SAN ANTONIO – Ione McGinty shook her head in disbelief walking out of the community forum held Thursday night by District 1.
“This meeting tonight was an insult to the taxpayer’s intelligence,” McGinty said to KSAT on her way out.
The forum was held to discuss the city’s transit-oriented development (TOD) policy. It’s an existing zoning classification that a task force is tailoring.
The city said the goal of TOD is to create and support housing and mixed-use development projects along new VIA Advanced Raid Transit lines.
“The big picture is affordable housing,” District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur said. “Our community is going to double in population over the next 10 years and what we need to do is get ahead of that.”
In October 2023, Kaur co-signed a Council Consideration Request asking to create a TOD plan in connection with the VIA Advanced Rapid Transit (ART) North/South and East/West lines. Through the request, a task force was made.
This policy is …