A new committee is proposed by two councilwomen to help reduce future flooding in San...
A new city committee will bring a comprensive planning approach to prevent future flooding in San Antonio. What happens on the North Side of San Antonio, including in the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, has direct consequences on downstream districts and their residents.As someone who’s been working for years to improve San Antonio’s stormwater management, I was pleased to see a proposed new committee that would, if enacted, help the city address its more than $3 billion drainage backlog.
This committee would not only provide sufficient time for a more thorough review and prioritization process of bond projects for the five-year cycle but will also offer residents greater opportunity to participate in the process. This new committee would have the ability to consider projects and strategies from watershed and regional perspectives, which may assist in preventing many of the localized flooding issues that pop up and are currently addressed with a Band-Aid approach.
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