DEPARTMENT: Neighborhood and Housing Services
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Ver?nica R. Soto, FAICP
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Council District 2
SUBJECT:
Disposition of a vacant City-owned property within NCB 2988
SUMMARY:
A resolution recommending the declaration as surplus and conveyance of a City-owned vacant property within NCB 2988 for the city's affordable home program, located in Council District 2.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The City of San Antonio owns a vacant property located within NCB 2988, Block 4, Lot 3, 4, 13, 14 & S 7.35 ft of 5 & 12 (BCAD ID 138738), located in Council District 2. The 0.4912-acre tract was originally acquired by the City of San Antonio in 1910 as a part of a larger tract used as an abandoned gravel pit. Within the last 10 years, the City completed the extension of Denver Boulevard from Clark Avenue to San Salvador Street. This extension divided the original larger tract into the two vacant tracts of land. San Antonio Affordable Housing, Inc is proposing to use the south tract of 0.4912 acres as the site for the construction of two prototype affordable housing projects.
San Antonio Affordable Housing (SAAH) is proposing the Single-Family Prototype Pilot Project to help meet the deeply affordable housing demand in San Antonio for families between 50-80% of the current average median income (AMI). This Pilot Project will include the construction of two side by side homes using two different construction methods-one traditional, stick formed and the other non-traditional, rammed earth. SAAH will be working with the City's Office of Sustainability to help monitor this project's total cost, energy efficiency, emissions, and sustainability.
One home will be pier and beam "sticks and bricks" construction using the latest technologies to make it as affordable as possible. A second home will be constructed using a rammed earth construction method - a method of using compacted earth (sand, gravel, clay etc.) to form the walls of ...
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