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Old 08-29-2010, 09:57 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Taken from SA2020 facebook page "Where will San Antonio be in ten years? That’s largely up to you. SA2020 is a community-wide effort to chart San Antonio’s course for the next decade. Education. Transportation. Quality of life. We can make progress by realizing all of these issues are interconnected and by setting priorities to tackle them. Through the process of coming together as a city and speaking up, we’ll be able to map our priorities and decide what kind of community we want to be in 2020. The future starts here."

Videos Posted by Sa2020: Aug 2, 2010 8:15pm | Facebook


This is a great idea to make SA a better city. I want to see transportation change in 2020. We need to work on 1604 & 281 and all the other road problems in this city.


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Old 08-30-2010, 09:32 AM
 
Location: South Texas
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Unfortunately, I think the city will not be much different in 10 years than what it is now if the mindset and attitude of the locals are not changing or unwilling to accept “progress” must happen.
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Old 08-30-2010, 09:55 AM
 
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Unfortunately, I think the city will not be much different in 10 years than what it is now if the mindset and attitude of the locals are not changing or unwilling to accept “progress” must happen.
Good luck with that,
there's people that think that going back is progress
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Old 08-30-2010, 10:13 AM
 
Location: South Texas
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Good luck with that,
there's people that think that going back is progress
Exactly my point. It is called “mediocrity” and San Antonio has plenty of it.
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Old 08-30-2010, 04:27 PM
 
Location: Somewhere in the universe
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I wouldn't be surprised if San Antonio wasn't any different in 10 years. There have always been plans for the city to do better but no one ever wants to apply it. A good change could happen over the next decade, really so much could happen, but I'm not expecting much until maybe the next decade.
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Old 08-30-2010, 04:49 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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I'm not sure why people don't think the city won't change all that much within the next decade. I moved here in 2002 and there are several parts of the city that are unrecognizable since then.
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Old 08-30-2010, 04:49 PM
 
Location: 96820
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Talking where is U

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Default - Where will San Antonio be in ten years?
Lets see - It could still be here - San Antonio is an unincorporated community in Socorro County, New Mexico.

Or here - The community of San Antonio Valley, also called San Antonio or San Antone, is located along the Diablo Range in eastern Santa Clara County, California.

Here maybe - San Antonio, Florida - Home of the San Antonio Rattlesnake Festival.

Long time here - San Antonio, Baltar, Spain.

San Antonio, Nye County, NV.

San Antonio, Puerto Rico
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Old 08-30-2010, 05:08 PM
 
Location: Somewhere in the universe
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I'm not sure why people don't think the city won't change all that much within the next decade. I moved here in 2002 and there are several parts of the city that are unrecognizable since then.
The part of town I live on was rural when I first moved out here. Now there are nothing but businesses lining the street. Of course San Antonio will change in 10 years if it keeps growing the way it is now, which it probably will. That itself causes change, maybe different varieties of stores, restaurants, shops will come and transform different parts of town due to growth and more types of people.

Yet there is the other change that the city has a hard time applying. I take from that video that they mean change as in improving downtown, public transportation, helping dropout rates, creating better schools and universities. Things like that take more time, but I've heard time and time, over and over again, for planning on what to do with those issues and nothing comes up from them.

I think San Antonio has amazing potential to really boost itself in this decade and the next, but I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't.
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Old 08-30-2010, 05:19 PM
 
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Default Exactly Anth,

In order to see changes one needs to be able to see back from a perspective of thirty or forty years or even fifty years. The changes
have been extreme. San Antone was less than a half million pop.
in the sixties. Downtown was not much before hemisfair, really a small
place with a few five and dimes, furniture stores and some department stores
and specialty shops. The same thing has happened to austin, pop. 80,000
back then.
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I'm not sure why people don't think the city won't change all that much within the next decade. I moved here in 2002 and there are several parts of the city that are unrecognizable since then.
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Old 08-30-2010, 05:22 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Although I had been watching LOST and saw that an island can disappear, I think that in ten years, San Antonio will be right where it has always been... just a bit bigger.

Seriously, I think San Antonio can and will be better in ten years... in spite of continued challenges, and there will be plenty more added.

You can't get there unless you believe it. However, this positive change comes from the bottom up; so do your part, small or large and make a difference.

Hmmmm, maybe I should run for office. Nahhh!
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