AUSTIN – Masonwood LLP is moving forward with phase one of the Provence master-planned community.

The first phase will have 678 homes on 460 acres and possibly a Lake Travis ISD elementary school.

Overall plans for Provence, formerly named Masonwood, include 1,600 residential lots and 200 commercial lots on 900 acres in the 17024 block of Hamilton Pool Rd.

However, Municipal Utility District 22—responsible for Provence’s infrastructure—was denied water service March 16 by the West Travis County Public Utility Agency (WTCPUA) for the project’s remaining four phases of 1,137 living-unit equivalents, or LUEs, a term used to quantify water use.

The WTCPUA agreed in 2015 to grant the development 700 LUEs for its first phase, a decrease from the project’s original 1,837 LUEs requested to serve its entire development.

Masonwood is adding a 400,000-gallon elevated water storage tank and already upgraded the agency’s pump stations.