by Adolfo Pesquera

San Antonio (Bexar Co.) – City Council approved a land use change that would permit a multifamily and commercial development located cater-corner from Toyota Field and Morgan’s Wonderland.

The 15.53-acre site is at the southwest corner of the intersection of Thousand Oaks Drive and Wurzbach Parkway. It is directly across Wurzbach Parkway from the Northeast Independent School District’s Heroes Stadium.

The land use classification was changed at the Thursday afternoon session from Mixed use to High Density Residential and Regional Commercial.

The rezoning application was processed by Brown & Ortiz PC, a San Antonio-based land use and zoning law firm representing property owner Alamo Park Inc. The Longhorn Cement Company transferred the property to Alamo Park in 1993, according to the Bexar County Appraisal District.

According to a Development Services Department analysis, “The applicant requests this plan amendment and associated zoning change in order to construct a multi-family development on approximately 13 acres to the west end of the subject property and a commercial development on the remaining approximately 2.3 acres on the east end of the subject property.

“The subject property is located in an area that has seen rather extensive development, … the subject property is currently zoned “I-2 S” and multi-family or commercial uses are not permitted by right under this zoning district.

“However, while the Mixed Use land use classification allows for the construction of multi-family and community scale commercial uses by right, the associated zoning districts required to implement the proposed developments on the subject property require a higher intensity zoning district and thus the need to request a change in the land use plan.”

This tract of land is vacant and a former industrial site. On March 3, it came before the Zoning Commission, which unanimously recommended the re-classification.

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adolfo@virtualbx.com