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Board approves variance for Dripping Springs Sports Club with noise, screening and court‑coverage conditions
Summary
The Board of Adjustment approved a variance allowing a larger sports complex in the Headwaters PDD, with conditions including 8‑foot wood screening, mandated sound mitigation and covered outdoor pickleball and basketball courts; staff required construction to begin within two years.
The Dripping Springs Board of Adjustment on Tuesday approved a variance to allow a commercial building footprint larger than the 100,000‑square‑foot limit in Plan Development District No. 6 for the Dripping Springs Sports Club.
Applicant Drew Rose told the board the project’s traffic impact analysis (TIA) has been reviewed by city staff and revised with the developer’s engineering team and that he is working with TxDOT and Hays County on access locations. Leslie Pollock of HDR, the city’s traffic reviewer, summarized recommended access improvements and said a traffic signal and turn lanes will likely be needed at one of the proposed US‑290 driveways, and that Canyonwood Drive will require turn lanes and queuing improvements to accommodate peak traffic from the sports complex.
Board members and staff said they had pressed for stronger sound and light mitigation after earlier public comments. The final approval replaces an earlier staff recommendation for a masonry wall with an option that allows horizontal wood slatted screening along the north and east perimeters plus additional perimeter landscaping. The variance also includes a condition requiring the outdoor pickleball and basketball courts to be covered, and a site‑development permit must be approved and construction begun within two years of approval.
A local resident who testified during the public hearing, Theodore Crawford, urged that sound‑deadening be centered around the sports courts and asked staff to include mitigation language in any conditional approval; the board said it would address that in the conditions. Drew Rose said the screening and covered courts were intended to help the project “be good neighbors” to surrounding subdivisions.
The board voted to approve the variance unanimously. Staff and the applicant said additional design and permitting steps remain, including detailed TIA amendments and coordination with county and state roadway agencies before final site plan approval.
