 Welcome everybody, I'm Demi Burks, I'm the Committee of the Park and the Association of President. And I'll get y'all right here today. Charlotte Lucas is here with NowPass, and she's at the meeting, and they have it. NowPass is with Demi at each meeting that we had. So we really appreciate it, and we wanted to take her by those signs. We are also doing a fundraiser for $20. We have these, it's a tax deductible donation to NowPass. We have these signs available. And you can also- Now you can sponsor donations. Yes, we do. They'll take more than $20. We will definitely take more than $20, and we definitely take the non-and-non-profit way too seriously. So with your help we can keep coming back to these meetings. And thank you for sending us links to those. So if you ever miss a meeting, or you want to go back and find something out, as soon as we get it we'll post the links on our Facebook page. And you have your own playlist on YouTube. So we have our meeting today. We have Charles Mazzuga, who's from District 2. Councilman Shaw, and he's going to speak for a moment. And then we have our co-compliance officer, Charles Lopez, is here. Christine Drennan, who is a PhD director from Trinity University, Urban Studies, she's coming to talk to us. And then we'll have Wich Hayes, our wonderful treasurer back there. And then he's going to give us an update on the Midtown San Antonio Regional Planning. So I'll bring up Charles, and then we'll tell us who he is and what he does. Thank you very much. My name is Charles Mazzuga. I work for you and for Councilman Shaw. Previous to being hired by Councilman Shaw I was working in District 9 for Councilman Joe Pryor for his whole term. So I'm happy to be back serving in this part of the city of District 2. As a matter of fact, it's one of the first districts that I began to work for. Typically, I range any solicitation of any issue or any sticking point that you might have with city representatives administratively or from the council level and report back to a single point of contact, maybe yourself or whomever. For any question you need answered or any issues you need to facilitate. And that would be my role whenever you'd like me to attend. I'll be here. You'd like me to be a standing thing where I, you know, come in a way that's fine, but invite or whatever you want to arrange. I'm happy to serve. So your title is Zoning and Policy Advisor. Yes ma'am. Zoning and Policy Advisor. In our office where we have our employees are assigned to different neighborhood associations and we're asked to attend. We'll attend and maybe Park is one of those for me. Who else do you have? Our staff? No. Sunrise Community. They're a newer community to the city actually. All of Redmond to the Northeast. They are currently working on a master plan for their park. And like it's in park improvements and some basic facility upgrades. But between Banky and Sunrise, those do stand at my bigger association as I am. So can you give an example of a technical issue? I guess I'm not clear when we would get you involved. Our contact comes from Shaw Rife. And the chief of staff, because he also has the chief of staff. Anything from discovery or not to a flow of information to working with our code officers or any other part of our city structure. If you wanted me to look more into the issue you've received an answer on, I'm happy to do that from our office. Truly anything that you would perceive or want to know is a city or local government solution waiting to happen. I'm happy to facilitate that. For instance, if we had some questions about maintenance of beverage trees. Sure. And we thought maybe the city wasn't being close enough attention to our area. So we might know the unit. Yes. Good example. Good example. There's only case you want to give me your opinion or views beyond the 200 foot mailing requirement to do that. So we understand you all from the mayor that everyone in the neighborhood will get a zoning notice. The 200 square foot is the absolute minimum. And the goal is to increase it beyond that. Okay. We'll see how that transpires with our budget session. We're talking like that. Sure. Those things I could keep, you know, and I want to see how that's going to the process report back. Well, we're glad to have you. Thank you very much. I'm happy to help. I'm happy to help where I can. Does anyone have any questions? Your car. No. My previous one here. Okay. But I bet you not. 007-72-78. 2122-207-2122. Does anyone else have any questions? Yes. Okay. Sorry. You're sleeping. Okay. That's okay. Okay. Well, thank you. Sure. All right. Can you be around for a little while just in case? Absolutely. You know, it's your meeting whatever you'd like. It's a great body. I think it's something as the whole meeting is along about those sorts of things tonight. Yes, ma'am. Okay. And thank you. Okay. Officer Lopez. I'm going to call the Cokin clients and then if you can tell people who you are, what you were talking about before and then how would you get in touch with them? I think these are partner, they're not the shades. Partner shades is just that they are prescription and without them I've stumbled all the way up here. But my name is Charles Lopez. I've been with Cokin clients almost four months now. Prior to that I wore a police uniform. I did 21 years of campus road course, retired because I had a tool in the face of facts. I just couldn't chase them. Prior to that I wore the uniform. The answer is to read. So I'm going to do the most of my writing. And I'm all about public service. So basically I work for you. Anything you need, you can call. I've sent you an email. Call 311. We're here to help you. And as I've told many people that I've already talked to, my big thing is open lines of communication. I can't help you if you don't talk to me. And we can help each other by addressing the problems that arise. And that's really, really what I'm here for. I'm not here to come over and say, you have to do this and you have to do that. I'm the type of person that I would like for you to. Okay? Get more, get more surprised with how many of you have. And the other thing is I'm all about respect. All right? So I'm going to respect you, your properties and your opinions, your views of things, even if we don't. And I would hope that I would get the same amount of respect back from everyone. So I'm a family man. Six kids, 18 grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. Big family. I'm also a choir director of my church. Again, I'm all about public service. I'm all about serving my community. That's the things that I do. Having said all that, anybody have any questions for me? Yes. I'm new to the neighborhood. Distribute