLAN COURTS THAT ARE IN FAVOR OF THE ALLAN LAWS PROJECT. I AM THE ZA APACHE RESIDENT COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT. I'VE LIVED AT THE ALLAN COURTS APPROXIMATELY ONE AND A HALF YEARS. WHEN I WAS GIVEN A CHOICE TO BE PLACED IN THREE SAHA PROPERTIES, I CHOSE ALLAN. WHEN I RECEIVED THE KEY TO MY APARTMENT, I WAS ECSTATIC. AT THE TIME, I ONLY HAD MY CHILDREN, OUR CLOTHES IN OUR CAR. I WAS SCARED TO BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE OF ALL THE STORIES MY NEIGHBORS SHARED WITH ME. I DETERMINED TO TURN THE NEGATIVE INTO A POSITIVE. I HAVE ALWAYS SEARCHED FOR OPPORTUNITY NO MATTER WHERE I AM TO IMPROVE MYSELF AND MY COMMUNITY. SO TODAY I'M HERE PROUDLY STANDING BEFORE YOU TO SHARE A MESSAGE TO YOU FROM JANET ASHLEY MESA, A RESIDENT THAT HAS IMPACTED ME IN MANY WAYS. AND SHE SAYS, MY THING IS, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE COMMUNITY SAYS THEY ARE DESTROYING THE RASSA BY BUILDING. BUT HONESTLY, WHAT IS THE RASA DOING NOW THAT IS THRIVING? NOTHING. WE LIVE LIKE OUTDATED OUTCAST. WE CONSTANTLY SPEAK OF CHANGE, WANTING CHANGE, DEMANDING IT, BUT WE EXPECT TO HAVE A NEW OUTCOME WITH THE SAME THING WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT ISN'T WORKING. MAYBE THESE LTS WILL BRING NEW BUSINESSES TO OUR COMMUNITY. WE DON'T HAVE STORES OR ANY OTHER FOOD OPTIONS. SOME PLACES WON'T EVEN DELIVER DUE TO THE ROBBERY RATE. SOMETIMES CHANGE IS GOOD, AND IN THIS CASE IT IS. I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS GREAT. IT'S A PLACE. I BELIEVE THAT THIS PLACE IS THE STARTING OF A NEW TIME FOR A COMMUNITY STUCK IN THE PAST, WHICH OUR PAST IS GREAT. IT BUILT US, BUT AT SOME POINT OUR ANCESTORS MADE A CHOICE TO CHANGE BECAUSE IF THEY DIDN'T, WE'D NEVER GROW. AND IT'S TIME TO LET THE GROWING HAPPEN AGAIN. I LIKE TO ALSO REPEAT SOMETHING I SAID AT THE ZONING COMMISSION MEETING. WHAT WE'RE BACK, WHAT WORKED BACK IN THE DAY FOR THE 1940 DOESN'T WORK FOR US ANYMORE. NOT FOR OUR FAMILIES, NOT FOR OUR CHILDREN. THERE'S NO CENTRAL AC WE DON'T HAVE OUTLETS FOR OUR DRYERS. THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS OUTDATED FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, AND OUR CHILDREN AND OUR FAMILIES ARE BEING BROUGHT UP THERE. THERE'S LEAD PAINT IN THE WALLS AND WE NEED TO SEE A CHANGE. SOME OF THE BENEFITS I THAT I CAN SEE COMING FROM THE ALLAN LOFTS PROJECTS ARE BETTER SECURITY FOR THE COMMUNITY AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS FOR THE RESIDENTS. I HUMBLY ASK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN IMPROVING THE LIVES AND LIVING CONDITIONS OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE ZA APACHE COURTS. THIS IS THE START OF A NEW BEGINNING FOR OUR FAMILIES. I WOULD REALLY LOVE SEEING TO, I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO SEE THE WEST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO BEING IMPROVED INSTEAD OF LEFT BEHIND. I WANT TO BE PART OF THE FUTURE. THANK YOU. CITY COUNCIL. THANK YOU MS. GARCIA. WE HAVE A GROUP, AMELIA VALDEZ, LETICIA ZO, AND NATALIE GUERRERO. THE GROUP WILL BE FOLLOWED BY ALICIA ARADONDO. Y'ALL HAVE SIX MINUTES. UM, NATALIE GUERRERO GIVE IS GIVING US THREE MINUTES. YEAH, Y'ALL ARE ALREADY TOGETHER. YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES. WE'RE A NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. YES. OKAY. EVERYTHING'S TWO MINUTES. OH, WE, WE THOUGHT IT WAS NINE MINUTES. I READ THE INSTRUCTIONS OUT THERE. IT'S AT NINE MINUTES. SO DOING SIX MINUTES FOR GROUPS AND THREE MINUTES FOR INDIVIDUALS. OKAY. THANK YOU. HELLO, MY NAME IS AMELIA VALEZ. HELLO, I'M LETICIA RESO AND WE ARE THE CO-CHAIRS OF THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE RESIDENT ASSOCIATION. THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE RESIDENT ASSOCIATION IS AN OFFICIAL AND CITY RECOGNIZED RESIDENT ASSOCIATION OF THE NEAR WEST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO. WE WANT TO BEGIN BY STATING THAT WE SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE WEST SIDE, HOWEVER, ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT THAT SHOULD BE IN LINE WITH AND RESPECT THE GUADALUPE COMMUNITY PLAN. THIS PLAN WAS DEVELOPED BY WEST SIDE COMMUNITY RESIDENTS AND SHOULD BE RESPECTED AS, AS PER THE COMMUNITY PLAN, THE DIRECTION IS TO LIMIT HOUSING TO LOW DENSITY AND TO TWO STORIES. THE AMAZON LAW PROJECT IS REQUESTING I D C THREE ZONING, WHICH IS HIGH DENSITY AT DOES NOT ALIGN WITH THE GUADALUPE WESTSIDE COMMUNITY PLAN. WE BELIEVE THAT SAHA, N R P AND CITY COUNCILWOMAN SHIRLEY GONZALEZ HAVE DISREGARDED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WHILE PLANNING THIS PROJECT. PURPOSELY, ACCORDING TO THE SAHA PLANNING FOR THIS PROJECT BEGAN IN 2018. HOWEVER, WE HAVE ONLY THREE [02:45:01] OPPORTUNITIES TO HEAR THE PLAN WITHIN THE 18 MONTHS FROM THE DATE WE WERE MADE AWARE OF THE PROJECT AND THE ZONING MEETING. WE BELIEVE THAT WE COULD HAVE COME TO AN AGREEMENT AND HAVE BEEN SUPPORTIVE HAD THERE BEEN HONEST AND UPFRONT ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ASSOCIATION. BUT LET'S BE HONEST, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IS NOT WANTED. WE ARE REPEATEDLY TOLD BY SAHA, COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ, AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS WHO DON'T EVEN LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT THIS PROJECT IS THE BEST THING FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND WE SHOULD STAND, WE SHOULD NOT STAND IN THE WAY OF PROJECTS THAT PROVIDE NEEDED HOUSING FOR A COMMUNITY. WE UNDERSTAND THE NEED. WE LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY, SO WE SEE FIRSTHAND THE NEEDS OF OUR RESIDENTS. PLEASE DO NOT INSULT US BY TELLING US THAT WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR OUR COMMUNITY. WE'RE CONTINUALLY BEING TOLD THAT THIS PROJECT MUST BE RUSHED THROUGH BECAUSE OF THE TAX CREDITS THAT HAVE BEEN AWARDED TO THIS PROJECT. WHY WAS THERE NO RUSH TO ENGAGE WITH THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THIS PROJECT? WE ARE TOLD THAT WE SHOULD THINK OF THE PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC HOUSING WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THE ZA LOFT PROJECT. BUT AGAIN, LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT IT. INITIALLY, THE ZA LOFT PROJECT INCLUDED ONLY APPROXIMATELY 12 PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS, SO WERE SAHA AND R PE AND SHIRLEY GONZALEZ REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE RESIDENTS NEEDS. IT WAS ONLY AFTER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND RESIDENTS OF THE WEST SIDE WHO CHALLENGED THE SMALL NUMBER OF PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS THAT THE NUMBER OF PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS WAS INCREASED TO 40. WE ARE PORTRAYED AS THE GROUP THAT IS AVERSE TO CHANGE DEVELOPMENT AND ULTIMATELY TO DOING WHAT IS BEST FOR OUR COMMUNITY. AND THAT SAHA AND N R P AND CITY COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ ARE THE ONES WHO ARE TRULY CONCERNED ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY. NO, DO NOT PRESENT THIS PROJECT AS A BENEVOLENT GESTURE FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND ITS RESIDENTS. THIS IS ABOUT THE NEED FOR PRIME REAL ESTATE AND THE PROFITS THAT OTHERS WILL MAKE FROM THIS AND OTHER SUCH HOUSING PROJECTS. WE'RE TIRED OF OUR CITY COUNCIL VOTING WITH THE AFFECTED AREAS. COUNCIL PERSON, WHO BY THE WAY, DOES NOT MEET WITH HER CONSI CONSTITUENTS AND WHO CONDESCENDINGLY TELLS ITS RESIDENTS THAT SHE KNOWS WHAT'S BEST FOR HER COMMUNITY. PERHAPS THIS IS WHY THE RESIDENTS OF SAN ANTONIO SPOKE UP IN NOVEMBER OF 2018 AND VOTED TO SUPPORT TWO OF THE THREE CHARTER AMENDMENTS. WE HEAR OVER AND OVER THAT OUR CITY COUNCIL IS CONCERNED ABOUT HOUSING, BUT HOUSING FOR WHOM INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES MOVING INTO SAN ANTONIO, BECAUSE IT CERTAINLY DOESN'T SEEM CONCERNED ABOUT THE RESIDENTS WHOSE FAMILIES HAVE LIVED MANY GENERATIONS IN THIS CITY AND SPECIFICALLY THE WEST SIDE, AND WHO HAVE BUILT AND MADE THE CITY WHAT IT IS. WE BELIEVE THAT N R P CAN COMPLETE THIS PROJECT PROJECT WITHOUT HAVING TO USE IDZ THREE ZONING. IF THE CITY APPROVES THIS ZONING DESIGNATION, IT WOULD OPEN THE DOOR TO DEVELOPERS TO CHANGE THE CHARACTER OF OUR COMMUNITY. THE GUADALUPE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY PLAN WAS DEVELOPED SPECIFIC SPECIFICALLY TO PRESERVE THE HISTORY FABRIC OF THIS COMMUNITY. WOULD THE CITY ALLOW SUCH A DEVELOPMENT IN KING WILLIAMS OR MONTE VISTA? I SAY THAT THE ASSOCIATIONS REACHED OUT TO SAHA AND R P CITY COUNCILWOMAN SHIRLEY GONZALEZ AFTER THE ZONING COMMISSION MEETING ON JULY 16 TO DISCUSS THE SITE PLAN FOR THE ALLAN LOVE. OUR MAIN CONCERNS ARE THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING AND THE LARGE PARKING AREAS. WE MEET TWICE. WE MET TWICE AND PRESENTED OUR REQUEST TO LIMIT THE BUILDING TO TWO STORE TWO STORIES IN HEIGHT AND USE THE PARKING AREA FOR HOUSING STRUCTURES. WE WERE HOPEFUL THAT N R P ALONG WITH MUNOZ ARCHITECTS WERE ABLE TO MAKE MODIFICATIONS TO THE SITE PLAN. BUT WE DISCOURAGE, WE WERE DISCOURAGED WHEN WE WERE TOLD THAT OUR REQUEST TO LIMIT THE HEIGHT TO TWO STORIES IS NOT POSSIBLE. WE HAVE STATED THAT WE ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT THREE STORY STRUCTURE, BUT WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT A FOUR STORY STRUCTURE WILL STILL BE BUILT. ONCE AGAIN, WE BELIEVE THIS IS ABOUT PROFIT FOR THE DEVELOPER. HOWEVER, WE BELIEVE THAT N R P CAN STILL MAINTAIN THEIR ORIGINAL COST STRUCTURE EVEN WITH THE CHANGES WE ARE REQUESTING. AS STATED EARLIER, WE BELIEVE THAT THIS PROJECT COULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING THAT THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE RESIDENTS, ALONG WITH SAHA AND N R P COULD HAVE AGREED ON HAD THERE BEEN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. WE ARE AWARE THAT SAHA IS PLANNING SEVERAL HOUSING PROJECTS IN THE WEST SIDE. WE DEMAND THAT SAHA INCLUDE THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE RESIDENT ASSOCIATION AND ALL PLANNING AND DESIGN MEETINGS FOR ANY FUTURE HOUSING PROJECTS IN THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE COMMUNITY. AND THAT CITY COUNCIL SHIRLEY GONZALEZ BE IN ATTENDANCE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL. ALICIA ORONO. [02:50:01] ALICIA ARDO, FOLLOWED BY TERRY CASTILLO. GOOD AFTERNOON TO ALL PRESENT IN THIS HOUSE THAT BELONGS TO ALL CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WANTED TO BE HERE TODAY? SOME ARE FORMER LANDOWNERS OF THE WEST SIDE. THESE ARE INCREDIBLY EMOTIONALLY CHARGED PERSONS, INTIMATE AND BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED WITH A SLOW BURNING INTENSITY TO LIVE THE BEST LIFE THEY CAN AFFORD AND PROVIDE FOR THEIR CHILDREN. THEY SURVIVED THE CONDITIONS, SUPPORTED THEM IN THE POOR BARRIO AND THE UGLY CONDITIONS IMPOSED ON THEM. TODAY WE LIVE WITH THE HOPE BECAUSE RIO IS STILL A LIVING FLAME. YOU CAN FIND THIS FLAME WITHIN US. AND ON MANY STREETS OFF OF GUADALUPE, THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A WILLINGNESS TO EXPLOIT THE POOR, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE OF COLOR. EXPLOITATION IS EASILY MADE LAWFULLY, AWFULLY LEGAL, LAWFULLY, AWFULLY LEGAL. WE WANT TO REMEMBER WHERE WE CAME FROM AND HOW AMERICAN CULTURES OF COLOR EXISTED WITHIN THE RULING AND DOMINANT CULTURE