Custom pool builder in Bee Cave, Texas.

Inside the city limits, pool permits go through the City of Bee Cave Planning & Development Department, filed on MyGovernmentOnline. The submittal is a full package: owner approval letter, signed contractor memo, a cover sheet with the designer's stamp, a site plan showing setbacks, easements and any septic components, structural and electrical details, and a barrier plan. The city inspects in four stages, starting before we open the ground. In the unincorporated ETJ the pool permit comes from Travis County TNR Development Services instead. Bee Cave has been an International Dark Sky Community since 2023: deck and landscape fixtures are shielded and under 3,000 K; underwater pool lights are exempt.

Bee Cave sits on the Glen Rose Formation, thin alternating beds of hard and soft limestone under a few inches of calcareous clay, with Edwards limestone capping the high ground. The Bureau of Economic Geology calls excavation here “generally difficult”: the softer beds rip, the hard beds do not. We price rock excavation as a line item after the soil report, and the shell bears on rock, not expansive clay. Spanish Oaks lots are one to five acres on guard-gated ridges, some backing onto the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve. The Homestead off Hamilton Pool Road is one to nine acres on septic. Falconhead and Lake Pointe are quarter- to one-acre golf and lake-access lots.

The ridges face west and south with little shade, so the usual Bee Cave brief pairs a vanishing edge or perimeter overflow aimed at the view with a cabana against the afternoon sun. Impervious cover is capped at 40 percent of net site area for new development, which on a Falconhead lot sets how much deck we can pour. Under the dark-sky rules the pool's own underwater lights do most of the work after dark.