The Wimberley City Council meets tonight, Thursday, at 6pm at City Hall Council Chambers, 221 Stillwater Dr
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Agenda items include:
- status report on the development and operation of Blue Hole Regional Park
- status report on the city's street improvement program
- status report on the Cypress Creek Nature Trail
- status of transportation projects under consideration by CAMPO
- status of RFP for the operation of the recently acquired wastewater treatment plant at Blue Hole Park
- consider approval of an ordinance to prohibit wind turbines within the city limits
- consider approval of an ordinance prohibiting watering lawns and other water restrictions in response to the drought
- consider an ordinance to prohibit issuance of building permits for all new construction of in-ground or above ground swimming pools within the city limits
- discuss and consider possible action regarding a proposal to allow gray water systems and rain water collection systems on all new residential or commercial development
9 comments:
Guess Wimberley City Council is just asking for lawsuits.
1. No residential pools within city limits?
2. No windpower within city limits?
3. Prohibitions against watering? Wimberley doesn't provide water to residents and doesn't contract with water providers to provide the water to residents. Control of water would appear to be outside the scope of their "municipal" powers.
Exactly what is Wimberley returning to property owners and citizens in return for these "prohibitions"?
I find nothing objectionable to a ban on new swimming pools, certainly not in the midst of this dreadful drought. But I don't see any shortage of wind. Hope the council doesn't x medium size turbines and keeps renewable energy options open for homeowners and businesses into the future. We should not be held captive to the PEC.
What about the golf courses?
@Earth Wind & Sun who said...
I find nothing objectionable to a ban on new swimming pools, certainly not in the midst of this dreadful drought.
Yeah, but who asked you? Obviously you either have a pool or don't care to have one such that the "rule" would not affect you.
Wimberley's involvement in water consumption is tenuous at best. They do not provide services (including water) to homeowners but expect to control land/water use in such an arbitrary fashion?
HTGCD is the entity that regulates groundwater use. TCEQ is the entity that regulates utilities. Sometimes both have to be involved. Exactly where does the city council of Wimberley fit into this regulatory picture ?
For homeowners that are utility customers, would your position change if the homeowner had water hauled in from somewhere else? Exactly what is the city's authority to involve itself so deeply with private property of the property owners in these cases?
The golf course is also intended to be a large functioning septic field - something that Wimberley needs very badly.
If we ban golf courses because of our water shortage there will be an increase in white collar crime because the business golfers will be bored and try to think of new ways to screw consumers as a replacement activity.
Just kidding, Man Men.
But what the hell does wind turbines have to do with water shortages? Someone enlighten us.
Wind Turbines make noise and kill birdies. That is two things the Grey Hairs in Wimperlry can not stand. The poster that said Wimperley has no business regulating water use needs to understand what a franchise is.
"The golf course is also intended to be a large functioning septic field - something that Wimberley needs very badly."
Very well put, Anonymous. This is a fact that seems to elude many of the critics of the Golf Course(s) in the two Woodcreek(s). The removal and treatment of our waste is as big a problem as securing for more sources of potable water. Since the local environmental activists won't let the treated effluent be put into the Blanco River like it is done nearly everywhere else in the State and Country, this is the only practical answer. That effluent had to go somewhere and if it makes Golf Courses green then it is a win-win situation for the community and the developers.
Without the Golf Courses there would be no more growth in the area and it would soon fall into decline and property values would plummet. Sadly, this is the reason why many of the uninformed residents in this area oppose them. The good news is that this sort of stone-age attitude is steadily shrinking as a percentage of the increasing population. Growth is not coming, Growth is here. "Do NOT resist. Resistance is futile. You WILL be assimilated."
To Anonymous, Oct. 8, 10:03 AM:
You can cavalierly say there's nothing wrong with spraying effluent on golf courses as a means of getting rid of wastewater. You probably don't live next to or near those golf courses. Unless wastewater is treated to a very high standard, the effluent makes golf courses (or soccer fields, in the case of Blue Hole) unsafe for children and pets to be on, and the windborne particulates of the effluent are not healthful to breathe. You know that Aqua Texas will scrape by with treating the effluent as little as TCEQ (=fox guarding the henhouse) will allow.
Secondly, TCEQ's own rules (not enforced for Aqua in the Wimberley area, obviously) state that when a wastewater treatment plant (such as Aqua has on FM 2325)is at 75% capacity, the WWTP owner should be developing plans for a new or enlarged treatment plant; when the current plant is at 90% capacity, BUILDING SHOULD HAVE BEGUN on the new or larger plant. Aqua has been at over 90% capacity for a long time and is probably at over 100% at present. Aqua has a long contract with Wimberley Springs Partners to put effluent on one or both of the golf courses until something like 2037. And so WSP will probably begin a campaign touting their "public service" in accepting wastewater for homeowners to breathe near their two golf courses.
Third, you say that "Without the Golf Courses there would be no more growth in the area and it would soon fall into decline and property values would plummet." Not so. You highly overrate the value of the golf courses. Most of us aren't here to play golf.
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