Lakeway Mayor Sandy Cox will leave office on Monday after serving in the role for three years and winning back-to-back elections in 2018 and 2019 when the city changed term lengths for local officials. Cox said she first ran to try to bring people together as the city underwent rapid growth and a shifting demographic.
“I m a planner,” she said. “I really thought we needed some tools in place for the city to get much more sophisticated about how we approach economic development, plan for the future and bring the voices of the people in. . How do we encourage people to participate? How do we really hear what they want?”
The idea of proportionality is laid out in Texas Local Government Code, according to the Texas Public Law website. The law states a municipality can require a developer to pay for costs such as road construction, but those costs “may not exceed the amount required for infrastructure improvements that are roughly proportionate to the proposed development as approved by a professional engineer,” according to the public law website.
York said if Lakeway were to delay action on the ordinance, it would create an opportunity for Stratus to discuss the Main Street issue with the city.
Before council voted for the Oaks PUD revision, Lakeway Mayor Sandy Cox said previous attempts by Lakeway to discuss Main Street with Stratus have been unsuccessful.