AND POLICY MAKERS OF SAN ANTONIO. WE ARE ALL PRODUCTS OF OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR FAMILIES, AND THE RULING POLITICS. THESE ARE SOCIAL ASSOCIATIONS WITHIN WHITE SUPREMACY, CULTS AND CON ARTIST INSTITUTIONS OF RELIGION, POLITICS, ORDINANCES, ALSO INSTITUTES OF HIGHER EDUCATION. IT IS STAGGERING TO IMAGINE THAT THE LINK THAT SEPARATE US, OUR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, ETHNIC, CULTURAL AND EDUCATION, IT IS AN INSULT TO CITIZENS THAT THE PAID SICK LEAVE PROPOSAL LEGALLY PASSED IN SAN ANTONIO HAS BEEN POSTPONED. YOU SHOULD HOLD YOURSELVES TO THE SAME STANDARD OF DECENCY THAT YOU ASK A MINIMUM WAGE EARNERS. A LINK EXISTS BETWEEN POLITICAL RHETORIC ABOUT FAIRNESS AND NOT HAVING EARN THE RIGHT TO DESERVE A PAID SICK LEAVE. THANK YOU MRS. ARDO. I NEED CAN SOMEBODY GIMME TWO MINUTES? MRS. TERRY? EXCUSE ME. TERRY CASTILLO. TERRY CASTILLO WILL BE FOLLOWED BY CYNTHIA SPIELMAN. HELLO CITY COUNSEL. I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK THAT YOU ALL DENY OR POSTPONE THE PROPOSED FOUR STORY AZA LAW TO N R P AND SAHA. INCORPORATE THE GUIDELINES OUTLINED IN THE GUADALUPE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY PLAN. THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY FROM SHIRLEY IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THIS PROJECT UP UNTIL TODAY IS, IS DISTURBING GIVEN THE EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY OPPOSITION EVIDENT IN THE COLLECTION OF OVER 300 SIGNATURES OBJECTING THE FOUR STORY STRUCTURE. IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT THIS DEVELOPMENT IS NOT FOR US, NOT HER CONSTITUENTS. THIS IS NOT APPLYING AN EQUITY LENS LIKE YOUR OP-ED SAYS. THIS IS INSTITUTIONALLY SUPPORTED CLASS WARFARE THAT IS GOING TO FURTHER OPERATE TO SYSTEMICALLY DISADVANTAGE HER WORKING CLASS CONSTITUENTS BECAUSE OF THE, BECAUSE BECAUSE DESPITE THE LONG WAITING LIST FOR, FOR PUBLIC HI, UH, FOR PUBLIC HOUSING, DESPITE, DESPITE 7 8, 0 7 BEING THE CITY'S POOR ZIP CODE, DESPITE THE ECONOMIC MAKEUP OF HER CONSTITUENTS AND EVEN DESPITE HAVEN FOR HOPE AND SAM'S MINISTRY CITING AN INCREASE IN HOMELESS FAMILIES, SAHA HAVEN FOR, I MEAN SAHA, N R P AND SHIRLEY URBAN CARTELS, I'D CALL 'EM, ARE IMPLANTING A DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL REQUIRE OVER QUADRUPLE THE $10,242 A M I OF ALLAN RESIDENTS FOR THE 48 OUT OF THE 88 UNITS. THESE ARE NUMBERS I TOOK FROM HARED ALL WHILE BLATANTLY LYING TO HER RESIDENT, TO HER CONSTITUENTS AND TO AAN RESIDENTS. TO QUOTE HER HER MISLEADING OP-ED QUOTE, [02:55:01] THE IDEA IS TO KEEP AAN RESIDENTS FROM THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD WHILE THEIR HOMES ARE REBUILT. WHEN THE LOBSTERS ARE BUILT, ALLAN RESIDENTS WILL MOVE IN. IT'S A SAFE PLAN. IT KEEPS FAMILY IN PLACE. END QUOTE. THIS ENTIRE OP-ED IS DISHONEST. I'M NOT A MATHEMATICIAN, BUT 40 OUT OF 88 UNITS ARE NOT ENOUGH TO HOUSE THOSE IN THE EXISTING 950 UH, ALLAN UNITS. HOWEVER, I AM AN URBAN HISTORIAN AND THE LACK OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING THAT WILL FOLLOW THE NEXT PHASES OF THE AZAM PROJECT WILL FACILITATE A SPIKE IN HOMELESSNESS. ALONG WITH THE DISPLACEMENT OF DISTRICT FIVE'S MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS, THIS PROJECT WILL SERVE AS A CATALYST FOR THE DISPLACEMENT OF HER CONSTITUENTS INTO THE SURROUNDING 6 0 4 DISTRICTS ALONG COMMUTE FROM THE REPLACES OF WORK AND SUPPORT SYSTEMS. THIS WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT THE ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THOSE ALREADY STRUGGLING. SHIRLEY HAS ALREADY ASKED THE COUNCIL NOT TO ALLOCATE ANY ADDITIONAL HAVEN FOR HOPE FUNDS IN HER DISTRICT, BUT SHE DOESN'T SEE THE CONTRADICTION THAT THE SOLUTION TO DECREASING HOMELESSNESS AND THE NEED FOR ENTITIES LIKE HAVEN FOR HOPE IN HER DISTRICT IS TO DEVELOP LOW INCOME HOUSING, NOT TO DEVELOP UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT'S GOING TO THIS, THIS HOUSING UNIT THAT'S GOING TO EXCEED THE A M I OF HER CONSTITUENTS CITY COUNCIL. I RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT YOU SHOW COMPASSION AND RESPECT FOR DISTRICT FIVE RESIDENTS WHO OPPOSE THIS FOUR STORY TROJAN HORSE OF DISPLACEMENT. UNTIL AT THE, AT THE VERY LEAST, N R P AND SAHA MEET RESIDENTS IN DESIGN NEGOTIATION. NRPS QUALIFIED ALLOCATION PLAN DOES NOT STATE THAT THE LOFTS MUST BE FOUR STORIES, AND IT IS NRPS RESPONSIBILITY TO MANIPULATE THEIR BUDGET TO ACCOMMODATE THE GUADALUPE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY PLAN. THANKS. THANK YOU, MS. CASTILLO. CYNTHIA SPIELMAN NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION AND I MY TIME TO TONY GARCIA. TONY GARCIA. UH, TONY, ARE YOU HERE? OKAY. I'LL CALL YOU UP WHEN YOU'RE, UM, WHEN YOUR, WHEN YOUR NAME IS UP ON THE QUEUE. OKAY. ABIGAIL CASTILLO. MS. CASTILLO, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY VELMA PENA. GOOD AFTERNOON. UM, I'M HERE AND, AND I JUST WANTED TO SHARE, YOU KNOW, UM, LIFE HAS REALLY BEEN KIND OF HARD LIVING IN THE WEST SIDE. YOU KNOW, YOU'VE COME IN AND OUT AND YOU, YOU SEE ALL THE CHAOTIC AND YOU SEE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME AND STAYED AND, AND TRY TO MAKE IT WORSE THAN WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. UM, I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT AT THE CASTANOS FOR QUITE FOUR YEARS, BUT, YOU KNOW, I I I'VE DIPPED IN, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO HELP OUT THE COMMUNITY, TRY TO HELP OUT MOTHERS AND CHILDREN, YOU KNOW, DEVELOP A DIFFERENT CULTURE OF A CHANGE OF A LIFESTYLE. IT, UM, IT'S KIND OF HARD SOMETIMES WHEN YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TO GO HOME, YOU KNOW, AND TRY TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND TRYING TO HELP OUT YOUR, YOUR NEIGHBORS, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY BARELY HAVE ANYTHING. UM, I BELIEVE THAT A GREAT CHANGE IS ALL, IS, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING TO, TO INSTILL IN PEOPLE'S LIVES, TO SHOW THEM AS, AS A YOUNG TEENAGE, YOU KNOW, AS CHILDREN, THAT YOU KNOW WHAT, THE SKY'S THE LIMIT FOR THEM AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO REMAIN THE SAME BECAUSE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T WANNA GROW OR DOESN'T WANNA CHANGE. UM, IT IT, I SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN CHANGE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND OUR COMMUNITY, PEOPLE WILL START REALIZING THAT WE'RE JUST NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT YOU PASS BY AND DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE. AND I BELIEVE THAT IT'S TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR COMMUNITY AND SHOW SOME, SHOW SOME SUPPORT OF BEAUTIFYING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND JUST GIVING THE SUPPORT THAT THEY DESERVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MS. CASTILLO. VELMA PENA, MS. PENA BE FOLLOWED BY ROBERT ARNOLD. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE WESTWOOD SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND ALSO MEMBER OF THE WEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS COALITION. UM, WE ARE NOT OPPOSED TO THE DENSITY NOR TO THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT THERE HAS BEEN NO ATTEMPT TO ADHERE TO THE GUADALUPE COMMUNITY PLAN AND ITS DESIGN, WHICH IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE V VULNERABLE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT'S SURROUND IT. NORD HAS A PROCESS INCLUDED MEANINGFUL NEIGHBORHOOD INPUT UNTIL VERY RECENTLY OF THE 17 MEETINGS N P R CLAIMS TO HAVE HAD WITH THE COMMUNITY. ONLY THREE HAVE BEEN ABOUT THIS SPECIFIC PROJECT. THIS, THIS STRUGGLE GOES BEYOND THIS PROJECT TO FUTURE PROJECTS IN MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. WE ARE NO LONGER VOICELESS ON THE WEST SIDE AND WE ARE HERE TO ADVOCATE FOR OUR OWN COMMUNITIES. THE WEST SIDE HAS A HISTORY OF THE CITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY MAKING DECISIONS ON ITS BEHALF. THE WEST SIDE HAS ORGANIZED AND IS EXERTING ITS VOICE TO ADVOCATE ON ITS OWN BEHALF [03:00:01] AND ITS ALLIES TO STAND WITH HER NEIGHBORHOODS ALL OVER THE CITY. ALL OVER THE CITY, PARTICULARLY IN THE WEST SIDE, ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS DEVELOPMENT SETTING A PRESIDENT'S ON HOW HOUSING IS PRODUCED IN THE FUTURE. IN ORDER TO MAKE AFFORDABLE HOUSING A REALITY, IT MUST HAVE MEANINGFUL PUBLIC INPUT AS WELL AS COMPLY WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY PLAN. THERE IS NO DESIRE TO STOP AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT ON THE WEST SIDE, BUT INSTEAD TO INSIST ON A TRANSPARENT, INCLUSIVE PROCESS, WHICH HAS NOT BEEN THE CASE. AND TO RESPECT THE COMMUNITIES, COMMUNITIES IN WHICH THEY BUILT BY COMPLYING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR COMMUNITY PLANS, WHICH WILL ENSURE THE FUTURE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING, PLEASE CREATE A PROJECT THAT WILL FIT INTO THE FABRIC OF THIS VULNERABLE NEIGHBORHOOD TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. AND I HAVE TO STATE, AGAIN, PLEASE DON'T MISUNDERSTAND THIS. WE ARE NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM AGAINST AFFORDABLE HOUSING. WE JUST WANT, UH, FOR US TO BE INCLUDED WHEN THERE'S PROJECTS LIKE THIS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. BENO. ROBERT ARNOLD. MR. ARNOLD, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY RICHARD GARCIA NOT HAVING MY SHIRT. THEY DIDN'T HAVE MY SIDE. SAHA HAS DONE THE HARD WORK. AUSTIN HAS GIVEN THEM FUNDS. COUNCILMEN, COUNCILWOMEN. WE'RE ON THE ONE YARD LINE, WE'RE ABOUT TO SCORE. AS YOU CAN TELL. I'M AN EX FOOTBALL PLAYER. THE HARD WORK IS DONE. WE'VE DROVE DOWN TO THE ONE TO TODAY. WE NEED YOU TO JUST PUSH IT IN FOR US. I SUPPORT IT. I SUPPORT THE CAUSE AND I SUPPORT THIS ZONE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. ARNOLD. RICHARD GARCIA. MR. GARCIA, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY MONIQUE GIBSON. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR. CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. UH, MY NAME IS RICHARD GARCIA, CITY COUNCIL MONTREAL GONZALEZ. I LIVE IN DISTRICT FIVE AND I'M A, I'M A REGISTERED VOTER. YOU CAN SEE MY AND I VOTE. I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OR YOU'RE RUNNING FOR THE LOCAL DOG CATCHER, OR ANYWHERE IN BETWEEN. AS AN INFORMED VOTER, I WILL VOTE AND I'M COMING TODAY IN SUPPORT OF THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. I COME IN SUPPORT FOR THE, I'M A NEIGHBORHOOD LEADER. I'M PRESIDENT OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, MEMORIAL HEIGHTS, AND I'M ALSO A PART OF THE, A PROUD MEMBER OF THE WEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. BUT I ASK YOU TO PLEASE, PLEASE, UH, CONTINUE BE GIVEN THIS, UH, THE WEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. THE, THE RESPECT THAT THEY RESERVE, HONOR THE COMMUNITY PLAN. AGAIN, HONOR THE COMMUNITY PLAN GIVEN THE RESPECT THEY'VE BEEN FIGHTING VERY, VERY HARD FOR THIS, AND I SUPPORT 'EM 110%. AND I, AND IN CLOSING, I I DO WANNA SAY THAT, THAT, UH, THAT THEY, THEY, THEY DESERVE THEIR RESPECT AND THE HONOR THAT THEY RESERVE. THEY'VE BEEN NEGLECTED FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. HONOR THEM AND SUPPORT THEM. AND IN THE WORDS OF THE GREAT I MILANO THE REVOLUTIONARY. I WILL CONTINUE, CONTINUE TO FIGHT ON MY KNEES RATHER THAN TO LIVE ON, CONTINUE TO FIGHT ON MY FEET AND CONTINUE LIVING ON MY KNEES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. GARCIA. MONIQUE GIBSON. MS. GIBSON, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY AMY CASTLEY. