Construction of a major element of the Google Fiber network has been placed on hold, pending review by local officials, City Manager Sheryl Sculley told the City Council in an email Wednesday.

She said that installation of a major part of Google Fiber’s infrastructure has been put on hold because of “constraints” of several municipally owned properties.

The decision to halt the massive infrastructure project comes after months of complaints from residents in a Northeast Side neighborhood upset that Google was allowed to install a so-called “fiber hut” in their tiny Haskin Park. Those residents joined with their counterparts from District 3, who faced planned huts in a park and on a vacant lot between two homes.

Sculley wrote that “it became evident that we needed to re-evaluate the remaining hut placement locations” after the first two were completed in neighborhood parks.

Google’s plans originally called for 40 huts, but the company was ultimately able to reduce that number to 17 before construction began.

Now, the remaining 15 sites — which include a police substation, four other parks, five fire stations, two libraries and three vacant residential properties — are on hold and being reviewed. Deputy City Manager Peter Zanoni, who is overseeing the city’s team now monitoring fiber installation, told the San Antonio Express-News last week that he and his colleagues had already determined that park and residential sites weren’t suitable.

Sculley’s afternoon email to the council comes on the heels of an inquiry from Mayor Ivy Taylor sent earlier this week.

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