Lots going on!
The mayor issued a burn ban effective today because Travis County's Fire Marshall issued a ban for the county. So, no burning!
There will be a special meeting of the City Council Monday, August 30th at 2PM. We will be making a couple of appointments, working on the Solid Waste and Recycling Program rates and working on the 2010 Budget. Here is the full agenda for your pleasure!
Rachel Wallace started as our new administrative assistant Monday. Welcome! Go by and meet her if you get a chance!
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From Steve Jones:
Shannon Burke is working on a short-term rental ordinance. This will address some issues that the city has learned about. It should be on the September agenda. He is also working on revisions to our Food Service ordinance as requested by the Austin/Travis County Health Dept. The current ordinance dates back to the 80's and needs updating.
With the completion of Lohmans Crossing Rd. the City Engineer is now working on cleaning up the Development Ordinance. Expect these revisions this fall.
AT&T has been approved for 7 different utility development permits for various different U-Verse and fiber lines. There are 7 more applications still to be reviewed. AT&T will be working in various locations throughout the end of this year.
The City is also working on revisions to the AV - Aviation district to correct the way the current ordinance addresses certain issues. Expect more on this in the next couple of months.
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ZAPCO will meet on Wednesday, Sept. 1st at 9:10AM. There are several sign requests, a Special Use Permit for P Terry's Burger Stand for a drive through facility, final plat for the Serene Hills Subdivision Phase 2E, an annexation of a Highlands tract and zoning of that tract. I will publish the full agenda as soon as it's available.
There are a couple of new area restaurants you might not be aware of. Shades is now open on this side of the Lake at the end of Stewart Rd. There is a new Chicago Hot Dog restaurant just North of the City on the East side - give them a try!
Wasn't the weather GREAT this morning. A little cool goes a long way!
As always, if you would like a reminder when new posts are made, send a note to lakeway@bain.us
Thanks for LOOKING!
Joe Bain
Friday, August 27, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Week's Happenings!
The big news is Lohmans Crossing opened Friday at 3PM. The work was finished on time and on budget but not without issues. A couple of workers painting the arrows at Lakeway Blvd and Lohmans were hit by a motorist Thursday. One was transported to a hospital but neither received serious injuries.
It appears it will be a couple more weeks before the Serene Hills extension will open. The City hoped it would open Friday also but it appears that there will be some delays.
From Steve Jones:
The City is working on a new contract with IESI that will include "single stream" recycling - it will also include a rate increase for solid waste disposal. Council will be looking at the new rate at the next budget work session.
The foundation and framework is almost finished on the new entryway sculpture on RR 620 as you enter Lakeway from the North.
Chief Radford reports that Ricky Gavit became our new warrant officer August 15th. Derrik Offer was promoted to Sergeant and Mike Pribble was promoted to detective. The collision involving a police truck on Lakeway Blvd. is still under investigation by TCSO. It appears the truck is a total loss, but our officer sustained no serious injuries. Interviews of six applicants were conducted this week to fill the two vacant officer positions.
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An aircraft ran off the runway at our Airpark Friday afternoon, luckily no one was injured. An investigation is under way by the FAA.
City Building Commission will meet Thursday, August 26th. Here is the agenda!
Keep Cool and thanks for LOOKING!
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
It appears it will be a couple more weeks before the Serene Hills extension will open. The City hoped it would open Friday also but it appears that there will be some delays.
From Steve Jones:
The City is working on a new contract with IESI that will include "single stream" recycling - it will also include a rate increase for solid waste disposal. Council will be looking at the new rate at the next budget work session.
The foundation and framework is almost finished on the new entryway sculpture on RR 620 as you enter Lakeway from the North.
Chief Radford reports that Ricky Gavit became our new warrant officer August 15th. Derrik Offer was promoted to Sergeant and Mike Pribble was promoted to detective. The collision involving a police truck on Lakeway Blvd. is still under investigation by TCSO. It appears the truck is a total loss, but our officer sustained no serious injuries. Interviews of six applicants were conducted this week to fill the two vacant officer positions.
