Part 2: Speakers condemn building that would tower over Hays Street Bridge2
Channel: NOWCastSA
Date: 2018-03-10

This video is the public testimony  on March 9, 2018 before the Historic and Design Review Commission which  rejected a developer’s proposal to erect a 72-foot-tall apartment building next to the 58-foot-tall Hays Street Bridge. 
The five-story edifice would have blocked the view of, and from, the Hays Street Bridge, one of the most recognized landmarks in San Antonio, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and designated a Texas Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. It also was to be built on land donated by the Dawson family in 2005 for a public park for the enjoyment of visitors to the beloved pedestrian bridge.

After hearing 21 speakers condemn the project for more than two hours, the commissioners voted 5-3 to deny the request for Certificate of Appropriateness by Mitch Meyer, head of Loopy Ltd.