Last Week, Looking Forward

ZAPCO's regular meeting was held on Sept. 7th. Here is that agenda.

Items 1-9 were approved with little discussion.

Items 10-11 were recommended unanimously with some discussion from North Brooks Hollow and Travis Oaks Trail.

Item 12 - Consider annexation by City of Lakeway.

All sections on this agenda item were recommended for annexation except item 12e, a subdivision known as Lochan Ora, located East of Hurst Creek and North of Lakeway Park.

13-15 After much discussion the Special Use Permit for Lakeway Airpark South was denied 3-2. After discussion on the zoning change the commission retracted the denial and tabled all three of the items to allow applicant time for a revision.

16-18 Were all passed unanimously.

19-21 These items included a section of the Highlands the developer wants to re-zone for multifamily (R-8). It was tabled to allow the developer more time.

22 This item was passed unanimously.

This meeting set a record for time I think. It actually adjourned about 3:15.

CBC met on Thursday - here is that agenda.

Item 1 was denied on site. The applicant wanted to put a pool in front of the house and has a septic field in the back restriction that area. Since LMUD sewer is available at that location and there were concerns on screening and fencing, the application was denied.

2. Variance was approved - road requiring 25' setback was never built and commission felt it never will be.

3. Two requests were considered, the variance to build a cantilevered walkway above ground in the 5' building setback was approved. Request to allow a detached structure without a covered breeze way was denied.

One of the big concerns of the City is the continued high fire danger in the area. Since the temperatures are climbing again and expected to be in the 100+ degree range this week, please use extreme caution whenever outside or in any of the Cities parkland.

Here is a link to a Youtube video of planes scooping up water from Lake Travis a few days ago.

Here is another link to a video posted by Texas Park and Wildlife showing how fast the fire moved.

You might have noticed that the parks and greenbelts were closed for a couple of days last week. Because of the extreme fire danger these areas were closed. Please be aware that if necessary this could happen again as long as the heat and drought are with us. Citizens safety is our prime concern!

Today there will be another budget work session at City Hall starting at 2PM. Here is that agenda.

Thanks for all the support! I have been traveling quite a bit the last couple of months and hope to get back to a more regular schedule of posting!

Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us