Council, Weeks News

Council will meet in regular session Monday, November 21 at 6:30PM. Here is the agenda. Zoning will be voted on for the recently annexed areas.

The City Building Commission met Thursday - here is that agenda. All waivers and variances were approved as requested. Item 11 on the use of synthetic grass was tabled to allow more time for consideration.

Tomorrow is the Lakeway Blood Drive and there are still 30 slots open. There's still time, call Searcy at 261-9055 to make an appointment!

Parks and Recreation has been busy! Here is a link to Andra Dearing's report! It appears Breakfast with Santa is sold out and they have a waiting list! Don't forget the "Light's On" event on December 2nd. I'm told the Leibelt Cabin might be moved soon - I'll be watching.

From Steve Jones:

Mike Boston reported that the 19th century log cabin will be moved from the lot at 1504 RM 620 S and be transported to City Hall in Lakeway at 7:30 a.m. this coming Sunday morning. Local law enforcement and other emergency services have been notified to preclude any problems in responding to emergencies or tying up traffic. The route of travel will be south on 620 to Lohman's Crossing, then right on Lohman's Crossing to City Hall. Mike will prepare a small media kit with what information we have on German immigrant August Liebelt, the individual who constructed the cabin circa 1870.

Austin/Travis County EMS advised me that they plan to add a third ambulance to our area soon. EMS is gathering resources to equip and man a station to be located at the Travis County Sheriff’s Office on RR 620 at Hudson Bend Road. For now, the station will be manned 12 hours per day, seven days per week. They plan to make it 24/7 in the future as budgets allow. While this ambulance will not be located in Lakeway, it will relieve our existing two ambulances and increase their availability for local responses. The leading locations for EMS call are the Summit in Lakeway, Bee Cave, and Hudson Bend (Emerald Point Marian area).

TxDot is studying the removal of the school zone on RR 620 at the Lake Travis Middle School / High School. The City will be looking at safety issues and pros and cons of this action - more to come.

We did a recent count of vehicle collisions on RR 620 at our major intersections, and the numbers are amazingly low. Since May 2010, we averaged about one accident per month at 620 and Lakeway Boulevard, less than one per month at 620 and Aria Drive, and about two per month at 620 and Lohmans Crossing (our busiest intersection). I was surprised at those numbers considering the volume of traffic in this area of 620 (almost 50,000 vehicles per day).
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It appears to have been a quiet week - that is a good thing! More as I find out!

Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us