By CASSIE MCKEE, Four Points News
While the Hudson Bend Incorporation Committee continues to move forward with plans that would allow the small lakeside community to incorporate as its own city and avoid annexation by the city of Austin, some Hudson Bend property owners are becoming increasingly vocal in their opposition to the effort.
Charles Gault built a new home in Hudson Bend in 2012 and has two siblings who also own property in Hudson Bend, one for more than 20 years. Gault said he opposes the incorporation effort primarily because he believes there is no imminent concern of Austin annexing Hudson Bend in the foreseeable future.
“This committee has decided to ignore the statement from Virginia Collier, Austin city planner, that Austin did not see annexing Hudson Bend for 30-40 years,” Gault said. “The committee has determined this as laughable and instead are purporting a 10 year timeline before Austin annexes Hudson Bend.”
Some residents of the Hudson Bend community — which has over 1,200 property owners and which neighbors Steiner Ranch — want to incorporate to avoid annexation in the years ahead but other Hudson Bend residents do not want to incorporate and are becoming organized about it.
