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File #: 14-579   
Type: Miscellaneous Item
In control: City Council A Session
On agenda: 9/4/2014
Posting Language: An Ordinance approving a Municipal Boundary Adjustment with the City of Shavano Park for two tracts of land from the City of San Antonio municipal boundary to the City of Shavano Park (approximately 6.24 acres) and one tract of land from the City of Shavano Park to the City of San Antonio (approximately 31.81 acres), to provide for approximately 1 mile of improved hike and bike trails to the City's Howard W. Peak Greenway Trails System. [Peter Zanoni, Deputy City Manager; John M. Dugan, Director, Planning and Community Development]
Attachments: 1. FINAL CITY OF SHAVANO RESOLUTION, 2. Shavano Park Survey, 3. Shavano Park Map, 4. Parks Ordinance 2012-09-20-0731 (850 acres - city wide land acquisitions), 5. Salado (Rogers-Denton) land acquisition map 8-4-14, 6. Shavano Park Municipal Boundary Adjustment, 7. Ordinance Shavano Park 8-13-2014, 8. DRAFT Shavano Park Agreement, 9. Signed Item #34 A, 10. Signed Item #34 B, 11. Signed Resolution Shavano Park 8_27_2014, 12. SIGNED Shavano Agreement, 13. Ordinance 2014-09-04-0657
DEPARTMENT: Department of Planning and Community Development


DEPARTMENT HEAD: John M. Dugan


COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide


SUBJECT:
Municipal Boundary Adjustment with the City of Shavano Park


SUMMARY:
An Ordinance approving a Municipal Boundary Adjustment with the City of Shavano Park for an exchange of territory, with the City of San Antonio receiving 31.81 acres and the City of Shavano Park receiving two tracts totaling 6.24 acres, adjacent to Salado Creek.


BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On July 22, 2013 the City of Shavano Park Council, by resolution, requested a municipal boundary adjustment along a portion of the Salado Creek. The City of Shavano Park is ceding 31.81 acres of floodplain located along Salado Creek to the City of San Antonio for the purpose of San Antonio continuing and building the Salado Creek Greenway trail project. The City of San Antonio will adjust its city limits by transferring 1.88 acres and 4.36 acres to the City of Shavano Park for a trail head and garden office lots.

Under State law, Sec.43.031 of the Texas Local Government Code provides authority for adjacent municipalities to make mutually agreeable changes in their boundaries of areas that are less than 1,000 feet in width. The request was evaluated based on the City's adopted Annexation Policy and criteria provided in the Texas Local Government Code, with feedback incorporated from other City Departments and agencies.

The municipal boundary adjustment supports the acquisition of approximately 73.5 acres of land that will be used in the development of the Salado Creek Greenway trail project (W Loop 1604 to Huebner Road), part of a growing network of interconnected hike and bike trails now known as the Howard W. Peak Greenway Trails system (Ordinance 2012-09-20-0731).

This project and the associated land acquisitions are funded through sales tax initiatives approved by voters in November of 2010. The objectives of the program are to ac...

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