spectrum of your overall responsibility. My main responsibility is to enforce the code to the city center. Property maintenance codes, other big things. You can make a grass cut, the tree limbs put it back, paint the house, junk vehicles, they need to be removed. Things of that nature. And actually, I've got a little pamphlet that says, let's talk about common code violations. I've got some in the back. Feel free to pick one of those up. I've got some on the feeding. I've got some on absentee property order. So I'm going to explain what we do, what our responsibilities are. And what we can do for you. And that's really what we're here for. He's also the person who called in a potential that he would be thinking that our NZD is in violation. Yes, ma'am. Do you actually control or is it the only way that a code violation could be acted on if someone contacts you? No, I control. I do a lot of provocations. If I'm driving down the street and I see a sofa sitting on the driveway, I won't be in the case. But suppose you see someone getting ready to put in a driver. All you do is ask if they have a permit. If they have a permit from the city, then they can go ahead and put that driver in. And if it violates, pardon me? Would you routinely do that? Yes, ma'am. Yes, that's one of the things that we're required to do as well. We see somebody unloading a whole bunch of wood at a property. I'm going to ask, what are you doing and where's your permit? And by the way, they have to show it to me. Are you employed by the city? Yes, I'm employed by the city. I'm a city employee and I hope that I can get another retirement from them. I'm not sure if there are years left. Pardon? I'm not sure if there are years left. Basically, I've got a metaphor. Government Hill, I can go all the way. I can go all the way to the city, but they've sent me as far north as Rune Road and as far south as I-35. And I go all the way to Hillside Fort Sands sometimes. So, I've got a good size chocolate burger steak to take care of, but most of my routine patrol is done right in this neighborhood. Yes, ma'am. So, how many co-op positions are there like you or the city? That, I don't know. Roughly about 100. I know we just got more. Can you give some examples of punishment? A good punishment? I don't know what happens. Okay, no jail. The one thing we're not going to publish, hey, this is what we did to Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones, okay? This is just, that's not what we do. However, we can give tickets and fines can be assessed up to $500. We can also, in extreme cases, if a house is deemed inhabitable, then it can go before the building destruction board and actually be demolished. So, I mean, we can go that far. Now, that is a long-drawn process, but it may be the process will kick in and the structure will be raised uniquely. So, in that case, the structure is demolished. Now, the city, the owner is forced to pay for that demolition. That's correct. The city will hire contractors to take care of it, and then the property owner is responsible for paying the contractor. And then they don't pay it, and they need to spend some of their property. Any other questions? I've got my card. Please feel free to drop by. I'll be here for a short period of time. I would like to visit with you guys. Come on by. Okay, thank you so much for coming. Okay, so, we invited our ranking park patrol officer who's out for Martinez, he's actually getting surgery tomorrow. So, we have Joe Zuleja that is going to talk to us about what they do and who to contact. What's going to happen while Martinez is gone? Hi, my name is Officer Zuleja and it's like we do work out of the central sub-station. We do work together. So, I've been, I patrol the whole, this is called, considered the 22 section. So, I patrol the whole area. My immediate area is the DOP, but I'll be assisting while Officer Martinez is gone. So, we've got about two months before he's back to full duty, but you never know, it's just, you know, at the ghost. I did put some sheets out, he did give me some numbers too and some sheets that have information on how to keep your home safer. It's always good to kind of brush up on some of the items around this list. There's also, it's his helpful phone number gone there and we have our central safety unit phone number on there, it's 207-7413 because he may not, you can probably continue to call him or send him an email, but he may have people to answer you at that point in time and maybe later. So, if you have something that needs immediate assistance and it's something that we need to be involved with, that 207-7413 is a direct line to our office. And my name's also, it's like, I'll be helping, but everybody's going to be helping and then they're actually just back. I want to talk about a couple of things that he did want me to mention from the crime staff from Anki Park. And they're from June 17th, June-July 17th, so one month's time we had six burglaries. There was a 300 block of thorn in it. I think it was in the first, there was a long service trailer to overtake from it. I've been all going to the Pacific because I don't want to go in this people business but I want you to know, I just want to know what's happening, and I guess some items are taken from the trailer. At one minute, Andrews on the 15th, there was an overnight burglar vehicle and they're not sure exactly all that is taken. 200 block of Alanthorpe on the 16th, there was a broken window on the vehicle but that's not taken. They might have been spooked off or larnated blown off, possibly. 200 block of Andrews on the 29th, there was also damage to the vehicle but that's not taken. On that 300 block of Alanthorpe on the 10th, a convertible pop was left open in the vehicle and the wall was taken out of the vehicle. That's one of the things that we always remind people is that it's the only thing they can do, of course, the only thing they can do is value your car. Much less a wallet. That's crazy. That was up on the 10th. On the 11th of the 500 block of Elmhurst there was also a wall taken out of the park. Now we keep my mommy. That's one of the things I have to make sure. There were four crew on mischiefs and there were mostly broken windows on vehicles. One was on the 100 block of Elmhurst, one was on the 200 block of Funciner. There were also, but then, a 500 block of Elmhurst filled the car stretch by a known person so it might have been a dispute or something to that effect. And the 400 block of Elmhurst the car was struck by a trader who was on six years. Burglarier habitation, these are very, to me, they should be more important, all of them are bad, but I think burglarier habitation, that's