Llano County Judge Wayne Brascom and he commissioners court offered congratulations to the Kingsland Library following its recent 50th Anniversary celebration and open house prior to Monday’s regular meeting.
Director of the Llano County Library System Dian Ray said the open house would be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
“Our new automatic doors are beautiful,” said Ray. “We have had some other new changes and additions and we welcome you to tour so we can show you how the building has changed.
Commissioners tabled consideration of using a new contract with Klotz Associates to evaluate the Angelina Cove Condominiums projects on Euel Moore Drive in Kingsland.
When the court decided in February to use the Austin engineering firm to consult on the recently completed work repairing roads from flooding last spring and summer, company representatives said they also could consult on other projects and the court on April 14 approved their evaluation of a Comanche Rancherias project.
Mark Stephenson of Kingsland did not pull any punches with the court in opposing more study. As a partner in the project, he claimed delays in compliance with county requests had cost the venture $50,000 in interest on their loans.
His concerns revealed how complicated waterfront development, especially with development that determines changes in the course of work, has become as it seeks compliance with the Lower Colorado River Authority, and with counties, as they seek in turn to comply with directives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and National Floodplain Insurance Program (NFIP).
“The County Natural Resources Department (now Department of Environmental and Emergency Services or DEES) told me to have Brad Shaw do an engineering study and I paid him,” said Stephenson. “If the county is going to start spending money on this why should we (developers)?”
The court approved giving the name Carls Pass to a private access of property off CR 414 owned by Dale Freeman.
Also approved was the vacation of a portion of Oregon Street on a 1.5-acre tract owned by Mark A . and Lois Diane Arnst in the Miller Addition on the outskirts of Llano.
“The roadway was never dedicated,” said Lois Arnst. “It ends at a 15-foot cliff and another 100 feet at Flag Creek.”
A preliminary plat was approved for Catherine Cove Subdivision in the Precinct 2 portion of Kingsland. The development of 56 lots off Williams Lakeshore is to include a 60-foot channel from Lake LBJ and a paved ribbon-curbed roadway.
A replat of Lots 12, 124 and 125 into a single, Lot 124-A in Inks Lake Village Unit One, also in Precinct 2, were approved.
Shaw spoke as a member of the architectural committee of the voluntary property owners association at Inks Lake Village.
“A 3-foot easement runs down all the property lines in the subdivision,” he said. “They are easements for water lines to take lake water for potable use.
“A replat eliminates that interior lot line and releases that statement of easement.”
He said such replats in future could affect people upstream with different rights to the lake.
In other action, the court approved minor changes in the Floodplain Ordinance and established a flow chart to guide county government through a growing number of violations of the ordinance and also a growing number of citizen complaints of violations.
Essentially, the changes allow individual commissioners to work to resolve problems and make their own decisions about whether a matter should go to the court for a decision to prosecute violators.
Changes to the DEES street or road name and address assignment policy were aimed at wording in the policy that reflected the development of the 9-1-1 system, which now is county wide.
“You can always verify your 9-1-1 address by calling the Llano County Sheriff’s Office,” noted Brascom.