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Stories by Jacob Cottingham
Commission recommends SERs for Vaught Ranch development
The Water and Wastewater Commission voted 6-1 last night to recommend extending water and wastewater service to a controversial development on Vaught Ranch Road. The property owner proposes a development that would include a gas station and underground tanks on…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Nov 20, 2008
Hays County Commissioners split over spending parks funds
Hays County Commissioners are at odds over how to spend the remaining funds from the 2007 park bond money. At its most recent meeting, the court upheld a moratorium on some of the remaining park bond money, much to the…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Nov 12, 2008
Hays approves bonds, returns incumbents to court
Hays County voters followed the conventional wisdom on Tuesday night, returning two incumbent County Commissioners and approving a heavily publicized road bond. Voters resoundingly supported the re-worked road bond, enabling the county to capitalize on a TxDOT reimbursement deal,…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Nov 5, 2008
Hays County selects HDR for Water Planning Study
Hays County Commissioners last week unanimously agreed to negotiate a contract for a countywide Water and Wastewater Facilities Planning Study with HDR, an Omaha-based firm with offices in Central Texas. The seven applicants to the RFQ had been whittled down…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Nov 3, 2008
Aquifer district annexation meeting draws few citizens
Members of the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District Board are concerned over the low attendance at last week’s Town Hall meeting in Bee Cave. The meeting was intended to engage residents of western Travis County on a potential annexation…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Oct 30, 2008
Ingalsbe faces two challengers in Hays Pct. 1 race
Stretching from the southern tip of the county along the I-35 corridor, and bordering Buda, the smallest and most dense precinct has been represented by Democrat Debbie Ingalsbe for the last 12 years. The first woman to sit on the…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Oct 28, 2008
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Hays County Commissioner Pct. 3 election pits Conley, Klepfer
Hays County’s Precinct 3 stretches across the western portion of the county, from west San Marcos across the Wimberley Valley. The current incumbent, Will Conley, is the lone Republican on the Hays County Commissioners Court. Democratic challenger Steve Klepfer is…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Oct 27, 2008
Aquifer District joins court fight over collecting fees
The Barton Spring Edwards Aquifer Conservation District Board voted unanimously last week to pledge $500 and support to the Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts in a case that pits the authority of groundwater districts against the sovereign immunity claimed by…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Oct 27, 2008
Hays Commissioners face continuing conundrum of illegal subdivisions
A divided Hays County Commissioners Court voted 3-2 Tuesday to approve a variance for 10.66 acres near Dripping Springs, allowing what was essentially an illegal subdivision to become normalized and re-opening a contentious debate about the court’s power of intervention.…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Oct 24, 2008
Residents get hearing but no help on tower from Hays County
When Hays County Commissioners took up an agenda item to change language in the county’s flood damage prevention order last week, it provided an opening for a resident of Regal Oaks and a Verizon attorney to exchange words over a…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Oct 20, 2008
BSEACD announces 2008 Stewardship Award winners
Some hydrologists say that the 2,400 acres of Hays County’s Dahlstrom Ranch – with its system of caves, sinkholes and Karst features – is the primary drain through which much of the water in the Barton Springs segment of the…
Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Oct 13, 2008
Skipping process, Hays County lifts parks moratorium for one project
The Dripping Springs Youth Sports Association received $266,000 from Hays County on Tuesday, effectively lifting a moratorium on parks projects in the county. A moratorium had been in place on all new parks projects until the Citizens Parks Advisory Committee…
