doe san antonio need more suburbs?

Question

does san antonio,texas need more suburbs like dallas to help the growing popoulation?

Answer 1

There has been minimal need for suburban expansion in San Antonio due to the naure of the San Antonio economy. Suburbs were developed around other cities as industries built plants in the rural areas outside of the cities causing the people to build whole smaller bedroom towns around the cities. Also, in many of the large northern and eastern cities, where the emphasis in building in the cities was to build upward with tall apartment buildings instead of in individual family homes.

This is not the case in the San Antonio Metroplex. While some people live in apartment complexes, the average person in San Antonio lives in a single family type home. They have no need to move outside the main city to get a house with a yard. As San Antonio grows, so do the existing smaller towns and cities around San Antonio. In the 1960s Boerne weas way out in the country and few people even knew how to find Helotes. Now the edge of the city is around or close to those cities. New Braunfels used to seem like a long drive, and you passed through small towns like Selma, and Schertz. These areas are now surrounded by the city and there is virtually no countryside between San Antonio and New Braunfels. This city has grown as new housing developments have been added to the edges of the existing towns and cities. The few places originally meant as suburb type areas such as Windcrest, Castle Hills, Shavano Park, Hollywood Park. continue to have separate police juristictions and courts, but with the exception of Alamo Heights, are part of the city school systems, get city services.
The towns and cities which are separate now are outside of Bexar county and therefore have completely separate juristictional issues.

Considering the San Antonio and Austin city limits have moved 30 miles closer together since 1970 and San Marcos and New Braunfels and the other cities between are rapidly growing, as San Antonio and Austin are like Houston and Dallas in the fastest growing areas of the country, San Antonio and Austin will probably be a Metroplex in 50 years.

Answer 2

Cities don't decide to have more suburbs.... as the city grows and more people move in the city simply grows out. At one time there were no suburbs in Dallas. The city simply grew out and around other cities.