the number one priority to get down is because it's your home. You feel violated when somebody breaks in your home. At the 300 block of Pershing a bicycle is taken from a screen porch to consider a burglary because they enter. Even though screen porch is inside the home, per se, it's still considered they enter the location. They took a bicycle and helmet. They're still in a lot of these high-end bicycles. I know they're pretty pricey. I've been looking at getting one myself and they're out there. So there's a lot to be right now. So make sure that you put them in a spot that people can't see them from the street. Especially, you know, apparently at night time, people can see you live, you're friendly to property, you won't leave anything in view that they can steal. A five-hundred block of dome, so construction, there was a construction dome. They took appliances and stuff like that. A one-hundred block of Andrews in an apartment. They still, they've heard about a whole apartment. $1,800 worth of property at the time. So you had a block of IRA. It was an immediate shift. It was broken into note, nothing taken. You can't see anything if they want it. As always, we encourage you to be the eyes of your police department. If you see anything suspicious at night, or during the day, if somebody is hanging out, definitely call and let us know. If you haven't done the COP class, it's a citizen's patrol class that the police department offers. I highly encourage you to do it. If there's a lot of items that we touch on and ways that you can definitely improve the safety of your neighborhood. And right before the meeting, I was approached by a gentleman, if you want to stand up, and he got some information about some of the latest things that are happening in the neighborhood, in the neighborhood. It is something very good information. Some of you may have seen the post on his Mac. I didn't hear your name. My name is Mac, and I live on Elmhurst. Anyway, I spent an hour and a half with the officers last night from 12.30 to 1.30 in the morning about this car theft stuff and the breaking record. Because of technology, the criminals now, just like if you want a steel cable, you can buy a little box and give you free cable. Well, they can now buy a box that tracks your code for your cars when you use your button. So what they're doing is, they're walking by your house or they're sitting out front, and when you use your button, it tracks that code. And they can store up to, you know, how whatever model they bought, they can store up to 20 to 50 different cars and your garage owners. So what they're doing is, when you use your alarm, they're trapping it going back at night or slipping Jim in it or putting a wedge in, makes too much noise, could pop a window, break it. So what they're saying is, with these two guys, the two officers said, one from Al and Hyde from San Antonio, is when you're at home, use your key. Hit the lock button on the inside before you shut your door and then you go to open it. Because if they use this machine in a grocery store, they got to break in right then and there and that will follow you home. That's the reason cars are being, you see in the news, cars are being broken into at SeaWorld, Six Flags, they're laying in the cars and they're trapping your number and as soon as you go inside the park, you're not even probably four rows away and they're already in your car. If you're going to carry guns, laptops, anything of importance because they're mostly looking for guns, laptops, things like that, put it in a gym bag and when you go to work, you know, take it in with you when you come home. If you have a trunk, just lock in your trunk because they're just going to go, nine times out of ten he said, the two gentlemen said that they're going to go into the front of your car, look around real quick and get out because they don't want to get caught. So if it's locked on a trunk, chances are they won't go through that. Unless it's the middle of the night and they've trapped your code and in fact the alarm doesn't go off. They'll unlock your door like you had the alarm on you so you don't hear anything and that is a good idea. The main point to me is that when you ask the vehicle, don't use your code to lock it when you show us somewhere, hit the lock button and I do that sometimes when I'm lazy and I don't want to use my alarm my keys are on my pocket they're the automatic key so as I'm opening the door I'm guilty of using the alarm thing too. That's what I found out last night and that's what's going on all the receiver roads, six flags all these amusement parks that you see on TV they can't understand how these guys are getting at you they know how they're doing it they're just not telling you that they're using these little machines and you can find them online apparently. And that makes sense too and that makes sense too because of our six burglaries three where they said there were a lock which they probably weren't unlocked the curtain was left when they left how close could they have to be depends on the model 50 feet plus depending on the model they'd buy they could be standing like either one of them hers the third house from the school and they could be in the parking lot of Lamar and they could do probably five or six houses up from me depending on the model so that's quite the distance it just depends most of them probably buy I would assume they don't spend a lot of money it's about 15 feet and they can do a lot of walk and walk they just have to have it in their pocket just like a scanner where people they come up they put your credit card up against their pocket and it's trapped over there and they just walk by and the signals are trapped so all right does anybody have any questions about anything or anything going on in your neighborhood and how often is it offered where is it offered it could be offered anywhere it could be here it could be most better than being in the neighborhood that way we could use this side of the car we can do it here it has to be at least five or more people interested to come over and it's all over and if you want to set it up if you have a group of people that want to do it you just call that 207-7413 quarter way and it's a good class to take and it certifies that you can even do a patrol ride in the area whatever day you want to take and kind of just see what's going on and they really think it's going on in your neighborhood rather than on the house here because you're on a whole day yeah you get right up there well we hope to keep you safe you know we haven't any a couple of years thank you I'm Steve Amber I'm the Vice President of the Neighborhood Association and I want