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS MONIQUE GIBSON. I'M ALSO A SINGLE MOTHER OF TWO IN OUR ELON APACHE COURSE, RESIDENT COUNCIL TREASURER. I AM HONORED TO BE HERE TODAY AMONGST YOU ALL TO SHARE MY VOICE FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE IN ATTENDANCE AS WELL AS THOSE WHO ARE ABSENT. I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT OF ELONNA FOR A FULL YEAR THIS MONTH, AND HAVE GROWN TO MEET MANY WONDERFUL, INTELLIGENT PEOPLE. I HAVE ALSO GROWN TO REACH OR REACH NEW OPPORTUNITIES I'VE NEVER BELIEVED I WOULD SINCE BECOMING A PART OF MY COMMUNITY. I BELIEVE I SPEAK FOR MANY OF US IN THE COMMUNITY WHEN I SAY SUCH DEVELOPMENTS ARE A GIFT WHEN THINKING OF OURSELVES AND OUR CHILDREN. WE WANT POSITIVE GROWTH FOR OURSELVES, OUR CHILDREN, OUR COMMUNITIES. WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO GROW WITHIN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY CAN BE HAPPY WITHIN THEIR SURROUNDINGS. SEE NEW PEOPLE SHARE A CULTURE OF THEIR OWN. I FIND MANY OF THE COMMUNITY ELDERS, SPEAKING OF CULTURE, SCARED OF CHANGE AND TRULY NOT KEEPING IN MIND THAT THE CULTURE IS NOT YOUR SURROUNDINGS. BUT THE PEOPLE WITHIN I WANNA INCLUDE WITHIN THIS. UM, UM, AS FAR AS LONG AS I'VE BEEN, UH, PART OF OUR RESIDENT COUNCIL, MS. GONZALEZ, HAS PARTICIPATED WITHIN OUR BACK TO SCHOOL EVENT PROVIDING 250 BACKPACKS FOR OUR, UH, STUDENTS. UM, THERE'S BEEN A PETITION OF 200 PEOPLE FOR THE LOFTS THAT WON'T SHARE TO PROTECT OUR ENTITIES. IN [03:05:01] THE PAST, MAYBE THE AL AMAZONS WERE BASED OFF A CULTURE BROUGHT TOGETHER OF ONE BODY. THE PICTURES THAT ARE SURROUNDING US, DRIVING DOWN GUADALUPE, WE SEE MURALS, BUT THEY'RE NOT OF THE CULTURES THAT I SEE WITHIN AMAZON, THEY'RE CULTURES THAT MAY HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST, BUT MY SURROUNDINGS ARE NEIGHBORS OF DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES AND THEIR CULTURES AREN'T SPEAKING OUT. SO I THINK THAT WITHIN THE LOFTS AND CONSIST PROVIDING A MIXED, UM, INCOME AND DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO, I GUESS, ASSOCIATE WITH WOULD BE A POSITIVE LOOK FOR OUR CHILDREN AS WELL AS OURSELVES. IN CONCLUSION, I'M FOR THE AMAZON LOFS DEVELOPMENT TO BRING A POSITIVE CHANGE OUT OF THE GREAT DEVELOPMENT FOR A DEVELOPING PEOPLE IN THE NEXT GENERATION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU, MS. GIBSON. AMY CASTLEY. MS. CASTLEY, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY GLORIA HERNANDEZ. UH, MAYOR, MAY I APPROACH, I HAVE A HANDOUTS TO DISTRIBUTE. UH, SURE. YEAH, YOU CAN. AND IF YOU COULD PUT THIS IN. UM, GOOD AFTERNOON. UH, MY NAME IS AMY CASTLEY. I'M A NEWLY RETIRED PROFESSOR OF LAW FROM ST. MARY'S. UM, I'M ALSO A VERY ENTHUSIASTIC GRANDMOTHER OF A FIVE-YEAR-OLD. SO, UH, I, THAT'S WHY I'M ONLY ONE HANDED TODAY. UM, I WANTED TO ADDRESS, I I'M, I STAND BEFORE YOU TO OPPOSE, UM, THE PROPOSAL. AND I WANTED TO ADDRESS ONE THING THAT'S OF GREAT CONCERN, UM, TO ME, AND I THINK TO MANY OF THOSE IN THE WEST SIDE. UM, FIRST I WANNA MAKE CLEAR THAT I'M VERY MUCH OF A, OF SUPPORTER OF PUBLIC HOUSING AND GENUINELY AFFORDABLE HOUSING, PARTICULARLY IN THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE, THE PRECIOUS NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, OF SAN ANTONIO. HOWEVER, HERE'S WHAT I WANTED TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AS YOU ADOPT PIECES OF LAW, YOU KNOW HOW THEY WORK OUT ON THE GROUND. SO AS MANY OF YOU ALL ARE AWARE, THE CODE OF ORDINANCES MAKES CLEAR THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY PLANS ARE CRITICAL. THEY ARE PART OF OUR MASTER PLAN AND THEY HAVE THE FORCE OF LAW. UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THE GUADALUPE, UM, WEST SIDE COMMUNITY PLAN SPECIFIES, AS IT SAYS ON YOUR PAGE THREE, THAT LOW DENSITY MIXED USE IS RECOMMENDED FOR GUADALUPE STREET, WHICH WOULD LIMIT RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS TO TWO STORIES. OKAY? THAT'S THE COMMUNITY PLAN THAT YOU'VE HEARD TALKED ABOUT TODAY. AND ON PAGE FOUR IS THE MAP AND IT'S CIRCLED. UM, THE AREA, YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT ON THAT SLIDE. THE AREA THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, IT IS DESIGNATED FOR LOW DENSITY MIXED USE, LOW DENSITY MIXED USE. ALSO ON PAGE FIVE IS THE ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL APPROVING THE GUADALUPE COMMUNITY PLAN. ALRIGHT? NOW, THE WAY THAT THE COMMUNITY PLAN IS PROTECTED IS IN SECTION 35 4 21 D. WHEN AN APPLICATION FOR REZONING HAPPENS, THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES HAS TO MAKE A DETERMINATION, AS DO YOU AS COUNCIL MEMBERS, WHETHER OR NOT THE PROPOSED CHANGE IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMMUNITY PLAN. IF IT IS NOT, THEN THE APPLICANT MUST SUBMIT AN APPLICATION FOR A PLAN AMENDMENT. ALRIGHT? NOW, THE NEXT PAGE ON PAGE EIGHT, THIS IS THE ORDINANCE THAT YOU ALL ADOPTED LAST NOVEMBER, UH, SPECIFYING WHAT IS I D Z. AND AS YOU'LL RECALL, AN I D Z THREE IS A HIGH DENSITY INFILL DEVELOPMENT. SO WHAT PEOPLE ARE ASKING YOU TODAY IS HOW COULD A LOW DENSITY MIXED USE COMMUNITY PLAN BE CONSISTENT WITH A ZONING CHANGE TO HIGH DENSITY INFILL DEVELOPMENT? THANK YOU, MS. CASTELLI. UH, LAURA WOULD LIKE TO GIVE HER TIME TOO. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE MS. HERNANDEZ. THAT'S YOU? YES. OKAY. I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE THE ONLY EXPLANATION THAT WE'VE RECEIVED FOR WHY THE, THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOUND THAT THESE TWO THINGS THAT IS THE COMMUNITY PLAN AND THE PROPOSED CHANGING TO HIGH DENSITY, UM, HIGH INTENSITY INFILL DEVELOPMENT. UM, WE'VE NEVER BEEN GIVEN AN OFFICIAL, UM, EXPLANATION. THE ONLY [03:10:01] EXPLANATION THAT I'VE BEEN GIVEN BY A, A ZONING STAFF OBSERVER IS THAT IN THAT SAME ORDINANCE THAT YOU ALL ADOPTED LAST NOVEMBER, IT INCLUDES AN APPENDIX A, WHICH DEFINES SOME OF THE TERMS. AND THAT APPENDIX A ON, ON PAGE 19 OF YOUR HANDOUT, AND 20, YES, THANK YOU, UM, DEFINES, UH, A NEIGHBORHOOD MIXED USE. BUT APPARENTLY THAT DOESN'T APPLY. IT DEFINE, IT DEFINES AN URBAN MIXED USE. AND THEN IF YOU TURN TO PAGE 20, AT THE VERY END OF THAT DEFINITIONAL SECTION IN AN APPENDIX, IT SAYS, I D Z P U D M X D, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, SHALL BE CONSIDERED OR MAY BE CONSIDERED CONSISTENT WITH THE LAND USE CATEGORY PROVIDED. THE, UM, PERMITTED USES INCLUDED ON THE ZONING SITE PLAN ARE IN ACCORDANCE. OKAY? SO IN OTHER WORDS, APPARENTLY THE STAFF HAS INTERPRETED THAT LITTLE PART OF YOUR APPENDIX A TO UNDO THE RESPECT FOR COMMUNITY PLANS. THAT IS A, A CORE PART OF OUR ZONING PRACTICES. AND THAT'S WRONG. I DON'T THINK YOU INTENDED THAT THE STAFF SHOULD BE MORE RESPONSIBLE IN INTERPRETING IT. THIS PROPOSAL SHOULD BE HAVE GONE TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION WITH A APPLICATION FOR A PLAN AMENDMENT. IT DIDN'T A LOT OF, UM, I IMPORTANT PUBLIC INPUT WAS CIRCUMVENTED IN THAT WAY. AND, UH, SECTION 35 4 21 MAKES CLEAR THAT THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD NOT MUST NOT APPROVE A ZONING CHANGE THAT IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE COMMUNITY PLAN. AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE BEING ASKED TO DO TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. CASTLEY. SARAH GOULD. MS. GOULD, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY A GROUP ESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER. GOOD. UH, AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS DR. SARAH GOULD. I'M DIRECTOR OF THE MU WEST SIDE, A FORTHCOMING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM LOCATED ACROSS THE STREET FROM SAHA NEW DEVELOPMENT. UM, I WANTED TO JUST GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF THE HISTORY OF OUR SITE AND, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, THAT LITTLE LASER, IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO SEE, BUT, UH, JUST TO THE LEFT AND JUST ABOVE IS, UM, WHERE THE SAHA DEVELOPMENT WILL BE. SO, UM, THE ESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER, UH, FOR WHOM THE M WEST SIDE IS A NEW PROJECT, UH, PURCHASED THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE RETO DE ESPERANZA IN 2001 TO SERVE AS A HOME BASE FOR ITS ART DES VIVA WEST SIDE CULTURAL PROJECT. AND IN 2007, THEY PURCHASED, UM, THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE PROPERTY. UH, AGAIN, I'M SORRY, YOU CAN'T REALLY SEE THE LASER, UH, BUT IT, IT IS, UM, UH, MARKED NUMBER TWO ON THAT MAP. UM, THIS WAS THE FORMER RUBEN'S ICE HOUSE AND BY 2008, THE VISION FOR THE MARINE COTO INCLUDED TRANSFORMING RUBEN'S INTO A LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM. OVER THE YEARS AT THE RIN CONSO, WE HAVE RE REHABILITATED THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE HOMES LOCATED THERE, AS WELL AS BUILT A NEW ADOBE STRUCTURE, RECLAIMING AN OLD AND YET ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MODE OF CONSTRUCTION THAT HAD BEEN REGULATED OUT OF EXISTENCE ON THE WEST SIDE MANY YEARS AGO. OUR WORK, BRINGING HISTORIC PRESERVATION TO THE WEST SIDE, HELPS RETAIN VISUAL REMINDERS OF OUR COMMUNITY'S HISTORY AND THE LIVES OF THE MANY HARDWORKING WEST SIDE RESIDENTS WHO HELPED MAKE SAN ANTONIO THE GREAT CITY THAT IT IS. OUR VISION FOR THE MU WEST SIDE IS A COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM THAT MEANS A MUSEUM THAT FOCUSES ON A LOCAL AREA AND INVITES THE COMMUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN DEVELOPING THE MUSEUM'S, EXHIBITS AND PROGRAMS. WHY DO WE NEED A MUSEUM WEST SIDE? WELL, IT IS SAN UH, SAN ANTONIO'S WEST SIDE HAS BEEN CALLED THE MEXICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES. AND TH AND THOUGH THE WEST SIDE IS ONE OF THE MOST HISTORICALLY AND CULTURALLY RICH COMMUNITIES IN SAN ANTONIO, UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS ALSO ONE OF THE MOST UNDER-RECOGNIZED, UNDERFUNDED, AND UNDERSERVED. OUR WEST SIDE COMMUNITY, HOWEVER, DOES KNOW OUR IMPORTANCE TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE CITY, AND WE BELIEVE IT IS TIME AT THE EO WE WILL FOCUS ON ASPECTS OF LOCAL HISTORY, CULTURE, AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES OF IMPORTANCE TO OUR POOR AND WORKING CLASS COMMUNITY. THE WEST SIDE IS PREDOMINANTLY WORKING CLASS, UM, AND IT WILL SERVE AS A SITE OF AFFIRMATION OF COMMUNITY HISTORY AND CULTURE AND ITS ENDURING VALUE WHILE SERVING AS A SITE OF RESISTANCE TO THE MARGINALIZATION [03:15:01] AND ERASURE OF OUR COMMUNITY HISTORY. UM, YOU NEED MORE TIME LAST YEAR. OH, OKAY. LAST YEAR WE, UH, DEBUTED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF SAHA AND DISTRICT FIVE. THANK YOU. UH, WE DEBUTED AN EXHIBIT CALLED LOS COURTS AT THE ANA APACHE COURTS COMMUNITY ROOM, AND IT HAS SINCE. THANK YOU MS. GOULD. I'M SORRY. I HAVE TO REMIND FOLKS THAT WE ARE ON A, A POSTED AGENDA, SO YOU'VE GOT TO LIMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO THE ITEMS THAT ARE ON THE POSTED AGENDA. UM, ARE THERE, ARE THERE IS, ARE YOU GETTING MORE TIME FROM SOMEONE? AND I'M GONNA NEED TO ASK YOU TO, TO STICK TO THE COMMENTS ON THE POSTED AGENDA, MS. GOULD. OKAY. IF NOT, THEN WE'LL NEED TO HAVE ESPERANZA. I'M AND I'LL OKAY. UM, YOU'RE LISTED ON ITEM 16, SO PLEASE COMMENT ON 16. ALRIGHT. CAN WE GO BACK TO THAT, MA'AM? OH, OKAY. UM, SO LAST FALL WITH THE HELP OF SAHA AND DISTRICT FIVE-WAY DEBUTED LOS COURTS AN EXHIBIT ON THE HISTORY OF THE ARIZONA APACHE COURTS, AND IT TOURED, UH, TO, UH, THE DOWNTOWN PUBLIC LIBRARY LABAN LIBRARY. THE DISTRICT FIVE SENIOR CENTER IS CURRENTLY AT THE COMMANDER'S HOUSE. THIS EXHIBIT DRAWS FROM THE STORIES OF ZA APACHE COURT'S RESIDENCE AND CELEBRATES THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC HOUSING IN A COMPASSIONATE CITY. AS DIRECTOR OF THE MISSO WEST SIDE, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT THE BUILDING OF ADDITIONAL PUBLIC HOUSING AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE WEST SIDE, BECAUSE WEST SIDE RESIDENTS ARE CRUCIAL TO THE EOS SUCCESS. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE DESIGN OF THE NEW DEVELOPMENT COMPLEMENT THE EXISTING ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPE. AND OF COURSE, I'M IN SUPPORT OF A PLAN TO PREVENT ANY NEIGHBORHOOD DISPLACEMENT IN THE CREATION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE THERE IS NO COMMUNITY PARTICIPATORY MUSEUM WITHOUT OUR COMMUNITY. I ALSO JUST WANNA NOTE THAT WHEN I CHECKED IN, THEY ASKED ME IF I WAS FOR OR AGAINST THIS, AND I, I SAID, WELL, I'M, I'M FOR, BUT WITH STIPULATIONS, AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S NOT A CATEGORY. SO, UM, UH, I, I, I'VE CHECKED IN AS FOR, BUT AGAIN, IT IS SOMETHING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE, UM, THE DEVELOPERS CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY SO THAT WE CAN GET SOMETHING THAT WORKS WELL FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. THANK YOU. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH MS. GOULD. AND, AND I'M SORRY, WHO, UH, WHO SEATED THEIR TIME TO YOU? MS. GOULD VEGA, JUDA. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE THE ESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER. THAT'S GRACIE SANCHEZ. NATALIE RODRIGUEZ. ELISA EZ. YEAH. BEFORE WE START, UH, WERE THEY ABLE TO GET THE POWERPOINT AND ALBERTO HINOJOSA WILL BE NEXT. FOLLOW, REGROUP. OKAY. THE REMOTE. ALL RIGHT. CAN WE START UP AT SIX AGAIN PLEASE? THERE'S A REMOTE THERE, SO YOU CAN WHERE'S THE REMOTE? RIGHT HERE. CAN WE, CAN WE START WHEN I START SPEAKING, PLEASE START AT SIX AGAIN. YOU KEEP ON, LET ME SAY MY FIRST WORDS PLEASE. START IT AGAIN. YOU CAN COMPLETE A SENTENCE AGAIN. I'LL, I DO SECONDS. I WENT FROM HAVING, I'LL TIP, I'LL LET YOU FINISH ELA. GO AHEAD. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS ELA SANCHEZ. WE OPPOSE THIS REZONING BECAUSE THE PROPOSED FOUR STORY BUILDING IS INCONSISTENT WITH THE COMMUNITY PLAN AND INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER. THIS REZONING IS A MAJOR STEP TOWARDS GENTRIFICATION OF THE NEAR WEST SIDE, AND IT IS A FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE IRRESPONSIBLE, IRRESPONSIBLE DEMOLITION OF THE ESAN COURTS AND DISPLACEMENT OF MORE THAN A THOUSAND RESIDENTS. FIRST, I WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT TWO THINGS. WE AT THE ESPERANZA WANT GENUINE, AFFORDABLE, AND PUBLIC HOUSING FOR WEST SIDE RESIDENCE. THIS IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD I WAS BORN, RAISED, AND EDUCATED IN. MY PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, AND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS LIVED, WORKED AND PLAYED IN A TWO BLOCK RADIUS OF VERA CRUZ, SANTIAGO, AND CHIHUAHUA. MY 96 AND 91 YEAR OLD PARENTS STILL LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND INSTILLED IN THEIR CHILDREN THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL IMPORTANCE OF THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. WHILE THE MEDIA, PUBLIC SCHOOL, CITY LEADERS AND OTHERS SPOKE CONSTANTLY ABOUT THE NEED TO LEAVE THE WEST SIDE. IN ADDITION, THE ESPERANZA HAS BEEN AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS. OUR WEST SIDE ZA AT EIGHT 16 AND EIGHT 12 SOUTH COLORADO IS DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM THIS PROPOSED PROJECT. WE HAVE RENOVATED WON SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS BY THE CITY SUSTAINABILITY OFFICE AND HAVE WON THE SAN ANTONIO CONSERVATION SOCIETY AWARD FOR OUR WORK IN REHABILITATING OUR HISTORICAL STRUCTURES. ESPERANZA HAS PROGRAMMED HUNDREDS OF CULTURAL EVENTS, COMMUNITY MEETINGS, AND ADDED A NEW 1200 SQUARE FOOT ADOBE BLOCK FOR OUR WOMEN'S CLAY COOPERATIVE. THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS SURROUNDED BY MANY SMALL WOODEN STRUCTURES BUILT 80 AND A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, AND SEVERAL HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED HISTORIC, INCLUDING THOSE SURROUNDING THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. THE ESPERANZA HAS WORKED IN THE WEST SIDE TO EMPOWER COMMUNITY VOICES AND TO BUILD A SENSE OF PRIDE TOWARDS THIS WORKING CLASS COMMUNITY. I, ALONG [03:20:01] WITH MANY PEOPLE HERE TODAY, HAVE BEEN MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE GROUPS THAT HELPED TO CRAFT THE 2007 AND GUADALUPE COMMUNITY PLAN. WE ALSO WORKED ON THE 2009 WEST SIDE REVITALIZATION, SAT WITH THE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE MEMBERS IN 2005 AND ENGAGED WITH ARCHITECTS, ENGINEER, CITY LEADERS, AND OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN MANY CHARETTES TO DETERMINE WHAT WE WANTED TO SEE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 10, 20 AND A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW. AND I AM CURRENTLY A MEMBER OF THE SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY, SAN ANTONIO TOMORROW WEST SIDE PLANNING ADVISORY GROUP. AND I GET A T-SHIRT. I DON'T WANT A T-SHIRT. I WANT TO HAVE PEOPLE RESPECT THE, RESPECT THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING, NOT JUST A T T-SHIRT. I'M ALSO ONE OF THE TWO COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S FOR EVERYONE. HOME ADVISORY GROUP WORKING TO DEVELOP POLICIES TO, TO PREVENT GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT OF THE COMMUNITIES IN THE INNER CITY, ESPECIALLY THE WEST SIDE AND EAST SIDE, AND TO STOP DEMOLITIONS OF HISTORICAL HOMES IN VULNERABLE NEIGHBORHOODS. SADLY, THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY AND N R P AND THEIR LOBBYISTS, BRANDON ARTIZ, HAVE WORKED VERY HARD TO DISREGARD ALL OF THESE PLANS AND TO BUILD AN INCONSISTENT, INCOMPATIBLE FOUR STORY BUILDING. AND THIS IMAGE THAT YOU'VE BEEN SEEING KIND OF SHOWS YOU WHAT ONE STORY VERSUS FOUR STORY LOOKS LIKE. TODAY. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT A VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM OF WHICH REZONING CASE IS A VIVID EXAMPLE, AND THAT IS THE PROFOUND DISRESPECT AND DECEPTION THAT CITY GOVERNMENT HAS SHOWN TOWARDS THE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY. THE DISRESPECT AND DIS DECEPTION CONSISTS OF THREE SEPARATE ASPECTS OF THIS REZONING. FIRST, THE CRITICAL STAFF DECISION MADE IN THIS CASE WAS THAT THIS REZONING PROPOSAL IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMMUNITY PLAN. CAN SOMEBODY MOVE THIS TO THE NEXT ONE? I CAN'T DO IT. CAN SOME, CAN YOU FLIP IT? THE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY PLAN THAT THE LAND INVOLVED HERE SHOULD BE MIXED USE LOW DENSITY. AMY MENTIONED THAT. SO, UH, UM, UNDER SECTION 35 4 21 OF THE U D C, THE FIRST STEP OF REZONING CASES IS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES TO MAKE A DETERMINATION WHETHER THE PROPOSED ZONING IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMMUNITY PLAN. IT IS NOT HIGH DENSITY DOES NOT EQUAL TO LOW DENSITY. ONE IS NOT EQUAL TO THREE . SO THAT'S JUST IT. UM, SECOND, THE U D C SECTION 35 4 21 OF THE COMMUNITY REQUIRES COMMUNITY INPUT INTO REZONING OF I D Z. MOREOVER, REQUIRES A DETAILED SITE PLAN. CAN YOU PASS OUT THE SITE PLAN? WE, YOU ALREADY GOT THE SITE PLANS. THERE ARE THREE SITE PLANS THAT WE SEE. THIS ONE, THE OTHER ONE, AND, AND YOU HAVE THREE. I WANNA KNOW, DO YOU KNOW WHAT SITE PLAN YOU'RE VOTING ON? BECAUSE THE COMMISSIONERS AND THE ZONING COMMISSION DID NOT KNOW. WE WERE TOLD THAT THEY VOTED ON ONE. AND WHEN WE MET WITH N R P AFTER THE ZONING CASE, THEY SAID THAT WAS NOT THE ONE THEY VOTED ON. WHO KNOWS WHAT IS BEING VOTED ON TODAY. THIRD, THE DEVELOPERS HAVE ARGUED TO THE COUNCIL THAT THE DECISION MUST BE MADE TODAY BECAUSE OF TAX CREDITS. UH, AND YET THE DEVELOPERS MISLED STATE OFFICIALS REGARDING THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION'S APPROVAL. AS YOU'VE HEARD FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, THEY NEVER EVEN CAME TO A MEETING OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR WROTE A LETTER OF SUPPORT. AND THEN THERE'S ALSO THE THIRD, THE 17 MEETINGS THAT THEY TALK ABOUT, AND THAT THEY ALSO GET THAT PAGE. THOSE ARE THE LIST OF 17. AND WE'VE ASTERISKED THE THREE MEETINGS THAT ARE LISTED ABOUT ALLAN COURTS. I MEAN THE ALLAN LOFTS. THE OTHER ONES WERE ABOUT THE DEMOLITION OF THE ALLAN COURTS THREE, TWO SEPARATE ISSUES. THEY CANNOT CONFUSE THEM AND SAY THEY HAD ALL THESE MEETINGS. I WENT TO THE ALLAN MEETINGS AS IT WAS A CHOICE GRANT. I WENT TO THOSE MEETINGS. I ALSO WENT TO THE MEETINGS RELATED TO THE LOSS. THREE SEPARATE THINGS. WE HAVE HAD TWO MEETINGS AFTER THE ZONING CASE GOT LOST. THAT'S WHAT WE WANTED N R P AND SAHA TO DO. AND THEY DID NOT DO THAT UNTIL AFTER WE LOST. WE WANT GENUINE, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT THIS IS NOT THE PROJECT. WE WANT SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENTS TO THE HOUSING FOR THE AAN, BUT WE DO NOT WANT THE DISRESPECT AND DECEIT THAT IS AT THE HEART OF THIS DEVELOPMENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL. GILBERT, ALBERTO HINOJOSA TO TO WHOM? I'M SORRY. TONY GARCIA. TONY GARCIA. OKAY. HE'S ALREADY GOT THE MAX TIME ALREADY. UM, YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES, TONY. UM, ALBERTO, DO YOU WANT TO COME UP AND USE YOUR TIME TO MR. GARCIA? OKAY. YOU ALREADY HAVE SIX MINUTES. MR. GARCIA. COME ON UP. ALL RIGHT. FOLLOWING MR. GARCIA, WE HAVE A GROUP, GABRIEL VELAZQUEZ, JONATHAN ORTIZ, AND ROSA RAMIREZ, WHICH THIS ONE IS IT? [03:25:07] GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS TONY GARCIA. I LIVE AT 2 43 EAST ATCH, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS. I'M A TIER ONE NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER AND AN ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE RESIDENT ASSOCIATION. WE HAVE HEARD MANY CONCERNS FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS REGARDING THE CITY'S LACK OF SUPPORT AND ENGAGEMENT WITH THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN. THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED WITHIN THE GUADALUPE WEST SIDE COMMUNITY PLAN AND DESIGNATED AS LOW DENSITY MIXED USE IN THE FUTURE LAND USE COMPONENT OF THE PLAN. WE DISAGREE WITH THE CITY'S FINDING THAT IDZ THREE, WHICH IS DEFINED AS HIGH INTENSITY INFILL DEVELOPMENT, IS CONSISTENT WITH THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION OF LOW DENSITY MIXED USE. HOW CAN IT BE CONSISTENT WHEN ONE IS LOW DENSITY AND THE OTHER HIGH DENSITY? THE REQUESTED REZONING IS CONFLICTING WITH A COMMUNITY PLAN AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR APPROVAL. WE REFERENCED A COMMUNITY PLAN PAGE 1 31 35, WHERE LOW DENSITY MIXED USE ALSO LIMITS RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS TO TWO STORIES CITY STAFF AND HUNDREDS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS