The San Antonio Inner City Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) board voted to give San Antonio Animal Care Services $300,000 to study the feasibility for a new campus on Monday.
District 2 Councilmember Jalen McKee-Rodriguez sits on the Inner City TIRZ board, and the idea for a new ACS campus closer to the city’s East Side came from a council policy proposal he wrote with colleagues Phyllis Viagran and Marc Whyte earlier this year.
The Inner City TIRZ, like all other TIRZs, generates revenue each year based on how much property tax revenue has grown in a certain geographic area since the first, or base, year the TIRZ was created. All new property tax revenue above that base year is collected by the TIRZ to be used for projects that benefit its geographic footprint…