to introduce to you our next speaker Christine Drennan she is HG Sociologist at Trinity University and the Director of the Urban Studies Program and she came to some of our attention because of the activities that are pretty directly related to making parking in District 2 she's been active with the SAGE Economic Development Program and she's been advising the Tiananmen Neighborhood Coalition that we are a part of making parking we asked her to come and speak to us because of the city planning process that we're all undertaking and we have some very critical issues as you all know that we're facing housing, corridor, Broadway being slated for more intense development and so we'd like Professor Drennan to talk about sort of a bigger picture about how cities not just ours are believing in urbanization it seems to me we're not in our society so thank you and we have a very frank conversation in that I don't know a lot about SAGE tomorrow so the gentleman that's going to speak after knows a lot so what I speak though about is kind of a big picture as far as the projections for girls for the city are for the next million people and for these years or so and for a lot of us the question is who are they and where are they going to live what are they going to do but not as much that one as who are they and where are they going to live because there's really when we think about it there's two sources for who are these people one is just the immigration people coming from the outside probably attracted for economic reasons, new job growth things like that that's a question of itself what are these jobs and how are they growing the other one is is what natural growth of the population itself and what parts of the population are actually growing to produce a million people in 30 years and that's not it's not probably a distribution of population that's here right now it's very specific some families are much much larger than others some families are actually shrinking and the population is aging so as we think about this who are these people and where are they going to live it really is two different centers the projection is that some of the people that are moving from the outside are probably going to be wealthier, higher income middle to higher income depending on economic development and the jobs that we attract that the population that's growing locally is a lower income and lower educated population and so one of the questions that we've got in front of all of us is well how do we accommodate these two and that's actually not unique we know in the United States that the middle class is shrinking there's lots of political reasons for that as far as the loss of a lot of different kinds of incentives that really grew the middle class including housing so but back to just the bigger picture so that all of us can start to get a handle on what we plan for the future is just looking back a little bit and said as this city grew not unlike a lot of cities especially in the South it wasn't a lot of planning it was really grew in a free market type of environment so wherever like path of lease resistance was where the development went and a lot of that development was incentivized by political processes in the past to go to the north a lot of you probably know as far as the placement of the science center and then UTSA were very political decisions that acted as a vacuum that pulled a lot of that growth to the north side but it was very unregulated but it was something that and that we have to keep to reminding ourselves as we prepare for the future it was very much subsidized growth because you and I as just like middle class homeowners are still subsidized we're subsidized by mortgage mortgage income tax deductions and mortgage interest rates themselves as all of the subsidization process so a lot of that were pulled that growth to the north from the beginning that was really what I call it unregulated because it really was pretty market pretty much market driven and now we're living with the consequences of that which really are economic in terms of time in terms of sprawl is an economic as well in terms of tremendous environmental implications of that because we know that we actually have inherited some of the most really environmentally sensitive land in the country as far as the water source and we've kind of paved over a lot of the top of that so this is what we're kind of paying for now is unregulated growth in the past and the conversation has been well with a million people coming I'm not sure where that number comes from okay how are we going to plan for that in the future if we haven't planned in the past and a couple of things again who are folks but then also knowing that there's been this turnaround in demand for housing and this isn't well but this isn't unique to us as well but in a lot of reasons a lot of speculative reasons for why there's so much demand for inner city living inner city housing inner city spaces inner city lifestyles which is the neighborhood park is like on the radar you're in the cross hairs of folks that are now craving this lifestyle and so with a limited supply of housing you and I live there not building new old housing and a new increasing demand for it and there's a lot as far as how we've dealt with that in the past historically there's been much much more public money and public funding available for cities coming from the federal level and much more the local level a lot more from the federal level well that began to get cut off in the 1970s and it's just withered away and with the new administration it's withered away even more Obama actually did have a pretty active neighborhood revitalization program that we San Antonio has received millions and millions probably about a hundred million dollars from the Obama administration that most of that is now in the drying drying up and our adults were all grant funded a lot of the east side neighborhoods were the city and so a lot of that the grants are drying up and they probably won't be replaced what it looks like right now and so with more and more cities used to get some public funding just to try to keep up with things like public goods and streets and water and drainage and lighting and all of that kind of stuff that should be in the public sector relying more and more on the private sector to do that and private sector now is driving some of our development patterns which is a lot of what we're sensing like on the Broadway corridor when we look at those we're looking at what's going on on the Broadway corridors like who are they and how are there so many of them all rentals and very high dollar units but they're full because you're not going