Monday, July 13, 2009

Infrastructure need of 650,000 dwellers expected in 12.5 years

Imperial Valley Neighborhood Association – is a Texas nonprofit founded in 1970; it's make up includes dwellers, newcomers, & old timers who lived in East Travis County decades. Neighbors deal with elements a sparsely populated meet regularly to groom the infrastructure we expect will be needed in 10-15 years when possibly 650,000 new people inhabit an area that's made up of 21 miles by 18 miles with hubs, groupings of populated and sparse numbers of people throughout. We do our best to strengthening the hubs where people reside closer to one another. For most part the people here resolve disputes internally and work through methods that solve differences. Solutions increase land, home values, safety for residents and area economic stability. The community prides itself with upholding peace and harmony and maintaining mutual respect.

Background to IVNA Difficulties Over enforcing Property Title Covenant Restrictions in combination with a 2008 County Regulation 


Between 1970 and 2010 parts of IVNA became an area oft referred as a condemned floodplain. In mid 2005 voters approved a $2.3 million dollar bond issue to stop floods in the area. Through poor workmanship and inept community organizer, grave problems have arisen thereafter. 






Recently  County staffers -- Tom Chaffall, Drew Bridges and Stacey Scheffel -- in communications with IVNA's Executive Committee mentioned lots plated in 1970 as found in TCCC approved records property title covenant restriction "must be upheld in face of a regulation passed by the Travis Co Commissioners Court in 2008. That was until a 70-year old suicide victim who'd been economically squeezed out and caused to sell a home he'd been building for 16 years. His Proclamation was posted and it was shown the man had been deeply wronged.  not hold in 2011 or 2012; and that those records named as Imperial Valley Section II and Imperial Valley Section I do not amount to flood plain properties and that said lots not have to comply with tie down and anchor rules as set down in the law § 64.155. The IVNA Community Strengthening Task Force finds that to be a very interesting view point.  Whereas those who hold neither of the above are meritorious, let's argue about it and be assured that there has been no change in the covenant restrictions, nor variances granted thereto made a matter of official record yet found by the US Dept of Justice nor FBI and given to the Imperial Valley Neighborhood Association since its demand for a review of the record over the past 24 months. Moreover, there remains a record of circumstances that the County Staff and Honorable TCCC elected officials may quibble about but the truth is the truth. Whereas in the Bond Issue brought before the Voters of Texas held we remind those with a differing viewpoint about the plat covenant restrictions binding in 2012 that

