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Residents and nonprofit urge Dripping Springs council to intervene after 60-day eviction notices at Gateway Estates
Summary
Residents of Gateway Estates and representatives of Hometown Missions told the council that 36 households received 60-day certified letters from a lease servicer tied to Santio Enterprises, pressing the city to seek more time and assess whether development permits exist. The council said staff would attempt to contact the property owner and explore options to extend relocation time.
Chuck Lamond, a founder of local nonprofit Hometown Missions, told the Dripping Springs City Council on Aug. 6 that every household at Gateway Estates — a mobile-home park in the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction — recently received certified letters he described as eviction notices from Santio Enterprises, the lease servicer for Gateway Development LLC.
"This letter is shocking, and just a terrible thing," Lamond said, urging the council to help residents who include elderly people, people with serious health conditions and families with…
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