Weather and BOA Outcome!

*****Weather*****

Believe it or not, we received nearly an inch and a half of rain over the last 5 days.  Almost an inch Tuesday evening!  Yea!

*****Board of Adjustment*****

Update on Board of Adjustment meeting, here is a link to the agenda / packet.

2)  Item was an appeal of a variance denial on a front entry garage at 106 Bella Colinas Dr.  The appellant made their case, basically they just wanted to have a front entry.  They agreed to trying to have enough landscaping to partially block the garage door - that will be pretty hard since the driveway goes straight to the street.  The commission went into executive session, came out, had a discussion and eventually voted to overturn the denial and approve the variance.

3)  The appeal of the variance for the boat dock and tram brought by Tom Kilgore and attorney Miguel Suazo took an interesting turn right off the bat.  Chairman Cooley started out the discussion with questions on "Standing".  Mr. Suazo stated there were three reasons for standing:

a)  Mr. Kilgore was an aggrieved party because he feels it was a decision that treated some differently and he and other are deprived of revenue as a result of the fine being in error.
b)  The approval of the "dock" was under the incorrect section of the LCO (Lakeway City Ordinance) and special privilege and was inconsistent with other similarly situated properties.
c)  Council Member Gretchen Vance, being an officer of the City had standing and joined the appeal.

The attorney for RH Development then stated his answer to these reasons for standing. 

At that point the Commission retired into Executive Session.  Upon return, a motion was made that the appellant did not have standing, motion was seconded, and the Commission voted unanimously there was no standing.

The next step if Mr Kilgore desires is to go to District Court within 10 days.  We'll see what happens!

The meeting was then adjourned.

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Have a GREAT week!

Joe Bain
lakeway@bain.us