  1. the duly recognized Imperial Valley Neighborhood Association organized and operated by local dwellers have at no time since August 16, 1970 approved and registered an across the board change of the property title covenant restrictions or divided lot by lot reconsideration of the property title covenant restrictions on Section II or Section I, even though it became clear and necessary for local citizens working within the community and among themselves and in communication with the TCCC to deal with the reality that no septic tank installations nor home construction could occur on the 32 River bottom lots in Section I whereas a) septics could not be dug down into the ground in such as way as to remain in the ground once the River rose 60+ foot as it does upon flooding as septics most often bounce out of the ground; and b) in Section II that it became mandatory that the County would be required to purchase or easement allowing an extention of N. Imperial Drive north beyond Colfax over to Hog Eye so a way out to work on behalf of greater than 60 percent of the dwellers who were land locked up to three weeks at a time. Moreover, Sam Biscoe and others at the time received petitions praying for a source of public Bond Issue funds which would pay for three bridges over Elm Creek flood out land lock areas. This was a down payment the County made on overcoming what had been up to that time as a plated community on which taxable valuation condemnations had been talked through/described and the people accepted that they could thence plea for the Voters of Texas to approve a flood zone Bond Issue in the amount of we believe the record shows $2.3 million dollars that the 2005 election approved of. And bids were finally let and Smith Construction was selected to "prevent flooding in Imperial Valley Section II and Section I" and Engineers Mo ? and Steve Manilla held a meeting ran by a hired lady who oriented the dwellers arriving at the Baptist Church at the Corner of FM 969 and N Imperial Drive; there the people asked questions and accepted the Bond Issue Relief. Firm speaking dwellers demanded assurances that the moneys for flood prevention would be used and +/- permanently prevent future flooding in the area, and that was generally granted and in about 10 months the work was completed in more or less the late fall of 2008.
  2. Nothing about the foregoing real construction based on real flood zone status existing in the Imperial Valley Section II nor the Section I at any time changed the property title covenant restrictions set down in 1970. Reiterating, the full power and affect of the original  August 16 and August 19, 1970 property title covenant restrictions, remain in effect as approved and published by the Travis County Commissioners Court in accord with State law; and, they in accord with the compliance authority mandated by the International Architect's Convention has at no time been changed, including the statement there in that "No traditionally built home nor trailer will be moved onto a lot or lots within Imperial Valley Section II or Section I".
  3. Therewith, whereas in late 2008 the TCCC did pass a new set of regulations with regard to manufactured homes, IVNA acknowledges the foregoing but that there is no legally land owner approved binding changes to the TCCC's 1970 Imperial Valley Section II or Section I property title covenant restrictions in particular with regard to the clauses dictating that "No traditionally built home nor trailer will be moved onto a lot or lots within Imperial Valley Section II or Section I." As such the County may go to Court to raise hell but anyone's argument that the 2008 accord ripped the 1970 County Approved edicts are dead is an argument that is and will always be moot. However, the 2008 regulations set forth on regards manufactured homes will in all cases where conflicts arise be used to red tagging houses moved in or manufactured homes hauled in via a truck pulling a house mounted on a rubber tired apparatus, do give the County staff a basis for declaring non-compliance on the part of the illegal moving in process, i.e., like that directly across the street from Edna and Lester Ross living in their home built there in the 1970s at 5409 N. Imperial Drive, the Community