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An aircraft ran off the runway at our Airpark Friday afternoon, luckily no one was injured. An investigation is under way by the FAA.
City Building Commission will meet Thursday, August 26th. Here is the agenda!
Keep Cool and thanks for LOOKING!
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Council Results
Council met in regular session Monday evening and results of that meeting follow:
Paul Duncan, City Engineer, gave an update on the Lohmans project. Everything is on schedule and finished other than some markings and landscaping, etc. and will be completed on schedule. It looks to open Friday if not sooner.
Serene Hills is also nearly complete and waiting on some markings and AT&T to move some underground facilities. Hopefully it will be open within a week or so.
There was a briefing on the Lakeway Regional Medical Care center. Construction on the main hospital has started and they expect construction on the Professional Building and retail center to start within a few months. They are on schedule for completion in about 2 years. Concrete pours are scheduled early morning and will be complete early enough as to not affect school arrivals.
The Zoning change for Lakeway Airpark South was postponed until the October meeting to allow principals of Lakeway Airpark South and Lakeway Airpark to reach an agreement. Council has concerns about the proposed development and also aircraft density on the property. It is apparent that the City wants to maintain an Airpark that is consistent with current facility.
The Interlocal Agreement was approved between Lakeway and the City of Bee Caves for Police dispatching. This is a win win situation for both cities and is working well.
The new Budget was discussed and ideas were presented to tweak the current budget submission. The next workshop is scheduled for August 30th at 2PM.
Council received a briefing from the City Attorney on the Crosswater Yacht Club development agreement. One person spoke on the subject from the audience and no action was taken on this item.
The Consent Agenda was passed without issue. Welcome to Dwight Haley - appointed ZAPCO Chair!
That's it for now, thanks for looking!
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
Paul Duncan, City Engineer, gave an update on the Lohmans project. Everything is on schedule and finished other than some markings and landscaping, etc. and will be completed on schedule. It looks to open Friday if not sooner.
Serene Hills is also nearly complete and waiting on some markings and AT&T to move some underground facilities. Hopefully it will be open within a week or so.
There was a briefing on the Lakeway Regional Medical Care center. Construction on the main hospital has started and they expect construction on the Professional Building and retail center to start within a few months. They are on schedule for completion in about 2 years. Concrete pours are scheduled early morning and will be complete early enough as to not affect school arrivals.
The Zoning change for Lakeway Airpark South was postponed until the October meeting to allow principals of Lakeway Airpark South and Lakeway Airpark to reach an agreement. Council has concerns about the proposed development and also aircraft density on the property. It is apparent that the City wants to maintain an Airpark that is consistent with current facility.
The Interlocal Agreement was approved between Lakeway and the City of Bee Caves for Police dispatching. This is a win win situation for both cities and is working well.
The new Budget was discussed and ideas were presented to tweak the current budget submission. The next workshop is scheduled for August 30th at 2PM.
Council received a briefing from the City Attorney on the Crosswater Yacht Club development agreement. One person spoke on the subject from the audience and no action was taken on this item.
The Consent Agenda was passed without issue. Welcome to Dwight Haley - appointed ZAPCO Chair!
That's it for now, thanks for looking!
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
Saturday, August 14, 2010
End of Week News
The week ended with a bang (literally). One of our police officers was turning around on Lakeway Blvd. to pursue a car exceeding 60 mph when another vehicle following the speeding vehicle topped the hill and broadsided him. Both vehicles were severely damaged but no one sustained serious injury. Travis County Sheriffs officers will be doing the investigation. The speeding vehicles contained military personnel coming from the Lakeway Inn. Thank goodness no one was seriously injured!
On another police note, both Chief Radford and Captain Crowder were spotted this week on the street directing traffic. Thanks for the extra effort!
