Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez pushed to annex the property near I-10 and Loop 1604 into the city limits without the zoning Doggett Freightliner was seeking and effectively killed its plans.
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A land use attorney representing Doggett Freightliner, Ken Brown, said McKee-Rodriguez had told him Thursday’s scheduled vote on the planned dealership would be pushed to a later meeting. That would mean the Far East Side neighborhood McKee-Rodriguez was trying to protect would avoid the dealership its residents’ dread, but not the parking backup plan.
The majority of the property along the access road is already within San Antonio city limits, but a 16-acre portion in the back corner remains in Bexar County. The property bumps up against the Paloma subdivision, where some residents McKee-Rodriguez’s reasoning boiled down to avoiding the two-pronged threat Doggett Freightliner’s request posed to the neighborhood in his district.
But McKee-Rodriguez’s ruse offered him an opportunity to try and take both possibilities off the table.
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