# A plan for your land | Balcones Apiary Co. Operated by Tempered Technologies LLC, 8 The Green STE B, Dover, DE 19901. Managed hive placement for your land Start with county, gross acreage, known eligible area, current valuation, prior use, preferred timing and your situation. Unknown facts remain open. Balcones recommends a preliminary route before contact, then evaluates district and site requirements, seeks managed-placement options and replies by email with feasibility, scope and proposed written terms. No automatic homesite deduction, exact colony count from unconfirmed rules or guaranteed placement date. The district decides valuation. A request is not an order. County context / preliminary guidance Local rules.A tract-specific answer. The appraisal district sets colony intensity and decides valuation. We use these public accounts to frame the review, then confirm the current standard for your land. Travis County Commercially reported: 6 colonies on the first 5 acres, plus 1 per additional 2 acres; at least 7 months on site. Rounding and current requirements need district confirmation. Timber Creek Bees, Travis County (commercial account) (https://www.timbercreekbees.com/ag-exemption/travis-county) Balcones will confirm eligible acreage, intensity, rounding, duration and required records. Use Travis in my tract plan (/?county=travis#sheet) Williamson County Secondary accounts conflict: Timber Creek Bees reports 6 colonies on 5 acres plus 1 per additional 2 acres; Texas Land Tax reports 1 per additional 2.5 acres. Neither establishes the current district rule or fractional-acre rounding. Timber Creek Bees, Williamson County (commercial account) (https://www.timbercreekbees.com/ag-exemption/williamson-county) Texas Land Tax alternative account, reviewed August 2026 (https://texaslandtax.com/county/williamson/) Balcones will confirm eligible acreage, intensity, rounding, duration and required records. Use Williamson in my tract plan (/?county=williamson#sheet) Hays County Commercially reported: 6 colonies on 5 acres plus 1 per additional 1.5 acres, with full-calendar-year presence. Eligible acreage, rounding and duration need district confirmation. Timber Creek Bees, Hays County (commercial account) (https://www.timbercreekbees.com/ag-exemption/hays-county) Balcones will confirm eligible acreage, intensity, rounding, duration and required records. Use Hays in my tract plan (/?county=hays#sheet) Collin County We will confirm current Collin rules and evaluate placement coverage. No exact count is inferred. Balcones will confirm eligible acreage, intensity, rounding, duration and required records. Coverage and placement options will also be evaluated. Use Collin in my tract plan (/?county=collin#sheet) Denton County We will confirm current Denton rules and evaluate placement coverage. No exact count is inferred. Balcones will confirm eligible acreage, intensity, rounding, duration and required records. Coverage and placement options will also be evaluated. Use Denton in my tract plan (/?county=denton#sheet) Gross land is not qualifying area Beekeeping valuation is associated with a 5–20 acre qualifying-use range. A house does not establish a one-acre deduction. Larger-tract and subarea treatment need district confirmation, not an automatic carve-out. TAIS: the district dictates the rules (https://txbeeinspection.tamu.edu/public/agricultural-exemption/) Prepare your tract plan (/#sheet) The tax year / continuity first The history matters as much as the hives. Current valuation, prior qualifying use and a requested change date are three different facts. Maintain or switch an existing use An ending hay lease calls for continuity review, not an automatic new-history waiting period. Balcones will compare the end with preferred placement and seek district guidance on notice, application and any gap. Keep unknown history open Market value today does not prove there is no qualifying history. We review the district record and your evidence before recommending an existing-history application or managed use that builds history. There is no promise of immediate savings. Five of seven years The 1-d-1 framework uses qualifying agricultural use in five of the preceding seven years. The district confirms the history route and partial-year treatment. An incomplete history does not support a precise eligibility year. Texas Tax Code, Chapter 23 (https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TX/htm/TX.23.htm) Dates to verify WCAD publishes a January 1–April 30 application window. A commercial Travis account reports a February 1 annual survey; a commercial Hays account reports full-calendar-year colony presence. Balcones will confirm the applicable year's requirements before proposing timing. WCAD resources (https://support.wcad.org/portal/en/kb/articles/agriculture-resources); Travis commercial account (https://www.timbercreekbees.com/ag-exemption/travis-county); Hays commercial account (https://www.timbercreekbees.com/ag-exemption/hays-county). Acknowledge the records gap Keep the photos, leases and correspondence you have. We inventory that evidence and seek district guidance on missing records. Future logs start with actual service. No past inspection is invented or backdated, and a request receipt does not repair a gap. Plan your transition (/#sheet) Service / land, colonies, records A managed yard.A usable district file. One engagement to organize placement, colony care and the documentation your tract needs. Illustration only, not a site plan or evidence of installed colonies. First, a tract-specific proposal Balcones reviews your use and history, confirms district requirements, evaluates site access and seeks placement options. We progress feasibility, scope and written commercial terms using the facts you have already supplied. Agree the service responsibilities The proposal addresses location, access, water, clearance, on-site duration, inspection frequency, feeding and treatment, colony-loss replacements, travel and a written price. Applicable Beekeeper Registration and required credentials or insurance are confirmed for the eventual provider before agreement. TAIS: Beekeeper Registration replaced apiary registration (https://txbeeinspection.tamu.edu/public/agricultural-exemption/). The former intrastate permit is no longer offered; an interstate permit is not its replacement. The proposed district file PROPOSED STRUCTURE / NOT COMPLETED RECORDS Tract summary. County, parcel, gross land, stated eligible area, use and history. Agreed site map. Yard, access, water and clearance, after review. Dated evidence. Actual inspection records, colony counts, photo index and replacements. Agreement summary. Parties, acreage, duration and responsibilities. Filing notes. Applicable forms, evidence, dates and open district questions. The owner files with support. The appraisal district decides valuation. What happens today Your request is recorded with a reference number. Balcones Apiary Co. evaluates district rules, eligible area, use history and site needs, seeks managed-placement options and replies by email to the address you leave with feasibility, proposed scope and written terms for placement, care and documentation. Nothing is ordered or committed until you agree written terms. Contact details are kept apart from the requirement, while we correspond or do business and for 24 months after, so a later request picks up where it left off; ask us to delete them at any time. Prepare your tract plan (/#sheet) Request: POST /_c/request with {action:"quote",need:"your requirement",specifications:{county,gross_acres,qualifying_acres,valuation_status,timing_summary,note},contact:{email}}. Need is required, specifications may be incomplete. Type, length and numeric bounds may reject supplied values. Formats, enums and patterns are not enforced. A non-YYYY-MM-DD value in a format:date field is retained and listed missing, not treated as dated. Here timing_summary and needed_by are preference strings, not exact dates. See /openapi.json. A successful response gives a receipt and reference only. Privacy: https://balconesapiary.forevenza.com/privacy/.