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Val Verde commissioners unanimously oppose proposed AEP/City of San Antonio transmission route, seek intervener status
Summary
County residents and commissioners urged opposition to AEP/City of San Antonio transmission-line routings that would cross Val Verde County, citing landowner rights, environmental impacts and recreation loss; court voted 5–0 to oppose selected routes, propose alternatives and explore filing to intervene in the administrative proceeding.
Del Rio — Val Verde County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to oppose the current routings proposed by AEP Texas Inc. and the City of San Antonio for the Howard 2/Soltis single-circuit transmission line and to pursue formal participation in the utility’s administrative proceedings.
The court placed the application — described on the agenda as a joint request to amend certificates of convenience and necessity — on the docket after receiving public comments and a packet detailing proposed routes that would cross numerous counties, including Val Verde.
Why it matters: Commissioners and residents said the selected routes would threaten private-property rights, disrupt recreational lands around the Pecos and Devil’s rivers and reduce property values in rural parts of the county. The court directed staff to prepare a signed resolution…
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