Strengthening Task Force members believe that Section § 64.155 of the 2008 law gives the County for demanding a red tag and final authority for disallowing admittance of manufactured home having no septic, tie downs and anchors nor a permit on file for initiating such work and that this  will be grounds for permanent denial and affirmation of the wishes of a preponderance of the landowners rights, and in particular where the individuals moving in the structure has demonstrated an intent to ignore the property title covenant restrictions including to run an illegal and unregistered wrecker truck operation, park inoperative cars, run a junk yard, and to use a 7/8 foot fence to presumably keep thieves off of the lot, and at the same time contribute to infestations of rats, rodents, and other species not allowed in a duly declared residential area, all of which is set forth as unacceptable by the neighborhood association management documents.
  4. Historically, there has been meritorious grounds for invoking the Rules set down in the 2008 law which demands for septic tanks, and permits to move in a home including having anchors and tie downs. That precedence relates back to the time Kennedy Estates [located across FM 969 from Austin Colony]. Back then then Commissioner Sam Biscoe and 4 other duly elected Commissioner and Judge officials, voted. Kennedy Estates was approved in 1969 for Federal funding. Eventually it provided dwellers City quality public sewers, far from  Austin's city limits. But  since 1970 Imperial Valley Section II and Section I, has been forced to use septic tanks 43 years. 
IVNA holds, "Today, it's time for the neighborhood demands to be treated with honesty and respect by developers. No elected officials nor county personnel can be allowed to hold veto power over those having lived on the land for decades. Earth mixtures, historical sites, archeological and ar at the street level in the area decision makers must listen to and follow the people as they prepare for 650,000 dwellers expected to move into East Travis County in the 21 mile area reaching from 290 East to Hays county and +/- 18 miles from Decker Lane over to Bastrop and Caldwell Counties. It's time that the infrastructure needed for growth and development to reflect not what closed door meetings held in isolation by TCCC and Staffers who ignore the will of the people/self rule and good will to prevail. 

IVNA's Community Strengthening Task Force consists of deeply concerned leaders as well as followers: There's Luis & Gwen Shaw, Janie Garcia, Ardel Williams, Jose y Juanita Silva, Don Miguel Pastor, Delores Blaylark, Esperanza Briones, Sandra Williams, Anibal "Luis" Alvarez Family, Will Taylor, Doris Williams, Cynthia & Jewel Medearis, Angie Bedford, Mrs. Stevens, Eric Bookman, Louis Martinez, Pete Gonzalez, Doris Jackson, Mildred Maxwell, Sr. & Sra. Frank Reyna, Jose & Juanita Silva, Graciela Reyna, Jesus Moreno, Luis Martinez, Samuel Tinnon, Matt Rayson,  Mozell Stephen, Rafael Briones, Linda/David Richard, Barbara Tutt, Cynthia Kidd, Janice Flint (deceased), Matilde & her deceased Husband, Jose & Lupita Torres, Guadalupe Salinas Family, Rafael Briones Family, Henry Ramirez Family, the Trinidad Montoya family, Jose & Anna Mendoza;  Ken Koym, LMFT/Prez – & another 480 deeply concerned home owners



Prairie View A&M's Cooperative Extension files. Members of that period hit dead ends seeking facts and reconnect with professionals who worked with our Association. Dennis Howard our President and Executive Director at the time reached out to Prairie View and your University worked with 21 lot owners who consented to donate their lots in the effort start an A&M research program and Park in the Colorado River bottom.  To prevent high water flash flooding on Elm Creek engineers started July 13, 2009, to enhance drainage. Allegedly three bridges will be built over a 110 day period. We note earth was opened to place pipe but not the bridges described in a public meeting. Crews asked that we alert friends and family of street closings and of alternate routes to take. Drive safely and watch new detour signs as the $1,975,00.00 improvements go in. We hope all will benefit from the drainage bond proceeds unearthed by activist association members.

