By Logan McCullough

The expansion of the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District (BSEACD) to extend representation to a previously unregulated area of Hays County forced the redistricting of new precinct boundaries.  

Although BSEACD was five years away from a planned redistricting, whenever groundwater districts’ boundaries change, the board is required to redistrict.

What triggered this redistricting was the annexation of an area unregulated by the BSEACD that was the product ...