March 5th City Council Meeting

by The San Marxist, posted in Meetings

San Marcos! I got your zoning cases, your Buccee’s, and I gripe at the Neighborhood Commission. Also the Lindsey Street Apartments, recycling, and SMPD.

Happy Spring Break to those who celebrate. Here we go!

Hours 0:00 – 1:00:  Gaza ceasefire,  two zoning cases, and some criticisms of Buccee’s.  

Hours 1:00 – 1:42:  Power lines, and the Neighborhood Commission pushes my buttons.  

Bonus! February 27th P&Z meeting:  The winds are changing on P&Z?  And also we look at those Lindsey Street apartments.

Bonus bonus! 3 pm workshops: Updates on the city contract with Green Guy Recycling and SMPD

One final note:

The results of the VisionSMTX survey came out, and were shared here on FB. Some thoughts:

  • There were about 160 responses.
  • 39 voted for the original plan, and 101 voted for the revised SMTX++ version. 5 wrote comments without choosing. 
  • 129 of them own property, 17 are renters, and 4 said neither or left it blank.  So this is not a representative sample of San Marcos whatsoever.

Kind of a bummer.

2 thoughts on “March 5th City Council Meeting”

  1. Hi! Do you think it could be possible for the city + council to redo the survey? Idk if there needs to be some type of motion/action or if that’s even possible. Bc I agree that the results are not representative of SM. For one, they had extremely limited language accessibility for Spanish speakers, for the survey and for the VisionSMTX plan itself.

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    1. I agree that the survey results are lopsided and not representative at all of San Marcos. I think it’s possible to re-do the survey, but I suspect there aren’t many councilmembers who are interested in re-doing it. Alyssa Garza would be sympathetic, but probably no one else.

      The best way to get their attention is to speak during the Citizen Comment period at the beginning of each meeting, but even then it doesn’t necessarily have much effect. (I send them emails from time to time, and never get a response.) Showing up with multiple people is more effective than showing up alone.

      But on this issue, I think a majority of council (Hughson, Gleason, Mendoza, Gonzales) got the confirmation they were hoping for from the survey, so they can now feel justified in passing SMTX++ and being done with it. Maybe I’m misreading the situation, but that’s my pessimistic take. 😦

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