The new proposed zoning map for the City of Blanco is headed to the city council.
The city’s planning and zoning commission approved changes to the Blanco proposed zoning map after a public hearing held Thursday evening. The changes are now in the hands of the city council, which must approve any changes to the current zoning map.
The City of Blanco is poised for potential growth after passing a resolution earlier this month delineating its policy regarding municipal utility districts, or MUDs. The city currently is not part of a MUD.
“The city was approached by a developer with plans to establish a MUD to support the needed infrastructure of a large proposed development south of Blanco,” said Councilwoman Connie Barron, on Tuesday.
The Blanco 12U baseball teams is headed to the zone tournament. The team will play at zone at Deer Park near Houston on July 20. They finished second in the regional tournament last weekend.
ducation Foundation hosted a banquet for the Top Ten academic seniors from Blanco High School. Each student selected and honored a teacher who most impacted their path to academic excellence.
The evening was considered “first class” by all. The Carriage Hills Venue was appropriately decorated with Blanco colors: blue and gold.
The Blanco City Council passed a Resolution in December, 2009 that created the Blanco Streetscape Committee.
In January 2010, the committee held the first meeting with ten committee members, chaired by two Blanco Historic Commission members. From that time the committee held monthly meetings until Mayor Bruce Peele put the program on hold in 2017.
The first goal was to find an urban planner.
Blanco United Methodist Church held Vacation Bible School this week, Monday through Wednesday. The theme for the VBS was Anchored - Deepening Faith in God. Many local churches will host a VBS this year for the first time in two years, after not hosting one in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Preparations have begun for a new festival that is set to enliven Blanco with color this fall.
The Blanco Chamber of Commerce’s first Texas Marigold Festival, to be held over the course of two weekends in October, will celebrate the flower with “movies, music and merriment.”
“We’re still planning, but now that the Lavender Festival is wrapped up we’ll be finalizing many details in the weeks to come,” said Libbey Aly, executive director of the Blanco Chamber of Commerce.
The Blanco County Commissioners discussed reinstating the county-wide burn ban, but ultimately decided not to do so at this time.
At their meeting Tuesday morning, they discussed growing incidents that would likely lead to a burn ban reinstatement soon. In the end, they kept the burn ban off, but warned the public to be careful.
“It won’t be much longer before it’s going to have to come back on,” said Precinct 3 Commissioner Chris Liesmann.
The commissioners also approved a proc ...
Blanco County continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in the nine-county Rural Capital Area of Central Texas, it was announced Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission.
Blanco County’s unemployment rate for May was 3.4 percent, down from 3.6 percent in April. The region’s unemployment rate fell from 4.6 percent in April to 4.3 percent in May.
Blanco 12-U all-stars. Pictured front row, from left, are: CJ Kuzins, Rylan Gautreau, Daniel Axtell, Aiden McCarthy, Noah Gallas and Wyatt Allison. Back row, from left, are: Henry Pfluger, Andrew Martinez, Jonathan Hernandez, Chris Martinez, Santiago Castillo, Langston Ponder and Hunter Gonzales. Coaches: Robert Allison, Joe Martinez and Mike Rios.
