Article: Bandera County, Texas, Residents, Officials Fear Loss of Area's Beauty.

By Elizabeth Allen, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 13--It may bill itself as the "Cowboy Capital," but during the past decade Bandera County's wide-open spaces have gotten a lot narrower with new residential development. So county officials plan to ask the state for more power to preserve what's left.

Commissioners would like to have more control over water and road development. Residents also have raised concerns about billboards and heavy weekend traffic.

New residential development not only chips away at the county's rural character, it costs more to maintain than it brings in in taxes, according to ...

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