to get financing for a project like that if you can't show that there's a demand so there's a question a couple of questions still become how do we plan for this with a lot more people coming to your city neighborhoods and are we going to call it gentrification and what's with the affordable housing but just a couple again in preparation for you all kind of like hitting the dirt and really trying to get your hands around I'd say tomorrow plan which I don't know a lot about things to think about affordable housing what does that mean affordable housing is a relative term it's a relative term it's really kind of monitored by HUD housing and urban development and it's relative to everybody's income affordable just means 25 to 30 percent of your monthly income they suggest or recommend is spent on housing and including mortgage and including utilities and all that kind of stuff right and it also includes some upgrades not the big ones those are going to probably borrow against the house to replace the roof I don't know I can't personally say $15,000 in anticipation of replacing the roof but then that's affordable so I have an affordable level you have an affordable level and somebody that makes $10,000 has an affordable level so when we use that term affordable housing we often misuse it and so we miscommunicate across different audiences we're often miscommunicating and so we really need to get a handle on some of the language and if we want to talk about housing for the lower income sectors of the population some people are starting to call it workforce but I'm in workforce too and I'm not sure if I would be considered to be that what we're really talking about is subsidized housing and there's lots and lots of different kinds of subsidized housing from all the way from payment to hope favorite payment for hope for people who have no income to those next levels up and the next levels up is how they're classified is again coming from HUD is the extremely low income are considered to be 30% of the area meeting income are lower so area meeting income just for funds it's really about 54 but I can't do that in my head so let's just say $50,000 30% is 15 grand so if you're making 15 grand or below you're considered extremely low income and you're qualified for public housing which there's not enough of because the San Antonio Housing Authority and no housing authority can provide enough housing for that regular population so a lot of those folks are actually also in section 8 vouchers section 8 voucher list has been closed for many years and there's about 20,000 families on it this is how many there are so many people in this situation that are not being housed and they're doubling up so we have real serious crowding issues in some areas of the city and then there's a couple of next levels up there's a 60% AMI of area meeting income and there's the 80% of area meeting income and 80% above is considered well then you can actually go into the market to get your housing and below is those these are folks in families that follow hyper subsidized housing and it comes in a couple of different forms so there's public housing in section 8 available through the housing authority section 8 is actually privately owned there's tax credit properties and a lot of the new apartment complexes that we see going up that are actually mixed income those are financed through tax credits to the state they're by law mixed income and they have to be mixed income for about 15 years there's a lot of those big developments around the city right now some of them are beginning to get near the 15 near month and are beginning to phase out and there's a big question about what's going to happen to those we have an enormous, enormous population in the city that falls in these income brackets because we are a low income city because of the nature of our our economy it tends to be low income and then there's some very high income level too it's these those brackets that are making a lot of the neighborhoods nervous because we hear about affordable housing but we should become subsidized housing and and is that going to come into our neighborhood should it come into our neighborhood if you actually look at the housing stock of some of the oldest neighborhoods in town they were always mixed income King William, if we think about King William, greater King William but also Baja if you put them together that's a mixed income community Baja was small bungalow houses and King William was the main chance and those were a neighborhood Tobin Hill is a very, very functional neighborhood I love that these days but it has been historically been a functional neighborhood they had small houses and they had the main chance so it was mixed income traditionally we built mixed income housing mid-century we moved away from that because it's a new development patterns and we're building to using economies of scale I can put in 50-100 houses a lot easier if they all look the same than if they're all different sizes for different income brackets so throughout the mid-century we built home to many of these neighborhoods and now so many of us are seeking to get back into a mixed income but we're also fighting about it we're kind of resisting it and so it's kind of like what does mixed income look like what can it look like what can it look like in some of our old neighborhoods should we have the conversation about the tax credit properties because more and more if especially as those scale down they tend to be very, very large developments and we're talking about government so many was talking about government there's a big one over there from my side note since right now 35 you can see it it's a big tax credit property but lots of these around here are and there's a lot to talk about scaling those down so that they're more manageable manageable in size and they'd be more welcome into some of the inner city neighborhoods but so some of the questions are as our neighborhoods change supplier means the same demand goes way up prices are going way up and for a long, long time these were middle income and even lower income families that were living in our old neighborhoods and what's going to happen this one is not as much this one's always been a little bit higher income but in some of them some of them a lot of these folks these families are under tremendous stress about being pushed out as so many of them in these houses are still in rentals rental rates are going up as yet that demand increases so as we prepare as we prepare for this new planning process there's just some things that you and I have to keep an eye on a lot of this has been yes there's been a lot of community input it's also