Loop roadway projects have always been tough, but they’re even tougher now.
The need for a loop around San Marcos, both east and west, is certainly obvious. The private property issues such concepts create, however, can make these monsters pretty ugly.
It’s a delicate balancing act in which the public need and private rights butt heads.
There is often no clear right or wrong answer to these confrontations.
It seems, however, that the way these projects are planned, the amount of public notice given and the avoidance of heavy-handed tactics can go a long way toward creating some common ground for these roadways.
Still, despite the legalities which allow private lands to be forcefully “purchased” for some of these projects, private property rights should get top priority.
The ownership of property is an important and basic American right which all too often these days gets tossed aside in the name of progress.
Such actions should be the rare exception and not the rule of thumb when public project planners start building up a head of steam. RHR
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Just follow the Yellow Brick Road
Residents looking for a boring place to hang out, twiddle their thumbs and watch quietly as life passes them by should stay far away from the Price Seniors Center.
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A partnership with potential
The possibility of World Heritage Site designation for the headwaters of the San Marcos River will be discussed tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Price Seniors Center.
- A foot-tapping good time awaits
- Happy trails to you, Jeff
- Crucial building blocks in place
- A touchdown for San Marcos
- James D. Nay
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Saludo: Ofelia Vasquez-Philo
The honoring of local historian Ofelia Vasquez-Philo with the Premio Letras de Aztlan Award from the National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies this week is certainly exciting news for this city.
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City horning in – thank goodness
Many San Marcos residents may soon be able to hear themselves think thanks to a long-awaited city project to create a number of “Railroad Quiet Zones” across the city.
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Misguided and unacceptable
The Hays County Commissioners Court would like to ban still and video cameras from its public meetings.
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