by admin | Mar 13, 2019 | Conservation Easements, Land Conservation and Stewardship, News, Planning and Development, Water Resources
The new study, produced by Siglo Group in partnership with the Texas Land Trust Council, quantifies the value of lands and conservation easements that have been conserved by or with assistance from the Texas land trust community. Values for benefits provided by...
by admin | Mar 13, 2019 | News, Planning and Development
Last month, the Lubbock Avalanche Journal reported that though wildfire season typically begins in March, West Texas is seeing wildfires even earlier in the year. As a result, lots of communities have a plan of action for wildfires. But how many Texas communities...
by admin | Mar 13, 2019 | News, Planning and Development, Transportation Planning
Following a presentation on the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan at the March 6 meeting of the Environmental Commission by Annick Beaudet, the assistant director of Austin Transportation, commissioners began asking about some of the environmental aspects of the plan....
by admin | Mar 8, 2019 | Aggregate Production Operations, County Authority, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development
An extremely vocal coalition of area ranchers, business people, ex-military personnel and retired professionals convinced Administrative Law Judge Rebecca Smith to grant them “affected-party” status at a March 6 hearing to determine who has the right to challenge a...
by admin | Mar 5, 2019 | Aggregate Production Operations, County Authority, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development
Property owners and other stakeholders trying to keep Vulcan Construction Materials from developing a 1,500-acre open-pit limestone quarry at FM 3009 and SH-46 are expected to pack Comal County Commissioners Courtroom 9 a.m. Wednesday for a preliminary administrative...
by admin | Mar 5, 2019 | News, Planning and Development, Water Quality, Water Resources
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued a wastewater discharge permit to Dripping Springs on Wednesday, giving the city authority to expand its existing wastewater plant and discharge up to 822,500 gallons of effluent per day into Onion Creek. However,...