Hays County has been growing fast, and it's only going to get bigger, with a projected population of 550,000 in just 16 years. That's why Hays officials are in the process of rewriting the county's development regulations, which are especially important since many new subdivisions are being built...

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...

  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...