District 1
District 1 will go to a runoff between longtime councilman Roberto Treviño and challenger Mario Bravo. This is Treviño s final eligible term. Treviño led by about 45% of the vote.
The election’s political issues were largely dwarfed by a deadly global pandemic and February’s deadly winter storm.
Treviño has been a critic of SAPD’s response to the city’s positions on addressing the unhoused population in San Antonio, as well as its posture on the Alamo Plaza redevelopment. He was removed from the city’s planning commission over his rigid support of removing the Cenotaph monument from the Plaza grounds.
May 2017 photo. Ray Whitehouse /Contributor
Former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro endorsed incumbent Ron Nirenberg to continue leading the city.
Castro, who served as mayor until 2014 when he was tapped to become the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, shared a thread of Twitter endorsements Monday with a link to donate to each of the candidates campaigns. @Ron Nirenberg has been a tireless champion for San Antonio. He s helped families recover from the pandemic, revitalized small businesses, and continued the forward progress of our growing community, he said in the tweet. I hope you will join me in supporting his reelection campaign!
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A supporter for District 2 candidate Pharaoh Clark moves a sign in a a field of signs at Lions Field Park as early voting for municipal elections in San Antonio gets underway on Monday, Apr. 19, 2021. Early voter turnout appeared light at several locations as canvassers and some seeking election or re-election made stops to polling sites.Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer
Council members Manny Peláez and Ana Sandoval are both seeking third terms, and Adriana Rocha Garcia and Melissa Cabello Havrda are vying for re-election for the first time.
San Antonio council delays ordinance requiring future housing developments to consider voucher holders click to enlarge Photo by Ben Olivo / San Antonio Heron City council is scheduled to vote on the income discrimination policy on April 29. The approval of an ordinance that would require future housing developments that receive city incentives to consider tenants with housing vouchers has been delayed by the City Council. On Thursday, the council unanimously voted to move the ordinance to a special session on April 21 after some members contested the ordinance’s language and intent. The source of income discrimination ordinance, as it’s known, would require housing developments that use city tax incentives or fee waivers to accept federally