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Violations force work to stop at Driftwood venue site
Dripping Springs, News
Exsar.Arguello, on February 20, 2019
Violations force work to stop at Driftwood venue site

A trio of environmental violations at the construction site of a controversial Driftwood-area wedding venue has neighbors worried about the integrity of the project.

Those violations were issued by the city of Dripping Springs and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for the Mark Black Wedding Venue, located on Crystal Hills Drive in Dripping Springs’ extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ).

The project was approved by the city of Dripping Springs in March 2018. The developers, ...

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