Your Land. Your Legacy. Your Voice.
Help us protect what makes the Hill Country home.
Our Mission
The Hill Country Land & Legacy Alliance exists to close the gap between a complex regulatory process and the everyday Texans it affects, by providing the information, community, and resources people need to meaningfully participate in decisions about their land, their rights, and their future.
The Community
Generations of Texans have cared for this land on legacy ranches and family homesteads that embody the spirit of the Hill Country. These landscapes aren't just property lines, they are family histories, livelihoods, and a living connection to Texas heritage.
Oncor and LCRA TSC have applied to the Texas Public Utility Commission for approval to build a 765kV transmission line stretching roughly 215 to 240 miles across Central Texas. At 140 to 198 feet tall, with 200 foot rights-of-way that are wider than a 16-lane highway, these are not ordinary power lines.
Texas is growing, and Texans deserve a transparent discussion about all available options for grid reliability, before billions of dollars are committed, property rights are taken, and these forever towers irreversibly alter our state.
The Process
Most people who contact us are not activists. They are farmers, ranchers, and families who received a notice in the mail and suddenly found themselves trying to navigate one of the most complex regulatory processes in Texas state government, often with weeks, not months, to figure it out.
Under HB 5066, the entire approval process for these projects must be completed within 180 days which includes a 90-95 day review period. Affected landowners have approximately 30 days from the filing of the application to learn they are in the path of a proposed route and decide whether and how to formally participate. For one of the largest cases in the history of the Public Utility Commission, that is a very narrow window.
Decisions of this magnitude deserve the time and transparency that allow communities to fully understand what is being decided, who is affected, and whether every available option has truly been considered. Right now, the process moves faster than most people can find their footing in it.
The Costs
This is not just a story about land. It is a story about who decides, who pays, and who benefits; and whether ordinary Texans have a real seat at the table when those decisions are made.
What makes this especially important is that these lines are not bringing power to the communities they pass through. No substations are planned along the route to serve local residents. These are import paths designed to carry power to the Permian Basin, and the cost of building them will be spread across all Texas ratepayers regardless of who benefits.
Furthermore, this is also not a single decision. More applications are coming. The pattern being set right now concerning who pays, who benefits, and how much public participation is built into the process, will shape how these cases are handled for years to come. That is why oversight and legislative reform matter, not just for this line, but for every line that follows it.