STAKEHOLDERS WORKED ON THIS PLAN OVER FOR OVER A YEAR BEFORE IT WAS APPROVED IN 2007, THEY SAW A VISION FOR THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND IMPLEMENTED GUIDELINES TO PROTECT THIS VISION, A VISION WHICH IS NOW BEING CIRCUMVENTED BY CITY ACTION. A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE OF OF THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE TOP PHOTO SHOWS THE TYPE OF HOMES SURROUNDING THE PROPOSED AREA OF DEVELOPMENT. THESE SINGLE STORY SHOTGUN STYLE HOMES ARE ALONG GUADALUPE STREET, GOING TOWARDS SOUTH SOUTH RADO STREET. THE BOTTOM PHOTO ARE STRUCTURES LOCATED ON SOUTH RADO STREET, GOING NORTH TO EL PASO STREET. WE ALSO SEE SIMILAR SINGLE STORY HOMES ON SOUTH SMITH STREET. THESE ARE TYPICAL STRUCTURES THAT BORDER THE FOUR STORY ALLAN LOFT DEVELOPMENT. THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE TERRACES AT HAVEN FOR HOPE, LOCATED AT THE CORNER OF SAN MARCOS AND LEO STREET. COULD THIS BE WHAT IS ENVISIONED AT ASAN LOFTS? THIS FOUR STORY COMPLEX IS A RESULT OF A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN HAVEN FOR HOPE, THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, AND THE N R P GROUP. THOUGH THE TERRACES MAY BE APPROPRIATE AT SAN MARCOS AND AL, WOULDN'T YOU AGREE THAT THE SCALE OF THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT IS NOT APPROPRIATE, APPROPRIATE IN THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE COMMUNITY? IT'S ALL ABOUT THE SETTING. LET'S BE CLEAR. THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOT OPPOSED TO SAHA HOUSING DEVELOPMENT. THEY WELCOME IT, BUT THEY'RE OPPOSED TO A BUILDING INTENSITY THAT IS TOTALLY OUTTA CONTEXT TO THE SMALL SCALE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP HAS RECENTLY MET WITH N R P SAHA AND BROWN NORTHEAST TO GET CONSENSUS, AND WE APPRECIATE THE CONCESSIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE. BUT MAJOR STUMBLING BLOCK HAS BEEN AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE CONTINUED PROPOSAL OF A FOUR STORY BUILDING, REDUCING THE SCALE AND THE INHERENT INTENSITY HAS NOT BEEN MET. WHAT WAS EVEN MORE DIS DISCONCERTING WAS AN ELEVATION DRAWING SENT OUR WAY OF THE THREE AND FOUR STORY BUILDING PROPOSAL. IT'S QUITE EVIDENT WHEN ONE LOOKS AT THE HEIGHT DIMENSIONS THAT THIS TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION IS NOT APPROPRIATE IN A COMMUNITY OF SINGLE AND TWO STORY STRUCTURES, WHICH ARE CURRENTLY AT THE ALLAND APACHE COURT SOON TO BE DEMOLISHED. WE DON'T WANT THIS TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION TO BE THE TEMPLATE FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN PHASE TWO OF THE ALLAND LOFT PER CITY CODE, THE MINIMUM PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR MULTIPLE FAMILY USES 1.5, UH, 1.5 SPACES PER UNIT. FOR ALLAN'S LOFTS, THE 88 UNITS WOULD REQUIRE 132 PARKING SPACES. BUT WITH IDZ THREE ZONING, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO REDUCE THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS BY 50%. THIS COULD BE 66 SPACES. M B C ENGINEERS MAKE NOTE OF THIS, IN THEIR DUE DILIGENCE REPORT DATED FEBRUARY THE 26TH, 2019, IT'S ITEM ONE. THEY EVEN MAKE NOTE THAT NEW BUILDINGS SHALL BE COMPATIBLE AND MASSING TO BUILDINGS ON A BUDDING LOTS AND A BUDDING BLOCK FACES THEY'RE ITEM NUMBER SEVEN. DESPITE THE CONCERNS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP THAT THIS DEVELOPMENT IS NOT MEETING THE GUIDELINES OF THE COMMUNITY PLAN, THERE IS A GENERAL WILLINGNESS TO MOVE FORWARD FOR A POSSIBLE COMPROMISE. SO, T ONE N C PRESENTS THIS AS A POSSIBLE POINT OF DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP AND THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM. WE ASK THAT N R P SAHA DEVELOPMENT TEAM DO MOVE IN THE SAME DIRECTION. WE ASK THAT THE FOLLOWING BE IMPLEMENTED ON THE SITE PLAN. THAT WE MAINTAIN THE A D A DWELLING UNIT DENSITY. WE REDUCE THE HEIGHT OF THE FOUR STORY BUILDING A TO A THREE STORY BUILDING. FURTHERMORE, THAT BUILDING A BE THREE STORY AND 35 FEET MAXIMUM HEIGHT TO THE ROOF RIDGE FINAL MATERIALS ADD A THIRD TWO STORY. BUILDING A, BUILDING B THREE TO THE NORTHEAST LOT, BUILDING ONE B, [03:30:01] BUILDING B ONE B TWO, AND B THREE TO B TWO STORY AND 25 FEET MAXIMUM HEIGHT TO THE ROOF RIDGE FINAL MATERIALS. REDUCE THE PARKING SPACES, YES, REDUCE THE PARKING SPACES TO ACHIEVE THE ABOVE AND CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THE SETBACKS FOR ALL BUILDINGS AS PROPOSED BY N R P AND NOTED IN OPTION B SITE PLAN. THE ABOVE WOULD BRING A MORE SENSITIVE APPROACH TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. WE HAVE RESEARCH AND BELIEVE THE ABOVE REQUESTS WOULD NOT IMPACT THE Q A P SCORING, NOR JEOPARDIZE THE T D H C A APPLICATION. THE ABOVE NEIGHBORHOOD SITE STIPULATION NEEDS TO BE PART OF A SITE PLAN IN ORDER TO HAVE NEIGHBORHOOD SUPPORT FOR THE REZONING APPLICATION. WE ASKED OUR CITY, OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO RESPECT THE COMMUNITY PLANS, BE SENSITIVE TO EARLY ENGAGEMENT WITH OUR OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS WHEN DEVELOPMENT OCCURS, AND HELP US FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT IN THE HISTORIC COMMUNITY. BUT AS LESSONS LEARNED, SAHA MUST REVIEW THEIR FUTURE PROJECTS IN RELATION TO THE COMMUNITY PLAN. IT SHOULD BE A PREREQUISITE. THANK YOU, MR. GARCIA. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU, MR. GARCIA. GABRIEL VELASQUEZ, JONATHAN NORTHEAST AND ROSA RAMIREZ. WE'RE GROUP. GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. GABRIEL IS, ARE THE REST OF YOUR GROUP? YEAH, THEY'RE GOOD. THEY, THEY'RE, ARE YOU GONNA COME UP? THEY'RE STAY THERE. NO. OKAY. YOU HAVE SIX MINUTES THEN, GABRIEL. OKAY. UM, FOR, FOR THE RECORD, I WANNA SUBMIT THE LETTER FROM THE BAN GUADALUPE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION THAT WAS PROVIDED TO, UM, THE, UM, SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY. ALSO THE BYLAWS OF OUR ORGANIZATION, BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN ALL KINDS OF QUESTIONS AS TO WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S WHAT. THERE ARE MANY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND, UH, WE ARE THE HISTORIC AVEDO GUADALUPE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION NOW CELEBRATING, UH, CLOSE TO 50 YEARS. OKAY. SO THIS IS, THIS IS OUR, UH, BYLAWS AND THE LATEST AGENDA OF OUR MEETING. AND THAT'S NOT REALLY FOR, FOR, YOU KNOW, THE SCREEN UNLESS YOU FEEL IT'S NECESSARY. UM, BUT THESE DOCUMENTS ARE FOR THE SCREEN, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE ONE ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. THESE HERE, CHRISTIE, THOSE ARE NOT , BUT THESE ARE JUST A BIT OF, A BIT OF HISTORY. AVE. GUADALUPE ASSOCIATION, SPECIFICALLY THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, IS THE APPLICANT FOR WHAT WOULD BECOME THE GUADALUPE WEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD MASTER PLAN. OUR ORGANIZATION WORKED FOR MANY YEARS TO LOCK DOWN A, UH, A MASTER PLAN FOR THE WEST SIDE. AND WE WERE, UM, SUCCESSFUL IN, IN LEADING THAT EFFORT. AND NOT ONLY IS THE ORGANIZATION, UH, THE, THE APPLICANT THAT THAT BECAME, UH, THE SPONSORS OF THAT MASTER PLAN, BUT, BUT I PERSONALLY AM THE, THE PERSON THAT BROUGHT THE MASTER PLAN OPPORTUNITY TO ROGER CARILLO, WHO WAS THEN OUR, UM, UM, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THAT WAS LATER EXECUTED BY AS OSCAR RAMIREZ. SO THE HISTORIC INTEGRITY OF THE INTENT OF THAT MASTER PLAN TO LARGE PART RESTS WITH THE AVENIDA GUADALUPE ASSOCIATION. AND IT'S PRIMARY, PRIMARY, PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO SERVE AS A GUIDE. UH, THO THOSE ARE GUIDELINES THAT ARE NEVER MANDATES. AND, UH, UH, AS YOU KNOW, THE LAND, THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN MF 33, VE GUADALUPE AND THE EO FAMILY, OR THE ORIGINAL OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY THAT WAS DONATED TO US, AND BOTH ENTITIES INTENDED ALWAYS TO BUILD, UH, MULTIFAMILY HOUSING UNDER MF 33. THE FOUR STORY IS ALWAYS INSIDE OF THE, UH, THE PARAMETERS OF THAT, UH, ZONING. OUR BIG FEAR WAS THAT WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO THIS, AND THAT MAYBE SOMEBODY ELSE WOULD COME ALONG. UH, MAYBE THE EOS WOULD SELL THEIR PROPERTY AND SOMEONE WOULD BUILD THEIR FOUR STORE STRUCTURE, BUT IT WOULDN'T BE TO THE HIGHEST STANDARD. SO I WAS ABLE TO GET THE EO FAMILY TOGETHER WITH VENITA GUADALUPE ASSOCIATION, AND WE, WE WERE ABLE TO GET OUR PROPERTIES, UH, UH, TOGETHER FOR SALE TO THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY BECAUSE WE KNEW WHAT THEY HAD LEARNED IN THE PROMISED NEIGHBORHOOD. AND WE WERE VERY IMPRESSED AND STILL REMAIN VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE WAY THAT THEY HAVE REALLY GROWN OVER THE YEARS AS AN ORGANIZATION. AND WE FEEL THAT THE BEST BUILDER, THE PERSON, THE ENTITY THAT COULD DO THE BEST, MOST ACCOUNTABLE JOB IN THAT ENVIRONMENT WILL BE THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY BECAUSE THEY'RE REGULATED, RIGHT? SO FOR US, IT'S BETTER THAT THAT PROJECT IS EXISTING UNDER THEIR AUSPICES AS OPPOSED TO SOME PRIVATE DEVELOPER THAT WE, WE DON'T KNOW WHO IT IS. UM, NOW THE FIRST IMAGE THAT YOU SEE UP ON THAT SCREEN IS AN IMAGE OF A PROPOSED PROJECT. SAY MAYBE SEVEN YEARS AGO, THE FAMILY DOLLAR, UH, DECIDED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BUILD, THEY WERE GONNA SET ROOTS IN THE WEST SIDE, AND THEY WERE GONNA BUILD A BRAND NEW FAMILY DOLLAR. SO THEY WERE RENTING FROM THE GUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER. THEY PICKED THE PROPERTY THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW, AND THEY PROPOSED TO BUILD THEIR FAMILY DOLLAR. NOW, CAN WE SEE THE NEXT PAGE? OKAY. THE, THE ORGANIZATION THAT IS REALLY THE ESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER THAT IS THE SPONSOR OF ALL THESE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE COME UP. I'M SURE YOU NOTICE THEY'RE ALL THE SAME PEOPLE, RIGHT? [03:35:01] THEY FOUGHT TOOTH AND NAIL TO STOP THIS PROJECT, AND ONE OF THE STRATEGIES THAT THEY USED WAS TO TELL THE FAMILY DOLLAR TO GO AND DESIGN ONE THAT WAS MORE APPROPRIATE FOR THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. SO THE FAMILY DOLLAR WENT AND THEY WENT THROUGH THAT WHOLE PROCESS OF REDEVELOPING A, A, A PLAN THAT WOULD SATISFY THE NEEDS OF THIS ORGANIZATION. WELL, WHEN THEY CAME BACK WITH A PLAN THAT NOT ONLY CHANGED THE FACADE AND MADE IT FIT BETTER INTO THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO TO TAKE A COUPLE OF SHOTGUN HOUSES THAT WERE THERE, RELOCATE 'EM, AND THEN DONATE 'EM TO A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, THE ESPERANZA QUICKLY SAID, NO, NO, WE DON'T WANT YOU IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. SO THE FAMILY DOLLAR SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE DON'T NEED THE CONTROVERSY. AND THEY LEFT. AND THAT IS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION THAT'S IN THE WEST SIDE WHERE A PERSON, WHERE THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE CAN FIND TOILET PAPER. THAT'S A REALITY. SO THEY LEFT, I THINK THERE'S NOW THE FAMILY CIRCLE OR ANOTHER ORGANIZATION THAT'S THERE THAT HAS HIGHER PRICES. OKAY? SO THAT'S A COMMERCIAL PRO, UH, PROJECT THAT THIS ORGANIZATION RAN OUT. OKAY? NOW COMES IN PUBLIC HOUSING, RIGHT? AND IT CAN'T BE COMMERCIAL, AND IT CAN'T BE RESIDENTIAL. SO REALLY WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, RIGHT? WELL, THE ONE THING IN COMMON, BESIDES THE FACT THAT EVERYBODY FROM THIS, THAT THAT'S PRESENTED, YOU CAN SEE ARE FROM THE SAME ORGANIZATION. WELL, THE ONE THING THAT THEY HAVE IN COMMON IS THAT THEY'RE ALSO ACROSS THE STREET. SEE, THIS IS A CLASSIC CASE OF NOT IN MY BACKYARD. THAT'S WHAT THIS IS. WE'RE USED TO IT COMING FROM, UH, ALAMO HEIGHTS. WE'RE USED TO IT COMING FROM LEON VALLEY, BUT NOW IT'S IN THE WEST SIDE. SEE? AND IT'S NOT IN OUR BACKYARD. WELL, LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT NOT IN OUR BACKYARD, CAN WE SEE THE NEXT PICTURE? THE ESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER, IS THIS PROPERTY OVER HERE WITH THE, WITH THE BEAUTIFUL STANDING SEA ROOFS. THAT IS AN I D Z. OKAY? ACROSS THE STREET, THAT EMPTY PIECE OF PROPERTY IS A PROPERTY THAT WE OWNED THAT'S AN MF 33. THEY CAN BUILD FOUR STORY, BUT THEY WANT AN I D Z. WE SUPPORT AN I D Z THERE. THAT'S AN I D Z. SO IT WOULD BE AN I D Z NEXT DOOR TO AN I DZ, RIGHT? OKAY. IN BETWEEN THE BUILDING WITH THE BEAUTIFUL STANDING SEA ROOF. AND THE EMPTY LAND IS A SLUMPED PROPERTY THAT THE ESPERANZA PIECE OF JUSTICE CENTER OWNS. IT'S A SHANTY TOWN SLUM. AND THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT WERE LIVING THERE THAT WERE PAYING $600 A MONTH. THAT DON'T, THAT DON'T LIVE THERE. I GOT SIX MINUTES, RIGHT? IS THAT THE SIX MINUTES? THAT'S SIX MINUTES. THANK YOU, MR. VELAZQUEZ. WELL, UH, LET ME JUST MAKE SURE Y'ALL HAVE PICTURES OF THESE. THESE ARE FOR COUNCIL JANNI FLORES, FOLLOWED BY SUSANNA SUNA. UM, HI, MY NAME IS JANNI FLORES AND I'M WITH IBU BARRANZA. UM, ON THE RECORD, I AM OPPOSING TO THE SONY CHANGE DUE TO THE LACK OF COMMUNITY INPUT AND THE DISREGARD FOR THE MULTIPLE EXISTING COMMUNITY PLANS. UM, FIRST THINGS FIRST, THE ESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER, ALONG WITH THE VARIOUS OTHER GROUPS HERE, HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR POOR AND WORKING CLASS FOLKS FOR OVER 30 YEARS. OI, WE SUPPORT PUBLIC HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR ALL. WE WORK FOR COMMUNITY BY COMMUNITY. THE SAME CANNOT BE SAID OF OTHERS. WHEN THE FIRST PROJECT CAME TO US AS A CHOICE GRANT PROJECT IN 2017, IT HAD ZERO PUBLIC HOUSE UNITS. TODAY, IT HAS 40. THIS IS BECAUSE OF OUR CONSTANT PRESSURE. DO NOT TELL US GABRIEL VELAZQUEZ, THAT WE DON'T SUPPORT PUBLIC HOUSING WHEN THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR. THERE ARE A COUPLE OF ALL TENANTS, UH, AND THE AUDIENCE TODAY WHO ARE AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THEIR SLUMLORD. THAT'S THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY. NOW, QUICKLY, A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT SAHA IS A SLUMLORD, THEN I ASK THAT YOU STOP BY THE ALLAN COURTS AND CHECK OUT THE CONDITION THAT THOSE APARTMENTS ARE IN. THEY ARE IN BAD SHAPE BECAUSE THEIR LANDLORD, THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS NOT KEPT UP WITH THEM. IT IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE TENANTS, BUT IT IS THE FAULT OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY THAT HAS ALLOWED FOR THESE FOLKS TO LIVE IN BAD CONDITIONS. WE ALL DESERVE FAIR HOUSING, SAVE HOUSING, AND SAKA HAS NOT DONE SO FOR THEIR TENANTS. THESE FOLKS ARE AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THEIR LANDLORD. OBVIOUSLY, THERE IS A POWER DYNAMIC BETWEEN A LANDLORD AND A TENANT, AND I THINK WE ALL CAN AGREE ON THAT, RIGHT? FOLKS ARE AFRAID OF RETALIATION AND ARE SCARED TO SPEAK OUT. SO IF THAT'S, IF THERE'S ONE THING THAT YOU GAIN FROM MY COMMENTARY TODAY, I HOPE THAT YOU KEEP THAT IN MIND. I'M OPPOSING, I'M OPPOSING THIS BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE A CONCRETE PLAN FOR THE SECOND PHASE OF THE PROJECT. WHAT IS THE STRATEGY TIMELINE AND OUTREACH FOR IT LOOK LIKE? NOBODY HAS BEEN ABLE TO TELL [03:40:01] US, GIVEN SASHA'S TRACK RECORD, WE HAVE NO REASON TO TRUST THEM. HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WHEATLEY COURTS ON THE EAST SIDE? WE HAVE NOT COUNCILWOMAN ANDREW SULLIVAN. I'M SURE YOU HAVEN'T AS WELL. THESE ARE FOLKS THAT WERE DISPLACED AND PUSHED OUT OF THE EAST SIDE. A LOT OF, A LOT OF THEM DIDN'T COME BACK, RIGHT? COUNTLESS FAMILIES WERE FORCED TO LEAVE THE COMMUNITY THAT THEY CALLED HOME. THIS WAS CATALYST TO THE GENTRIFICATION OF SAN ANTOS EAST SIDE. WE'RE ONE OF THE TOP 10 FASTEST GENTRIFYING NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE NATION. MAYOR, WE'RE NOT LETTING THAT HAPPEN TO THE WEST SIDE. WHAT WE WANNA ENSURE IS THAT THERE IS A CONCRETE TIMELINE SET IN PLACE FOR PHASE TWO OF THE ALLAN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT, AND THAT IT IS CENTERING THE NEEDS OF THESE FOLKS. THANK YOU, MS. FLORES. THIRD, 30,000 PEOPLE ON THE WAITING LIST FOR SAHA AND SECTION EIGHT HOUSING. THANK YOU, MS. FLORES. CONSIDER THEM THE FIRST. SUSANNA. SNO SU. SUSANNA SEGUNDO. OKAY. FRANCISCO TAVIDA. OH, DID MY ALLIES COME UP AND BE IN MY ARMOR, PLEASE. OKAY, SUSANNA, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY FRANCISCO TAVIDA. HI, COUNCIL MEMBERS. UH, MY NAME IS SUSANNA URA. UH, I'M A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER AROUND THE ACHE COURTS NEIGHBORHOOD. SAHA HAS NEGLECTED ALL OF THEIR PUBLIC HOUSING TRACKS BECAUSE THEY ARE NO LONGER ABOUT HOUSING THE POOREST OF THE POOR. THEIR NEW AND IMPROVED LUCRATIVE BUSINESS MODEL IS ALL ABOUT REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT AND FORMING PARTNERSHIPS WITH PRIVATE DEVELOPERS. THEY ARE ALL ABOUT WAREHOUSING PEOPLE IN DENSE APARTMENT HOUSING AND THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. N R P WANTS THIS DENSITY SO THEY CAN BE PROFITABLE. SHIRLEY SUPPORTS THIS PROJECT IN SPITE OF COMMUNITY PUSHBACK, ASKING SAHA TO DO BETTER FOR THE POOREST OF THE POOR, IN SPITE OF US BEGGING TO HAVE MORE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, MORE PUBLIC MEANINGS, MORE OF A PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY. SHIRLEY TALKS TO US IN HER CONDESCENDING TONE AND DISMISSES US AS OUTSIDERS WHEN WE ARE COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS. SHE HAS SAID TO US IN FRONT OF OTHERS THAT WE AREN'T THE ONLY VOICE AT THE TABLE. WE REPRESENT THOSE DISENCHANTED HOMEOWNERS THAT TELL US THE CITY ALWAYS DOES WHAT IT WANTS. THEY DON'T LISTEN TO US. WE REPRESENT THOSE AFRAID TO TALK AGAINST SAHA BECAUSE THEY'LL GET KICKED OFF OF HOUSING. THOSE THAT TELL US THEY JUST WANT A BETTER HOUSE FOR THEIR CHILDREN. THOSE THAT TRY TO TOE THE LINE TO STAY OUT OF SAHA SNIPER SIGHT WITH BLINDING LIGHT. HAS SHIRLEY EVER BEEN IN FRONT OF THAT GUN? NO. BUT SHE CAN SURE SNOW PULL THAT TRIGGER. WE NEED MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. WE WANT MORE PUBLIC HOUSING. WE WANT TWO FOR ONE REPLACEMENT, 1002 PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS. WE WANT OUR NEIGHBORS TO STAY OUR NEIGHBORS IF THEY SO CHOOSE. WE WANT THE PUBLIC HOUSING TENANTS TO HAVE THE BEST OF HOUSING CONDITIONS. HOWEVER, I BLAME SAHA FOR THEIR CURRENT LIVING SITUATION. THEY ARE THE LANDLORD. SAHA HAS CREATED THESE DEPLORABLE LIVING CONDITIONS BY NEGLECTING TO MAINTAIN SAHA SHOULD CONTINUE TO ENGAGE COMMUNITY IN THEIR PROJECT, NOT DIS THE RESIDENTS. 501 FAMILIES ARE IN DANGER IS A FACT. SAHA NUMBERS, THAT'S OVER 1500 RESIDENTS. GRACIELA EARLIER SAID A THOUSAND. IT'S 1500 PLUS THAT WILL BE DISPLACED IN THE NOT TOO FAR FUTURE WHEN THEY ENACT PHASE TWO DEMOLITION AND PHASE THREE OTHER DEMOLITION. THE LARGEST DISPLACEMENT YET. HEMISPHERE VICTORIA COURTS. LES WHEATLEY. SAN JUANES. GOAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MS. URA, FRANCISCO TAVIDA. MR. TAVIDA, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY RICH ACOSTA. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF I CAN GIVE MY MESSAGE IN SPANISH. SI MM-HMM. . SO DO I NEED TRANSLATOR OR, UM, DO WE HAVE A TRANSLATION UP? OKAY. ONE MOMENT. SURE. OKAY. THANK YOU MR. OKAY. [03:45:03] OKAY. THE WEST SIDE. I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO EXPRESS THAT, UH, I WOULD WANNA SAY THIS IN SPANISH BECAUSE OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE WEST SIDE IS MAINLY SPANISH SPEAKING, AND IT'S PART OF OUR CULTURE. SO MY NAME IS, UH, FRANCISCO TIRA, AND I COME HERE AS A RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, BUT ALSO AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN HERE FOR 20 YEARS IN SAN ANTONIO ON THE WEST SIDE, NO, 20 YEARS SINCE SA IN SAN ANTONIO, AND FIVE YEARS IN THE WEST SIDE, AND FIVE YEARS ON THE WEST SIDE. T I WANNA EXPRESS MY POINT OF VIEW, UH, ABOUT THE PROJECT, UH, HABITATION, UH, MIXED USE CALLED LOFT ECONOMIC. I THINK THERE'S A, A CONSENT, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY THAT THIS ZONE NEEDS, UH, AN ECONOMICAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND THAT IT NEEDS THESE KIND OF PRODUCTS. I WANNA EMPHASIZE THAT THIS IS AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECT THAT IS NOT A CULTURAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT THIS AREA CONTAINS IN TO DEVELOP, HIDE THE CULTURE AND, UH, SOCIAL TESTIMONY THAT HAS BEEN INSTALLED PROJECT TO THIS IMPACT ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, THAT MY QUESTION AND CONCERN IS THAT THIS PROJECT WAS AN ECONOMICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT PROJECT AND CULTURAL AS WELL, THAT WAS NOT CONSULTED WITH THE COMMUNITY. HOW IS IT THAT SAHA AND THE DEVELOPER DID NOT HAVE AN OPEN DISCUSSION, A SERIOUS, OPEN DISCUSSION WITH THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THIS ZONING COMMISSION? THE FIRST TIME I KNEW ABOUT THIS PROJECT WAS SEVERAL WEEKS AGO IN A ZONING COMMISSION EXPRESSED OPINION. I EXPRESSED MY OPINION, AND AT FIRST, THE FIRST TIME I SAW THE, THE PLANS, I EXPOSED THE NECESSITY, UH, THE POSITION OF THE SOMETIME TO ANALYZE THIS PROJECT AND TO SEE THE IMPACT, EITHER POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE, THAT IT WOULD HAVE IN THE COMMUNITY. THE POSITION OF WAS THAT EVEN HAVING A PLAN OF VOTING IN FAVOR OR AGAINST, WE WOULD HAVE FUNDS FOR IT TO CONSTRUCT IT. THAT PRESSURES WAS DETERMINED FOR THE, UH, PROPOSAL AND THAT THEY IS EXPRESSED BY THE COMMISSION MEETING. SEVERAL DAYS AGO, SAHA UH, CONDUCTED A MEETING AND I PARTICIPATED, ASKED SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT IT. I, I, I ASKED TWO QUESTIONS. THE FIRST ONE WAS, IS THIS PROJECT WAS ANALYZED TO SEE IF THEY HAD HAD SOME IMPACTS. LIKE IT HAPPENED WITH OTHER PROJECTS, IT HAPPENED SOMEWHERE ELSE. MM-HMM. , THERE HAVE BEEN THREE PROJECTS. THE RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN, UH, CONDUCTED WAS ONE WAS IN 2007, 2000, THE OTHER ONE IN 2000 NINES, 2 20, 20 20. AND THE OTHER ONE, WHICH I DON'T HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT, BUT IT'S WAS DONE BY U T S A AND IT'S CALLED TWO 20 MASTER PLAN COMMUNITY CENTER. THE NEXT ONE IS GONNA BE DONE AT U T S A AND THEY ARE ASKING FOR AN IMPACT STUDY FOR THE COMMUNITY. [03:50:04] THE SECOND QUESTION THAT I DID TO SAHA IN THE COMMUNITY WAS WHY WAS IT CHANGED FROM A I D C 33 TO AN I GZ THREE PARKING, NO SETBACKS, PARKING. THE ANSWER WAS THE SETBACKS AND THE PARKING, THE SETBACK WITH THREE FEET AND THE PARKING WIDTH. THANK YOU, MR. TAVITA. WE'LL GET THE TESTIMONY OVER TO THE CLERK SO WE CAN HAVE IT DISTRIBUTED TO THE COUNCIL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NO, THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. UH, RICH ACOSTA, FOLLOWED