07/05/2026, 11:56

Included more information about the animal control facilities.


New title: Protect Kyle Vista Park — Stop the Hays County Eastside Campus at This Location

New justification:

The city of Kyle in conjunction with Hays county wants to place an animal control facility here, besides the Eastside county office building. This is not a small neighborhood office. The proposed county facility has been described as a large, three-story, approximately 72,000-square-foot government campus with a minimum of 26 different county offices consisting of: court-related functions, sheriff and constable operations, and adult and juvenile probation services to name a few. Discussions surrounding the broader project have also included animal-services facilities and infrastructure associated with Kyle Vista.

This location is wrong.

A county campus of this size will bring substantial increases in traffic, noise, congestion, lighting, security activity, and other impacts that fundamentally change the character of nearby neighborhoods. Residents also have legitimate concerns regarding probation-related and supervised-offender traffic being placed near homes, parks, walking trails, and two schools attended by Kyle children.

In addition, any animal-services or animal-control operations associated with this project could introduce ongoing noise from barking dogs, vehicle activity, kennel operations, and related disturbances that nearby homeowners would be forced to live with every day. Anyone who has lived near a kennel, shelter, or animal-control facility understands that persistent barking can significantly impact quality of life, outdoor enjoyment, and neighborhood tranquility along with attracting vermin.

Many residents purchased homes in this area with the expectation that Kyle Vista Park would remain focused on parks, recreation, open space, trails, athletic facilities, and family-oriented community uses. Instead, residents are now facing the possibility of a large regional government complex adjacent to neighborhoods, schools, and future parkland.

Kyle residents support needed county services. However, those services belong in an appropriate governmental or commercial location—not on land long associated with Kyle Vista Park and not immediately adjacent to family neighborhoods and schools.

We respectfully call upon the City of Kyle and Hays County to abandon plans to locate the Eastside Campus at Kyle Vista Park and to permanently protect this property for parkland, recreation, open space, trails, athletic facilities, and other community-serving uses consistent with public expectations and the City's long-term park vision.

By signing below, I support protecting Kyle Vista Park and oppose the placement of the Hays County Eastside Campus and animal control facilities at this location.

07/05/2026, 11:48

Our fight for Kyle Vista Park is not over!

I was just informed by someone high up in the city council that Council Member Zapata, wants to continue with implementing the animal control facility in the Kyle Vista Park area.

This coming TUESDAY, JULY 7 at 7pm there is a City Council Agenda Item #18 which seeks to rededicate all city-owned tracts comprising Kyle Vista Park as official parkland dedicated exclusively for park and recreational purposes only. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT BUT ....

Council Member Zapata is going to try and get enough votes to vote AGAINST THIS AGENDA ITEM #18 and she's gearing up public support to show up and speak IN FAVOR of the animal control facility.

Don't get me wrong, I love animals and realize the need but as with everything there's a right place and a wrong place and Kyle Vista Park is the wrong place.

We MUST SHOW UP IN FORCE TO SAY NO to the animal control facility but more importantly to say YES TO RATIFYING Agenda Item #18!!!! Do you want to hear barking dogs non-stop 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? If no, then please SHOW UP & SPEAK!!!

Agenda Item #18 is brought up by Council Member Tobias, Mayor Flores-Cale, and Council Member Goza who by the way ARE FRIENDS OF SUNSET HILLS.

ALL RESIDENTS need to go to this meeting on July 7 and SPEAK. You need to tell the Council that Agenda Item #18 must be passed and that facilities like the animal control center need to be housed in NON-RESIDENTIAL AREAS.

In the meantime everyone reading this needs to SEND AN EMAIL to the council and tell them that Agenda Item #18 on the July 7th meeting must be passed and why. Reasons being that this was and has always been for park land and recreational use ONLY. Nothing else. And an animal control facility will be a nuisance in a residential area and only belongs in a commercial setting.

In other news I am told that at the end of July there will be another council meeting and in this meeting the City Manager will detail what went on with this whole Kyle Vista Park / Hays Eastside Campus and we'll see the "who-what-when-and how" of what occurred based on the documentation I produced to kill this thing in the first place. That should also be a meeting y'all should attend and I will bring that up closer to the date.

In closing, please send m emails and please SHOW UP FOR THIS COUNCIL MEETING AND SPEAK ABOUT PASSING AGENDA ITEM #18. Thank you.

06/18/2026, 09:47

Thank you for continuing to stay engaged on this issue.

Commissioner Ingalsbe will be asking the County not to move forward with the proposed County Campus on the Kyle Vista Park parcels. She has also shared that announcement publicly on Facebook. You can read it here:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1JebfHsp1M/

Thank you for caring enough to get involved and for helping bring attention to an issue that means so much to our community.

11/19/2025

www.hayscountytx.gov/hays-county-approves-resolution-to-issue-cos-for-administrative-buildings-animal-shelter-facilities