While VIA Metropolitan Transit continues to plug away on its Advanced Rapid Transit plan, the city of San Antonio is aiming to strategically align with those plans by buying up vacant lots along the proposed north-south route.
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Most of the grant money — up to $6.5 million — will be spent acquiring and entitling those parcels. Once that process is complete, the San Antonio Housing Trust will seek development partners for each site. The rest of the funds will be used to hire consultants to draft community engagement plans and conduct economic analyses for different development scenarios.
“Currently, the highest opportunity and highest capacity areas are along the north end of the line, which currently lacks affordable, accessible housing despite having a higher than local average concentration of people with disabilities,” the city wrote. “By acquiring land strategically along the Green Line, residents will have greater access to essential health and social services.”
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