DEPARTMENT: Transportation & Capital Improvements
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Razi Hosseini, P.E., R.P.L.S.
COUNCIL DISTRICT IMPACTED: 3
SUBJECT:
Disposition on behalf of the Neighborhood and Housing Services Department: Declare as surplus and sell 17 vacant City-owned properties
SUMMARY:
An ordinance declaring 17 vacant City-owned properties located in Council District 3 as surplus to the needs of the City of San Antonio and authorizing their sale to GSoto Investments, LLC for a total disposition fee of $207,000.00.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
On behalf of the Neighborhood and Housing Services Department, the Transportation & Capital Improvements Department is requesting to declare as surplus and sell the following 17 vacant City-owned properties, located in Council District 3, as shown on Exhibit "A": 6515, 6519, 6523, and 6527 Alsbrook Drive; 6506 Woodstock Drive; 4026 and 4022 Anton Drive; 4007 and 4002 Salado Bluff; 4003 Adair Bluff; 615 Kenswick View; 6727, 6731 and 6735 Tehama Gate; 6751, 602 and 606 Kenswick View.
Under Municipal Code, all City-owned property must be declared as surplus prior to the disposition (sale) of the property. The request to declare property as surplus must be submitted to Transportation & Capital Improvements, Real Estate Division, then the request and exhibits are sent to departments and public utilities that provide services to, or construct infrastructure on the properties. City departments and Public Utilities respond if there is a need for the property or if the property may be disposed. There was no opposition to the disposition of the 17 subject properties by City departments or utilities during the canvassing process.
About six years ago, on March 28, 2013, the City purchased the 17 residential lots as part of the Affordable Showcase of Homes Program located in southeast San Antonio in the Highland Heights Subdivision for a total fee of $203,377.94 with General Fund dollars. The initial efforts to contract with a ...
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