The Lakeway Bee

Last week's Lakeway City Council meeting deliberated over the massive amount of potential development proposed on the almost 100 acre site around the new LRMC complex on 620.

The development covers a total of more than ten times as much land as the hospital itself and has multiple elements including:

• up to 160,000 sq ft of medial office space
• a hotel
• multifamily housing
• over 78,000 square feet of retail space
• two restaurant
• an assisted living center
• senior housing

Objections, led by Councilman Joe Bain, include concerns over the building of more apartments (which the City has previously opposed as a general rule) and a study that shows an extra 30,000 daily traffic trips being added to 620. This volume is almost double its 2009 traffic levels - the last time it was studied.

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Comments (4)

• 2012-01-28 17:13:01 | Lois Dodd  - More permits than Lakeway can handle.
  We would hope that city council will take the concerns you state in this article pertaining to the terrific impact on traffic and that they will also consider the impact on our water problems. It seems to me that building is being permitted without concern as to where/how all the needs for water can possibly be met.
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• 2012-01-28 23:57:21 | btheisen  - LRMC construction
  Although I agree that traffic issues will need to be addressed, the water concern is a bit comical, considering that the City doesn't follow water conservation measures. During the summer and even now, sprinklers are operating more than one day a week to beautify our medians and other public areas!
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• 2012-01-30 10:04:29 | jim  - water conservation " median watering"
  watering the median is done with waste water "effluent", which is -good- conservation practice. it is not done with lake water or drinking water. the city does follow water conservation.
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• 2012-01-30 12:02:56 | sucha  - lakeway losers
  It amazes me the growth that Lakeway allows. Just keep building and building and building. The roadways are taxed and very dangerous, there seems to be absolutely zero consideration for this fact. Have fun with your 30 minute commutes from Hudson Bend to Bee Cave,
  
  620 is an eyesore and is uglier than the worst of Burnet or Lamar Rds.
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