Dripping Springs Development Moratorium -- Coming Soon to a City Near you?

[DalTxHornFan 3,097]

Things may be getting a bit overheated?  Who is next?

Dripping Springs city leaders to halt new development under moratorium

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/hays/dripping-springs-city-leaders-to-halt-new-development-under-moratorium/

[Guest Lobo]

Ah man, I was gonna build a 40,000 square foot mediocre Mexican restaurant with 800 parking spots for no apparent reason out that way...

[Wiler77 1,566]

2 hours ago, Lobo said:

Ah man, I was gonna build a 40,000 square foot mediocre Mexican restaurant with 800 parking spots for no apparent reason out that way...

I've got some GREAT news for you.

[swraith 345]

Article says wastewater treatment plant is at capacity.  
 

Shit. No temporary moratorium is going to resolve that constraint. You don’t just plop a new one down like this is Sim City. 

[Trey3216 15,343]

8 hours ago, swraith said:

Article says wastewater treatment plant is at capacity.  
 

Shit. No temporary moratorium is going to resolve that constraint. You don’t just plop a new one down like this is Sim City. 

TCEQ will get it fast-tracked for 2037 

Edited November 17, 2021 by Trey3216

[Catpfish 618]

Pflugerville is in the same situation.  They have expanded the current plant as much as they can...still not enough.  They are slated to begin construction on a new plant in winter 2022 with completion in late 2024/early 2025.  There are thousands of acres under contract/in pre-development around Pflugerville that are just waiting for sewer to start building.  Most of the small towns are not equipped with the infrastructure for the tidal wave that is hitting them and they don't have the commercial infrastructure to help ease the demand/tax base.   They went with the if you don't build it, they won't come philosophy and the FAFO.

Edited November 18, 2021 by Catpfish

[Guest Lobo]

On 11/16/2021 at 9:27 PM, swraith said:

Article says wastewater treatment plant is at capacity.  

Sorry folks, shitter's closed.  Mooseatorium outside shoulda told ya'. 

[Parliament 14,229]

22 hours ago, Catpfish said:

Most of the small towns are not equipped with the infrastructure for the tidal wave of shit that is hitting them...

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[Hefeweizen 5,310]

I’ve got way too much knowledge about this one.  Suffice it to say that it is a moratorium in name only.  Everything out there is already entitled and moving forward.

[Steel Shank 9,421]

Well, they can at least be thankful they aren't the UT football team.

[Brew 3,049]

2 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

I’ve got way too much knowledge about this one.  Suffice it to say that it is a moratorium in name only.  Everything out there is already entitled and moving forward.

They did something similar in one of the suburbs of Memphis. It made zero difference and everything kept moving right along. It was the same issue, wastewater treatment plant was overloaded.

[Guest Lobo]

Typical left/blue urban city like Dripping Springs plunging their big government oversight onto developers and residents alike, instead of letting the free market decide.  

 

[USCATX 1,078]

23 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Typical left/blue urban city like Dripping Springs plunging their big government oversight onto developers and residents alike, instead of letting the free market decide.  

 

More like bad strategy on not pivoting their discharge permit back to TLAP when TCEQ loosened the rules on permanent credit for up to 70% of irrigation under 210 beneficial re-use rules, but whatever.  Instead they’re stuck battling Chris Harrington/City of Austin and the environmentalists in a drawn out appellate court case.  As Hefeweizen mentioned it’s not really slowing down currently entitled deals which constitute thousands of paper and paper-ish lots in the corporate limits and ETJ.  
 

The city had good folks working on most angles, but they probably underestimated how hard it was going to be to get the new plant on the ground and running while Covid drove the market to absolute frenzy. 

[SizzleChest 8,283]

On 11/16/2021 at 9:27 PM, swraith said:

Article says wastewater treatment plant is at capacity.  
 

Shit. No temporary moratorium is going to resolve that constraint. You don’t just plop a new one down like this is Sim City. 

[Guest Lobo]

2 hours ago, USCATX said:

More like bad strategy on not pivoting their discharge permit back to TLAP when TCEQ loosened the rules on permanent credit for up to 70% of irrigation under 210 beneficial re-use rules, but whatever.  Instead they’re stuck battling Chris Harrington/City of Austin and the environmentalists in a drawn out appellate court case.  As Hefeweizen mentioned it’s not really slowing down currently entitled deals which constitute thousands of paper and paper-ish lots in the corporate limits and ETJ.  
 

The city had good folks working on most angles, but they probably underestimated how hard it was going to be to get the new plant on the ground and running while Covid drove the market to absolute frenzy. 

Your municipal fecal discharge knowledge is quite impressive.  Next time we develop something out that way, I'm calling you.

[USCATX 1,078]

18 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Your municipal fecal discharge knowledge is quite impressive.  Next time we develop something out that way, I'm calling you.

Sometimes a thread wanders right into your wheelhouse.  

[HOOKEM4 5,036]

7 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

I’ve got way too much knowledge about this one.  Suffice it to say that it is a moratorium in name only.  Everything out there is already entitled and moving forward.

One day we will get a beer and parlay. I will say, it is very real if you are trying to connect to the proposed city transmission main with a subdivision right now. 

[B00M 6,413]

8 hours ago, USCATX said:

Sometimes a thread wanders right into your shit house.  

ftfy

[CHIEF 5,075]

15 hours ago, USCATX said:

Sometimes a thread wanders right into your wheelhouse.  

Sounds like our shit is your bread and butter. 
CHIEF