HEB Superstore - Boerne Stage Rd. (San Antonio, Spring: lease, neighborhoods, exemption)

[KY Filly]

Originally Posted by scuba steve

Lesson learned: beware when buying a house adjacent to commercial property because those cows and trees could become a big box store.

Yes, sad but true. When buying a home or property adjacent to a large tract of land, that's a risk one takes. This is true no matter where one lives...TX or anyplace else. That's one reason that in KY our property backed up to a golf course and here in TX our back door neighbors are...um, "spirits". (we back up to a convent and cemetary).....we KNOW no one will ever build or develop that land....

[Hyun-Soo]

I feel for you...

Way too much development, why can't we just leave the nature alone?

[TexHwyMan]

Wait a second-- are we talking about a new HEB on I-10 in Leon Springs or on Wiseman? Or both?

[gy2020]

I know that this is not north side development but its good to see McCreless coming back: www.mysanantonio.com >> Local News - H-E-B Plus impressive to early shoppers (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/H-E-B_Plus_opens_on_the_South_Side_to_fanfare_chagrin. html - broken link)

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/o...s/HH/dhh1.html

[Montirob]

Originally Posted by KY Filly

Yes, sad but true. When buying a home or property adjacent to a large tract of land, that's a risk one takes. This is true no matter where one lives...TX or anyplace else. That's one reason that in KY our property backed up to a golf course

Or you could do like my parents and buy a house that backs up to a big tract of land that is in the 100yr floodplain. Twenty-five years later the land was donated (I think) to the city and it is now a park with walking trails.

Originally Posted by KY Filly

here in TX our back door neighbors are...um, "spirits". (we back up to a convent and cemetary).....we KNOW no one will ever build or develop that land....

Just make sure that if they do develop the property they move the bodies and not just the headstones (old movie reference) .

[yosoyway]

The original poster is talking about the HEB Plus being built in Leon Springs.

We saw all that cleared land when we went for burgers at the Longhorn. It really is a bummer to see so many trees gone. I didn't know it was for an HEB.

[majormadmax]

Unfortunately, the only way to guarantee that the property adjacent to you will remain the way you want it is to own it yourself.

Inasmuch as I have a great distaste for all the overdevelopment that is occurring in San Antonio; it is the property owner's right to develop it as they wish, as long as it is zoned accordingly...which is your one and only opportunity to voice your disapproval.

I am sure the developers will plant some scrawny little tree to replace the 20 they knocked down!

Cheers! M2

[iblegal]

I think I live on the same street as Emmie2. I'm right off Boerne Stage Rd and I, too, was surprised when I came home one day and found all the trees gone. They worked really fast at that. What makes me mad is that when I bought my house, the salesman told me that there was some talk about putting some sort of shopping center up facing IH-10, but he said I didn't have to worry because there was a 20 ft easement behind my back fence, and beyond that there was another 40 feet easement that was part of a tree ordinance to protect the trees back there. Well, I haven't taken a tape measure back there to measure if there is still 60 feet, but I only have ten trees behind my fence now. I, too, have been wondering what was going to happen to my property value.

[iblegal]

If we were talking about 20 trees, it wouldn't have been that noticeable, but we are easily talking about thousands of trees.

[sapphire]

Originally Posted by iblegal

I think I live on the same street as Emmie2. I'm right off Boerne Stage Rd and I, too, was surprised when I came home one day and found all the trees gone. They worked really fast at that. What makes me mad is that when I bought my house, the salesman told me that there was some talk about putting some sort of shopping center up facing IH-10, but he said I didn't have to worry because there was a 20 ft easement behind my back fence, and beyond that there was another 40 feet easement that was part of a tree ordinance to protect the trees back there. Well, I haven't taken a tape measure back there to measure if there is still 60 feet, but I only have ten trees behind my fence now. I, too, have been wondering what was going to happen to my property value.

Another lesson learned--never trust a salesman. They're salesmen.