DEPARTMENT: Development Services
SUBJECT:
17388 Shady Falls
SUMMARY:
Request by Rosa I. Santos, for approval of a certificate of determination for a 1.10 acre tract of land, generally located on the east side of Shady Falls, southwest of Old Corpus Christi Road. Staff recommends Denial. (Donna Camacho, Sr. Planner, donna.camacho@sanantonio.gov, Development Services Department)
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Council District: OCL
Owner: Narciso and Rosa Santos
Staff Coordinator: Donna Camacho, Sr. Planner
ANALYSIS:
Zoning:
The property is located outside the city limits of San Antonio, therefore zoning is not applicable
Use:
Single-Family Residential
Background information:
The owners applied for a certificate of determination with the intent to receive electricity and water services to build a new house. Originally, they owned a total of 11 acres with three (3) residential structures on the property, one was theirs and the other two belonged to their sons. Because they were on the verge of the foreclosure, their son took out a second mortgage on his home and to pay him back they gave him 7.236 acres, then they gave the other son 1.882 acres where his home was located. They then obtained a reverse mortgage on their home to help repay their son's second mortgage. When they realized that the interest rate on the reverse mortgage was so high, and that if anything happened to Mr. Santos, she would lose her home because she did not qualify for the reverse mortgage due to her age, they decided to sell 0.78 acres of the 1.882 acres along with their home. Their son retained another portion of the land and the other home, leaving them with only 1.10 acres. They are appealing because they disagree that the section of the code 35-430(c)11(c).
The property has frontage on a public road way and is not located within a regulated floodplain.
ALTERNATIVES:
The Planning Commission may deny the appeal based on Unified ...
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