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LET'S CALL THE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24TH, 2026.
PLANNING COMMISSION, MEETING TO ORDER.
WOULD STAFF PLEASE DO A ROLL CALL? COMMISSIONER ZUKI.
CAN WE GET THE SPANISH ENGLISH INTERPRETER PLEASE? THANK YOU.
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AGENDAS.WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE CONSENT AGENDA, UH, CASES ON THE CONSENT AGENDA, OUR CASES WHERE STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL.
PLANNING COMMISSION DOES NOT REQUIRE ANY FURTHER DETAILED DISCUSSION, AND NOBODY IN THE AUDIENCE HAS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THE ITEMS. ALL CASES WILL BE READ INTO THE RECORD IN ONE UNIFORM MOTION.
IF SOMEONE HAS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, THAT ITEM WILL BE MOVED TO INDIVIDUAL HEARING AGENDA.
SECOND AGENDA IS INDIVIDUAL HEARING AGENDA.
THOSE CASES WILL BE HEARD INDIVIDUALLY BEFORE ANY ACTION IS TAKEN BY THE COMMISSION.
SO RIGHT NOW THE WAY I HAVE IT IS, UH, CONSENT AGENDA CONSISTS OF EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR ITEMS 10 AND 16 AND, UH, 13, WHICH HAS BEEN REMOVED.
COMMISSIONER BUS IS GOING TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA.
THIS TIME WE WILL ENTERTAIN ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION OR A MOTION ON CONSENT AGENDA.
MOVE TO APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA.
MOTION FOR APPROVAL BY COMMISSIONER PROFIT SECONDED.
SECOND BY COMMISSIONER COOPER, ROLL CALL, VOTE PLEASE.
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16 FIRST AND IT IS 2 0 2.AND COMMISSIONER BUSANTE HAS REENTERED THE MEETING.
AND ALSO, UH, COMMISSIONER SANCHEZ HAS ENTERED THE MEETING FOR ITEM NUMBER 16.
THEY'RE REQUESTING A TWO MONTH CONTINUANCE TO THE AUGUST 26TH MEETING.
WE'RE GETTING A, UH, REQUEST FOR A TWO MONTH CONTINUANCE ON ITEM 16.
ANY DISCUSSION OR A MOTION? OH, THERE IS SOMEBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON IN.
YOU SIGNED UP TO SPEAK AGAINST THIS ITEM.
DO YOU WANNA SPEAK NOW OR WAIT TILL IT COMES BACK IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS.
WE WILL, UH, EITHER ENTERTAIN A, DISCUSS A, UH, MOTION OR MORE DISCUSSION.
I MOVE TO GRANT A CONTINUANCE TO AUGUST 26TH.
WE HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SIEGEL FOR SECOND AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER DKI.
I MEAN, ROLL CALL, VOTE PLEASE.
MONTY, UH, COMMISSIONER PROFIT? YES.
MOTION PASSES FOR CONTINUANCE.
ALRIGHT, WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY.
UH, CLAYTON WAL, UH, INTERIM PRINCIPAL PLANNER WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, UH, HERE WITH THE STATES CHAVEZ, UH, STREET NAME CHANGE.
SO, UM, JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT, THIS IS THE EXTENT OF THE STREET NAME CHANGE.
THIS IS AN APPLICATION TO CHANGE STATES CHAVEZ BOULEVARD TO DURANGO, UH, BOULEVARD.
THIS RUNS FROM, UH, SOUTHWEST 36TH STREET AND COUNCIL DISTRICT SIX, ALL THE WAY TO SOUTH HACKBERRY STREET IN COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO.
THIS WAS A CCR SUBMITTED BY DISTRICT FIVE ON APRIL 13TH.
UH, AGAIN, THE REQUEST TO RENAME, UH, CESAR CHAVEZ BOULEVARD TO DURANGO BOULEVARD.
UM, AND IT'S LOCATED IN ONE, TWO, AND FIVE AND SIX.
SO AS A PART OF THIS PROCESS, 295 ADDRESSES WILL NEED TO BE CHANGED.
UH, WE'VE SENT 412 NOTICES TO PROPERTY OWNERS ALONG THIS SEGMENT.
NOT EVERY PROPERTY NEEDS TO HAVE THEIR ADDRESS CHANGED.
THAT'S WHY THAT NUMBER'S DIFFERENT.
