DEPARTMENT: World Heritage Office
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Colleen Swain
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: District 3
SUBJECT:
Consideration of four Ordinances authorizing the closure, vacation, abandonment, and transfer of city right of way; the transfer, or exchange of, City-owned property to the National Park Service, the execution of a memorandum of understanding; and the exchange and acceptance of property from the National Park Service for a turn lane on Napier Avenue. [Lori Houston, Assistant City Manager; Colleen Swain, Director, World Heritage Office]
SUMMARY:
This item is a consideration of four Ordinances authorizing the following:
A. An Ordinance authorizing the closure, vacation, abandonment, and transfer to the National Park Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Interior, the former road alignments of Mission Road, Napier Avenue, Woodhull Drive, and Trawalter Drive for a total of 2.1676 acres located on the current site and within the vicinity of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Visitor Center.
B. An Ordinance authorizing the transfer or exchange of ownership to the National Park Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Interior, two City-owned properties on the current site of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Visitor Center and four City-owned properties adjacent to the park for a total of 10.6852 acres.
C. An Ordinance authorizing the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Park Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Interior, for 5.5 acres of City-owned property associated with maintaining an additional landscape buffer and the view shed and scenic overlook of the existing church tower and steeple of Mission San Jos? at the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
D. An Ordinance authorizing the exchange and acceptance of 0.1008 acres of property from the National Park Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Interior, located at the northeast quadran...
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