SAN ANTONIO – Residents near New Braunfels are voicing strong opposition to the proposed Purlsong community development, citing potential flood risks and water shortages due to ongoing drought conditions.<\/p>\n
The controversy began in 2024 when an 800-acre housing project was announced along Highway 46.<\/p>\n
Angela Allen and Mary Martin, residents adjacent to the project site, expressed concerns about the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) approval process.<\/p>\n
“They’re not listening to the voice of the people and what they’re wanting,” said Allen. <\/p>\n
Martin added, “The TCEQ they rubber stamped everything that the developer told them was accurate. They never did any due diligence, checking at all.”<\/p>\n
Despite these concerns, Comal County Commissioner Scott Haag explained that state law requires county governments to approve platting requests within 30 days if developers meet certain requirements. <\/p>\n
“If we were not to approve that yesterday, it would have been approved by the state, they would have just kicked it out,” Haag said. <\/p>\n
Haag noted that if the county fails to act within the timeframe, developers can appeal to the state, which would enforce compliance to promote faster growth. <\/p>\n
Allen and Martin remain determined to contest the development, stating, “We never want to sacrifice the important things, right? Pretty much anything and everything that goes along with irresponsible growth.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Residents near New Braunfels are voicing strong opposition to the proposed Purlsong community development, citing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":276014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,142754,142753,142756,142751,142752,7202,7203,69588,142755,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,42113],"class_list":{"0":"post-276013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-drought-conditions","10":"tag-flood-risks","11":"tag-irresponsible-growth","12":"tag-purlsong-development","13":"tag-residents-opposition","14":"tag-san-antonio","15":"tag-sanantonio","16":"tag-state-law","17":"tag-tceq-approval","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-water-shortages"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115313431313615650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}