The Bee Cave Bee

Planet K - typical Austin Store

Bee Cave City Council, in a special session Monday night (April 4th) at 6pm, plans to consider numerous new ordinances to limit what Planet K can do in the City - at the old Trading Post building. See other stories HERE and HERE.

The agenda includes:

3. Discuss and consider action on Ordinance No. 76 amending Chapter 14, Offenses and Additional Provisions, of the City of Bee Cave Code of Ordinances, to create a new Article 14.04 related to the prohibited possession, use, ingestion, distribution, delivery and    sale    of    certain    synthetic    cannabinoids,    substances    containing Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), known as “Bath Salts”, restricting smoking materials and products considered drug paraphernalia providing for definitions, prohibited substances, restrictions on smoking materials and devices and creating penalties.

4. Discuss and consider action on Ordinance No. 77 amending Chapter 10 Business Regulations of the City of Bee Cave Code of Ordinances to create a new Article 6.07 Licensing Requirements for Sexually Oriented Businesses (“SOBs”) and creating fees and penalties.

5. Discuss and consider action on Ordinance No. 78 amending Chapter 24 Building Regulations, of the City of Bee Cave Code of Ordinances regarding information required to be submitted in building permit applications, building site requirements and additional criteria by which building permit applications will be evaluated by the Building Official and providing for penalties.

6. Discuss and consider action on Ordinance No. 79 amending Chapter 28 Sign Regulations of the City of Bee Cave Code of Ordinances to amend the definition of a sign and providing for penalties.

Executive Session. Executive session in accordance with the Texas Government Code, Section 551.071 - Consultation with Attorney in which the Attorney has a duty to the City under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct that clearly conflicts with the provisions of the Open Meetings Law. The Council may adjourn into the Conference Room for the executive session.
 

A.    LCRA Rate Case litigation

B.    Consultation with attorney regarding authority of City of Bee Cave to:

1. regulate sexually oriented businesses and adult novelty businesses;

2. regulate drug paraphernalia, synthetic cannabinoids and other synthetic products used or ingested as a mind altering substance;

3. remedies available to the City for illegal construction activities in the City

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Comments (21)

• 2011-04-01 19:53:48 | noname  - ummmm
  ok. so has anybody noticed what they sell at the yellow store?!?! sure Planet K has even more, but Pandora's box has been slightly opened now. Who the heck approved the "paraphernalia" at that store???
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• 2011-04-02 09:06:09 | Anonymous
  Number 3 criminalizes our citizens, including teenagers, for possession of this stuff.
  
  
  I thought the idea was to go after stores selling this stuff, like planet k....not our citizens. Being parents of teens is tough enough. We don't want to ruin their futures by "criminalizing" possession of this stuff any more than the many laws already out there. The idea here is that we don't want it sold HERE, not to judge whether folks should be using it.
  
  
  Target the sale....not the possession or use.
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• 2011-04-02 09:30:40 | localmom  - Stay away...
  Bee Cave residents clearly do not want this store to open. I truly hope the city is able to keep them from doing so. Nasty places like this have no place in a community such as ours.
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• 2011-04-02 13:24:23 | WILLIAM MOKRY  - PLANET K LICENSE
  
  I appreciate the quick action by the Bee Cave City Council. While this decision has some "moral" elements to it there is a HUGE signal that Bee Cave is sending to the market that it will not tolerate things that bring down the "quality" & "value" of living in the Bee Cave & Lakeway areas.
  
  Thank you for your quick action. Please make sure that no business of this type opens in our community.
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• 2011-04-02 16:02:39 | RK  - If you don't like it, don't visit it.
  So now the government is telling people whether they can or cannot open a legitimate business on their own land? Welcome to America. Land of the free? Not really.
  
  I live in the Bee Cave area and would go to the shop, as well as know many others who would. If you don't want to go to it, don't. But don't pretend that there aren't people in this area that would go this store.
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• 2011-04-02 17:04:40 | rsheldon  - Quality and Value
  Oh my, what a load of unpleasing thought. William used the words, moral, quality and value in his very small thought, but didn't once mention religion. "The times they are a changin!" What would Willie do?
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• 2011-04-02 22:18:25 | danny  - Stop, breath and relax
  Though I am not necessarily for this type of shop, I would ask that everyone not over-react.
  
  First, as much as we would not like to think, our children are already exposed to far worse than the items sold in a head shop. They are exposed to drug use, sex of all types, pornography and violence everyday on TV, the Internet and in movies at the Hill Country movie theater.
  
  Secondly, laws, rules and regulations should not be passed in the heat of the moment. They should be thought about, considered and mulled-over. All laws, just like actions, have un-intended future consequnces (possibly expensive and long legal battles.)
  
  And thirdly, remember that Bee Cave and Lakeway are not islands in and of themselves. One of the most liberal cities in Texas is just a few miles away. Though we should not become Austin, to pretend Bee Cave and Lakeway should mimic the conservative Pilgrim colony of the 1600's is just silly.
  
  In conclusion, some of the reactions concerning the head shop remind me of the absolute hysteria that was caused several years ago in Midland, Texas, where I used to live. A gay man had died of AIDS and the local conservative newspaper had the courage to print the obituary with the name of his "life partner". One would have thought the newspaper printed photos of nude men and women! Why, gays did not live in Midland! And they certainly never had life partners!
  
