February 1, 2008
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New Braunfels Outer Loop Project
If you were of a mind to organize an opposition to a developer-friendly ring-road around New Braunfels, which would cut right through golden-cheeked warbler habitat, ruin local property values, and generally torch whatever remains of the natural beauty of the area, you might do well to follow some of these links and make some noise.
In no particular order, and updated as new items are discovered. Please comment with other contacts or information or whatever.
New Braunfels Outer Loop Planning Site (TXDoT official site)
Article from American Rivers on the threat to the Guadalupe
All about the meeting we went to yesterday, from a blog covering issues in New Braunfels and the nearby Guadalupe watershed
Guadalupe Chapter, Trout Unlimited
Comal County Engineer’s Office, featuring a map of development since 2000. Notice that there is little development in the region where the proposed road would run…
Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance, many excellent articles
Friends of Canyon Lake, including joint stakeholder coalition (which is a useful list of other regional stakeholder groups)
Guadalupe River Association *above* Canyon Lake, but a good list of government agencies.
Hill Country Water, concerned with all sorts of water issues above Canyon Lake, lots of data, most tangential.
Audoubon Society article on Golden-Cheeked Warbler, a threatened species, further threatened by the outer loop
Comments (8)
will have to read through these to get more background…
Welcome to Houstaustantonio!
Sean gets it.
oh my
sigh
one big huge corridor….filled with walmarts and mcD’s…..
i know there are issues with restricting growth, but SHEESH there’s a whole lot of ugly land in texas they could use instead
was that mean to say?
@beautifulwolf - if you’re referring to the beautiful open desert of west TX, then yeah that was mean
@sean - actually, no, I wasn’t referring to the desert of west TX. I have been there, hiking and camping. Big Bend NP, Guadalupe mtns, and the absolute best star party at the McDonald Observatory that I’ve ever been to. That is gorgeous land. Same with the Hill Country. I remember reading somewhere that in the TX state constitution, it was given the power to split into at least 5 separate states (I don’t know if that is true anymore!) I always thought that the western part should split off. What I was referring to was the Houston metro area, for one thing….
Also, please check out
http://nbouterloop.blogspot.com
This link takes you to the Top 10 Reasons that this is a bad idea.
We simply cannot keep bailing out Tx Dot’s bad planning by destroying the landscape. Did you hear the idiots (Tx Dot’s Greg Maledick and Comal County’s Danny Sheel) get shredded on the radio this weekend by some professor at Texas State. Sheel said that the only other option to building the Outer Loop was buying every citizen a helicopter. What a moron!
We have formed a group of opponents to the New Braunfels Outer Loop. CASE – Citizens’ Alliance for Smart Expansion meets every Thursday (except March 20th) at 5:30pm at Faith United Church at the corner of Loop 337 and Common St. in New Braunfels. Each week we feature speakers related to our opposition efforts. Please add our website to your list: http://www.nbcase.org
Thank you!