$1
Weekly hillcountryweekly.com
BERGHEIM • BOERNE • COMFORT • FAIR OAKS • KENDALIA • SISTERDALE • WARING • WELFARE
Thursday, October 29
O C TO B E R 5 M E E T I N G
Planning and Zoning Lack of action by P&Z Commissioners result in tacit approval for Shoreline
Christina Ryrholm Hill Country Weekly
At the October 5 Planning and Zoning Commissioners (P&Z) meeting the action item for approval for phase 6 of the KB Homes Shoreline project was tabled. Instead city staff was asked to supply more in depth information on the ability of Kendall West Utilities (KWU) to supply water and sewage services to Shoreline and Tapatio as well. With the clock ticking on a thirty day limit P&Z was required to take action on the plat approval by October 25. Therefore a special called meeting took place last Thursday evening. Present were Chairman Tim Bannwolf, Patrick Cohoon, Joe Anzollitto, Chesney Dunning and Bob Cates. Absent were Bill Bird, Kyle Kana and Ricky Gleason. The item was untitled. Around fifteen people attended the meeting with about half being city staff and half
to observe. Three of them spoke during public comments - Mike Bowie, Paula Beaton and Lilah Lyons. Mike commented that the city would be required to fulfill services if KWU failed to do so and that there are 29,000 members of Save Our Lake. Paula emphasized that this was a city water issue, the over 200 homes platted but not yet built would further strain KWU and that the city was not willing to admit that had made a mistake. Lila referred to Boerne Lake as a “treasured gem” that supplied water to the city and is also a water source for animals. After Lara Talley, Director of Planning and Community Development, explained that a letter of service from KWU is not a requirement prior to preliminary plat approval the staff report was presented by Jeff Carroll, Director of Development for Boerne. Jeff explained that difference between statistics of average daily/monthly flow and peak
daily/month flow. TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) bases their requirements on three months of consecutive figures. This determines when utilities must plan for the future and when they must begin construction on new plants. Charts were displayed that showed the KWU current plants capacity for handling Tapatio and Shoreline. John Matkin, President of KWU was in attendance and several times went to the podium to answer questions posed by the commissioners or to clarify certain issues when necessary. He provided a brief history of KWU in answer to a question about financial solvency from Joe Anzollitto. In the end no motion was made by any of the commissioners. With that lack of action the preliminary plat is automatically considered approved by Operation of Law.