BY JESSE VIDAL. HELLO, UH, MY NAME IS RICH ACOSTA, PRESIDENT OF, UH, MISES MESA. MY CITY IS MY HOME. AND, UM, ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT IS THAT YOU ALL, MOST OF YOU KNOW THAT, UH, I GO AROUND AND HELPING, UH, OUR HELPS PEOPLE PROTEST THEIR PROPERTY TAXES FOR FREE. AND IN THE AREA OF ZA LOFTS, UM, INSIDE THE CENTRIS, UH, UM, CENSUS TRACK, THERE'S ABOUT 25% OF ALL THE HOMEOWNERS IN THAT AREA DO NOT HAVE THEIR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS. AND SO, AS THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, THIS IS GOING TO IMPROVE THE AREA AND RAISE THEIR PROPERTY TAXES. AND SAHA REMARKS TO THAT IS, THAT IS THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY TO REACH OUT TO THOSE RESIDENTS. SO JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU GUYS KNOW THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE EFFECT ON THOSE HOMEOWNERS IN THAT AREA. ALSO, YOU ALL KNOW THAT A LOT OF MY WORK ALSO DOES IS HELPING OUT LOW INCOME RENTERS FIND HOMES INCLUDING SECTION EIGHT VOUCHER HOLDERS. AND AT THE LAST SAHA PRESENTATION, UH, THEY ADMITTED THAT THEY SAHA DOES NOT KNOW HOW MANY ACTUAL PUBLIC HOUSING IS GOING TO BE REPLACED FROM THE LOSS OF THE, UPON THE COMPLETION OF ALL PHASES, THEY ARE STILL TALKS WITH DEVELOPERS TO SEE HOW MUCH PUBLIC HOUSING IS ACTUALLY GONNA BE REPLACED. SO TO BE CLEAR, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PUBLIC HOUSING AND SECTION EIGHT. SO THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET PUBLIC HOUSING, THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE 'EM A SECTION EIGHT VOUCHER. SOMETHING TO ALSO NOTE, SECTION EIGHT VOUCHERS CANNOT BE USED FOR A PUBLIC HOUSING UNIT. IT'S CALLED DOUBLE DIPPING. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT. SO THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE I WANT YOU TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF. ALSO, THAT, UM, AS A NON-PROFIT THAT HELPS OUT LOW INCOME RENTERS FIND HOMES, THE ABOUT 98% OF ALL THE HOMES THAT ARE ON THE REALTOR'S M L S SYSTEM ALLOW, DOES NOT ALLOW A SECTION EIGHT VOUCHER HOLDER TO APPLY FOR A HOME. SO THESE INCLUDE SIEGEL FAMILY AND MULTI-FAMILY HOMES. SO TELLING THE RESIDENTS OF THE ALL ON LOFTS THAT DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. WE'RE ACT GONNA GIVE YOU A VOUCHER AND EVERYTHING, YOU'RE STILL GONNA BE ABLE TO FIND A PLACE IS NOT TRUE. THAT IS NOT GUARANTEED. IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND VOUCHER HOLDERS HOMES. AND AT THE RATE OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS, SINCE THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW MANY ARE ACTUALLY NOT GONNA BE REPLACED FROM PUBLIC HOUSING, WE ARE NOT FOR CERTAIN IF THOSE INDIVIDUALS ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO BE HOUSED, FIND A PLACE IN THEIR AREAS, OR FIND A PLACE ELSEWHERE BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE OUT THERE THAT DO NOT ALLOW VOUCHER HOLDERS TO EVEN APPLY FOR THEIR FACILITIES. SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU GUYS ALL KNOW THIS. NOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT MAYBE YOU GUYS ARE STILL GONNA GO AHEAD AND PUSH THROUGH THIS, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, POINT OUT, IS THAT A RENTER'S COMMISSION WOULD BE ABLE TO OVERSEE THIS KIND OF THINGS AND THAT WAY, UH, INDEPENDENT RENTER'S COMMISSION IS SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO PUSH TO BE ABLE TO OVERSEE, TO ENSURE SAHA IS GOING TO ENSURE THAT AS MUCH PUBLIC HOUSING IS REPLACED AS, UH, IS BEING TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM. AND FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO JUST SAY THAT, MAYOR, I KNOW THIS IS ON YOUR TABLE TO BE ABLE TO BE PUSHED INTO COMMITTEE. I WOULD LIKE YOU TO PUSH FOR IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. ACOSTA. JESSE DEL, JESSE VIDAL, DALLAS. OKAY. UM, LINDA ORTEGA FOR YES. HEARING IT. HOLD ON. OKAY. AH, MS. ORTEGA, YOU'LL, YOU'LL BE NEXT ON ITEM 22, WHICH IS ALSO ON CONSENT. OKAY. OKAY. MS. ORTEGA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND TAKE YOUR TIME AS MR. VIDS GETS READY? THANK YOU. THIS IS ON ITEM 22. YES. AGAIN, MY NAME IS LEN ORTEGA AND THE OUTREACH COORDINATOR OF THE OFFICIALLY REGISTERED HISTORIC WESTSIDE RESIDENCE ASSOCIATION. FIRST AND FOREMOST, LET ME STATE THAT THE ASSOCIATION SUPPORTS THE EFFORTS OF MR. MARCIA AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALLAN CREEK COMPOUND. WHILE WE [03:55:01] DON'T SUPPORT IS THE APPLICATION FOR I D C THREE FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT. WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT I D C THREE IS BEING APPLIED TO GET RELIEF FROM THE REQUIRED PARKING AND PERMITTED USES UNDER C THREE. BUT WE FIND THE CITY SUPPORT I D C THREE ZONING IN THE HISTORIC WESTSIDE IN OVERREACH. THE CONCERN IS NOT WITH THIS CURRENT APPLICATION, BUT WHAT FUTURE IMPACT I D C THREE WILL BRING TO THE HISTORIC WEST WEBSITE. I D C THREE ALLOWS HIGH DENSITY INFILL DEVELOPMENT. IT PERMITS ANY RESIDENT DENSITY. I D C THREE HAS NO BUILDING HEIGHT LIMITATIONS. HEIGHT SHALL NOT BE LIMITED. WE UNDERSTAND THAT MAJOR AMENDMENTS TO I D C THREE SITE PLAN WILL REQUIRE A NEW APPLICATION FOR REZONING AND A HEARING BEFORE THE ZONING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL. BUT HONESTLY, THE BATTLE TO PROTECT THE CHARACTER OF THE WEST SIDE HAS ALREADY BEEN LOST WHEN THE LAWS HAVE ALREADY BEEN PREVIOUSLY APPROVED WITH AN IDC THREE BASED SONY. WE BELIEVE THAT IDC THREE IS A BUILD YOUR OWN SONY AND IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE FOR OUR SMALL SCALE NEIGHBORHOOD AND SHOULD NOT BE APPLIED IN OUR OLDER INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOODS. WE WISH THE CITY WOULD HAVE SUGGESTED AN ALTERNATIVE TO IDC THREE, SUCH AS IDC ONE, LIMITED INTENSITY INFILL DEVELOPMENT OR IDC TWO MEDIUM INTENSITY INFILL DEVELOPMENT WAS PERMITTED USAGE IN C ONE OR C TWO. FOR EXAMPLE, WE COULD HAVE DISCUSSED THE POSSIBILITY OF SEWING THE MAJORITY OF THE LOTS AS I D C ONE OR TWO WITH PERMITTED USES IN C ONE OR C TWO TO MEET THE USES NEEDED BY MR. MACIAS. THE 1500 WEST COMMERCE LOT COULD HAVE BEEN TREATED SEPARATELY AND DOWN ZONE FROM ONE I ONE TO C THREE FOR USES OF MICROBREWERY BAR OR TAVERN TO MEET MRS. MACIAS REQUEST. WITH A LITTLE BIT OF IMAGINATION AND WORK, WE THINK I D C ONE OR TWO WOULD HAVE WORKED AND BEEN MORE APPROPRIATE FOR THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. IT SEEMS THE QUICK AND EASY FIX, BUT THE CITY'S ALWAYS I D C THREE. FURTHERMORE, THE ASSOCI HAD NOT BEEN GIVEN ENOUGH TIME TO DETERMINE THE BEST OUTCOME FROM MR. MACIAS AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. WE WERE GIVEN LESS THAN 24 HOURS NOTICE TO MEET AND DISCUSS THIS APPLICATION. EDUARD STOP WHEN MOST PEOPLE WERE AT WORK AND COULD NOT POSSIBLY MEET, WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST A CONTINUANCE SO WE CAN SIT WITH MR. MACIAS AND COME TO AN AGREEMENT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU MS. BOTTEGA. MR. VEES, WILL YOU BE TAKING YOUR TIME? SPEAK. OKAY. HE WAS HERE LATE. I'M GIVING HIM A COURTESY TO COME UP A SPEAK IF HE WANTS TO. HE CAN'T SEAT HIS TIME THOUGH. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WE'LL MOVE ON. PHYLLIS NEWMAN? YEAH, MR. MR. LES WAS NOT HERE IN TIME TO, TO SIGN UP. I'M ALLOWING HIM THE COURTESY TO SPEAK, BUT HE CAN'T SEAT HIS TIME IF HE DIDN'T SHOW UP TO, TO SIGN UP. SO IS WOULD HE LIKE TO SPEAK? MR. VALLES? ES OKAY. PHYLLIS NEWMAN ON ITEM P FIVE. OKAY. COME ON UP PLEASE. MR. ES. THANK YOU. THIS IS, THIS IS A VICTOR PRICE TO ME TODAY BECAUSE I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR THIS AT ALL. I HAD OTHER AMENITIES IN MY MIND, BUT NOW THAT I'M HERE, I'M GOING TO REQUEST AND TALK TO YOU. ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF YEARS AGO THAT I PROPOSED THAT PROJECT OVER THE FIRST HILL ROAD AS THE MORUM BRIDGE. I WAS WRITING POETRY AND OTHER AMEN. THIS LAST NIGHT WHEN I WAS CALLED THIS MORNING TO SEE IF I COULD COME OVER HERE. WELL, I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR ANYTHING AT ALL. I'M NOT COMING TO OBJECT OR DO ANYTHING, BUT I'M JUST COMING TO REQUEST AND ASK WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN ON THE WEST SIDE ABOUT ALL THE MINUTES THAT WE NEED. MY PROJECT THAT I DISCUSSED THAT I WANTED TO HAVE DONE. I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING AT ALL. I WAS TOLD LAST YEAR I WAS GOING TO BEGIN. IT WAS GOING TO BEGIN LAST YEAR ON NOVEMBER, BUT NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. AND I'M SICK AND TIRED OF WAITING. I DON'T TRUST ANYBODY ANYMORE. AND I HAVE TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH AS TO WHAT IS GOING ON. THE SAME THING. THIS IS AFFECTING THE WEST SIDE. ALSO, THE MANY THINGS THAT WE NEEDED IN THE WEST SIDE ARE VERY TREMENDOUSLY, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT. NOW THAT I'M HERE, I WAS NOT [04:00:01] PREPARED, BUT I HAVE AN ASSUMPTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE COURTS AND THIS PROJECT THAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED. IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT THESE POOR, LOW INCOME PEOPLE TO KEEP ON LIVING THERE. BECAUSE IF THEY BUILT THIS PROJECT, THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE PROPOSED. THEY'RE GOING TO RAISE THE LIVING, THE RENTING AND EVERYTHING THERE. AND ALL THESE POOR PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY SITTING THERE ARE GOING TO BE AFFECTED IN A VERY TREMENDOUS WAY. SO MY THING IS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS TO BE. IF YOU EVER HEARD ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IT IS TO BE IN A POVERTY SITUATION, ESPECIALLY AMONG THE HISPANIC POPULATION ON THE WEST SIDE, I'VE KNOWN THIS FOR AGES. AND I WILL NEVER, NEVER LET THIS GO AWAY. I WILL ALWAYS AM READY TO SPEAK OUT FOR MY PEOPLE, FOR THOSE THAT CANNOT SPEAK OUT AND THEY'RE AFRAID OR HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. AND AT THIS GIVEN TIME THAT I WAS SURPRISED TO COME OVER HERE, I'M TAKING DISADVANTAGE TO PROPOSE TO YOU TO LISTEN TO THESE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN PROPOSING WHAT THEY HAVE IN MIND THAT IS GOING TO BE AFFECTING THE POOR LAW INCOME PEOPLE ON THE WEST SIDE. THANK. THANK YOU, MR. VAES. THANK YOU. PHYLLIS NEWMAN, MS. NEWMAN ON P FIVE AND Z 12 MAYOR AND COUNSEL. I ONLY, I'M OWNER OF THE PROPERTY. I ONLY SIGNED UP IF THERE WERE OPPOSITION. SO I, UM, MS. NEWMAN, SO ITEM P FIVE AND Z 12 ARE ON CONSENT AND NO ONE HAS ELSE HAS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THEM. SO, OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, BETTY ECKERT ON ITEMS P TWO AND Z TWO. OKAY, GOOD IDEA. GOOD AFTERNOON. I THINK EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID JUST ABOUT THIS EVENING THAT I WOULD'VE SAID, PERTAINING TO THE SAME THING I WOULD'VE SAID ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY PLANS AND THE THINGS THAT WE, WE DECIDE IN NEIGHBORHOODS. UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA EXPLAIN THIS JACKET. I WASN'T HERE IN FAVOR OF ANYTHING. THIS IS A JACKET I WEAR ALL THE TIME DOWN HERE 'CAUSE IT'S COLD IN HERE. BUT LET'S GET THAT STRAIGHT. I WASN'T HEARING SUPPORT OF COURTS. IN FACT, IT NEEDS SOME, A LOT OF SINKING. WE'VE ALREADY DONE THESE THINGS AND TAKEN SOME SENIORS OUT OF THEIR HOMES ALREADY. SO I HOPE THAT YOU CONSIDER THAT WHEN