Hays County commissioners send Milestone development back for further review

Mary Kennedy, the court's general counsel, recommended the court receive and accept staff’s conditional approval of the preliminary plan application and going forward have staff administratively handle preliminary plans.

“The developers should want a preliminary plan process,” Kennedy said. “The reason they should want that is because it does offer an opportunity to lock in our rules for two years after they’ve submitted those plans to us, but at the same time, to portray that as a requirement after [Local Government Code Chapter] 232 changed is probably overstepping a bit.”

Commissioner Debbie Ingalsbe said it was difficult for her to approve the item because of the remaining issues that still need to be addressed.

“It’s hard for me to approve this because there are so many, what I would call big issues, that have not been approved,” Ingalsbe said.