[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Camp Bullis (TX) buffer issues

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

09/28/2008 12:00 CDT
Legality of Bullis buffer questioned

Greg Jefferson
Sam Antonio Express-News (TX)
September 28, 2008

Attorney David Earl and planner Harry Jewett are lobbying hard for a 
$190 million fix - a new road with an adjacent buffer zone, both 
financed with property tax revenue, that they say would stop development 
from crowding Camp Bullis' southern flank and undo some of the North 
Side's traffic snarls.

Working for an owner of 104 acres that would be purchased under the 
plan, they've looked to rally support in a slew of briefings before 
neighborhood associations, area stakeholders and, more recently, elected 
officials.

"Instead of going to the politicians and trying to convince them to do 
this, and just identifying the same set of problems again," Earl said, 
"the idea was to take them a set of solutions."

But some city and council officials are skeptical, though they say the 
plan warrants consideration.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/29849854.html




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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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