Welcome to the Milwood Neighborhood Association - Austin, Texas 78727

Area residents and businesses can help Summitt Elementary raise money by participating in the schools paper recycling program. The green and yellow Paper Retriever bins are available for recycling every day of the week (they’re near the basketball court; by the parking lot off Mosley Dr.).

The more paper Summitt collects each month, the more money the school earns, so bring your paper! If you have questions about what can be recycling in these bins, please visit the PaperRetriever site.

Please note: cereal boxes and other paperboard cannot be recycled currently by the city. You may think you are recycling it, but it actually gets thrown away. If you want to recycle that type of item, take it to Ecology Action at 9th street and I-35 on the west side of I-35. If you are interested in a pilot paperboard recycling effort in the neighborhood, or if you have other questions about recycling in this area, please contact our resident expert, Ann Sullivan, at asullivan1@peoplepc.com

Local Realtor Harvey Pikoff has generously sponsored two $350 dollar citizenship awards (good for graduates education expenses) in the Milwood area for 11 years running. The tradition continues this year. Applications are due by May 15th, with awards made at the July 4th Milwood Event. This is a neighborhood only available award, so tell your graduating seniors! Applications can be obtained by emailing Harvey at Hpikoff@aol.com.

Despite warnings of torrential rain, 40+ people came out to the General Milwood Meeting on the 24th. Many thanks to Molly Scarbrough, the city planner for the North Burnet Gateway Plan and Ben Bufkin from the Domain for giving updates and answering questions. They did an excellent job answering questions, and we should all appreciate and respect their passion for what they do.

The goal of the meeting was to start to raise awareness of neighbors about potential services, parks, and transit opportunities that may be coming, as well as increased density that these dissimilar but overlapping efforts will bring.

The material presented was a good overview of the two efforts. From the City we learned about proposed density zoning overlays, likely sites for commuter rail transit stations in the development area, and recommendations for some highway improvements providing some traffic relief at the 183/360 interchange, and the likely inclusion of bike connectivity through the zone. From the Domain we learned about density in the next phase, their emphasis on mixed use, and the likely inclusion of parks and connecting trails in future buildouts.

An equally important goal was to begin to help them understand the neighborhoods in the North Travis Triangle have concerns about the traffic impact on Duval that predate them – and the calls for more comprehensive traffic planning only get louder with the potential for a second downtown at the mouth of Duval.

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On May 3, 6:30 to 8:30 (who picks these times?), the MoPac 1 team will he conducting a “MoPac 1-to-ONEs” at the North Lamar Transit Center. These are informal, come-and-go gatherings where they have exhibits about the plans to do MoPac improvements. This project is generally commonly associated managed lanes and soundwalls affecting primarily central austin neighborhoods, but the project actually extends all the way to Parmer. Given the recurring concerns about if the north part of MoPac is equipped to deal with the density planned for North Burnet, it’s a good chance to interact.

Our elementary school is in the heart of the neighborhood, within walking distance of many of our homes. A TEA “RECOGNIZED” School of Excellence, the school is commended in reading, math, writing and science. Here is some key information about the facility:

Phone: (512) 414-4484

Links:
School website
Map to the Facility

Please plan to attend our General Neighborhood meeting on April 24th in the Milwood Library at 7pm. We’ll plan to have about 15 minutes on updates on our neighborhood association and upcoming business, then have at least two speakers starting at 7:15.

Andy Pastor from the Domain will attend to talk about what is on tap in that development, and Molly Scarbrough from the City will speak to what we can expect from the North Burnet Gateway plan. I’ll be trying to get a representative from TxDOT to attend, and will invite some of our local electeds if they want to attend.

It should be an informative evening, and your presence demonstrates that Northwest Austin neighborhoods want to participate in these discussions. Please try to make it out!

Starting April 23rd, you can use the Balcones Park Pool again. Our pool is now heated and has been open all fall and winter for different high school teams and open to the public for $2 between 11am and 1pm on weekdays. While currently closed for spring cleaning, the pool reopens April 23rd for recreational and lap swimming on weekdays from 11am until 1pm. Entrance to the pool during this time will still only cost $2 for adults, $1 for seniors and children ages 12 through 17, and children under 12 are free.

The pool opens free to the public when regular summer hours resume starting May 26th.
Click here for more details on the pool hours all year round.

Additionally, nearby facilities that offer swimming include Northwest YMCA, Lifetime Fitness, Pure Austin, and 24 Hour Fitness.

Last Saturday for It’s My Park Day we had 40+ people, with lots of neighborhood people and two large groups from a high school group and the local UVA alumni group.

One major accomplishments were filling and cementing an extremely large hole in the trail by the waterfall that was pretty dangerous if you came over the hill not knowing it was there.

The picture to the right is one of two water diversion projects done to improve creek flow during floods. The trail was overwashing in two significant areas making the area impassable after rains.

Thanks to all who came out!