Tagged: Mahncke Park

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4:07 pm
Thu October 4, 2012

UIW and Mahncke Park Residents At Odds Over Proposed Parking Lot

Credit Ryan Loyd / Texas Public Radio
Some residents along Perry Court display signs in their yards opposing the parking lot on their street.

A piece of land that sits along Perry Court between North New Braunfels and Broadway has been sitting vacant for about eight years.

It doesn't have the curb appeal that many other homes in the Mahncke Park neighborhood have, with overgrown grass and untrimmed trees in the front of the lot, but according to resident Scott Day, that doesn't mean the property is lost on the neighborhood. He said the he does not want the University of the Incarnate Word, who owns the property, to develop a parking lot for university staff members.

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