San Antonio otlicials say that by May, they will have recommendations for land use around the city’s five Spanish colonial missions, collectively named a World Heritage site this past summer. And they say those recommendations, part of an overall multifaceted strategy, will emerge after an “extensive civic engagement process.”
The issue of development near and around the missions turned into a full-blown controversy over the sununer when residents near Mission San Jose opposed a plan by 210 Developers of San Antonio to build a 144-unit, six-building apartment complex on L&H Packing Co.’s former meatpacking plant across from that mission’s visitors center.