February 2013
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transportation and land use, the City began
positioning itself to be a leader in sustainable
economic development.”
Upon Castro’s election in 2009, he de-
voted his administration to setting sustain-
ability efforts into action under the auspices
of a community-wide visioning effort called
SA2020. As a board member of San Anto-
nio’s municipal-owned utility company, CPS
Energy, Castro spearheaded a ten-year, $50
million agreement between the utility and
the University of Texas at San Antonio to
position the community as a national leader
in green technology research. “The creation