Hi all, I posted several weeks ago re: ''Potential New Resident.'' I've been away for a while getting my house here in GA to sell, and next week I will be in Austin for a house hunting trip + short vacation. How about sharing with me some of the positives about living in Circle C? Any other ''must sees'' or tips about Austin in general will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Good things to count on...

It?’s spring ?– were are looking our best this year! Plenty rain and no late freezes.

The neighborhoods are all united behind the new AISD bond package. It?’s been 8 years since the last one and we are pressing hard for a new Middle School (we did get them to buy the land for it, to add 8 new classrooms to Kiker, and build one more elementry school already). We are looking ahead on the schools ?– even those of us who have no kids.

The hike and bike trails were maintained ?– new sections, more gravel. We have the Veloway now (a closed course paved bike park) and anticpate a phase II expansion to it, soon.

The Escarpment Village shopping center is moving ahead, on track, and you?’ll have a big HEB grocery store at the entrance to the neighborhood.

We have a new board of directors for the HOA, who held their first offical board meeting on Monday night. The agenda is posted on the web site (another first).

The CCHOA web will be re-built from scrtach, with new and expanded services being phased in through out the year. More information will be on-line, although the offical CCHOA forum will be one of the last features coming on-line.

Escarpeent Blvd was completed to the south, connecting with SH 45. Now you can enter or exit the neighborhood to the south, as well as the north and East side.

Park Place will be added into the HOA later this year ?– it?’s the newest sub-division in Circle C Ranch, off of Slaughter Lane at Beckett. You can now drive north on Beckett all the way past William Cannon Drive, avoiding the traffic and signal lights on Mopac.

The Mopac bridge work over William Cannon will be complted by December ?– possibly sooner. That construction will not interfer with existing traffic and when it?’s done, it will greaty improve the congestion at William Canon Dr.

A new shopping center called the Southwest is gaining accepance and community review, at William Cannon and Mopac (SW corner). It will include a small lake and a COSTCO for the anchor store. (with a little work, that may be the last of the Big Box stores to go up on the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone that we live on).

Several neighborhoods have started a fund drive to fight off one last Big Box on Mopac, across from Circle C Ranch. No more Big Boxes out here.

The Wildflower Center is a very popular destination this time of year.

A shad cover for the baby pool should get approved and installed by July.

We have an annual 4th of July parade, again, this summer. It?’s colorful and fun!!

And, Bubba's carries German bier, not just Lone Star (the national beer of Texas)!