Laid out under "Model Subdivision Rules" after federal and state legislative intervention in the early 1990s, this initiative sought to curtail further colonia development and to ensure that any further homesteading followed regulations regarding service and infrastructure provision. Model subdivisions (MSs...
2. A fire-fighting or emergency vehicle necessary to the preservation of life or property or the execution of emergency governmental functions, whether operated by an employee of a political subdivision or by a volunteer fire fight- er; 3. A military vehicle or a commercial motor vehicle when ...
our flight to Big Bend is uneventful. We weave our way through the lofty peaks of Big Bend country and finally drop down onto an uphill dirt runway in a 204,000-acre subdivision known as Terlingua Ranch. As we land, the enormous, dun-colored mass of the Christmas Mountains looms before...
“We’re forming a patchwork quilt of bans and rules and regulations that is eroding the Texas model,” Governor Greg Abbott said at a conference in Austin earlier this year. “It’s being done at the city level with bag bans, fracking bans, tree-cutting bans.” The proposed laws include...