UM, AND THEN WE'VE ALSO NOTIFIED EIGHT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS.
WE'VE NOTIFIED LA VACA, DENVER HEIGHTS, DOWNTOWN KING WILLIAM, HISTORIC WEST SIDE RESIDENCE, PROSPECT HILL, UH, LAS PALMAS AND LOS SARINA
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AS PART OF THIS PROCESS.SO, JUST TO GIVE YOU A TIMELINE OF WHERE WE ARE IN THE APPLICATION.
ON APRIL 8TH AND 11TH, WE HAD COMMUNITY LISTENING SESSIONS IN THE DISTRICTS.
UM, THOSE HAPPENED BEFORE THE CCR WAS FILED ON, UM, APRIL 13TH.
WE DID OUR TECH TECHNICAL REVIEW WITH ALL OF THE CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT WERE NOTIFIED RIGHT HERE IN THE GRAY BOX.
SO IT'S ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS, ALL OF OUR REGIONAL PLANNING PARTNERS, UM, ANY LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ARE AFFECTED.
SO THEY WERE ALL NOTIFIED AND GIVEN THAT WINDOW TO, UM, REPLY WITH COMMENTARY SUPPORT, UM, OPPOSITION.
AND, UM, SO FAR WE'VE ONLY RECEIVED SUPPORT.
UH, WE WENT TO HDRC LAST WEEK WHERE WE GOT A RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL.
WE ARE HERE TODAY FOR YOUR RECOMMENDATION AND WE ARE TENTATIVELY, UM, GONNA APPEAR IN AUGUST AT CITY COUNCIL FOR A FINAL DECISION.
THE CURRENT ESTIMATED COST OF THE PROJECT IS 305,200 AND DOLLARS.
THAT IS SPLIT BETWEEN OUR APPLICATION FEE NOTIFICATION FEES FOR ALL THOSE LETTERS.
AND THEN THE ESTIMATED SIGN COSTS, WHICH ARE SPLIT BETWEEN THE COAST OF SIGNS FOR THE STREET AND THEN THE, UH, HIGHWAY SIGNS THAT WILL ALSO NEED TO BE REPLACED.
SO THAT'S THE, THE GENERAL RUNDOWN OF THE PROCESS.
UM, I KNOW WE HAVE SOME FOLKS HERE TO SPEAK AS WELL, SO HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
WE HAVE TWO PEOPLE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
OH, YEAH, IF YOU WANT, THAT'D BE PERFECT.
UM, I OPPOSE THE CHANGING OF THE STREET BACK TO DURANGO OR WHATEVER.
I OPPOSED IT WHEN THEY CHANGED IT TO CAESAR CHAVEZ.
AND, UM, THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY.
WE COULD DO A LOT OF THINGS WITH $300,000 IN DISTRICT FIVE.
IF I, IF INDEED THE MAN DID WHAT THE WOMAN ALLEGES, SHE SHOULD HAVE COME UP WAY BEFORE.
HE'S NO LONGER AROUND TO DEFEND HIMSELF.
BUT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER CESAR CHAVEZ DID A LOT OF GOOD FOR THE FARM WORKERS, FOR THE UNIONS.
AND ON THOSE REASONS AND RATIONALES, I OPPOSE CHANGING IT BACK TO WHATEVER YOU ALL DECIDE.
HE MERITS BEING HONORED FOR WHAT HE DID IN HIS LIFETIME.
SO, UH, I OPPOSE TAKING HIS NAME OFF OF THE STREETS AND SPENDING $300,000.
NEXT IS ELVA FLORES TIME, BUT I DIDN'T NEED IT.
NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
AND, UM, IF YOU'LL SAY IT AGAIN, ABEL FLORE.
I WAS GONNA SAY, WHEN YOU CHANGE THIS, UH, MY, SHE'S MY, MY CLIENT, I'M A PROVIDER.
UH, THE HASSLE OF HER ID, SHE'S GONNA HAVE TO CHANGE HER, ID HER, ALL HER BANK ACCOUNTS, ALL OF, UH, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? SHE'S GOT, YOU KNOW, DIRECT, UH, WITHDRAWALS.
DO YOU KNOW THE, THE HASSLE WE WENT THROUGH FOR HER TO GET WITHDRAWALS FROM THE CPS FROM EVERYWHERE TO WITHDRAWALS.
