CITY & COUNTY
News from Buda, Kyle & Hays County
COMPILED BY ZARA FLORES
San Marcos City Council Meets Feb. 21, March 7 at 6 p.m. 630 E. Hopkins St., San Marcos 512-393-8000 www.sanmarcostx.gov Kyle City Council Meets Feb. 21, March 7 at 7 p.m. 100 W. Center St., Kyle 512-262-1010 www.cityofkyle.com Buda City Council Meets Feb. 21, March 7 at 6 p.m. 405 E. Loop St., Buda 512-312-0084 www.budatx.gov Hays County Commissioners Court Meets Feb. 28, March 14 at 9 a.m. 111 E. San Antonio St., San Marcos 512-393-2205 www.co.hays.tx.us MEETINGS WE COVER NUMBER TO KNOW was approved by the Hays County Commissioners Court Jan. 3 for “fit for duty” psychological evaluations for employees of the Hays County Sheriff’s Office to be conducted by Cedar Park-based clinical psychologist Dr. Brandy Miller. $10,000
Project could add hundreds of apartments in Buda BUDA The City Council held a workshop Jan. 17 to discuss a potential horizontal mixed-use development by Forum Investment Group. The land is located at the corner of the I-35 frontage that would make this really cool and different,” Council Member Monica Davidson said. “I think that would make your project really distinguishable and something that our city could use.”
Court preserves natural easement
MONITORING TRAFFIC Several FlockSafety automatic license plate readers have been installed citywide as part
WHAT IS MIXED-USE? Mixed-use developments and buildings have a variety of uses for the land or spaces, including residential, commercial and retail, that can be integrated vertically or horizontally.
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HAYS COUNTY County officials announced Jan. 11 a partnership with the Hill Country Conservancy and La Cima to acquire Purgatory Creek Nature Preserve, an easement that will protect and preserve the 1,068 acres of land from future devel- opment as growth within the county and throughout the region continues. The land is part of the Hays County Regional Habitat Conservation Plan and located next to Purgatory Creek Natural Area and adjacent to La Cima. The easement was proposed by the Hill Country Conservancy and is funded through the Hays 2020 Parks and Open Spaces bond. other protected conservation land in the area for a total of more than 3,200 acres that includes canyons, caves, natural springs and other Edwards Aquifer-related habitats. The Purgatory Creek Nature Preserve will join a network of
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road and Manchaca Springs with about 12 acres in Buda’s extraterritorial jurisdiction and 18 acres in Austin’s ETJ. The proposal calls for 600-700 residential units on around 28 acres with 3-4 acres reserved for retail. The residential units would range from studios up to three bedrooms. The retail space would be reserved for a restau- rant or small convenience store, said Rich Wilson, Forum’s senior managing director of development. “My concern around this apartment row down this corridor [is] that all of them start to look alike. I don’t know of one up and down from us to Onion Creek and beyond that has the retail configuration at the bottom, so
Council Member Evan Ture echoed similar sentiments, saying he would like to see as much possible sales tax from the area, especially to increase resources and decrease traffic. However, with less than 5,000 acres of developable land left in Buda’s ETJ, Council Member Terry Cummings said they have very difficult decisions to make regarding “our very little remaining land.” With this being a workshop item, there was no action taken, and the developer will need to go before the Buda Planning and Zoning Commission as well as City Council for movement on the development.
Horizontal mixed-use developments have fully residential buildings next to commercial buildings.
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License plate readers expand in Buda BUDA Buda Police Department Chief Bo Kidd provided the City Council with an update Jan. 3 regarding the FlockSafety pilot program of automatic license plate readers. The City Council approved a policy for the cameras in August as well as a 12-month pilot program. The policy outlined that officers still need probable cause or reason- able suspicion to stop a vehicle. Kidd said in the past few months,
the reader has been used to recover stolen vehicles and apprehend wanted individuals. The user agreements for new cameras have been completed, he added, and five more cameras will be installed throughout Buda as permitting is obtained; two have been given the green light from private property owners, while the other three will need permitting from the Texas Department of Transportation for installation. “I look forward to getting most, if not all, of these installed in January,” Kidd said. The police department will pro- vide reports of the data collected.
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Kyle hits pause on downtown project
floor would have been reserved for a restaurant; the second floor would have been office space and the third a rentable public-use space. In December, Mayor Travis Mitchell told Community Impact the plans for that building changed due to bud- getary constraints. The revised plan
remained the same for the first floor, but there would be no additional floors, just a loft area. However, movement on the build- ing has ended through council action. The council will discuss the future of the project at its visioning work- shop, which has been postponed.
KYLE The City Council voted Jan. 17 to end its contract with Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Archi- tects for work at 104 S. Burleson St., Kyle. Contracts with other firms
involved in this project have also been ended. The city bought the building with the intention of converting it into a three-story building. The main
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