We live on 10 acres in south/central tx that butts up against 250 acres owned by the same family since the mid 1800s. we have total access to it as we help maintain and provide security on this end of it. my grandkids have grown up here hunting, fishing, nature walks, building forts etc etc, we hunt and fish too. they dug 3 one acre ponds to water the cattle in the 50s and they have never gone dry. they are fed solely by rainwater that flows down 2 small tributaries higher up. they land adjoining this is owned by a retired heart surgeon. he sold one of his 200 acre pastures to a developer and they are putting in a sewage treatment plant to serve the housing units that will flow 990,000 gallons, PER DAY, of chemically treated "water" down the tributaries, into the stock ponds, and end up almost at our back gate, with the stated purpose to further send it into the beautiful san marcos river. i am trying to get up a grass roots movement to stop it, but the prevailing attitude is well, ya can't stop progress. the dr. needs more $$ like he needs a hole in the head. there are 6 more projects going up within 5 miles of us already. the roads are bumper to bumper now, theres no water as we're in a severe drought, crime is going thru the roof, and the are building the largest Bucees ever 8 miles from here, and already have a huge one 15 miles away. san marcos has a tremendous old west history and its now literally going down the toilet.
Posts: 1573 | Location: south of austin texas | Registered: 25 November 2011
I was telling my daughter last night that in the late 70's or early 80's, my dad completed a muzzleloader from a kit and we went to shoot it in the canyon near our house in Chula Vista (when he was on a ship stationed in San Diego). Now that canyon is part of East H street where there're a new Home Depot, Costco, and Chili's (in case we didn't have enough of them). I know it's not quite the same thing. But nice wild areas near to towns just keep disappearing.
Posts: 1771 | Location: Maryland | Registered: 17 January 2004
Originally posted by richj: my buddy retired to wimberley in 2005-ish. he has a prefab with a huge new metal garage, former owner rented it out to store rv's.
I think he died in 2022, haven't been able to contact him.
san marcos describes itself as the GATEWAY TO THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY, (wimberly) and its becoming like Kalifornia Hill Country. we still ride our harleys, all 2 bikes of us, to the hill country for lunch or breakfast occassionally. but the traffic in the hill country gets worse all the time. and the construction. never ends.
Posts: 1573 | Location: south of austin texas | Registered: 25 November 2011
Originally posted by skl1: John, I'm sorry to hear it.
I was telling my daughter last night that in the late 70's or early 80's, my dad completed a muzzleloader from a kit and we went to shoot it in the canyon near our house in Chula Vista (when he was on a ship stationed in San Diego). Now that canyon is part of East H street where there're a new Home Depot, Costco, and Chili's (in case we didn't have enough of them). I know it's not quite the same thing. But nice wild areas near to towns just keep disappearing.
san marcos is where a lot of country stars got started, like George Strait, at the Cheatham Street Warehouse which is now just a tiny rock building at the end of a street. a good friend i grew up with in el paso left as soon as he was out of high school, went to california, and has his own recording studio now. he told me back in the day they would travel to the tiny town of Buda tx to jam on a guys porch in the sticks and they followed handmade signs to get to Buda way out in the middle of nowhere. thru small dirt tracks. now i drive my grandson the Buda to school everyday fron san marcos. takes 30 minutes each way and is maybe 15 miles away. between buda and kyle, another tiny long forgotten town, there is traffic jams, apartment bldgs and gas stations, drs offices, hamburger joints etc etc everywhere. his school is bursting at the seams and yet has a 150 new kids this year and 400 to 500 more projected for next year and NO new infrastructure to support it. every cotton field, corn field, hay field etc on the way is now apartments and townhouses going up. starting at 500k. if we wern't raising this kid i'd be in a log house lost in new mexico. i'd have Bill/Oregon baiting my trout hooks and reloading my pistols for me.
Posts: 1573 | Location: south of austin texas | Registered: 25 November 2011
They just sold a 240 ac property one pasture up the creek from my wife's property. 12, 20 Ac ranchettes coming soon! Soon will be subdivided on all four sides! Right now only three sides! Won't be long till I can no longer deer hunt on her 140 ac. Not the Texas I grew up in!
Posts: 822 | Location: South Central Texas | Registered: 29 August 2014
Originally posted by Live Oak: They just sold a 240 ac property one pasture up the creek from my wife's property. 12, 20 Ac ranchettes coming soon! Soon will be subdivided on all four sides! Right now only three sides! Won't be long till I can no longer deer hunt on her 140 ac. Not the Texas I grew up in!
ya know, bad as that is, i'd rather have ranchettes than apartments or townhouses.better class of shit heads.
Posts: 1573 | Location: south of austin texas | Registered: 25 November 2011
I'm sorry to hear that, John. It's getting bad all over; I have the same situation where I'm at too, development wise, not sewage; although they did put in a wrecker impound yard behind me that keeps its lights on 24/7. It's getting to be "Indian territory" around here, they're buying up tracts + starting their own communities, but I hear that's happening all over. Sure not the same place I moved to in the early 70s. I can't even shoot on my property anymore without the risk of hitting something. And my big peeve is that the property taxes keep going up to help pay for all the amenities for the new people that I didn't want here to begin with + now I'm being ordered to help finance it.
Posts: 4537 | Location: Austin,Texas | Registered: 08 April 2006
