Anna Glover
Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 | 3:30 – 4:45pm
• AICP CM’s applied for
This field session will be a running tour of the Dignowity Hill Historic District, the Hays Street Bridge and Eastside Cemeteries, burial sites of some of San Antonio’s early movers and shakers.
Participants will begin at the Sunset Station and end at Hays Street Bridge, an example of a community effort to reopen a Union Pacific railroad track, dating back to the 1880s, as a pedestrian and bike path connecting downtown to an important eastside neighborhood.
Planners will learn:
- how the City of San Antonio’s Office of Historic Preservation came to offer multiple guided running and walking tours of San Antonio neighborhoods as a way of combining education and physical activity
- how residents of a minority neighborhood worked to establish an alternative transportation corridor to downtown, overcoming the railroad barrier
history of the neighborhoods along the run.
Presented By:
Anna Glover
Senior Planner
City of San Antonio – Office of Historic Preservation
Anna Glover is a Senior Planner with the City of San Antonio’s Office of Historic Preservation. She takes pride in cultivating historic preservation awareness and education by creating educational activities and events for National Preservation Month such as The Amazing Preservation Race, Go! Historic SA Guided Tours.
She was the lead in updating the River Improvement Overlay design guidelines and will supervise over the creation of design guidelines for historic districts in San Antonio in 2012.
She is a board member of Preservation Texas, the national grassroots preservation advocacy group, where she serves as Texas’ statewide coordinator. She also serves as the chair of the Organization Visibility Committee which is responsible for the group’s outreach efforts including the Most Endangered Places announcement, Honor Awards, and the Texas Preservation Summit.
She completed coursework in the Masters of Community and Regional Planning with a certificate in Historic Preservation at the University of Texas. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Memphis in Spanish and International Business.
