The threat
The Broken Cedar Ranch Development
The complete site plan for Broken Cedar Ranch can be viewed on pages 168–170 of the permit application.
What Lennar is proposing
Lennar has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for a permit to build and operate a wastewater treatment facility and discharge to serve a new subdivision near Canyon Lake.
Location
~750 ft southeast of FM 484 & Rocky Ranch Rd
Subdivision size
850 houses on ~230 acres
Frontage
East side of FM 484
Wastewater discharge
Up to 600,000 gallons per day
Initial discharge point
Unnamed tributary of Potter's Creek
Ultimate destination
Potter's Creek → Canyon Lake
Why neighbors are opposed
Community opposition centers on the project's potential to harm the area's water, environment, and quality of life. Key concerns include:
- Degraded groundwater quality and quantity
- Pollution of area water wells
- Stormwater runoff damage
- Odor from treated effluent
- Increased impervious cover (paving, rooftops)
- Harm to ecological well-being
- Reduced quality of life
- Long-term impact on property values
- Increased contamination of Canyon Lake
- Financial burden on the county
The permit is the threshold issue
Without the wastewater permit, Lennar cannot achieve the housing density they propose. Approving it opens the door to:
- Increased traffic on already strained roads
- Degradation of lake and groundwater quality
- School overcrowding
- Dramatically increased impervious cover
- Greater demand on emergency services
- Accelerated depletion of the aquifers
TCEQ has completed technical review of the permit application and issued a letter that scheduled the Public Meeting and stated the intention to approve and issue the permit, subject to reviewing public comment.
We await TCEQ response to the many public comments that were sent in, opposing the wastewater permit. Once those responses have been sent, we (and any affected member of the public) are able to request a contested case hearing on the issue. Fischer Neighbors intends to do so.
Comment period has ended
Submit your comment to TCEQ and reach out to Comal County Commissioners.