SHE'S GONNA HAVE TO REDO ALL OF THAT, YOU KNOW.
AND SHE, SHE'S, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, WE TAKE VIA, SO SHE HAS TO GO IN PERSON TO EVERY ONE OF THESE THINGS, CPS, THE WATER BOARD, UH, THE DRIVER'S LICENSE, EVERYTHING TO HAVE ALL THAT CHANGED TO DURANGO.
AND LIKE I SAID, WE DO TRAVEL VIA, DO YOU KNOW THE HASSLE IT WOULD BE FOR US TO GO TO EACH ONE OF THESE DEPARTMENTS JUST TO GET ALL THAT CHANGED? BECAUSE THEN IT, BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE, NOTHING WILL BE, UH, ACCEPTED.
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THE DRIVER'S LICENSE, WE WOULD HAVE TO GO TAKE VIA, GO STAND IN LINE, GET A DRIVER'S LICENSE RENEWED, GET IT CHANGED.I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO IT ONLINE OR WHATEVER.
BUT THE CPSI KNOW FOR SURE SHE HAS TO GO IN BECAUSE WE HAD A BIG HASSLE.
THE BANK, SHE HAS TO GO IN FOR SURE.
THE WATER, WE, SHE HAS TO GO IN PERSON FOR SURE TO GET ALL OF THIS CHANGED.
WHEN SHE GETS HER NEW ID TO DURANGO, SHE IS GONNA HAVE TO CHANGE HER.
THE HOSPITALS, THE INSURANCE, EVERYTHING IS THE SOCIAL SECURITY.
EVERYTHING HAS TO BE IN PERSON AND CHANGED TO ANOTHER STREET.
AND THAT, THAT'S A BIG HASSLE FOR, AND THAT NOT JUST HER, EVERYBODY ON THAT STREET IS GONNA HAVE TO DO THIS.
SO IT'S NOT JUST THE MONEY, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF SENIOR CITIZENS ON THAT STREET AND THEY SAY, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S A BIG HASSLE FOR THEM TO GET OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND DO ALL OF THESE THINGS BECAUSE THEIR FAMILY HAS THEM, YOU KNOW, ON DIRECT WITHDRAWAL.
SHE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WITHDRAWAL, YOU KNOW, DIRECT WITHDRAWAL.
I HAD TO GO ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT COMPUTER, YOU KNOW, LITERATE.
SO THEY, I, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY HAS TO GO IN AND HELP THEM.
THEY, ONE, THEY DON'T HAVE COMPUTERS, YOU KNOW, IN THEIR HOMES.
SO WE WOULD HAVE TO EITHER ON THE PHONE OR GO TO THE
THIS IS A LOW INCOME DISTRICT, SO THERE'S NOT PEOPLE THAT CAN JUST GET ON THEIR CAR AND GO, THEY HAVE TO ACTUALLY TAKE VIA OR, OR WALK OR, OR, OR WHATEVER.
BECAUSE THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THE WAY IT IS ON THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
THAT IS EVERYBODY THAT SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
SO WE'LL MOVE TO COMMISSIONER QUESTIONS.
WE'LL START ON THE LEFT WITH COMMISSIONER BUSTAMONTE.
UM, WE DO HAVE SOME FOLKS WHO MISS THE SIGN, SIGN-IN SHEET.
I DUNNO IF YOU'D GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY.
UM, I MISS, MY FIRST LANGUAGE IS IN SPANISH.
CAN YOU STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD PLEASE? YES.
MY NAME IS GABRIELA HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ FOR SERVICE AND GOD AND LADY GUADALUPE.
AND MY ADDRESS IS 4 7 5 2 6 CESAR CHAVEZ.
AND I AM HERE AND I TRY TO, EH, TRY TO, THE NEAR FEMA HAVE FEMA SIGNS FOR MY NEIGHBORHOODS ABOUT SOLID CITY SOLICITING BY NEW NAME FOR THE STREET IS A NAME WITH ABOUT THE WE IS HOLDING, WE ARE RENEW NEW THE FAITH AND THIS, THIS PLACE.
I WANT TO SHOW YOU THAT I WENT AROUND IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD WITH SOME OF MY NEIGHBORS THAT WE WANT TO REQUEST THAT CHANGE OF NAME TO THE VIRGIN OF THE WHY THAT NAME.