In 1970, the Imperial Valley Neighborhood Association consisted of solely 460 lots then nested just off the banks of the Colorado River about 13 miles from IH-35. By 2010-2012, it grew to be 21.4 miles from Hwy 290E to Hays County by 18 miles from Decker Lane to Bastrop and Caldwell Counties. Download a pdf file and take a tour. Do come here often. Enlighten your self to a magnificent history and adventures among .
On-going Compassionate Relief Fund was reestablished to aid family members forced from Barbara Malett's home at 5002 Imperial Drive N. 78724 when suddenly at 11;10 AM Sunday July 5, 2009 to 3 PM all possessions and 2 cars had been lost. Five raced out; but it took two neighbors Moses Gonzales & Louis who rushed into flames for Barbara Malett/wheel chair bound. After seeing fire took 94 percent of the roof and contents, the Red Cross helped the Maletts spend the first nights.
Rebuilding Again
Family and friends regrouped at the home Monday 7-6-09 and planning began.The effort to rebuild will kick off as possibilities permit. Don’t wait to raise funds for the Malett Compassionate Relief Fund. More might come from the Imperial Valley Neighborhood Association; but it's the good will of local citizens and neighbors who can help the Mallet family survive a devastating tragedy such as seeing fire all around you, forcing you to flee your own home. Let us rejoice with this Family and bring forth good will and support as they begin again.
Imperial Valley Neighborhood Association's map
View 1195 Imperial Valley Neighborhood Association in a larger map includes: Walter E Long Lake; the dog paw on the Colorado River; west on FM 973 from E Hwy 290 to Travis County Line; it butts next to Hwy 71 near Austin International Airport.
Carry or send Malett Compassionate Relief Fund checks to: Mrs. Vera Porter, IVNA Treasurer, 9705 Monarch Lane, Austin 78724 Tel: 512.929.3758; 9803 Monarch Lane Charles Smith – Relief Fund Appointee 928-4821; or 9905 Wayside Blvd: Gwen Shaw – Relief Fund Appointee 928-1680.
Prevent a Fire!
With regard to precautions, check the lint in your cloths dryer regularly. Remove it and check every second wash so no lint escapes and could be set afire. Luckily no neighbor’s properties were destroyed due to the reckless setting off of illegal fireworks on the 4th of July. Fireworks violate State and IVNA regulations.
Important Business Facing IVNA Two Area Captains to be appointed as we kindle IVNA forces. Yes, a $80 IVNA membership due check will bring you up to date. In fact our Treasurer will accept whatever you can put in. Members want to meet bimonthly on 1st Tuesdays 7:30 PM at 6211 Blue Bluff Road at the Auditorium next to the Administration Building of the new East Travis County Vehicle Repair Center opened mid November 2008. Working together may lead to jobs or entrepreneurs for youth or adults in our neighborhood? So let’s chat to make sure a August meeting comes to pass at 6211 Blue Bluff; can you make it on the 1st Tuesday?
What is happening? Children may get endangered when new businesses open. Members demand that none violate covenant restrictions in property deeds. The restrictions prohibit doing business in and around residences. Rules were set down in August 1970 and remain in full force and affect.
Black-tops continue to be cracked and destroyed Heavy trucks that violate deed restrictions and IVNA Regulations declared a residence only jurisdiction in August 1970, also violate no overnight parking of commercial licensed trucks law. This violates signs posted and exploits tax payers rights. Plus truckers without mandatory beepers to warn children or elders installed on trucks that back up to enter or exit private lots violate the law. Dumping dirt, stones or washing excess dirt in the Elm Creek and Colorado River flood planes is prohibited. Dirt and mud left on streets creates hazards for school bus drivers, fire dept personnel and residents. No resident should be forced to back up or to take a detour around trucks amidst parking. Business operators who ignore prohibited 1970 property deed covenant restrictions must be cited and ordered by a Judge to cease and desist. The same goes for persons who place obstructions in roadways, on the banks of waterways like Elm Creek or the Colorado River flood planes. This refers to all who violate covenant restrictions spelled out in Titles to each property and on survey maps.
Complainants say: "Whether it's school buses, fire engines or EMS, obnoxious acts taken in designated residential areas; or, when truckers get demanding with residents when they block a roadway or suggest alternative routes must be taken. Bad carma evolves. No owner possesses land titles that allow trucks to be parked on residential lots, nor may truckers back-up without a warning beeping device announcing the act. Plus, add on rooms that are not tied to the ground during construction and can blow over in heavy winds and endanger children are prohibited. Neighbors, law enforcement and licensed inspectors are aware of violators. Pictures (some even found on Google) confirm such violations on Bitterwood, Imperial Court, Imperial Drive North and on three streets on the Colorado River side of FM 969.
Done Behind Our Backs
A car pound has been built in tree cover about 10019 FM 969, 78724. Perhaps worse yet, we provide Austin Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Program a dump site. This is located about 4054 N FM 973 several blocks from FM 969. The site is not monitored by live personnel but it accepts "specialized waste drop offs". Questions exist: For instance are rare cancer causing antigens that could contaminate the Central Texas water tables be happening there? No comparative studies have been done by UT or TAMU research scientists. One research scientist asks, "Can't such antigens lay dormant for decades enter water tables, or, reach the Colorado River and infect species at unknown times?"
Who's being exploited?
Bus drivers and parents who pick up and drop off children as well as those going to and from work once contended with trucks cranking up between 6:20-6:50 AM. This molests children and families readying for school. Though operation of some trucking from roadsides stopped, calls from antagonists push for limits to be enforced.
Grave accidents continue to occur at Imperial Drive and FM 969, so take care!
Your Board of Directors has learned a 969 TxDOT plan may one day protect those entering and leaving with turn around lanes that permit no direct crossing.
