The San Marcos City Council passed a final vote approving a multitude of amendments to the city’s Land Development Code and Design Manual at a June 16 meeting, one of which places an absolute restriction on data centers.

The background: City staff approved an update to the Land Use Matrix adding data centers to the system as an individual line item and restricting the development type to High Industrial-zoned areas April 21, according to previous Community Impact reporting.

What happened: A motion to prohibit data centers in all city zoning distinctions was made by Place 6 council member Amanda Rodriguez on April 21 but failed to pass, with three votes in favor and four dissenting.

Place 5 council member Lorenzo Gonzalez, who voted against Rodriguez’s April amendment, made a motion to reconsider the proposed update to fully prohibit data center development at the June 16 meeting.

The amendment passed with four votes in favor and three dissenting.

Two businesses that create custom items and apparel in-house have expanded their Buda-based operations and moved into a new space in Kyle's Dacy Business Park.

Triple Elevation Custom Creations LLC offers printed shirts, laser engraving and 3D printing. Modern Era Threads LLC provides custom embroidery services for items including T-shirts, hats and graduation stoles.

Meet the owners: Triple Elevation Custom Creations is owned and operated by Rachel Rodriguez, who is also the mom in the family business.

“We've just taken our personal experiences and incorporated all that into our business,” Rachel Rodriguez said.

Modern Era Threads is led by her children: Jaszmine, Tabitha and TJ Rodriguez. Jaszmine Rodriguez oversees the customer communications and social media, while Tabitha Rodriguez is the embroiderer and TJ is the digitizer for the business.

The businesses handle all aspects of production in-house and have no minimum order requirements—customers can order as little as one item or as many as they like from either shop.

Tex-Mex restaurant On the Border Mexican Grill and Cantina permanently closed all company-owned restaurants in mid-June, according to an emailed statement from OTB Hospitality.

The overview: The company made the decision through an “evaluation of the business,” according to the statement.

“On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina has made the difficult decision to move forward with a significant transition in its restaurant operations, which [included] the closing of company-owned locations by end of day Friday, June 12, 2026,” the statement read. “This decision follows a thorough evaluation of the business and was not made lightly.”

The statement added that the franchised locations will remain open.

Some background: A news release from Houston-based Pappas Restaurants, the parent company of Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen and Pappasito’s Cantina, stated that the organization purchased On the Border May 1.

The restaurant offered nachos, quesadillas, fajitas and burritos, according to its menu.

• Company-owned locations closed June 12

About two weeks shy of the anniversary of deadly flooding that devastated parts of Central Texas last summer, state lawmakers approved a 115-page report chronicling what they deemed “failures” at Camp Mystic, a Christian youth camp where 27 young girls died.

The details: The family running Camp Mystic was not prepared to respond to a disaster in flood-prone Kerr County and did not act quickly enough to save campers’ lives, investigators said during a June 18 hearing at the Capitol.

Investigators Casey Garrett and Michael Massengale told lawmakers about recent interviews with teenage counselors who witnessed the July 4 tragedy, reiterating a key point from hearings earlier this year: all deaths at Camp Mystic could have been prevented if camp leaders had planned ahead and acted more quickly.

"Nobody had any idea what they needed to be doing, and it crippled them," Garrett said.

Looking ahead: Lawmakers adopted the investigative team’s report, which will be shared with legislative leaders as they draft additional policy changes in response to the flood during the 2027 state legislative session.