been conducted by some very, very high power quality firms and there's those of us who are a little cynical about how much of the community input actually is reflected in some of the plans that we're getting back and so that's up to us is to stay vigilant in this thing there were and this is actually before my time but probably not before a lot of years is the 80s and the 90s the neighborhoods that the political atmosphere in the city and other cities were so different and those neighborhood plans that people now cherish those were written by neighbors and I was not here then I was living in Austin at the time but I hear stories about in people's homes around kitchen tables neighbors came together and put together those neighborhood plans and that was the kind of community and political environment of the 80s and the 90s is that it was much more community driven those plans went to city council they were approved by city council and they're a bi-all city council this new with the new essay tomorrow plan coming in it's very ambiguous what is the role of the old neighborhood plans and that's changed Rick Turiniel from district one Rick Turiniel from district one really kind of it was the cheer one neighborhood association that put this on his radar that says time out because the neighborhood plans don't appear in the new essay tomorrow plan and yet you wrote those and so this is where you and I have to be vigilant about what does community input really look like here and how are you going to take it seriously I happen to have a conversation with they had the road show like the planning department road show at the end of last year and I went to a couple of these and they hired a lot of new planners to put essay tomorrow and you know just kind of start to implement it and I was asking somebody what are these community boards going to look like and they I don't remember who answered well it's going to be a representative from the stakeholders in every one of the little areas right so I said okay an area like Tobin Hill because they've been in such turmoil recently they have a medical center they have a small medical center they've sat they have a lot of downtown business they I don't know the library is not included there but there's just a lot and then there's the entertainment district right there and then there's the neighbors and I said well what does what does the community board look like and they said well a representative from each of those and I said well I think that the neighbors should actually have a lot more representation than SAC or the hospital district or the name entertainment district because there's a lot more of us than actually that there are there are more of us than there are of each of these stakeholders and there was revolution things that you and I live every day they were like that I don't know about that every stakeholder gets a seat and you know these are the things that seems to me that as we move forward we need to think really deeply on we need to be really vigilant about we haven't planned in the past it is an opportunity to do good things because even the neighborhood plans that we put in place in 1989 they were plans on how do we maintain this how do we take care of this how do we put it down on paper this is what we want this thing to look like this is planned for both in the future right and we need to pay such close attention to who is around the table how many of us are there what does the vote look like if it's a community representative a representative from SAC a representative from the health district a representative from the entertainment district gets a vote and it's your me so I just think it is this great opportunity we didn't do it in the past we're paying for it now economically, environmentally, socially as we're so segregated we are the most segregated economically segregated city in the country and that should be an embarrassment and so this is an opportunity but we've got to figure out how to do it right and it's going to unfortunately take a lot of time because of a lot of outside consultants are leading this process and you and I have to we have to be really vigilant with it again I don't have details on the implementation of the plan other members of your association have a lot more but as far as this big conversation this is what drives me I love having these conversations the more of us that are talking about it the more hopefully the more control of it we can actually do it because it's been a bit of a mystery is there anything else anybody wants to talk about what changed when? from the 80s and 90s when the city was actively encouraging the neighborhood clients to divide what seemed to be discouraging there are, there's been movement again it's not unique, we're not unique there's been since really the 80s and we're lucky that we are so active in the 80s and the 90s but since the 80s more and more public funding for cities has dried up starting in the 70s really at the 80s Reagan administration well the Obama administration actually tried to reverse a little bit of that but weren't that effective so much that it dates all the way back to Johnson and then even back that starts to dry up with the oil resistance of the late of the early 1980s to the 90s the political environment at the federal level just changed and says we're going to drive a lot of that stuff that great society stuff that new deal stuff we're going to drive it back into the private sector public money drives up and so more and more private sector voices have really taken control of the public sector and I do and I wonder personally I wonder if some of that is actually the explanation because we hear all the time who's really the leaders and is it our elected officials or is it either other folks pulling the strings and we hear this all the time and some of that might be part of that process and again but we a lot of people who were involved at that time just recognize how powerful that was to be able to sit down and plan for the future of the neighborhoods get it approved by city council and yep political change at the highest levels that have filtered down in the form of less money less public investment where does local government go for it now as the private sector who that is going to drive on this conversation are there examples around countries where people have been able to democratize the planning process yeah but there are tough examples right and the city and the city of San Antonio is going to make a serious shift when council comes back into the budgeting process this is going to be really interesting and extremely progressive and they're going to roll it out but they're modeling it out some