By JO CLIFTON
Austin Monitor

A group of Lake Austin homeowners on Monday sued the city of Austin, claiming that the city’s notice concerning the zoning and waiver of environmental regulations on what is known as the Champion tract off of RM 2222, was inadequate and therefore violated the Texas Open Meetings Act.

According to the lawsuit filed by the Lake Austin Collective Inc., when City Council approved new zoning for the tract on City Park Road on Nov. 10, the notice failed to mention that it would also be approving waivers of environmental regulations as well as the Hill Country Roadway Ordinance.

As the Austin Monitor reported in April, the group notified the city of its intention to sue and gave council 45 days to post the item on its agenda again with notice of the pertinent waivers. However, the city failed to do so.

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Lake Travis Fire Rescue responded to a call about a lightning strike hitting this home on Indigo Waters Drive in Steiner Ranch on Saturday night.

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By LYNETTE HAALAND
Four Points News

Just before 10 p.m. on Saturday night, Tatum Sapinoro and her daughter Jaedyn were sitting at the kitchen table listening to the storms outside when a lightning bolt struck their house.

There were two close, intense lightning strikes but it was the one closest to 10 p.m. that hit them.

“It sounded like a gunshot sound,” Tatum said. “But it was more than what we heard — you could feel it too.”

“It was like a big surge of energy you could feel,” Jaedyn said. “It was so unexpected.”

They lost power to half of the house.

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The second access road behind Vandegrift would cost over $15 million and be one mile with a 100-foot right of way and an 800-foot bridge to protect habitat below.

Launches #BuildTheRoad campaign  

By LYNETTE HAALAND
Four Points News

Leander ISD is seeking the community’s involvement and support in its biggest push to build a second access road to Vandegrift. It launched the #BuildTheRoad social media campaign last week in an effort to get Washington D.C. lawmakers’ attention on the proposed one-mile, $15 million-plus road.

At its public forum at VHS on May 30, LISD reminded the audience of the proposed second access road that LISD and the Four Points Traffic Committee has been working on since February 2013.

More than 3,700 students and staff use VHS and Four Points Middle School and currently, the only road into and out of those campuses is off of McNeil Drive. That leads to a bottleneck of traffic especially at the intersection of RM 2222.

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We Need Your Help

Leander ISD has already reached out to lawmakers, and now we need the community’s help in promoting this topic, too. We’re asking you to take the time to contact these lawmakers over these next couple of weeks — on social media, by writing a letter or email, by calling their office — to request that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service work with LISD to find a solution.

Listed below are a few sample Tweets to help you get started and contact information for these representatives.
Sample Tweets:

• .@RepMcCaul We need your help to #BuildTheRoad to VHS & FPMS in @LeanderISD! #StudentSafety #myLISD

• .@RogerWilliamsTX Help students get to school safely. #BuildTheRoad to VHS & FPMS in @LeanderISD! #StudentSafety #myLISD

.@SenTedCruz Please help us #BuildTheRoad to VHS & FPMS to greatly improve #StudentSafety in @LeanderISD! #myLISD