The board is scheduled to discuss possible direction on ordinance amendments covering pedicabs, general shuttle services and horse-drawn carriages. It will also consider whether to recommend traffic calming on part of Walnut Heights Boulevard to City Council.
Vehicle-for-hire rules
Item 5A, numbered 26-1214, calls for a presentation, discussion and possible direction on amendments to Chapter 138 of the New Braunfels Code of Ordinances. The listed subjects are pedicabs, general shuttle services and horse-drawn carriages. For people who operate, use or encounter these services, the useful distinction is between the board’s possible direction on Thursday and any later ordinance action. Readers should look for the precise language the board discusses and whether members ask staff to revise it or send it forward. The agenda establishes the topic and the possible direction, but it does not supply an Oct. 8 result.
Walnut Heights recommendation
The Walnut Heights item asks the board to consider a traffic-calming recommendation to City Council for the stretch between Broadmoor Drive and McQueeney Road. Listed as item 6A, numbered 26-1187, it is a recommendation question: the board can discuss the corridor and consider what to advise the council. Residents following the existing Walnut Heights speed-hump dispute should distinguish any board recommendation from a final City Council decision. The next useful record will be the board’s disposition of item 6A and, if it forwards a recommendation, the council material that follows.
Other business and participation
The board's Sept. 10 meeting minutes are on the Oct. 8 agenda for approval. That consent item is listed as 3A, numbered 26-1215. The remaining opening and closing entries are the call to order, roll call and adjournment. Citizens’ communications appears as item 4 for concerns outside the agenda, with no board action scheduled during that period. The posted agenda identifies the public-comment opportunity but does not give an item-testimony signup procedure; residents who want to address a specific proposal can check the meeting instructions or contact the city before attending.