The Texas Division of Transportation has its sights set on a 0.64-acre tract of land that Northside Impartial College District owns for a freeway building venture.
Positioned on the Sam Rayburn Center College campus, one in all NISD’s southernmost colleges neighboring Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, TxDOT plans to make use of the land for “freeway operational enhancements” off Loop 410 and Valley Hello Drive.
Throughout a gathering in July, NISD’s faculty board gave Superintendent John Craft the inexperienced mild to barter with TxDOT on behalf of the district, and licensed board president Karla Duran to execute a deed transferring the parcel of land.
TxDOT approached the district asking for the land someday final yr, Duran instructed the Report, with plans to put concrete limitations alongside the street and develop the frontage street.
Laura Lopez, a TxDOT spokesperson for the San Antonio space, mentioned the venture contains constructing a turnaround, further flip lanes and improved bicycle and pedestrian lodging.
The venture is anticipated to be lower than half a mile in size, and TxDOT budgeted roughly $36.2 million for the growth. TxDOT estimates the venture will exit for bids in January of 2027.
What NISD will get within the sale
Sam Rayburn Center College sits on 17 acres of land, at present valued at $711,740 in response to the Bexar Central Appraisal District. The land tract neighbors a Valero fuel station amongst different companies and sits throughout the road from a shopping mall with an H-E-B and several other quick meals chains.
Whereas negotiations are nonetheless ongoing, Duran mentioned the district hopes to at the least obtain market worth for the land. However that might not be sufficient for some NISD faculty board members.
Whereas land sale costs would often be priced by dividing the entire worth by sq. footage, faculty districts have absolute exemptions, which means they don’t should pay property taxes and the method for transferring and promoting land seems to be completely different.
In the course of the July 22 assembly, trustees Laura Zapata and Carol Harle expressed considerations that TxDot’s building venture might have an effect on the varsity’s visibility from the street.
Zapata and Harle mentioned they’d like so as to add some kind of marquee that might be thought of in negotiations with TxDOT, making certain the varsity isn’t hidden behind an lively building zone.
“Proper now we’re able the place we have to proceed to showcase our colleges and to promote,” Zapata mentioned.
