annex five fast growing neighborhoods in north and northwest Bexar
County, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
The City Staff will 'reschedule' the annexation for next year.
The city's plan to annex some 133,000 residents in neighborhoods along
I-10 and US 281, as well as Alamo Ranch near Loop 1604 and Highway 151
has sparked nearly universal opposition and condemnation. The San
Antonio Police Officers Association has warned that the city will be
unable to provide basic police services to the newly annexed areas,
placing the entire city at risk because public safety will have to be
stretched too thin.
Many have pointed out that less than a year
ago, City Council voted to cut nearly $10 million from the general fund
budget that had been earmarked for street maintenance and repairs
inside the current city limits, indicating that the city can't properly
provide basic services to areas which is already controls.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation had blasted the proposed annexation plan
as a 'disaster waiting to happen,' saying city government has shown no
inclination of being willing to hire hundreds more police and
firefighters needed to patrol the protect the additional territory.
The city says the public hearings already held will be maintained for next year's process.
The city will also appoint an 'external working group' which will
independently review the financial implications of annexation, and will
analyze the proposal in terms of home values, tax collections, and
proposed single family and multi family development.
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