I have learned that the issues with the upgrade on the computers in the police cars has been solved and they will be up and running in a couple of weeks. More on that as it happens!
Both Lohman's Drive and Serene Hills Drive are approaching opening day! Lohmans is topped and striped and should open by Friday if not earlier. Serene Hills looks like it is also ready to open, pending inspections. Good news all around!
We have a new Administrative Assistant, Rachel Wallace, that will start work August 23rd to replace Donna Boyles that is now the City Secretary.
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From Steve Jones-----
Steve and Mayor DeOme met with Jorge Barro Thursday to receive preliminary data on our economic impact study of the Regional Medical Center. Jorge is a student of economics at UT. Early indications are that in the first full year of operation, the center could inject as much as $300 million into the local economy. He will be looking at sales tax revenue and the overall impact to our local economy.
The other hospital building behind the post office has submitted building plan revisions to convert the facility from a long-term acute care hospital to a general acute care hospital.
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Monday night agenda will include an update on the Crosswater Yacht Club project, the re-zoning of part of Lakeway Airpark South to residential, and an update on the large hospital project. Hope to see you there! Here is the full agenda.
City Building Commission results:
Variance requests at 28 Stone Terrace and 105 Deerhorn Ct were denied.
A clarification on a variance granted at 917 Porpoise was given to allow a fence to encroach on the building setback from 5 to 10 feet.
all of the height determinations were approved except one at 1110 Challenger that was denied. I believe that will be looked at again at the nest meeting.
All the final CO's on the list were approved. Here is the full agenda.
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
On another police note, both Chief Radford and Captain Crowder were spotted this week on the street directing traffic. Thanks for the extra effort!
I have learned that the issues with the upgrade on the computers in the police cars has been solved and they will be up and running in a couple of weeks. More on that as it happens!
Both Lohman's Drive and Serene Hills Drive are approaching opening day! Lohmans is topped and striped and should open by Friday if not earlier. Serene Hills looks like it is also ready to open, pending inspections. Good news all around!
We have a new Administrative Assistant, Rachel Wallace, that will start work August 23rd to replace Donna Boyles that is now the City Secretary.
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From Steve Jones-----
Steve and Mayor DeOme met with Jorge Barro Thursday to receive preliminary data on our economic impact study of the Regional Medical Center. Jorge is a student of economics at UT. Early indications are that in the first full year of operation, the center could inject as much as $300 million into the local economy. He will be looking at sales tax revenue and the overall impact to our local economy.
The other hospital building behind the post office has submitted building plan revisions to convert the facility from a long-term acute care hospital to a general acute care hospital.
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Monday night agenda will include an update on the Crosswater Yacht Club project, the re-zoning of part of Lakeway Airpark South to residential, and an update on the large hospital project. Hope to see you there! Here is the full agenda.
City Building Commission results:
Variance requests at 28 Stone Terrace and 105 Deerhorn Ct were denied.
A clarification on a variance granted at 917 Porpoise was given to allow a fence to encroach on the building setback from 5 to 10 feet.
all of the height determinations were approved except one at 1110 Challenger that was denied. I believe that will be looked at again at the nest meeting.
All the final CO's on the list were approved. Here is the full agenda.
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Council, Village of The Hills, MUD, Agendas and more!
Lakeway City Council met in Special Session Monday to start work on the 2010-2011 budget for the City. There was a lot of good discussion and a presentation was made by Steve Jones on the proposed budget. The City is currently looking at keeping the same "effective tax rate" for next years taxes. This would mean the citizens would pay approximately the same taxes as last year.
There were also discussions on expenses for providing police protection and maintaining Highland Parkway and other medians of our roads. Many other items were discussed and many will be discussed at the regular Council meeting Monday, August 16th.