  So let's calm down people. Sensible, loving and intelligent people can make sensible and smart decisions that will stand the test of time.
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• 2011-04-02 22:33:00 | RK  - But they gave them a permit anyway.
  I find it amusing, actually, that the Bee Cave city council seems to be so disconnected, that they already gave Planet K a permit, without actually realizing what it was. It's getting built and with them already having a permit, there's not much anyone can do about it.
  
  Which is good. To me, telling people what businesses they can and cannot open, on their own property because "someone feels it's not appropriate" is borderline communism.
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• 2011-04-03 19:43:07 | rsheldon  - This thread is a joke, considering the following..
  .... who is laundering that drug money? Read this and then ask is Planet K the problem?
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/03/us- bank-mexico-drug-gangs
  
  Maybe you ought to cut up those Wachovia and Wells Fargo credit cards
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• 2011-04-03 19:56:52 | rsheldon  - Lets Ban AT&T and Time Warner too!
  They bring online head shops to every home with broadband internet connections. Anyone with money in hand can buy everything and more than Planet K will ever sell in their brick and mortar store. Do you think your kids are dumb? Lets spend our efforts on more productive issues that we can actually make a difference for all citizens.
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• 2011-04-05 22:52:08 | Anonymous  - TACKY
  Tacky. Really would prefer that Planet K not be in Bee Cave. Oh well, might as well bring in a quality strip club with a beautiful mural painted on the side to round out the new Bee Cave. Pathetic.
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• 2011-04-06 00:01:36 | Anonymous  - No Permit was ever issued
  RK - No permit was ever issued nor was the city approached by Planet K before the stop work order was issued. Get your facts straight before you sermonize.
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• 2011-04-06 02:24:09 | J  - booo
  loosen up losers - sheltering your kids will always do more damage than educating - of course I don't expect any uptight people to understand this logic - lucky for humanity old ideas die with your old age and new generations evolve in thought - ya know what, never mind, just stay in BeeCaves and stay away from Austin
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• 2011-04-06 09:46:30 | Fred
  The name of our city is BEE CAVE. Is correct spelling one of those old ideas you were writing about?
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• 2011-04-06 08:13:20 | john Walsh  - We get our stuff elsewhere
  Sorry Michael K. We have already got our own bat guano here. We have found a better price. We also do not like to buy our guano in public. So go find a community who likes to buy their bat guano in public, as I said before, we do not like to buy bat guano in public. In closing, we will continue to buy our bat guano from other vendors. I choose to buy my bat guano from vendors who do not tell me my community is slow and backwards, or that my town is behind the times. I've been buying bat guano for many years for my crops. Wink, wink.
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• 2011-04-06 12:35:33 | jwsnformedcitizn  - Dumbness
  I suppose that the people of Bee Cave will next, deny the sale of lemons & salt, because those items are USED to enhance the flavor of many alcholic drinks. While they're at it, why not just ban ANY & ALL type of wine &/or alchol, beer, or any substance that is related to alcholic drinks, AND also the "paraphenalia" that is used to make alcoholic drinks, including shakers, cork screws, etc..?? Alcohol has caused more deaths, abusiveness in relationships, broken lives, crime problems & many, many other types of societal misconduct & lives shattered, than anything that would be & is sold thru the Planet K stores!!! Bee Cave is SOOO behind the times of the 21st century!! Old people need to "wise up"!! Yes, there's a good reason that old ways die!! Planet K sells things that are verrry benign. Kids are exposed to many avenues that parents don't agree with. If YOU have raised them the best you can, then they will be just fine. Let's don't make Bee Cave a place where "commies" can make the "rules"!
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• 2011-04-06 21:04:14 | sucha mipenes  - Hey jwsn
  Keep winning the hearts and minds of all in Bee Cave you loser. Calling us Commies and behind the times is kind of 60' ish don't you think. So who is really behind the times man.....
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• 2011-04-07 16:59:02 | Common sense  - Morals do not trump law
  This is a capitalist and free society. Planet K breaks no current U.S. laws in any of the stores they have.It is sad that this is even being discussed in this country today.And yes I agree small local governments that think they have the right to pick and choose the businesses in the area they are suppose to govern does seem to have some communist elements to it.And in closing I really hope that this is not the same group that pushed for this multi million bankrupt mall we have here in high class Beecave.
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• 2011-04-11 10:32:56 | Shauna  - Please get your facts right before posting
  Mall is no longer bankrupt and we live in Bee Cave (2 words). Amazing how many supporters of this store make outlandish statements that the facts don't back up!
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• 2011-04-07 20:17:39 | kcr  - This is embarrassing
  I posted this before but I am certainly not the target demographic for Planet K and am not thrilled about some of the perceived merchandise that they carry but I think the actions of the council in relation to the mural (among other actions) is embarrassing and damaging to our community. This IS the Austin area for goodness sake and I think that we want other creative, fun and original businesses in the area (like the cupcake trailer). By banning murals this makes us Round Rock. Communities that embrace creativity result in desirability and in higher property values when guided by the city-- but not banned (think Nantucket, Laguna Beach, etc.). This action makes me reconsider where I want to buy my next house and spend my dollars moving forward. By the way, I really love the mural and think we missed an opportunity. Is it too late for the council to reconsider their actions?
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• 2011-04-07 21:09:54 | Anonymous  - You can't fix stupid
  If you don't like it, don't go there. I think there is more to worry about with the already identified HEROIN problem in the High School.
  
  Which was there BEFORE Planet K decided on opening a location in your fair hamlet. Like all businesses; they saw a need. and they are filling the markets need.
  
  Don't look for me, I'll be at the Bar.
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