San Antonio HDRC pumps brakes on Brackenridge Park tree removal
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Heritage trees are won't hit the chopping block yet at one San Antonio area park. In a highly-contested, long-winded hearing, the San Antonio Historic Design and Review Committee motioned to call for a special meeting sometime next week to approve or deny the city's parks and recreation department requests to remove trees from Brackenridge Park.
The city's parks and recreation and public works departments sought approval to remove three heritage live oaks, two heritage pecans, one heritage Bald Cypress and one heritage Crepe Myrtle located along the river banks in the Lambert Beach area in the local park.
In a master plan, the city projects to remove 105 trees – 10 are heritage trees and 23 others are dead or invasive species. However, only eight were presented to HDRC in the hearing. The parks department said 136 total trees will be preserved and about 200 to 400 trees will be planted for the project. All the trees planted will be of native species. The project is part of the master plan for Brackenridge Park voted on in the 2017 bond election.