THIS GOES FORWARD. I HOPE THEY'RE BUILDING SOMETHING BEFORE THEY TEAR DOWN. WE, WE, UH, WE HAVE MET WITH THE N R P ON, OR I HAVE MET, NOT WE, BUT I HAVE MET WITH THEM THREE TIMES. ONE COUNCILMAN TRAVINO WITH THAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND THERE WAS PEOPLE IN FAVOR AND NOT IN FAVOR OF WHAT WAS GOING ON. OUR CONCERNS ARE A FOUR STORY BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD. WE HAVE ASKED THEM IF THEY COULD COME DOWN TO THREE. THEY SAID NO, THEY COULDN'T BECAUSE IF THEY CAME DOWN TO THREE, THEY COULDN'T PARK THE CARS. NOW, I GOT A PROBLEM EARLIER. WE TALKED ABOUT A PLAN THAT WE'RE GONNA DO, MAYOR NEUENBURG ABOUT OUR ACTION PLAN IN SAN ANTONIO. SO I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO WORRY ANYMORE ABOUT PARKING CARS. IN FACT, WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT NOT PARKING CARS. BUT THAT WAS THEIR, THAT WAS WHAT THEY TOLD ME. OKAY, WE'VE GOTTA BUILD FOUR STORIES SO THAT WE HAVE MORE PARKING SPACE. YET THIS MORNING I HEARD YOU TALKING ABOUT US TRYING TO HAVE A DIFFERENT TRANSPORTATION WAY AND DOING THINGS BETTER IN SAN ANTONIO. WE CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. PARKING, NO PARKING, HOUSING. NOW I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE COMMUNITY PLAN AND OTHER PEOPLE NOT BEING INVOLVED. YES, MY NEIGHBORHOOD WAS INVOLVED. I AM FROM ALMOND PARK TERRACE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. MY NEIGHBORHOOD WAS INVOLVED, BUT THERE IS ANOTHER ADJOINING NEIGHBORHOOD, AND I SEE TODAY THAT THE N R P BOUGHT T-SHIRTS FOR THESE PEOPLE. AND THE OTHER NIGHT I ATTENDED A MEETING AND THEY BOUGHT ALL KIND OF FOOD FOR 'EM AND THEY [04:05:01] BROUGHT THE PEOPLE IN, BUT THEY HADN'T BROUGHT THE PEOPLE IN. COUNCILMAN IN KENWOOD. KENWOOD ALREADY HAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING. IN FACT, THEY HAVE KENWOOD NORTH ONLY THIS YEAR THROUGH SAN ANTONIO HOUSING, NEVER RECEIVED AIR CONDITIONING. AND IT'S OFF OF MCCULLOUGH. IT'S NOT ON THE WEST SIDE. IT'S IN, IT'S WAS BEFORE. WE'VE KIND OF MOVED OUR PATTERN ON THE NORTH SIDE. SO THEY ALREADY HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THAT AREA. THANK YOU, MS. ECKERT. OKAY. UH, THAT TAKES CARE OF MY THREE AND THREE MINUTES IN OTHER, MA'AM, I SIGNED UP FOR TWO THINGS. OKAY, WELL, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. I HOPE THAT WE WILL HAVE SOME MORE TIME TO CONSIDER THIS. ANN ENGLER. GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M ANN ENGLER AND I'M WITH THE BOWEN CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD ADVOCACY. THANK YOU FOR HAVING THIS SESSION TONIGHT. THIS AFTERNOON. WHAT I WANTED TO SAY WAS, WHEN WE MAKE MAJOR DECISIONS REGARDING THANK YOU, MA'AM, FOR HOUSING ISSUES, MY MY POSITION IS I DON'T THINK AT MOST TIMES WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH CONSTITUENT INVOLVEMENT. WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OF THE RESIDENTS AT THE TABLE TO SPEAK. AND MANY TIMES THOSE VOICES GO UNHEARD. AND I REALLY WANT TO JUST BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO AS A COUNCIL, AS A CITY, EVEN AS MY OWN GROUP. THE BOWEN CENTER THAT I GET THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING FOR IS THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE NOTIFIED AND THAT THEY GET TO BE A PART OF THAT PROCESS. AND I THINK SO MANY TIMES WE HAVE INDIVIDUAL VOICES BEING LEFT BEHIND THAT IS SPECIFICALLY HAPPENING WHERE BETTY IS TALKING ABOUT THE KENWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WAS NOT NOTIFIED OF THAT INFORMATION. SO I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT GOING ON. I KNOW YOU HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO, BUT I THINK SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE WE'RE, WE'RE LEAVING BEHIND HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF VOICES RIGHT. IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS. AND THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO COME AND SAY TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. ENGLI. OKAY. THAT IS EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEMS REMAINING ON CONSENT. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I KNOW WE'RE, WE'RE STILL ON CONSENT RIGHT NOW AND IT'S, UH, ANYWAY, I'LL GIVE MY COMMENT. SO, UM, I KNOW THE LOFTS ARE ON CONSENT AND THIS IS, UH, AN ITEM THAT I'VE DISCUSSED WITH, WITH THE COUNCILWOMAN, UH, COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ. AND SHE IS TREMENDOUSLY EXCITED TO BRING, UH, THIS LEVEL OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO, TO THE WEST SIDE. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT UNITS THAT ARE FINALLY IN THE, IN THE INCOME RANGE THAT WE'RE NOT SEEING, UH, BEING BUILT IN OTHER AREAS. UM, AND I KNOW HER, THE FIRST THING SHE TOLD ME WHEN SHE SHARED THIS PROJECT WITH ME HAD TO DO WITH KEEPING, UM, THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, GIVING THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO STAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, BECAUSE OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE FORTHCOMING CHANGES WITH THE, WITH THE COURT. SO I, I TRULY BELIEVE, UM, THAT SHE'S EXCITED ABOUT IT AND SHE WANTS THE BEST FOR, FOR THAT AREA. AND I TOLD HER I WOULD BE SUPPORTING THIS PROJECT. WE SUPPORTED IT, UH, WITH THE 9%, UH, LETTER, UH, NOT TOO LONG AGO. UM, I'M ALSO REALLY, UH, MOVED BY A LOT OF THE COMMENTS THAT WERE SHARED HERE, UH, TODAY. YOU KNOW, NOT LONG AGO WE PASSED SOMETHING THAT HAD TO DO WITH HOW WE, UH, ENGAGED THE PUBLIC AND WE'RE STILL FIGURING OUR WAY OUT, UH, ABOUT THAT. UM, I THINK ALL THE REQUIRED STEPS WERE, WERE MET. UM, HOWEVER, I BELIEVE, UH, IS SAHA HERE. OH, GREAT. UM, YOU, YOU DON'T NEED TO COME UP, BUT, UH, I'M JUST GONNA MAKE A, A COMMENT AND I'M, I'M GUESSING N R P IS IS HERE TOO, IS THAT, UH, OH. YOU GUYS ARE WEARING THE SAME T-SHIRTS AS EVERYBODY ELSE. . SO, UM, I, UH, I WOULD URGE YOU, I MEAN, THIS WILL REALLY BE IN YOUR HANDS AT THIS POINT, RIGHT? UM, SO I WOULD URGE YOU TO CONTINUE THE DIALOGUE, UH, WITH THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ARE HERE TODAY. UH, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN OUT TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ON A PROJECT ALSO, UM, A TAX CREDIT PROJECT THAT YOU'RE PARTNERING WITH AND YOU'VE, UH, YOU'VE BEEN REALLY OPEN TO THEIR INPUT AND ENGAGED TO IT. SO I, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE, THE SAME THING, UH, HAPPEN HERE. AND I I THINK THEY, YOU KNOW, THIS COMMUNITY DESERVES IT AS MUCH AS, AS ANY, UM, AS ANY COMMUNITY IN SAN ANTONIO. UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS TALKING TO MY STAFF ABOUT THIS AND WE THOUGHT THERE MIGHT BE SOME MODIFICATIONS ON THE FACADE, UH, THAT COULD HELP SOFTEN THE, THE MASSING ON THE, ON THE FOUR STORIES. I MEAN, THE PICTURE THAT, THAT, UM, GRACIELA SHOWED US IS, IS VERY STARK, RIGHT? THE WAY IT LOOKS. SO, SO THERE'S POSSIBLY SOMETHING [04:10:01] THAT COULD BE, COULD BE DONE. SO, UM, BUT I DO WANNA THANK, UH, SAHA N RRP AND, UH, EVERYONE INVOLVED WITH THE PROJECT FOR INVESTING IN THE WEST SIDE. I KNOW THAT'S BEEN TREMENDOUSLY IMPORTANT TO THE COUNCILWOMAN AND I'M GLAD SHE'S ABLE TO SEE THIS PROJECT THROUGH BEFORE SHE, SHE LEAVES OFFICE. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR. THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. OKAY, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. THAT IS ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR 29 P FOUR AND Z SEVEN AND Z 18. PLEASE VOTE. MOTION CARRIES ITEM 29. ITEM 29 IS AN ALCOHOL VARIANCE IN DISTRICT EIGHT. IT'S AN ORDINANCE WAIVING THE APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS OF CITY CODE FOUR DASH SIX AND GRANTING A VARIANCE TO IT. ITAM INCORPORATED FOR A CONVENIENCE STORE AND GAS STATION Q MART FOR AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ON LOT FIVE AND CCB 1 4 4 4 5 LOCATED AT 9,100 WEST HIGHWAY 10 AND OFF-PREMISE CONSUMPTION WITHIN 300 FEET OF PRE-K FOR SA NORTH CAMPUS, A PUBLIC EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION. COUNCIL MEMBER PAL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I'M GOING TO ASK MY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO CONTINUE, UH, THIS FOR SEPTEMBER 5TH. THAT'S CORRECT. THANK YOU. OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR CONTINUANCE OF ITEM 29 TO SEPTEMBER 5TH. PLEASE VOTE. THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES ITEMS P FOUR AND Z SEVEN P FOUR AND Z SEVEN AMENDING NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY PLAN FROM LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL TO MEDIUM DENSITY RESIDENTIAL FROM R FIVE TO I D DZ TWO WITH USES PERMITTED FOR 10 RESIDENTIAL UNITS LOCATED AT 10 0 6 STREET, 10 10 CHILE STREET, AND 7 0 7 REXFORD. STAFF RECOMMENDS DENIAL PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL. 32 NOTICES MAILED ONE IN FAVOR, ZERO OPPOSED NORTH CHERYL HILLS RIDGEVIEW NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS IN SUPPORT. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. THANK YOU MAYOR. AND, UM, WE HAVE MADE SOME NEGOTIATIONS. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. UH, JEN SMITH PARTICULARLY WAS PRESENT AT, AT THE ZONING COMMISSION ON BEHALF OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND SPOKE, UH, IN TO THE MEETINGS IN BETWEEN THE NEIGHBORHOODS. UM, SO I MOTION TO, UH, APPROVE, UH, Z SEVEN AND P FOUR. OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEMS P FOUR AND Z SEVEN. PLEASE VOTE. MOTION CARRIES ITEM Z 18 Z 18 FROM I ONE TO C TWO CD WITH A CONDITIONAL USE FOR AUTO VEHICLE SALES LOCATED AT 1918 WEST COMMERCE STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDS DENIAL. 20 NOTICES MAILED ZERO IN FAVOR WHEN OPPOSED. HISTORIC WEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS OPPOSED. AND I BELIEVE THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A CONTINUANCE. OKAY, WE HAVE ONE CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, IRMA HOFFMAN. OKAY. UM, WE'RE HERE REPRESENTING THE HISTORIC RESIDENT, WEST SIDE ASSOCIATION AND, UH, WE ARE AWARE THAT THE OWNER HAD, UM, APPLIED FOR ZONING, BUT WHEN WE WENT TO THE ZONING COMMISSION THE SECOND TIME, 'CAUSE THE FIRST TIME, UM, COMMISSIONER BUSTAMANTE GAVE US LEEWAY TO, UM, COMMUNICATE WITH THE OWNER. UH, DURING THAT TIME WE WENT TO THE CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICE AND FOUND OUT THAT THERE WERE NO PERMITS FOR THE FENCE THAT WAS INSTALLED. NO PERMITS FOR THE CONCRETE SLAB THAT WAS LAID AND NO PERMITS FOR THE AUTO SALES. UH, THAT IS STILL, THAT IS STILL IN, UH, IN ACTION. SO, UM, WE ARE IN OPPOSITION OF THAT. THANK YOU MS. HOFFMAN. THANK YOU. UM, I REALIZE JACK FINGER ALSO SIGNED UP. JACK, DO YOU WANT YOUR TIME ON THIS ITEM? I SPOKE. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU JACK. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. MOTION TO CONTINUE UNTIL THE NEXT ZONING. THAT WOULD BE SEPTEMBER 5TH. SEPTEMBER 5TH. WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT ONE AFTER THAT? THAT WOULD BE SEPTEMBER 19TH. OKAY. MOTION TO CONTINUE TO SEPTEMBER 19TH. [04:15:01] VERY GOOD. OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR CONTINUANCE OF ITEM NUMBER 18 UNTIL SEPTEMBER 19TH. PLEASE VOTE. MOTION CARRIES. THAT'S THE REMAINDER OF OUR ZONING AGENDA. WE ARE ADJOURNED. HAVE A GREAT DAY. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.