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City to consider denser housing at Delaware Springs
November 14, 2012, 3:00 pm by James Walker
The Burnet City Council likely will have to make a decision at its next meeting on Monday about whether to grant the developer of the Delaware Springs subdivision an impervious cover easement that will satisfy Lower Colorado River Authority rules and allow the developer to build more and smaller homes on the creek.
Pat Riddell is directing the development effort at Delaware Springs because his brother-in-law Billy Joe Fox, who own the Fox Real Estate company, is ill, and wants to be able to count the city-owned Delaware Springs Golf Course as part of the easement for the 23 houses he wants to build.
Riddell wants to build the houses, 10 of which would have golf course fairway frontage, on quarter-acre lots, but LCRA has strict rules regarding density of housing development and wants the lots to be no smaller than one acre each.
LCRA’s primary concern is that the more densely packed the development is in the area near Delaware Creek the more pollutants end up in the creek and ultimately in Lake Travis, which is the primary source of drinking and household water for much of Central Texas.
For more of this story, see Wednesday's Burnet Bulletin.
Reader Comments
The LCRA , what a non educated non thinking entity with apparently hidden interests with the rice farmers. Is there not a drought in the highland lakes water shed with no inflows at this time. The two main rivers that feed are lakes are just large wet weather creeks . Just what is the matter with the voting board of this entity and what is their thinking. I guess their thought process is clouded.
November 15, 2012, 8:11am by dr joe
When does "developer" Pat Riddell take his set on the City Council? Surely the vote can wait until he's on it "officially"..
November 20, 2012, 12:11pm by Joy Taylor
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