Trey Vick, Texas Parks and Wildlife Development’s Land Conservation Program Project Manager, said the agency received over 1,039 comments against the land exchange and another 263 for it. Vick also said TPWD received a letter from Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino Jr against the project.
“We don’t want to deviate from the standard protocol that we use to acquire acreage,” Jeffery D. Hildebrand, chairman of the TPWD Commission, said after delaying the vote. “We think, as well, withdrawing the item allows for more transparency, more public comments to be provided on that exchange of the land.”
In a letter to the commission, Sierra Club Legislation and Conservation Director, Lone Star Chapter, Cyrus Reed said the agency was not giving the public enough time to assess and comment on the land swap. Specifically, Reed pointed at Chapter 26 of TPWD’s code which addresses hearing notices for public parks and land. That code says notice for hearings need to be posted 30 days before the TPWD commission meets and that a notice must be published for three consecutive weeks.
According to the Sierra Club and TPR’s own analysis of when the hearings were posted, TPWD’s first notice of the land swap was published in the Brownsville Herald on January 6, which is 18 days before the TPWD’s scheduled commission meeting on January 25.
Subsequent notices were published for two consecutive weeks in the Brownsville Herald on January 10 and January 13. The code also says that the newspaper notices are published in must be circulated 6 days a week. The Brownsville Herald, along with AIM Media’s other news publications, is only published twice a week.
TPWD did not respond to Texas Public Radio’s questions on whether the agency would post notices in Spanish or why the notices were not published to code.
Parks and Wildlife staff recommended the exchange because they view it as a way for the agency to increase public access and protect grasslands and wetlands. In a statement Wednesday, the agency said the trade "could provide mutual benefits."
Emma Guevara, who grew up in Brownsville and is now a field organizer for the Sierra Club, said SpaceX changed the community. A company people hoped would bring good jobs instead brought contract and custodial work for them and higher-paying work for outsiders who moved in, she said. The company closes the road to the beach. A launch last year sent dust falling from the sky.
Cameron County property records say the land SpaceX is offering in the exchange deal is owned by Bahia Grande Holdings, a business with an Austin address. It’s unclear how SpaceX, the landowner and land are connected and how SpaceX can offer it to the state in an exchange deal.
In a letter to the commission, Sierra Club Legislation and Conservation Director, Lone Star Chapter, Cyrus Reed said the agency was not giving the public enough time to assess and comment on the land swap. Specifically, Reed pointed at Chapter 26 of TPWD’s code which addresses hearing notices for public parks and land. That code says notice for hearings need to be posted 30 days before the TPWD commission meets and that a notice must be published for three consecutive weeks.
According to the Sierra Club and TPR’s own analysis of when the hearings were posted, TPWD’s first notice of the land swap was published in the Brownsville Herald on January 6, which is 18 days before the TPWD’s scheduled commission meeting on January 25.
Subsequent notices were published for two consecutive weeks in the Brownsville Herald on January 10 and January 13. The code also says that the newspaper notices are published in must be circulated 6 days a week. The Brownsville Herald, along with AIM Media’s other news publications, is only published twice a week.
TPWD did not respond to Texas Public Radio’s questions on whether the agency would post notices in Spanish or why the notices were not published to code.
Parks and Wildlife staff recommended the exchange because they view it as a way for the agency to increase public access and protect grasslands and wetlands. In a statement Wednesday, the agency said the trade "could provide mutual benefits."
Emma Guevara, who grew up in Brownsville and is now a field organizer for the Sierra Club, said SpaceX changed the community. A company people hoped would bring good jobs instead brought contract and custodial work for them and higher-paying work for outsiders who moved in, she said. The company closes the road to the beach. A launch last year sent dust falling from the sky.
Cameron County property records say the land SpaceX is offering in the exchange deal is owned by Bahia Grande Holdings, a business with an Austin address. It’s unclear how SpaceX, the landowner and land are connected and how SpaceX can offer it to the state in an exchange deal.
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OUR local elected officials are working day and night to come up with a mochis oooops I mean a solution.
Increase the first hand-out from 10 million to 25 million, because this might be the last mochis, more streets lights say about 5 or 6, and any publicity, nationwide of course, but only if he wants to.
Signing is immediate.
BREAKING NEWS: The city de browntown commission was seen at the Mcallen airport making reservations to Hawaii, according to an unnamed source.
It was a posting issue. Item will be approved.
Commissioner Garza is a tonto.
“Wooly Bully”
By Domingo Samudio
Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro!
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Hatty told Matty, “Let’s don’t take no chance.
Let’s not be L-seven, come and learn to dance.”
Wooly bully, wooly bully
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Matty told Hatty, “That’s the thing to do.
Get you someone really to pull the wool with you.”
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
WHAT IS L-SEVEN???? anybody know?
WHO HAS PULLED THE WOOL WITH YOU?
[L7] means you're a square.
Now you know, joto.
- Eldelasprietas
January 25, 2024 at 3:23 PM
No shit Sherlock!
You must feel so proud of calling someone joto. Imbecil!
Yep, this is a done deal. People think all is fine, now. The documents are ready and signed.
The people that decided this are from Houston/El Paso/West Texas etc and they do not visit Boca Chica nor care about this area.
Musk knew how to deal with the local leaders and gave them what they wanted: MONEY.
January 25, 2024 at 3:23 PM
so you know because you pulled somebody's wool (chorizo) maricas.
January 25, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Este es el mamon del blog owner he loves him and he calls everybody else joto?
Elon Musk thinks he is the recreation of corrupt Charles Stillman, Richard King and Mifflin Kennedy, knowing before and after that the Boca Chica Park was and still is an ENTITY created with the funds from the 1985-C-3335 Getty Settlement trust funds. Cameron County knowingly, purposely, intentionally knew that the Heirs to this Getty Trust is due to the Declared Heirs. Mr. Elon Musk, we the heirs to this Entity know exactly what it feels like to be left out and denied. Cameron County had no right to the Boca Chica Entity. This is my opinion.
Another group of shameless
"sell outs" to appease "Despicable Space Karen".
Japan landed on the moon. Japan could have bought Boca Chica in exchange for pictures of the moon etc.
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