THE SAN MARXIST
Paraphrasing and editorializing City Council since mid-Pandemic.
May 7th City Council Meeting
Hey there kiddos! I hope everyone is safe from the storm on Thursday. Big citizen comment time – mostly Malachi Williams and a call for ceasefire resolution – and then lots of little city business topics. Here we go: Hours 0:00 – 2:03: Two hours of citizen comments! The biggest topics are the SMPD killing…
Hours 0:00 – 2:03, 5/7/24
Yowza, you guys. Most of this meeting was Citizen Comments. There were two full hours of citizen comments on Tuesday. A total of 40 speakers. Plus an additional 3 speakers at the 3 pm meeting. So we are going to park it at Citizen Comment and unpack all this. Topic 1: Malachi Williams. We’re going…
Hours 2:03 – 3:58, 5/7/24
Onto council business! Items 9-10: It’s been a while since we discussed La Cima. (Quick primer on La Cima development here.) Basically, it was originally approved in 2013. In 2014, it looked like this: As of 2022, it looked like this: It’s grown! It seems to keep growing, in fact. The problem is that the…
Bonus! 3 pm workshops, 5/7/24
We had great workshops this week! Item 1: Equity Cabinets (Jude Prather recused himself from the discussion, due to his wife’s employment at Texas State. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing remotely conflict-of-interest about this – but sure, why not.) I learned that there’s something called an “equity cabinet”. You pull together a…
April 16th City Council Meeting
This week! Short term rentals, drought conservation triggers, childcare tax exemptions, and way too much detail on the tedious Lindsey Street negotiations. I’m very sorry about this. Let’s get into it: Hours 0:00 – 2:08: A little bit of fiscal reports, a little bit more on short term rentals, and some arguing about water conservation…
Hours 0:00 – 2:08, 4/16/24
ANOTHER FIVE HOURS MEETING! They’re trying to kill me over here! Citizen Comments: There was a full hour of citizen comments. It was basically a repeat of last week: Also Virginia Parker, from the San Marcos River Foundation, but I’ll save her comments for that section. I mean, people did say some new stuff. I’ll…
Hours 2:08 – 5:07, 4/16/24
Item 15: Back to the Lindsey Street Apartments. You guys. These numbskulls spent ANOTHER 2.5 HOURS on these apartments. At one point, Mayor Hughson called it the most difficult zoning case that’s come before her in all her time in city government. We’re still talking about these: I dug this new visual from city staff:…
April 2nd City Council Meeting
This week, Council basically talked about the Lindsey Street apartments for 5 long hours. Straight talk here: I just don’t care about these apartments! At all! I’ll still tell you about them, but this post may be a little lackluster. I’ll bring the blather, you can be the judge. Here we go: Hours 0:00 -…
Hours 0:00 – 5:18, 4/2/24
Citizen comments: Let’s organize this by topic. There were 9 speakers on this topic. That’s a LOT! Especially because different activists have shown up pretty much every meeting since January. One speaker said she’d met with Mayor Hughson about this. Apparently Jane’s response was, “What good can little old San Marcos do?” and worrying over internal…
Hours 3:18-3:28, 4/2/24
Only one measly other item worth writing about! (It came during a small break in Lindsey Hill items, if you’re wondering about the time stamps above.) Item 12: Water conservation. We discussed the new stages at the workshop last time. We’re going from five stages to three stages. The director (Virginia Parker) of the San…
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