Milwood Neighborhood Assoc.

Underway

The Domain

The Domain is a master planned development on more than 50 acres between MoPac, Burnet Road and Braker Lane, The Domain is being billed regularly as the heart of a potential “second downtown.”

Given the substantial impact to the neighborhood, both in terms of new potential services and new potential traffic being heavily routed through the Duval exit, the Domain deserves its own page.

North Burnet Gateway Planning project

While not a proposed development, rather a zoning overlay, this project has the potential to exponentially swing services (and traffic) in the entire area with the Domain as an anchor. This will also be a topic of regular interest to this neighborhood and also
deserves its own page.

Enchanted Forest

14.37 acres between Hawkhaven and Dorsett with zoning approval for 58 home lots.

Robinson Ranch Annex

6084 acres bounded by Parmer, 620, and Mopac (1325). Annexed by city for future Planned Unit Development (PUD) similar to Mueller
Airport redevelopment and West Campus zoning plans calling for high-density mixed use. 1785 acres protected for greenbelts. Development
expected to take 25 years as regional transportation plans (commuter rail, toll roads, new highways 45 and 130) mature and spark
development and population growth.

Robinson Ranch Subcommittee Meeting, Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Robinson Ranch Subcommittee Meeting, Monday, June 14, 2004
City Bets the Farm on Robinson Ranch

Recently Completed

Silver Creek

Retail complex lies on Parmer between Amherst and Ganymeade zoned for mixed office, retail, and restaurant use. Current businesses
include It's A Grind, Bear Rock Caf鬠Rick's Cleaner's, and a tanning salon.

The Shops at Arbor Walk

Simon Property Group, the nation's largest developer and manager of retail real estate, plans a premium, open-air, mixed-use project
for the 46 acres between Mopac, Burnet, Capitol of Texas Hwy, and Braker. Totaling 550,000 square feet, the project will include
200,000 square feet of anchor stores, 300,000 square feet of in-line specialty shops, boutiques and restaurants and six freestanding
waterfront restaurants. An exclusive residential component of approximately 200 units is also being planned. Once all appropriate
approvals have been obtained, including zoning and development, construction is scheduled to commence in early 2005 and be completed
in fall of 2006.

According to the Austin American Statesman, Nordstrom is planning to announce a letter of intent to open a store in the new Domain development by 2011. This would be Austin's second Nordstrom store.

Read the full article here

Most of the pretty park pictures in the headers above are from Balcones District Park, which runs along Amherst alongside the neighborhood. The park has a popular basketball court, a neighborhood pool, kids play area, and lots of wide open space. Down the trail behind the pool is access to a set of hike and bike trails, as well as a beautiful natural waterfall when the creek is flowing after rains.

We host an annual Its My Park Day clean up in conjunction with the Austin Parks Foundation. The picture on the left is from our most recent effort.

Additional Park Information
Pool Hours and Information
2007 It's My Park Day Writeup

The PTA Hospitality Committee is requesting homemade cookies for teacher cookie gift baskets!!
Please help out the committee by bringing your cookies to school on Monday, December 17th and delivering them to the teachers lounge to the specially marked box.

The Hospitality Committee is headed up by Tracy St. Pierre. She is hoping that we will get 100 dozen homemade cookies. These cookies will be divided up into bags and distributed to teachers. Tracy is also looking for at least 5-7 volunteers to come after school that day Monday Dec. 17th at 3:00 p.m. to help put the cookies into bags and tie an ornament on the bag.
Please reply directly to Tracy St. Pierre if you can help out with either cookies or volunteering your time.
tracy.stpierre@texascapitalbank.com

Summitt Elementary Spirit Night
Saturday, December 15th
6:30 to 10:00 p.m.
Ages 3 (bathroom independent) to age 12
(A portion of the fee is donated back to Summitt Elementary.)

Wouldn’t it be fun to go out on a date? Get together with friends? Or just do a little shopping?

Our Parents’ Survival Night makes an evening out a care-free experience. You can rest easy knowing your child is safe and enjoying games, music, and laughter with friends—all the while continuing to build their motor– and social-skill development under the watchful eyes of our professional instructors.

1 child: $30
Each additional sibling $19
(Price includes supervised games and activities, a snack, and a movie.)
Reservations required.
Please call 331-1234.

We're making a new service available for you – Neighbor Notices. We occasionally get requests related to lost animals and garage sales, so we're going to formalize a process. If you have a lost of found animal, notify us and we'll post it for free for a week. Garage sales listings require a five dollar donation, and with some advance notice, we'll include it in an email as well. Just one more way to support free hot dogs on July 4th!

Oak wilt is a frightening phrase for any Central Texas homeowner. Oak wilt can affect three types of oaks – red oak, white oak, and live oak as pictured on the right.

Oak wilt is a fungus that invades and clogs the tree’s water conducting system. Because live oaks graft root very readily, all of the live oaks within a given area will share a common root system, allowing for spread from tree to tree. The fungus can spread through this system at an average rate of 75 feet per year.

Treatments can include injections or trenching – creating a physical cut in a 100 yard radius around the tree to attempt to keep the fungus from spreading to other trees. Tracked cases are known as “centers.”

There are three known “centers” in Milwood – Bedrock Trail, Bouvet Court, and Sidreal/Terranova. Recent reports from some neighbors in these areas confirm that this is still an active issue. The city arborist is going to provide us with GIS maps showing known centers in our neighborhood. We will contact homes in the areas to make sure they are aware, and we'll plan to have the city arborist at a future meeting.

Decisions on cutting down trees with oak wilt should be done in consultation with the city arborist. Ironically, some believe that cutting down a tree may accelerate the spread of oak wilt in some cases, and some specialists recommend not cutting down trees until they have been dead for up to a year to ensure the fungus died with the trees. I've found the arborist to be responsive and available to come out to your home.

More general information can be found at texasoakwilt.org and at the city arborist home page.