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City and PEC discuss downtown pole relocation and easement across VFW property; subcommittee formed to finalize routing
Summary
Pedernales Electric Cooperative and city staff presented a plan to move downtown poles off Main Street, asking for an easement across the EDC's VFW parcel. Board members and project consultants debated temporary overhead service versus immediate undergrounding and agreed to form a three-person subcommittee to finalize design and easement routing.
Pedernales Electric Cooperative representatives and Liberty Hill staff presented a downtown streetscape phase to relocate power poles behind Main Street buildings and requested an easement across the EDC-owned VFW parcel during the July 16 meeting.
Troy Whitehead (Speaker 8), regional operations director for Pedernales Electric Cooperative in the Liberty Hill area, recommended the board grant an easement so PEC could install a temporary overhead pole to keep meters served while the city and developer complete civil work required for any underground route. Whitehead said once the…
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