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Webcast: Neighborhood leaders gear up as city discards and rewrites neighborhood plans

Written by CharlotteAnne Lucas on Apr 14, 2018

Representatives of 22 neighborhoods gathered at the April 14 Tier One Neighborhood Coalition meeting to prepare to get involved and speak up as San Antonio rewrites community plans under the SA Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan. Under SA Tomorrow, the city discarded long-standing neighborhood plans that were years in the making. To protect the neighborhoods' future, representatives are gearing up to participate in the planning process.

Artist Pamela Taylor’s haunting portrait of a Syrian child refugee

Written by Jason Gil on Apr 11, 2018

To see and feel the anguish of a Syrian child refugee, look no further than the Portraits of Compassion exhibit on the walls of the banquet hall at San Antonio’s Trinity Baptist Church, on view until the end of April 2018. The painting, titled “...the least of these...,” is a hauntingly poignant portrait of a Syrian child. His eyes beseech us, in their sad determined gaze, to seek our humanity, wondering what went wrong.

How San Antonio neighborhoods will fare under the Corridor and Comprehensive Plans

Written by CharlotteAnne Lucas on Apr 11, 2018

Community leaders in the Tier One Neighborhood Coalition met on Nov. 4, 2017 at the Westfall Library to learn how the San Antonio Comprehensive Plan and the Corridor Plans will affect residential areas and the broader community.

Federal judge: Texas is violating national voter registration law

Written by CharlotteAnne Lucas on Apr 04, 2018

By Alexa Ura and Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune Handing the state another voting rights loss, a federal judge has sided with a civil rights group that claimed Texas violated federal law by failing to register residents to vote when they updated their drivers’ license information online.

Read the Letter from City Manager Sheryl Sculley to Developer Mitch Meyer

Written by CharlotteAnne Lucas on Mar 29, 2018

Here is the letter San Antonio City Manager Sheryl Sculley wrote to developer Mitch Meyer about the development proposed adjacent to the Hays Street Bridge: (Her action overruled the Historic and Design Review Board's decision here.)