cities that are doing what they're calling it not the quality budgeting right now we have budgeting that looks like rock proportionality all of the city council districts get just about the same amount of money because of politics it's a bond because of politics the new mayor he's coming from a different place and we have a new city council that I'm very very optimistic about and they're very concerned with the economic segregation that has been documented and how the implications of that on equity meaning that there are some parts of the city that are just behind they haven't been invested in in a very long time and they actually need not the same amount of money they need way more just to bring them up to the level don't tell me you just saw an example all the time it's a little bit extreme I live in 7201 201 tells you already it's an old neighborhood and in my neighborhood under rock proportionality I'm going to get a new sewer line because my house was built in the 1920s and the sewer lines are all caving in but in district 9 with new sewer lines they're going to get the new community center of proportionality because if my neighborhood gets 20 million the current mayor is saying let's re-save this because that's not right the hard thing which I think is great and it's going to take a really long time and it's going to be a quite political process to get there but it's modeled on cities like Seattle Seattle is like the city on the hill right now there's a lot of examples Seattle also is very different than San Antonio good and bad San Antonio sprouts forever it's a southern city we've got a lot of land at the edges one hour a week yet but because of that we have both extreme wealth and extreme poverty within our political boundaries a city like Seattle which is so a lot of the low-income people so now they live in a different political space since Seattle, okay we can do what we budgeted because they don't have the extremes so it's easier there but we have an amazing opportunity to take wealth because it's all within our city we need to redistribute it a little bit because it's never all in the same political space so yes please join me and let's thank Christine because I need to give her one actually I can't stay you're going to get my presentation in a lifetime okay I want to thank you so much thank you I think I want to key out the board that she used and she used it three or four times and I'm pleading with you to be vigilant that's the only way we're going to accomplish this if you think back to what we did in the 80s and I was on the planning that Cisneros was doing in that time and one of the things that we planned on but they found the fruition was Palo Alto College which we had to fight for we needed a community in the form of cops metro alliance to get in there and really fight for that to be there and so it requires what she's talking about us to be vigilant and to be part of it and I see that in this process too and I'll point it out as we go along I don't have a I have some handouts please share only a few nights but to this type of he couldn't spend why am I up here why are you up here I was nominated to be the representative from Man City Park on the sub area planning part of San Antonio tomorrow I am also representing it looks like tier one tier one person in this group that's meeting the first meeting was July 28 and it's called the Midtown Regional Center it includes us and some of our colleagues around us in the planning but what we're seeing keyed in on which is important it also includes winning it includes in current word it includes and all of them some big players and also a part and also steering committee for tier one and get assigned to go to different meetings and there was a housing committee and it was and I was monitoring the policy planning part of it and we discussed that in forever and ever what affordable housing is of course we have a key to it can't but the big question that always came up in any of our discussions was the resource to make an implementation of any kind of plan and what we do need after doing this wholeheartedly behind this too housing plan for San Antonio and originally the housing commission was set up to go toward that to come up with a housing plan for the city of San Antonio with the change now in marriage we're going to have to see how that comes to fruition or if it doesn't but I'm pleading with you tonight to always be on vigil and watch what's going on San Antonio tomorrow and I will get a presentation every month on anything that's transpired from my perspective so that you see what this committee is doing because it includes myself, Tobin Yel and some of the others are on the committee and I'll bring you all this so you know who they are so if you work with them or have contact the more input that members of the committee can get better and I foresee as we go through this process that we are going to have so town meetings here just for ourselves here's an issue that's come up how do we, it shouldn't be what Chase feels, it should be what we feel as a community about that issue and so either in these meetings or extra meetings when we can we'll have to come together and do some planning the handout, the first sheet if you'll turn to the second sheet trying to conserve talks about the committee on sub-sub-area planning pointing out to you there that there are six areas they're on the right-hand side and very hard to read six sub-areas Downtown Regional Center Midtown, that's us Medical Center, Brooks, UTSA and near West those were chosen as being the first phase eventually the whole city will get involved in this experiment if you will to see how this is going to work for the rest of the city of San Antonio there's also at the bottom I like to point out those categories those will be the topics that we focused on during this first session since our orientation and that's all we really had on our 28th orientation session this session will be visioning and analysis data to start the visioning and the analysis of data we'll be looking at land use and eventually housing and what I want to point out that's very important is the mobility infrastructure on the back page of this you have something on mobility planning we need to pay attention to the corridors and what they are and help what that is going to be and how is that going to impact us Broadway is one of the corridors they are focusing first of all on the main one between the airport and downtown and bring it up to the medical center so to turn to future of the master plan the next sheet I wanted to point out because it looks like this we are planning for 2020 and 2020 is the implementation kickoff the plan