BECAUSE WE WANT THE PROTECTION FOR WHAT THE TIMES WE ARE LIVING RIGHT NOW.
SO I HAVE SOME OF THE SIGNATURES THAT MY NEIGHBORS WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE THE NAME TO.
AND I HAVE OTHER NEIGHBORS THAT THEY WILL SIGN THE PETITION, BUT THEY COULDN'T, I COULDN'T WAIT FOR THEM TO GIMME THEIR SIGNATURES BECAUSE I NEEDED TO COME HERE.
THANK THANKS AND APPRECIATE YOUR, YOUR OPPORTUNITY FOR TALK.
AND WE WANNA DO FOR THIS, FOR, UH, THIS TIME IS A VERY DIFFICULT FOR US.
AND WE NEED THE, THE, THE TEACHER ON THE PIECE.
IN THE TEACHER ON THE PEACE IS THE LADY AND THE LADY.
HIS, HE, HE, HE SHOWING ME HOW TO DO PEACE, NEED PEACE,
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ONION, ONION, PEACE IN ONION, AND, AND, AND MAKE GREAT AMERICA.'CAUSE AMERICA IS, AND GOD WE TRUST AND WE, WE DO HAVE TOGETHER ALL AMERICA OR ALL SONS SON OF GOD.
THAT WAY SHE WAS LOOKING FOR PLEASE.
I LIVE AT 1717 WEST CAESAR E CHAVEZ BOULEVARD.
UM, MY PARENTS, UM, WORKED VERY HARD TO MOVE US FROM THE COURTS, FROM GOVERNMENT, UH, HOME IN 1961.
AND WE RENTED UNTIL 12 YEARS ON EL PASO STREET.
OUR CHURCH IS OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CHURCH.
WE'RE PARISHIONERS AND I'M A CATECHIST THERE.
OH, MY PARENTS, UH, BOUGHT THE HOUSE IN 1972 ON CAESAR, UM, DURANGO STREET.
MY DAD WORKED REALLY HARD, MY DAD AT GARCIA, AND HE WAS JUST HONORED TO CHANGING THE NAME OF THE NATATORIUM IN HIS NAME FOR ALL THE WORK THAT HE DID.
UM, TO BRING THE NATATORIUM TOO, OUR WEST SIDE, OUR BEAUTIFUL WEST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO.
AND, UM, IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT WHAT HAS HAPPENED WITH MR. CAESAR CHAVEZ ALLEGATIONS.
AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE THE STREET NAME BACK TO DURANGO BOULEVARD.
DURANGO IS A BEAUTIFUL STATE IN MEXICO AND IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WE ARE SURROUNDED BY, BY NAMES LIKE SAN JACINTO.
WELL, UM, LAS MORA, UM, SAUNDERS, UM, BUENA VISTA.
AND IT WOULD BE BEAUTIFUL TO HAVE DURANGO AGAIN.
IT IS A LONG STREET AND IT GOES THROUGH BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN SAN ANTONIO.
AND THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE US SPEAK AND VOTE AND OTHER NEIGHBORS IN OUR SURROUNDING AREAS TO, TO SPEAK TO, TO VOICE THEIR CONCERN OR WHETHER IT'S FOR OR AGAINST.
THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH FOR THIS TIME.
AND, UH, PLEASE CONSIDER CHANGING IT BACK TO DURANGO STREET.
THAT IS EVERYBODY THAT SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
SO WE WILL NOW GO TO COMMISSIONER.
UH, I GUESS I DO HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR STAFF.
WILL THERE BE, UH, CITY RESOURCES FOR THOSE WHO NEED ASSISTANCE, CITY OR OTHER GOVERNMENTAL RESOURCES FOR THOSE WHO NEED ASSISTANCE IN CHANGING THEIR ADDRESS AS PART OF THIS PROJECT? I KNOW IT WAS LISTED IN THE, UM, CITY COUNCIL REQUEST.
OUR CURRENT ESTIMATE DOES NOT INCLUDE THOSE FUNDS AS IT'S NOT PART OF THIS PROCESS.
UM, IF THERE'S ANY MONEY MADE AVAILABLE FOR THAT, IT WOULD COME FROM THE COUNCIL OFFICES, SO IT'D BE UP TO THEM.