Let's keep on top of these plans and work to prevent liabilities that could hamper school bus operations – i.e., Manor ISD, ACC, UT etc.; EMS, Fire Department, Mail carrier, or Garbage truck pick ups. Fewer vacant homes bring us economic dilemmas or squatters hanging out or sponging off tax payers. Flagrant disregard for family life or private property usage may still disrupt day to day activities or produce fears behalf school children or views you moved here to appreciate.
IVNA members support "private enterprises that operate within the law!” But what it they do not comply with "no parking signs displayed on our streets"? Trucks that exceed weight limits on streets not made for heavy loads are prohibited from using residential lots; and backing trucks without warning beepers are unlawful.
Who: Gravel and Dirt Haulers, a Welding shop and four car repair shops violate residential property title covenant restrictions set forth in August 1970.
Where does this occur? On Bitterwood two blocks from Colfax, trucks are parked daily without warning devices. They have cracked black-topped streets and produced repair costs the trucker may claim they are not obligated to pay for; but doesn't this amounts to damage of a public domain? Neighbors complain of unsightly scenes, loss of property value, loss of sleep and fears to school children, to parents, and to families living nearby. Who will pay for damages created by trucks and businesses who do not pay taxes or the repairs needed now and in five years? Streets are pounded and cracked by heavy daily trucks especially ones loaded and parked for early deliveries. Engines fire up; trucks are washed with power washers, maintained, refueled and tested for proficiency; tires are dismounted and changed; and from time to time drivers drop dirt, gravel or blocks in Elm Creek's flood plane. The business practices interfere with congeniality, grooming of lawns, gardens and recreation equipment.
State & Federal Motor Carrier Permits require that vehicles meet neighborhood, School District, County, State and Federal regulations for the weight they carry, and that they are:
  • Properly licensed, inspected and operationally safe with working warning devices,
  • Insured in accord with the commodities they haul and for injuries they produce, and
  • That all drivers have up to date licenses and driving or personal histories dictated by law.
  • Mobile homes, old home or storing industrial wastes are prohibited. Moving in a mobile home, old home or industrial waste has been prohibited by covenant restrictions since 1970. All who sell properties including private owners, Title Guarantee Companies, Brokers and Realtors also violate said restrictions when they silently or directly say "Oh, it's okay" as no that is illegal!
  • Do apparent violations exist? You decide as 22 say Yes. Look at:
  • An East Wayside Blvd home appears to sit on the bed of the roadway depicted on the 1970 survey map?
  • Does a fence encircle the public domain culvert of the West Wedgwood Court as it crosses Imperial Drive North?
  • Could high water from a flash flood topple the Van parked on the bank of Elm Creek? Would the Van block water and harm three families just off FM 969 at N. Imperial Drive? Would forcing flood water into a home be okay if it belonged to you? Close-by church goers ask, "If flood plane standards cost us over $85,000.00+, cannot flood plane laws be enforced?
  • Are eye sores becoming if new homes sell for $150-190,000 a half mile down FM 969? What about houses being left vacant and unlocked? Vacant properties on the Colorado River side of FM 969 can draw squatters and they can use such settings to plan crimes, rapes or thefts. When Toll Road 130 opened an unsightly Imperial Valley neighborhood affects all of us.
  • Blight affects property values, loan-getting and it lets developers presume they may exploit residents.
  • Diligent proposal writing is needed to re-surface black tops cracked by heavy trucks coming and going with excessive tonnage.
Our membership wants less not more to complain about. We'd prefer not to be forced to go to outside officials, Judges or Commissions to protect the environment and their land values.
Yes, free enterprise entitles business owners to conduct, operate and seek profits from his/her labors so long as said practices do not infringe upon the rights, wishes, welfare and desires of those who are affected by the operation of unapproved businesses.
But what laws are being violated? Note:
  • From the 1836-1880s sheep herders were burned out over and over by Comanche and Apache Indians, then strong minded settlers did not like sheep raising. Today unwritten common laws have forced business after business owner to abide by the will of those who purchased land versus taking possession of publicly owned property. Non-owners back then were warned and stopped for having stolen from land owners. For years residents of the Imperial Valley Neighborhood asked those who live elsewhere to stop violating covenant restrictions and abide by the law. Like sheep herders who drove their herds onto lands they did not own, business operators who choose to violate laws, are asked to halt what is disallowed by law and covenant restrictions in deeds to our properties or suffer the consequences.
  • The Texas Department of Public Safety has jurisdiction over truck drivers trespassing on rights of school children, parents, fee paying residents and families when they knowingly enter and leave the jurisdiction of our Association. Calls to 311 reach Sheriff Hamilton and Captain Spencer, Lt Delerson, and Lt Palmer can be reached care of 424-2051/2
  • At Texas Transportation Department, Mike Ellis covers Complaints @ Tel 302-2381 and Chris Bishop covers public affairs Tel 832-7110.
  • Travis County Inspection, including the blight on the community and damage to black top streets; paint on cars and homes; dirt and mud the roofs, exterior walls and floors of homes next to the “flagrantly operated illegal truckers;” 4 auto repair shops; a welding shop or Austin Municipal Waste Disposal Unit.
  • The Attorney General may be asked to issue an Opinion declaring illegal operations to cease in accord with the law and will of the people.
  • Neighbors may call the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General’s Office and or the Better Business Bureau regarding businesses that violate rights of citizens.
  • Awakening residents with cranking up trucks morning after morning or as they pull in to park day after day and backing up without beepers warning of their intrusions into a residentially zoned area;
  • Parents being denied a right to demand that businesses run their operations correctly on property that they own, but not otherwise.
  • Exploiting rights of bus drivers, fire trucks, EMS, mail carriers, and those going to work.

