Judge stops planned 1,500-acre quarry near Bracken Bat Cave
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Sabrina Houser Amaya speaks during the Friends of Dry Comal Creek community awareness meeting held Thursday Oct. 5, 2017 at the Bulverde-Spring Branch Activity Center in Bulverde, TX. The meeting was on Vulcan Materials Company s application for an air quality permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), for a rock crushing quarry at the intersection of Highway 46 and FM 3009 in Comal County.Edward A. Ornelas, Staff / San Antonio Express-News
A group of Comal County residents has won a big battle in a four-year legal fight to stop a proposed quarry north of San Antonio that they say will harm the environment and their quality of life.
In this year’s installment of its annual Highway Boondoggles report, U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group warn of billions of dollars in proposed spending on unnecessary highway projects that would divide our communities, deprive transit of scarce funds, and pollute our air and water. Below is the second of seven installments detailing these harmful projects.
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The Texas Department of Transportation is currently reviewing plans for a major expansion to a 23-mile section of Loop 1604, a suburban highway loop that encircles San Antonio. The project, which would expand Loop 1604 between state Highway 16 and Interstate 35 north of the city, includes four to six additional lanes along the entire length of roadway, new frontage roads and a five-level interchange with Interstate 10. This $1.36 billion expansion, while likely failing to solve local congestion problems
After asking developers to address concerns including building height, the West Lake Hills City Council on Wednesday night approved the zoning required for new condominiums at 1801 Westlake Drive.
The condos, which will be built where an apartment complex now stands, are zoned as a planned development district, a designation that will stay with the property even if it changes hands and allows for more flexibility of use, according to Director of Building and Development Services Anjali Naini.
The developer returned to the council Wednesday with an updated design that incorporated feedback from both the council and the Zoning and Planning Commission. This item was last before the council in late October.