Walkable Community Program
Eastwood Village Neighborhood Association
The program design assists neighborhoods in identifying infrastructure improvements to encourage walking and bicycling to restaurants, schools, businesses and parks. The program brings the transportation partner agencies staff and residents together in a workshop environment to discuss transportation issues and concerns in the area that pose a barrier to the community being pedestrian and cycling friendly. Concerns other than transportation are also discussed at workshops such as safety and code compliance.
Benefits of the Walkable Community Program include an improved quality of life by identifying the barriers. It promotes improved physical fitness and better health for individuals and an increase in social interaction in the community. By educating residents on the system changes that sustain a walking and biking environment they are better able to discuss their neighborhood’s future plans.
Reports summarizing the workshops are provided to elected officials and effected agencies for planning purposes. The reports provide a means to begin dialogue between the residents and community leaders. The MPO hopes to continue the program and believes strongly it supports the planning efforts of partnering agencies and municipalities in the region.
Listed below are materials used in the workshop:
Report: Eastwood Village Neighborhood Association
The study area for the Eastwood Village Neighborhood Association workshop is
bounded by East Houston on the North, Martin Luther King Park and Upland Drive to
the West, Martin Luther King Drive to the South and W.W. White Road on the East.
The study area includes City of San Antonio District 2 and Bexar County Commission
Precinct 4. There are five properties designated as commercial and 918 single family
residential properties. VIA Metropolitan Transit services the community with #24 E.
Houston, #25 E. Commerce, #26 Martin Luther King and #550/551 Loop Express
routes. In close proximity are the W.W. White Elementary School and businesses within
walking and cycling distance to all residents in the area. Another benefit to residents is
the multiple access points coming in and out of the neighborhood.
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