Recent Activity

Westcreek Trail

We've been doing a lot of work on the Westcreek Trail lately. Giving presentations to Small Advisory Council and Others.

Davis Lane Foot Trail

Our neighborhoods over by 1826 are trying to get the City to build the sidewalk alongside Loma Vista, since there is a new development going in across rom Seton SW. See the PDF. The Red Line is where the City needs to put in the sidewalks that the developer of Loma Vista already paid for. The Blue Line is our connection to them from Davis Lane.

The Hills of Loma Vista own half of the City ROW alongside where Davis Lane was supposed to go. See photo of foot trail the school kids are making. This is what we want to clean up, fix up, plant a few trees, etc. Talking with HOLV (Homeowners Loma Vista) about this now.

Oak Hill Trails Brochures

something new Rick Perkins ordered a bunch of brochures. See Rick to get some.

OHTA Trailers participate in the Keep Austin Beautiful Cleanup Day

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  • We helped to fill a dumpster on Davis Lane. Six bags of trash were taken from the trail behind Clairmont.
  • Another OHTA Crew, led by Trudy Hasan, cleaned Williamson Creek, between Brush Country and MoPac.

OHTA in the Oak Hill Gazette

www.oakhillgazette.com

OHTA Supports Variance for Courtyard Park

Tom McDill rquested OHTA's support a variance to put a trail on the property vs. a sidewalk to nowhere. David Richardson, Sandy Baldridge, and I waited with Tom McDill until they brought this up at 9:00 last night (March 23rd). Tom asked for variances to be able to keep the site at its existing impervious cover, which is 37%, where SOS would only allow 22%. He offered to buy land elsewhere to make up the difference. This would either require a blanket change to SOS or a change specific to this development. After some discussion about how there was no scientific evidence that upgrading the site to remove existing septic tanks would be better for the environment, discussion ensued as to whether "initiating" ( ... a hearing?) would then require that this go before the City Council even if the Planning Commission voted against it. It was finally decided that they could table the discussion forever if they were against it. We did not get an opportunity to speak to this due to the lateness of the hour, however they allowed one representative from the Sierra Club speak against it. He said that they would prefer to test the site until they found a violation and then shut them down. The Planning Commission voted to send it to the Environmental Board for review. www.ci.austin.tx.us/edims/document.cfm?id=126268

OHAN Meeting Presentation

On Wed March 10th, Rick Perkins, Co-Chair of OHTA and Oak Hill Citizen of the Year, gave a summary of the status of the Oak Hill Trails Association (OHTA) to the Oak Hill Association of Neighborhoods (OHAN).

OHTA participates in the It's My Park Day

March 6, 2010, we helped at Dick Nichols Park (Cliff Anderson) and at Felder Park, formerly Granada Hills Pa (Rick Perkins). Rich DePalma organized the Dick Nichols cleanup, and Joe Zakes, is organizing his own greenbelt clean up close to Dick Nichols Park at the greenbelt on Abilene Trail just south of Kay View.

OHTA Trailers scout out a new trail

Rick Perkins, Tom Thayer, Trudy Hasan, and Cliff Anderson scouted out a trail connection to connect Oak Hill Trails to the planned: Walk For A Day Trail. We entered at the bridge under MoPac (Loop 1) just north of Randalls. We walked the section of our proposed Williamson Creek Trail between MoPac and Brush Country Road.

OHTA has a facebook group

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New OHTA flyer

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OHTA Meeting

OHTA met at Austin Pizza Garden at 6:30 pm. on March First. We talked about our participation in the Ridge Riders / Subaru Trail Building Class, the Texas Trails Conference, the amazing Brushy Creek Hike / Bike Trail in Williamson County, and then decided where to focus our efforts this spring. Our work topics included:
  • Possible Williamson Creek Cleanup between MoPac and Brush Country (scouting the natural trail)
  • Update on the West Creek Trail Connection
  • Davis Lane Extension from Barstow to FM 1826

New Oak Hill Trail Map from Austin

Oak Hill Trails Map The red lines are the MUTs (Multi Use Trails) that OHTA wants and the dark green is the bike plan and the light green is the city's trail area.