  • After neighbor after neighbor complained to the Sheriff for three/four years, it appeared a writ of mandamus would be required to halt unwanted parking and an ugly attitude on the part of this perpetrator of ill will.

    Neighbors' complaints can lead to court orders signed by a Justice of Peace or County Judge. Must such a neighbor push so a Constable enforces a Judge's Order? We ask that there be. But


we agree if a neighbor is forced to go to a Judge, that orderly living can be demanded and enforced.
Consider this stick figure to be a Constable carrying out the will of citizens united for the public good, whether it be preventing improper blocking of the water's flow in the Elm Creek flood plane, blocking a school bus driver from getting children back and forth to school or preventing contaminants from being leached into the water table in this decade or for many decades to come.
Learn About One Gravel Pit Operator - TXI: Zoning & Platting Commission July 7, 2009 @ 6:00 P.M.
City Hall – Council Chambers - 301 W. 2nd Street Austin, TX 78701
AGENDA
Betty Baker – Chair; Keith Jackson – Vice-Chair; Cynthia Banks, Teresa Rabago – Assistant Secretary
Jay Gohil, Donna Tiemann, Clarke Hammond – Secretary
EXECUTIVE SESSION (No public discussion)
The Zoning & Platting Commission will announce it will go into Executive Session, if necessary, pursuant to Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, to receive advice from Legal Counsel on matters specifically listed on this agenda. The commission may not conduct a closed meeting without the approval of the city attorney. Private Consultation with Attorney – Section 551.071
A. CITIZEN COMMUNICATION
The first four (4) speakers signed up prior to the meeting being called to order will each be allowed a three-minute allotment to address their concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda.
B. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
1.Approval of minutes from June 16, 2009.
Facilitator: Sarah Graham, 974-2826
City Attorney: Greg Miller, 974-6032
C.PUBLIC HEARINGS
CI.11. Site Plan Appeal: SP-2008-0515D - TXI Hornsby Bend East
Location: 4501 Dunlap Road, Colorado River Watershed
Owner/Applicant: William Karl Rison, Independent Executor of the Estate Frances Hackett
Clark; Hacket Properties Ltd.
Agent: TXI Operations, L.P. (Stephen M. England);
Request: An appeal to an administrative extension of update deadline [LDC Section
25-1-88]. Appellant: Douglas Edgar
Staff Rec.: Not recommended
Staff: Kevin Selfridge, 974-2705, kevin.selfridge@ci.austin.tx.us
Watershed Protection and Development Review Department
E. ADJOURNMENT
The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. Reasonable
modifications and equal access to communications will be provided upon request. Meeting locations
are planned with wheelchair access. If requiring Sign Language Interpreters or alternative formats,
please give notice at least 4 days before the meeting date. Please call Dora Anguiano at Neighborhood
Planning & Zoning Department, at 974-2104, for additional information; TTY users route through
Relay Texas at 711
from: ... Site Plan Appeal: SP-2008-0515D - TXI Hornsby Bend East Location: 4501 Dunlap Road, Colorado River Watershed Owner/Applicant: William Karl Rison, Independent ... www.ci.austin.tx.us/agenda/2009/downloads/zap_070709.pdf - 2009-07-02 - Text Version
TXI: Austin Site Plan Data: 3rd Quarter 2001, see file q301spw.xls [Identified as TXI]
Murfee Engineering James Scaief T 327-9204 155.1 acres for resource extraction Use: mining
additional info @ http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/development/spinfo1.htm + http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/growth
... 57, 176863, SP-01-0367D, 8/30/01, 12601 FM 969 RD AT SFM 973 RD, TXI MIMMS, MURFEE ENGINEERING CO. INC. JAMES SCAIEF, 5123279204, 155.106, resource extraction, ... www.ci.austin.tx.us/growth/downloads/q301spw.xls - 2006-06-27 - Text Version

48, 222439, SP-03-0364D, 8/25/03, 1901 SFM 973 RD, TXI MCKETTA, PC, MURFEE ENGINEERING, JOHN CLARK, 5123279204, MINING=PROPOSED USE, I, 10/20/03, MINING, INDUSTRIAL ... www.ci.austin.tx.us/growth/downloads/q303spw.xls - 2006-06-27 - Text Version

THe NORTH GROUNDS
... Suitable structural soil mixes are available from Cornell University (produced locally by JV Dirt and Loam) and TXI in Houston. ... www.ci.austin.tx.us/parks/downloads/bsp2g.pdf


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9 Comments:

At 5:44 PM, Blogger kjk4Peace said...

I'm glad to see the Imperial Valley Home Owners Association able to deal with questions we have. I reported this over and over. By showing the illegally parked trucks. County grass cutting crews can't cut after trucks have been maintained so long. Here's one with a red sticker on the windshield. This conflicts with the report made by a County Inspector sent out here. He said all trucks are operational. Not true! I saw several red stickers myself and asked for the Sheriff to act. Back then and today We ask Commissioner Ron Davis and Constable Luke Mercer to look pictures of B&M Trucks. Then see how a Manor ISD School bus is blocked by this truck. Manor's Superintendent has TEA laws that call his buses not to be blocked.

We are not sure whether the Inspector, sent here, was paid off or if indeed the non-movable truck with a red tag on the windshield was moved so he wouldn't see the truck when he inspected Trucks being maintained on Imperial Valley streets. Had the Inspector's Car left all greasy from B&M's degreasing machine, he'd have gotten a dose of reality. Note, an inspector wouldn't find trucks after 7:30 or before 5/5:30 PM; they get outto haul. But how owners cars get blasted by clean up and fueling crew and the owner has to wash them at their expense. That's wrong.

 
At 6:36 PM, Blogger kjk4Peace said...

