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Hays Commons: On Hold for Now
We have some great news to report in our years-long campaign against Hays Commons, a proposed subdivision that Milestone Community Builders wants to construct over the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone. Last week, the Austin Planning Commission declined to consider a proposal to let Milestone build i...
by Brian Zabcik —
Sep 02, 2025
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Hays Commons: An Uncommonly Bad Development
If you wanted to build a big subdivision in a really bad place, where would you put it? Would you build it in a place with lots of rocky gaps and cracks on the ground that would allow dirty surface water to seep into the Edwards Aquifer, which provides water for hundreds of residential wells a...
by Brian Zabcik —
Sep 02, 2025
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