Walkable Community Program
Rockwell Village Home Owners 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: Rockwell Village Home Owners Association
The study area for the Rockwell Village Home Owners Association (RWHOA) workshop includes 129 single family units in a gated community. The community is bordered by other gated single family communities on the north and northwest, by single family units on the west and southwest and by apartment complexes on the east. City of San Antonio streets used to access the RWHOA include Lamb Road, Rowley Road and Medical Drive. The study area is in the City of San Antonio District 8 (Councilman Reed Williams) and County Precinct 3 (Commissioner Kevin Wolff).
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