We’re celebrating 12 years of the San Antonio Report! For more than a decade, we’ve provided San Antonio with reliable, local journalism without a paywall. This work relies on donations from readers like you.At a crowded Alamo Heights City Council meeting, council members heard controversial demolition requests involving a 1922 home and the city’s only public high school.
The replatting allows Nichols to sell the property as individual lots, each large enough to accommodate the construction of a single-family house. Instead, the council voted for a 90-day “cooling off period” that gives the developer and the neighbors who had opposed the demolition a chance to find a compromise.
The city’s attorney said City Council could deny the request and provide sufficient reasons, but warned the developer could then file a lawsuit. Architect and Encino Avenue resident Ted Flato said he is thrilled that the developer has agreed to work with the neighbors to find a solution, especially because putting two houses on the lot could limit the number of oak trees that would be saved.