Here's a Red Sticker on a B&M truck like C.S. mentioned on his visit with the Constable for our Precinct - Mr. Mercer. C.S. asked, "How could an inspector say a parked truck with a sticker on it is operational? Who got paid off? That's plain wrong!"

 
At 6:18 AM, Blogger kjk4Peace said...

Law enforcement officials have been told, "Congratulations! You helped us; but, if the old batteries, transmissions, wheels, tires, and other trash remaining after months and months are left where they are, they'll be a safety hazard. That being true, why shouldn't the Association call for a Public Hearing.

 
At 9:53 PM, Blogger kjk4Peace said...

Appropriate authorities will be advised of trash that's been wrongly piled at the corner of Imperial Valley and Bitterwood by Realty Reps seen in the act. HOA members convened as they all neighbors understand no area trash pick ups occur in this community as of Feb 07.

HOA activists note B & M Trucks still seen drives the streets and parks illegally, but this happens much less. On the corner of Larch Brook and Wayside B&M and others do park on public property.

 
At 9:05 PM, Blogger kjk4Peace said...

Imperial Valley Home Owners Association – is a duly recognized community organization representing individuals and families living in East Travis County for up to 45 years. Up to 200 meet to cuss, discuss and solve troubles. Some matters went to court & even to local and national TV. Mostly the community prides itself with upholding peace and harmony and maintaining mutual respect for one another. However, home owner rights began to be trampled by a local business operator. What's happened? “Children were endangered & streets were destroyed by B & M Trucking Company which did non-emergency maintenance on vehicles that block and dirtied the streets” say Imperial Valley Home Owners Association (IVHOA) members. “School Bus drivers, visitors, fire dept personnel and residents were forced to contend with or detour around non-emergency maintenance of B & M Truck Company trucks parked on property the trucking operator did not own. "Another home owner said: "Whether it be school buses, fire engines or EMS, when engines are washed down, roadways blocked and had to take alternative routes. Amidst parking, no whistles or beeping devices sounded to warn trucks were proceeding in reverse as health department professionals licensed by the State have witnessed. Pictures show this business operated as such for years. Bus drivers & parents who pick up & drop off children as well as those going to and from work regularly contend with the parade of trucks who crank up between 6:20-6:50 AM and molest children and families still asleep or getting ready for school. Daily operation of a business from a roadside supported construction on SH 130 and other area job sites not only had legal implications and liabilities, it hampers the operation of Schools – Manor ISD, ACC, UT etc.; EMS, Fire Department, Mail carrier, BFI Garbage pick up, and 5502 Larch Brook [across from where trucks parked] is vacant due to economic dilemmas & squatters could hang out, perhaps in part related to a business owner sponging off of the neighborhood tax payers. Flagrant disregard for family life or private property usage disrupts daily living and produces fears of and blocks the views for school children. IVHOA members proclaim” power to private enterprises that operate within the law!” But “no parking signs” are displayed at the principle truck maintenance site. Trucks that exceed the weight limits for streets not made for heavy loads are backed up next to home owners properties with no warning indicators.” Who: B & M Trucking Gravel and Dirt Hauling Operation – Non-emergency maintenance on public property Texas DOT 0053806 330 [Tel 626.7642 by R White on Wayside Blvd, Austin TX 78724 & 5307 Prock St Austin] Where does this occur? Non-emergency maintenance, repair and parking of seven to ten semi-trailer trucks and bob tail dump trucks are regularly done in a residential setting on Larch Brook Dr between Monarch Lane and Wayside Blvd. This trucking operation has for years parked & cut ruts on public domains, lots owned by others never paid and they produce loss of sleep and fears to school children, parents, and families living near or across the streets where trucks are parked on the dirt road banks and cracks Travis County maintained black-topped streets. Streets are pounded and cracked by heavy daily trucks especially those loaded and parked for early morning deliveries. Engines are fired up before day break. Trucks are washed with power washers, maintained, refueled and tested for proficiency on public domain, and as required major and minor repairs are performed [i.e., see picture showing the transmission to a blue diesel parked at the dead end of Wayside at Larchbrook. Often engines are revved at loud pitches; tires are dismounted and changed; loose wheels are stored on public domains/road beds; and from time to time drivers or maintenance workers leave piles of dirt or gravel blocking tail gates that fail to close or operate up to par. Land owners intent upon building, cutting their lawns or growing gardens have had their goals blocked. State & Federal Motor Carrier Permits require that any and all vehicles meet neighborhood, School District, County, State and Federal regulations for the weight they carry, and, that they are: Properly licensed, inspected and operationally safe to drive, Insured in accord with the commodities that they routinely haul with Drivers who have up to date drivers licenses and driving or personal histories that comply with the law .










