After multiple environmental violations and allegations of polluting a neighboring creek, Dripping Springs city officials have placed a stop-work order on the Mark Black Wedding Venue. The stop-work order is the latest chapter in a saga that began with Mark Black’s plan to build a wedding venue on p...

Driftwood residents are pushing Dripping Springs city leaders to reevaluate site development plans for a local wedding venue future expansion. Earlier this month, Mark Black, owner of the controversial Mark Black Wedding Venue on Crystal Hills Drive in Dripping Springs’ extraterritorial jurisdiction...

Accusations of creek pollution caused by construction of a controversial Driftwood wedding venue is generating concerns from residents who worry the issue could negatively affect the Edwards Aquifer. The Driftwood-area Mark Black Wedding Venue, located on Crystal Hills Drive in Dripping Springs’ ext...

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 Bla...

A Driftwood-area subdivision has filed suit against the owners of a controversial wedding venue, citing a road used to access the proposed site is private property. On Sept. 26, members of the Radiance neighborhood Board of Trustees filed suit in Hays County District Court against Mark and Michael B...

After weeks of debate, the Dripping Springs City Council Tuesday approved a permit application for the Mark Black Wedding Venue by a split 2-1 vote. Council member Taline Manassian and Mayor Pro Tem Bill Foulds approved the agreement, while Council member Wade King cast the lone dissenting vote. Cou...

Two hours of public comment and deliberation Tuesday wasn’t enough to push Dripping Springs city leaders to make a decision on a controversial Driftwood wedding venue. Instead, the Dripping Springs City Council voted unanimously to postpone a vote on the Mark Black Wedding Venue until March 13. The ...

A decision on a controversial Driftwood wedding venue was pushed back another week as Dripping Springs city leaders continue to gather more information on the matter. By a unanimous vote, the Dripping Springs City Council Feb. 13 voted to postpone a decision on the Mark Black Wedding Venue until Feb...

Regarding the article: Protests grow as wedding venue sets to open in residential area My advice to Friendship Alliance is: stop them; stop them at all cost.  We live in a residential area where several years after we moved here a wedding venue was quietly built right next to our property.   We also...

A 5-1 recommendation to approve a controversial Driftwood wedding venue was handed down by the Dripping Springs Planning and Zoning Commission Jan. 23, but not without protest. More than 100 people packed into Dripping Springs City Hall for a public hearing on the site development permit, with many ...