Horseshoe Bay, Texas

Horseshoe Bay prides itself as a city where a generally dark ambient character is maintained at night because of resident preferences for more natural conditions. The City currently has no streetlights, nor plans to install them other than in specific, future instances where street lighting is deemed critical to public safety. Similarly, the City hosts little in the way of commercial property and none of the “big box” retail outlets seen in area cities such as Austin, and no schools that might build future sports lighting installations. Efforts have been undertaken to build public support for policies that help maintain this status quo as an important element of the quality of life in Horseshoe Bay.