Each vehicle safely parked off the thoroughfare in such a way they are not a danger to children walking to and from home or school and/or any and all car traffic entering and leaving the Sub Division.Eye sores for the residents, potential new residents who drive the area to do comparative shopping [a highly important factor to those visiting nearby subdivisions one half mile away where new homes sell for $130-150,000] and the number of vacant houses forced on the neighborhood due in part to unsightliness, i.e., 5502 Larch Brook Drive which stands vacant and could draw squatters who might use the setting to plan criminal activities, rapes or thefts. With the coming of Toll Road 130, newcomers may be expected if the demeanor of this neighborhood is kept presentable and becoming for those present and newcomers who may choose to enter this Sub Division. Not be blight on the loan-getting and development options of the owner of several large vacant lots fronting Larch Brook between Wayside and Monarch. Not exceed the weight limit of Streets maintained by Travis County Commissioners, causing streets to need rebuilding. Imperial Valley Home Owners Association members have complained jointly and individually and amidst meetings and in State and County inspector Offices; visited with local law enforcement officials, Judges and the Texas Transportation Department. Yes, free enterprise entitles business owners to conduct, operate and seek profits from his/her labors so long as said practices do not infringe upon the rights, wishes, welfare and desires of those who are affected by the operation of that business.



But What Laws Are Implicated? Note: From the 1836-1880s sheep herders were burned out over and over by Comanche and Apache Indians, then by strong minded settlers who did not like sheep raising, unwritten common laws have forced business after business owner to abide by the will of those who purchased land versus taking possession of publicly owned property. Non-owners back then were scolded and stopped for having thieved off land owners. For months at the street level, individuals and joint members of the Imperial Valley Home Owner Association have demanded B & M Trucking seize and desist in parking, doing non-emergency maintenance or driving onto private as well as public domain property and they have asked B & M truck drivers to discontinue parking wrongfully as he could be shut down due his arrogant demeanor, like sheep herders who drove their herds onto lands they did not own. Others have aided in the posting of signs announcing the will and preference of those who have been humiliated, intimidated and retaliated against. The current move is designed to leave no doubt that those who conducted their businesses on properties not owned by them will be either brought to a halt or suffer unexpected consequences. The Texas Department of Public Safety has jurisdiction over any and all drivers who trespass upon the rights of school children, parents, fee paying residents and families when they knowingly or unknowingly enter and leave the Sub Division and park to do non-emergency truck operation and maintenance. Captain Spencer, Lt Delerson, and Lt Palmer work at 424-2051/2At the Texas Transportation Department, Mike Ellis is in charge of Complaints [Tel 302.2381] and Chris Bishop is in charge of public affairs [Tel 832.7110]. Travis County Inspection, including the blight on the community and the damage to paint of cars, homes; cracks in the black top; dirt and mud the roofs, exterior walls and floors of homes next to the “flagrantly illegal trucking operation”.
The Texas Attorney General can be asked by the Home Owners Association to issue an Opinion concerned unwanted or unsightly practices which cramp the will and desires of school children living near a non-emergency commercial trucking maintenance being done while the “visiting” truckers park overnight 365 days per year.
Moreover, individual neighbors might even call the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General’s Office and ask whether some of the dirt and filth that arises and falls upon nearby homes due to the presence of dump trucks which loiter on road beds long enough to dig ruts and remove the grass, causing dust to blow and cake on nearby houses. Though this may be a far fetched sounding complaint to an Attorney General, a long history with the Better Business Bureau of doing this, often predates a business that fails.The Travis County Extra Territorial Zoning & Development Inspectors as well as Greg Hamilton Sheriff Department Chief has jurisdiction to write reports and make copies of them available to citizens and residents or the Imperial Valley Home Owners Association after the citizens call 311 and/or 911 complaints about:

 
At 10:45 AM, Blogger Karen said...

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I am in the PSNA.

THANKS, KAREN

 
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At 7:07 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

Well here is my comment I as a resident here in the community don't understand why we being a part of Austin are not allowed city sewage lines. and the other thing is that our community is a community and not a place of work. there are three mechanic shops and countless of dump trucks that should not be here. the other problem that I have is that multiple families live on septic systems that where made only for one family and they diving all over there drainage fields please contact me not scared someone needs to care and I am that person

 
At 7:10 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

lets not get started about the inspectors here in our community there here just for a paycheck and not to do what is right. we also got people running food shacks with not permits

 

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