Last year, 61 parcels of land in Travis County were designated as ecology laboratories for research purposes, which saved the 22 owners thousands of dollars in property taxes. But this year, every one of those ecolab exemptions was denied after the Travis County Central Appraisal District determined that they weren’t legitimate. A couple have been [...]
Nearly two decades ago, Gene and Linda Lowenthal, who were living in Austin, decided that they would eventually want to move to the wide-open countryside. They bought 58 acres in this small town in the Texas Hill Country, about 45 minutes west of Austin, built a small house and moved here in the mid-90’s finally [...]
Texas has won the right to develop a large-scale wind turbine research and testing facility, Jerry Patterson, Texas General Land Office commissioner, said today. The facility, just one of two in the nation to be built, will be located at Ingleside, just north of Corpus Christi. It will develop the next generation of wind-turbine technology [...]
