*****Weather*****
It's been an interesting week! A little warm, a little cool, a little rain and now it's dry again. Supposed to get into the low 90's today and tomorrow then another cool front (with possible rain) and a cool down into the 70's. Maybe another front and rain later in the week. You can look at all this and the current conditions on this link to my weather station. If you will look right under the "Live Oak 15th Tee" you will see another link - "Forecast for Lakeway, Tx" - that will get you the current forecast. Check it out!
*****Meetings*****
- Transportation Steering Committee - Open House
The Council voted to hire a consultant to study the City's internal traffic issues ($130K). Then they appointed a committee. Here is a link to the information included on the website. This link includes the projects in the study - 4 of which are in the County's jurisdiction and are not in the city. Should be an interesting meeting. The meeting is October 29, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Activity Center.
- CBC was supposed to meet Thursday, and that has been cancelled.
- City Council meets on Monday October 21 at 6:30. More on that later in the blog.
- Special Program, Lessons in Leadership: the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster by Lt. General JD Howell, USMC (Ret) at the Activity Center on October 22 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
- State of Lakeway Town Hall - City Hall 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
*****Lifeguard Class*****
The City is putting on a "Shallow Water Lifeguarding Course" October 25, 26 and 27 for $35. If you or your kids - grand kids want to be a life guard this is the way to do it. Here is a link to sign up and for more information. Here is a link to the full flyer.
*****City Council Meeting*****
OK, they are starting out with a bang - the Pledge and then they start the infamous Executive Sessions.
3) Executive Session to talk to attorney about the legal issues pertaining to the Board of Adjustments ruling on the Appeal Wednesday where they dismissed the appeal by Mr. Kilgore for standing. The attorney was there at the meeting and gave the BOA advice in an executive session. The lawyers are making a lot of money....
4) Executive Session - talk about the MUD / Stratus property. My expectation is they are going to talk about ZAPCO's tabling of the latest zoning request by the purchaser until sometime next year in case maybe by then they might want to change some of the zoning ordinance? There may be a problem....But it might be a completely different issue.
5) Executive Session - Talk about Potential Municipal Building and Potential Parkland.
6) Executive Session - More MUD property questions
7) Executive Session - Talk about the ongoing lawsuits with Cherry Knoll and a lawsuit having to do with the (I think) the temporary buildings at the Lake Travis Elementary. I'll continue to look into this and figure out what it is about.
8) And finally, they want to talk to the attorney again about the City Manager Position - thought we had done that...
9) Financial Report
10) Update on the Hamilton Greenbelt Fire Mitigation Project
11) Council will look at the ZAPCO ruling on the MUD property zoning request. The owner presented a plan to ZAPCO that was just what the city asked mostly, R-1 and R-3 zoning and ZAPCO kicked the can down the road until the rules might change.
12) This item was withdrawn by the applicant at ZAPCO since they tabled the previous request.
13) Simple annexation recommended by ZAPCO
14) Simple zoning request recommended by ZAPCO
15) Special Use Permit for Short Term Rental at 202 Top O' The Lake Dr. - recommended by ZAPCO
16) Second reading of the changes to Chapter 28 of the Code of Ordinances. Subdivisions and Site Development.
17) Donation for the Police Department from the Lakeway Police Foundation for a Training Simulator. The cost of the training equipment is about $42,080 - what a great deal - the Police Foundation has been a GREAT asset to the city and the Police Force. Hopefully the city will accept the donation - never know these days.
The rest is on the Consent Agenda - nothing really outlandish there. We'll see if anyone pulls anything at the meeting.
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*****Brush Disposal Day*****
Lakeway residents can drop off their brush and trimmings for recycling at Public Works, 3303 Serene Hills Dr. on October 26, 2019 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. Here's a link to more info.
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I noticed the League will be opening a new restaurant in the Galleria where the Iron Cactus was soon!
Work is progressing at the Lakeway Church - lot of dirt work going on getting ready for the new foundation. Click on any picture in the blog for a larger image.
Finally, as reported earlier, today is the day for the Lakeway Garage Sale at the Activity Center. Here is a link to all the goings on at the Activity Center in the near future.
That's all for today, I know I missed something.... There have been many issues with the email group I was mailing the blog through but I have worked out a solution. It will come with a little different header info but is still the same blog. You know, I have been doing the blog for more than 10 years, I think the public needs a way to see what is going on in our little city. It's changing, all the rules and ordinances that served us so well for 50+ years are being updated (changed) and the State hasn't helped much with their overreach of taking away our building ordinances.
Thanks for all the support over the years! If you need pictures, please email me at joe@skypict.com or lakeway@bain.us . Check out the website at Sky Pictures .
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Joe Bain
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