Here is the agenda for that meeting! I should be an interesting meeting, there will be a presentation on the Lohmans Crossing Rehabilitation Project and the Serene Hills project by City Engineer Paul Duncan. We will also get a briefing on the Lakeway Regional Medical Center. There will also be a vote on a Aoning Change for
Lakeway Airpark South and the council will look at an Interlocal Agreement with the City of Bee cave for Police Dispatching and Communication Services. Here is a shot of Lohmans nearing completion! On schedule!
Also on the agenda is another Budget discussion and a report on the Development Agreement regarding Crosswater Yacht Club.
Should be lively meeting! Come watch your Council at work!
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The Board of Aldermen of The Village of The Hills met this morning and had a public hearing on the request from the City of Lakeway to release a portion of their ETJ to allow Annexation of The Villas at The Hills by the City of Lakeway. There was much discussion about pros and cons of this and several items were brought up that require further investigation. Mayor Lindgren proposed that if possible questions will be answered and their will be a vote at the next regular meeting - stay tuned for the results!
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Lakeway Parks and Recreation will meet tonight at 6:30, here is that agenda.
Lakeway MUD met Wednesday in regular session at 1:30PM. They voted to continue the Community Advisory Board, Patricia Carls was hired as General Counsel, a new contract was signed with Balcones Engineering raising the hourly rate to $100 an hour and the fiscal year 2011 budget was discussed.
The Board went into special session and when they returned they voted to make an offer of employment to Earl Foster as General Manager with a mid range salary and car allowance.
More as I find out!
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
There were also discussions on expenses for providing police protection and maintaining Highland Parkway and other medians of our roads. Many other items were discussed and many will be discussed at the regular Council meeting Monday, August 16th.
Here is the agenda for that meeting! I should be an interesting meeting, there will be a presentation on the Lohmans Crossing Rehabilitation Project and the Serene Hills project by City Engineer Paul Duncan. We will also get a briefing on the Lakeway Regional Medical Center. There will also be a vote on a Aoning Change for
Lakeway Airpark South and the council will look at an Interlocal Agreement with the City of Bee cave for Police Dispatching and Communication Services. Here is a shot of Lohmans nearing completion! On schedule!Also on the agenda is another Budget discussion and a report on the Development Agreement regarding Crosswater Yacht Club.
Should be lively meeting! Come watch your Council at work!
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The Board of Aldermen of The Village of The Hills met this morning and had a public hearing on the request from the City of Lakeway to release a portion of their ETJ to allow Annexation of The Villas at The Hills by the City of Lakeway. There was much discussion about pros and cons of this and several items were brought up that require further investigation. Mayor Lindgren proposed that if possible questions will be answered and their will be a vote at the next regular meeting - stay tuned for the results!
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Lakeway Parks and Recreation will meet tonight at 6:30, here is that agenda.
Lakeway MUD met Wednesday in regular session at 1:30PM. They voted to continue the Community Advisory Board, Patricia Carls was hired as General Counsel, a new contract was signed with Balcones Engineering raising the hourly rate to $100 an hour and the fiscal year 2011 budget was discussed.
The Board went into special session and when they returned they voted to make an offer of employment to Earl Foster as General Manager with a mid range salary and car allowance.
More as I find out!
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
Monday, August 9, 2010
BREAKING NEWS!
The Whataburger on 620 was the victim of an armed robbery this morning at about 3AM. The local police in conjunction with Travis County captured all of the robbers within 15 minutes between Lakeway and Mansfield Dam. All of the cash was recovered along with the gun and there were no injuries. GREAT JOB!
One of the assailants told Lakeway Police he didn't want to do a robbery in Lakeway because of the police presence. His friends talked him into it and learned the hard way.
Thanks to all of our GREAT police for keeping us safe!
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
One of the assailants told Lakeway Police he didn't want to do a robbery in Lakeway because of the police presence. His friends talked him into it and learned the hard way.
Thanks to all of our GREAT police for keeping us safe!
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
Friday, August 6, 2010
Upcoming Meetings,
The Lakeway MUD will have it's monthly meeting next Wednesday, August 11 at 1:30PM. Here is the agenda!
