KYLE, Texas (KXAN) — Deborah Nazemi has lived in a quiet wooded part of Kyle for 13 years. It’s a slice of countryside where she raises sheep and finds her peace among the trees.

“It's the peace, it's the quiet. It's the trees,” she said. “They’ve been here since way before I moved here. That was the selling point of the property.”

But recently, she said the city of Kyle contacted her with, in her words, “devastating” news – the city would need access to a portion of her property to execute work on a wastewater pipeline.

“In order to do that, they want to cut down all those beautiful trees [in the back] — that’s my sanctuary,” Nazemi said.

Kyle consistently ranks as one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. To keep pace, city leaders are investing a great deal in wastewater inf

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