Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
Permits
To Whom It May Concern;

February 20, 2006

On Friday, 2/18/06 We have received notice from Thomas Sigg, that he has requested for consideration of an application for a liquor licenses for the purpose of retail sale or service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at a location that is within 300 feet of our property line.

WE WISH TO REQUEST A DENIAL FOR THIS REQUEST FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS.

The applicant is not in compliance of the deed restrictions for this location. He could be breaking state law as well.

1. Mr. Sigg has listed the properties street address at 15308 Storm Drive, Austin, Texas 78734. However the official description of this property is that it is located on Ullman Drive NOT Storm Drive.
The deed restrictions for the property indicates that if a property is on a corner such as this property is. The determining factor for which street the property should consider the official address is the widest side of the lot will be the main side.

That places this property on Ullman Drive NOT STORM.

This I believe is a deliberate attempt at tricking the TABC into believing this property is zoned commercial when in fact the deed restrictions indicate NO commercial or retail business‘ allowed. The properties one and only driveway also sits on the Ullman Drive side of the corner. The property has never been a commercial property but is a single family dwelling. The owner has not put in for the permits to convert the property.

2. Deceptive Business Practices includes the posting of notices for the liquor license application. There is to our understanding suppose to be a LARGE sign on the property for everyone in the area to know what the plans for the property are.

The applicant has posted a letter the size of 8x10 paper page with no weather protection on a fence post at the entrance to his property on the Ullman side of the property which is also the street where the one and only drive way is on Ullman not Storm. Small signs to hopefully keep the area from knowing what he is up this is underhanded and out of compliance.

The applicant was to send out letters to everyone within 300 feet of his property. He has only sent out a handful of notices no where near everyone within that distance. Again showing he can not be trusted.

3. The deed restricts for this property indicates it is to be single family dwellings ONLY. No commercial use allowed.

4. The property is within less than 1 to 3 mile from the nearest school. I believe there are laws about how close a business of this nature can be to a school.

5. The property is less than 150 feet from single family dwellings with young children that will now have to share the roads and surrounding areas with people drinking and driving up and down the under sized dirt roads.

6. Parking is a major concern for this business. The property can only support 3 parking spaces. That means that the general public will have to park on the street, only the street is a narrow dirt road that is too small for two cars to drive down it comfortably and now he wants to stack cars on the side of the undersized dirt roads?

7. The septic system was and to this date still is for a single family dwelling. It can not support the public use of a retail bar. That means that the septic will be endangering the property, the surrounding properties and the water shed, should the system be abused to this level.

8. The applicant has not attained any permits to allow him to convert this trailer into a business.

9. The deed restrictions indicate NO TRAILERS. This structure is a trailer without a foundation. The deed restrictions require a percentage of stone, rock or masonry. This restriction has been totally ignored.

10. Fencing the deed restrictions require a certain amount of footage from the road as well as the structure itself has to be a certain distance from the road, these restrictions have been violated.

11. Safety for the public is another issue. The property is on a the side of a cliff, making it a dangerous place to have people drinking and walking around.

12. Adding the noise level of having bands playing next door to us and no peace until all hours of the nigh?. If this bar is allowed to happen we will have to come home from work and see our homes being invaded with drunken drivers, noise, people walking out to the side of the property to urinate and we would be able to see this all without ever walking out of our homes. We would just have to look out a window.

13. We have to worry about the kids going for a bike ride and getting ran over by a drunk racing to his next place to drink. We have to worry about the seeder side of the general public coming into our neighborhood and exposing our children to the dangers by simply allowing the children to go outside to play.

14. This person Thomas Sigg, is not from America and this makes it difficult to get a background check on him. What do any of us know about the person and what his criminal background maybe? How can we find out, since he came here from another country?

My husband and I have saved and dreamed of having a home in a rural setting just like the one we purchased less than one year ago. We where told that this neighborhood would not be changing in the near future thanks to the size of our lots and the fact that our neighbors liked the area the way it is.

Please don’t devalue our property and our dreams with this bar. There are plenty of bars in the area one more is not necessary.

Thank you for the opportunity to bring all these issues to your attention. We hope to hear from you soon.

Dear Neighbors,
Please help us fight this bar / liquor license request and keep this bar out of our neighborhood. Here is a copy or our answer to the notice for the liquor license request from Thomas Sigg.

We know that many of you have expressed some concern over this single family dwelling becoming a bar, that will change our quite rural area into a danger zone for our children and for driving.

Not to mention the health issues of an under scale septic system that will be having problems immediately. Or parking on the street where we will have to monover around traffic just to come in and out of our homes.

We have a huge desire to fight this all the way. I have more time and a good understanding of the issues and how to fight them than some of you may have and am willing to advise and assist you how ever I can. Please let us know if there is anything we might be able to do to assist you with fighting the application.

This is not progress this is a nightmare that will devalue our property while increasing our taxes. We will be unable to sell our property for its true value and it will make our lives miserable with the lack of privacy and safety that we have been experiencing up to now.

If you can think or know of additional reasons to deny this application that where not mentioned in our request to deny letter; please let us know about them as well.

You are welcome to come talk to us. We are willing to host meetings to determine what we have found out about this issue and the best way to fight it.

Something must be done as quickly as possible to avoid this application from being excepted. We would like to get all the letters to the TABC before the end of this week. I believe we should send them in mass.

We also plan on contacting an attorney about deed restrictions and violations by this person. You can pursue them for breaking these restrictions even if your not totally in compliancy with the restrictions yourselves. We can help you and explain this to you further in person.
Feel free at to give us a call and or come by and talk with us.
Thanks,

David and Ronda Griffin
15406 Ullman Drive

Texas Board of HealthDear Sirs,

We need your help in our neighborhood.

We live in Cardinal Hills, near Lakeway, Texas in Travis County. This is a small quite little neighborhood that has been in place for many years.

We have a neighboring property that was recently purchased and now the owner of that property is wanting to open a bar next door to single family dwellings.

Not only is this against the deed restrictions it would pose a huge health hazard for the community.
The place they wish to convert into a retail business/bar is really a trailer with a septic system for a single family dwelling with only one bedroom. I am certain the septic system can not possibly be large enough to handle public use. This would pose a problem to every ones health, it could endanger the water shed for this area as well.

This property sits on the corner of two dirt roads without any parking capacity for public use. This can only add to the weakening of the surrounding environment.

Not to mention that being in a rural setting as this one, lets face it people will be urinating in the yard around the structure. In view of children and making the whole area unsafe.

What about sexual prediators that come into use a bar and discover children in their yards?

Not to mention the increased danger of a child riding a bike on a dirt road.

The house is not in compliance with any of the deed restrictions and we plan on pursuing this with the proper authorities as well.