The City Building Commission meeting is coming up on Thursday, August 12th at 9AM. Here is their agenda!
City Council will meet in a Special Session Monday, August 9th at 2PM for a work session to work on the FY 2011 Budget. Here is the agenda for the special session!
Looks like Serene Hills is getting close to opening. last time I was there the blacktop was done and signage and markings were most of what was left. The lights won't be done for some time but the road will open.
More soon!
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
The City Building Commission meeting is coming up on Thursday, August 12th at 9AM. Here is their agenda!
City Council will meet in a Special Session Monday, August 9th at 2PM for a work session to work on the FY 2011 Budget. Here is the agenda for the special session!
Looks like Serene Hills is getting close to opening. last time I was there the blacktop was done and signage and markings were most of what was left. The lights won't be done for some time but the road will open.
More soon!
Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Area Happenings!
The Village of The Hills Board of Aldermen will conduct a public hearing and consider action at it's August 12th regular meeting on the City of Lakeway's request for them to release the Villas of The Hills subdivision from their ETJ. The meeting will start at 8:30 AM. If the Villas were released, the City of Lakeway has stated an intent to annex this area.
It appears the City of Lakeway will be about $200,000 down in tax revenues this budget season because of a reduction in property values. This will make the budget process difficult to say the least.
ZAPCO met Wedneday at their regular time and faced a long agenda! I was unable to attend but here are the results of the two main items.
Item 15 was a request for a Special Use Permit from Todd and Tammy Grovatt to allow use of their home as a day care business - this was turned down by a unanimous vote of the members.
Item 16 was a request from El Paso Medical Group to re-zone 2.4 acres of Lakeway Airpark South from AV (Aviation) to R-1 (single family residential). This was voted down by a 4 to 2 vote of the members and if sent to Council will carry a recommendation to not approve the zoning change.
Looks like Whole Foods will be opening a 36,000 sq. ft. store in the Galleria in late 2011 or early 2012. It will be located opposite Dick's Sporting Goods near the McDonalds.
In addition, it appears that the Galleria will continue to feed the area residents with 3 more restaurants opening in the near future. Guy Harvey's Tropical Island Grill will feature seafood, at the Fish City Grill location, Buenos Aires Cave will feature Argentinian cuisine, and Wyland's Ocean Blue will feature a surf and turf menu.
It appears that some movement has taken place on the lawsuit between the Lakeway MUD's recently resigned Richard Eason and Board Member Kay Andrews. As soon as I have factual and complete information I will give an update!
Thanks for LOOKING!
It appears the City of Lakeway will be about $200,000 down in tax revenues this budget season because of a reduction in property values. This will make the budget process difficult to say the least.
ZAPCO met Wedneday at their regular time and faced a long agenda! I was unable to attend but here are the results of the two main items.
Item 15 was a request for a Special Use Permit from Todd and Tammy Grovatt to allow use of their home as a day care business - this was turned down by a unanimous vote of the members.
Item 16 was a request from El Paso Medical Group to re-zone 2.4 acres of Lakeway Airpark South from AV (Aviation) to R-1 (single family residential). This was voted down by a 4 to 2 vote of the members and if sent to Council will carry a recommendation to not approve the zoning change.
Looks like Whole Foods will be opening a 36,000 sq. ft. store in the Galleria in late 2011 or early 2012. It will be located opposite Dick's Sporting Goods near the McDonalds.
In addition, it appears that the Galleria will continue to feed the area residents with 3 more restaurants opening in the near future. Guy Harvey's Tropical Island Grill will feature seafood, at the Fish City Grill location, Buenos Aires Cave will feature Argentinian cuisine, and Wyland's Ocean Blue will feature a surf and turf menu.
It appears that some movement has taken place on the lawsuit between the Lakeway MUD's recently resigned Richard Eason and Board Member Kay Andrews. As soon as I have factual and complete information I will give an update!
Thanks for LOOKING!
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