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Bicycle/Pedestrian Mobility Workshop
Would you like to be able to bike or walk to the grocery store, school, library or
aquatics center? Would you like to stop chauffeuring your children to every single
activity?
Come to the Walkable Community Workshop and tell us where you would like
to be able to walk or bicycle to and what would help you get there so that our
neighborhoods can become more pedestrian and bicycle friendly. The San Antonio-Bexar
County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), along with its transportation
partners will present information on Complete Streets and programs currently available.
Then it will be your turn to voice your concerns so planning for the future ensures
we have a livable community.
MPO's are regional agencies created by Federal law to conduct a cooperative, continuous
and comprehensive transportation planning process. This process enables our metropolitan
area to receive over $200 million annually in state and federal transportation funding.
Your participation in this process is important to ensure that your scarce federal and
state gas tax dollars are spent wisely and according to the region's most urgent needs.
Although funding is not guaranteed for projects identified at the workshop; workshops
are designed to gather information from the community. A report is developed and sent
to the appropriate agencies and elected officials.
Public involvement is very important to the process.
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Wild Animal Sightings
COYOTE SIGHTED
A couple of homeowners in the Hills reported sighting a young coyote on Arroyo Hondo. Most wild animals avoid
contact with humans, but this young animal seemed to have no fear of the homeowners. While there was no indication
of disease, homeowners should be cautious of any wild animal that acts strangley or appears to have no fear of humans.
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RATTLER BEWARE
A homeowner in the Village reports having found and killed a baby rattlesnake in their back yard recently.
It was first thought to be a garden snake but then the homeowner realized that it was a rattlesnake.
With the warm weather, the building activity across the street on Kyle Seale, and the clearing of the
greenbelt they are likely moving towards the residences. Rattlesnakes and other critters will move to
houses in search of prey as the ground gets drier. Rats and mice will come up to homes for grass to eat,
and other stuff like garden vegetables. If you have items in your back yard where rats and mice can
live under-- firewood, piles of old materials, things that don’t get moved where they can hide --
predators are likely to follow. Another rattler was reported a few years back...
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