is to be done by 2020 but then it starts rolling and it's going to be a long time before this is implemented your plan was in all the bourbon to see from the people running this 2040 is the date we're headed for 2020 is when we're supposed to be done planning and actually begin implementation process 2020 is for everyone so yeah they'll catch will be the first of the six now five regional centers one community so we're supposed to be 18 it's a 12 to 18 month they pay themselves to move 12 to 18 months and then they'll start to phase in others as we're going through ours but our implementation is 2020 our planning is for 18 the interesting line I want to flip over the page to the next page because I find that rather I run but it's been published all over the place and it says building blocks and I guess I turned that on its head if it was me designing but they put the neighborhoods at top well it's a building block shouldn't we be the foundation and then we build from there going in to the different plans from the regional centers and so on I wanted to point that out to you and then did find I'll make a quotation because I don't want to be misinterpreted but Butch said this and I don't want to be quoted because I'm quoting I'm quoting the city this is on their web page should please go out and look at Santana tomorrow neighborhood association boundaries were a major consideration for determining the final planning area boundaries where possible plane boundaries were drawn to encompass an entire neighborhood within that planning area it is the hope that implementation of comprehensive plans through regional centers and beauty plans will actually strengthen neighborhood ties and improve working relationships with other associations in that area adopted plans and then critical documents in her 15th document there were critical documents in the city he's the same other time so I assume it's a critical document we can't believe it's it we've asked for a review of ours and that's where we have a a train there coming and that's well we're going to have to work very quickly to get it done or else we're going to be behind dayfall well you saw it on the plan you saw it on the plan adopted plans have critical documents to the city as I said however the city is pursuing that's that word however that concerns me the city is pursuing a modernizing planning approach focused on three more manageable geographies regional centers, community plans and corridors so it's moved by its own language they've moved away from us to the larger level that's where we have to be vigilant what we have and what we want we have to get on the table I hope you would agree because that's why I'm saying we're going to have to get together and talk and there are areas of planned engagement the last page there and I'm kind of skeptical as Christina because I've attended some of the two information Steve and I were there but you all weren't there and we need to get more of us there when those critical town hall meetings are held whatever we call it and I won't make sure the information gets out to you so that we can have good representation now that we have our website yeah we have our website we still have to communicate when it's out there but I think we're going to have to get more active in getting the email email trees out or something so that we get the word out quicker I see it being more about kind of pushing it out there because people aren't going to know where to go look well that's why email push we can inform people keep in mind that you know watch the newspapers they're the newspapers but at least sometimes they'll give you that little hint that something is going on oh there's a meeting coming what meeting? why? why did they all go over to the central library and what happened so it's got a pretty good website and there's a lot more information there for you to absorb but reach out to Councilman also Council person has to know that we're watching this and we're worried about it or concerned about it as we should and they're using and being aware that San Antonio tomorrow 2040 is the tag name San Antonio tomorrow 2040 is on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter so they're using social media we should pay attention to what they're putting out there because that will impact how people vote if they see it out Kim earlier yeah that's it they're all neighbors around us although River Road was on party and they were there there were no neighborhood associations neighborhood associations Thurken Hill was sitting next to me Thurken Hill was on the other side of me and Thurken Hill was on the other side of me and Diggity and Diggity was there but in the other stakeholders there were a lot of it and respect during neighborhood neighborhood association neighborhood association this is for Midtown Region Midtown Region we don't have Midtown but in the city process I had heard outside of out of the city outside of District 1 and 2 you don't have that many neighborhood associations they tend to be in the older parts of the city and so they're getting organized I was with someone that was from San Jose and they're trying to get the Hotwell San Jose neighborhood organized it's not organized right now because that's going to be in Phase 2 that area of that region down there so they're trying to get some of them to get more neighborhood oriented and organized I have seen that in some of the conversations if I could just point out what we're talking about there's a democracy deficit in the planning process there's not enough representation for regular residents because there's a big institutional stakeholder just like as if we were on a neighborhood association so there's a lot at stake we need to show amongst other people who showed up was the big developer who's done the affordable apartments affordable apartments a lot of Broadway and NPW I believe this is their name Metropolitan Methodist was there the willy of course sat down and I never understood why UTSA was in our meeting they should have been in their own but they were not UTSA was there too that was curious Five Points was there as well I can't say Phyllis isn't the downtown campus in Midtown or not UTSA that would be with downtown other questions do you agree with me we're going to need to strengthen our community and people look to Manatee Park because we've been loud and we show up at meetings we do participate to make sure that you represent we go and we represent you let's show them how we as a part of the city can't do it and that means you have to feed me information I need to know what you want and how you feel and I'll get as much out and as much in the newsletter as I can next month