SO DISTRICT FIVE FOR MISCO, THE NU UH, WOULD BE A GOOD CONTACT TO REACH OUT TO HAVE ASSISTANCE WITH ANY CITY VIA CPS OR SAS? UH, CHANGE OF ADDRESS.
I, I WOULD TELL FOLKS TO REACH OUT TO THEIR COUNSEL OFFICE.
AND SO, MS. FLOTIS AND MS UH, NESS, THAT'S A GOOD, UH, POINT OF CONTACT.
IF YOU NEED MY NUMBER, I'LL HELP YOU WITH THAT.
JUST MAYBE SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
UM, AND THIS IS NOT A REFLECTION OF CAESAR CHAVEZ OR ANYBODY, BUT, UH, THE PROCESS OF NAME CHANGING AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OPTIONS OF MEMORIAL DESIGNATIONS THAT MAY BE MORE APT TO BE DONE BECAUSE WE, I MEAN, UH, THIS IS A LOT OF MONEY.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT COSTS TO CHANGE IT FROM DURANGO TO CAESAR CHAVEZ 10 YEARS AGO, BUT IT'S HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
AND SO I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR ON THE POLITICAL SIDE, THAT WE'RE JUST AWARE OF THAT AND MAYBE LOOK AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR RECOGNIZING INDIVIDUALS THAT DON'T CREATE SUCH A HARDSHIP.
UM, CHRISTIAN TO STAFF, UM, I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT IT IN THE WORK SESSION MEETING.
UH, $300,000 IS A LOT OF MONEY.
AND THE APPLICANT HERE IS THE CITY.
AND YES, I AGREE WITH THE COMMENT THAT THIS SHOULD BE SPENT ON DISTRICT FIVE AND OTHER NEEDED ISSUES.
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GOING TO BRING THIS MONEY, AND WHAT WOULD BE THE REVENUE IN THE FUTURE THAT WOULD BE OFFSET THE COST OF MAKING THIS CHANGE.SO THE, THE CONVERSATION AROUND FUNDING, UM, FROM THE COUNCIL OFFICES HAS BEEN TO USE FUNDS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY SET ASIDE FOR A CESAR CHAVEZ EVENT, UM, TOWARDS THIS.
AND THEN COMING UP WITH A DIFFERENCE IN TERMS OF WHERE THE DIFFERENCE WOULD COME FROM.
THERE ISN'T A CONFIRMED, UM, SOURCE OF FUNDS YET.
SO I, I'M NOT SURE IF THAT THAT'S QUITE THE ANSWER YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, BUT I, AT THIS POINT, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE, THE REST OF THE MONEY WOULD COME FROM.
I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OTHER THAN TO ECHO, UH, COMMISSIONER PROFIT'S STATEMENT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IN THE FUTURE WE ENTERTAIN MEMORIAL DESIGNATIONS FOR SOME OF THESE, ESPECIALLY THE MORE EXPENSIVE ONES TO PREVENT SITUATIONS LIKE THIS FROM HAPPENING.
CAN I MAKE ONE MORE COMMENT? YES.
CAN KIND OF ECHOING COMMISSIONER ZUKI.
YOU KNOW, MAYBE THESE THINGS NEED TO BE DISCUSSED, YOU KNOW, THE COST, I UNDERSTAND THE, THE POLITICAL PART OF THAT AND, AND WHY IT MAY BE APPROPRIATE TO RENAME A STREET, BUT JUST, AND AGAIN, THAT'S PROBABLY ON THE COUNCIL SIDE AND THE COUNCIL OFFICES, BUT HOW ARE WE GONNA PAY FOR THIS? YOU KNOW, LET'S WORK AS A COMMUNITY SO IT'S NOT TAKING AWAY TAX DOLLARS OR BEING INCONVENIENCE TO THOSE RESIDENTS, BUT JUST A, JUST MY OPINION.
ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION? IF NOT, WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
MOTION TO APPROVE, UH, STREET NAME CHANGE.
SECOND, WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE STREET NAME CHANGE TO DURANGO BOULEVARD BY COMMISSIONER PROFIT.
AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER SIEGEL.
WELL THAT IS EVERYTHING EXCEPT IS THERE A DIRECTOR'S REPORT? NOT TODAY.
WELL THAT BEING ALL THE BUSINESS TODAY, IT IS 2 22 AND WE ARE ADJOURNED.