Double Horn residents petition to dissolve city
A group of Double Horn residents have petitioned for an election to dissolve the incorporation of the newly-formed municipality, alleging “no benefit” to the residents and lack of powers to control mining industry growth nearby.
Other criticisms involve the potential for loss of “freedom” and passage of resolutions including one which has indicated the potential for a cemetery.
“We have ranch land around us. The city property consists of a subdivision and the quarry, there's no other land,” Double Horn resident Glen Zoerner said in an interview Aug. 9 with The Highlander. “Nobody is asking for those services. We already have a homeowners' association.”
On Friday, Aug. 2, Burnet County Elections Administrator Doug Ferguson certified the most recent petition – with signatures of 94 of 186 registered voters – the second petition submitted by residents within a year.
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Officials confirmed that a group of residents from the newly-formed city of Double Horn has gathered enough signatures to ask for a second incorporation election.
