FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8/24/2011
Pflugerville to implement Stage II Mandatory Water Conservation starting August 29, 2011
Full list of restrictions and additional details at http://www.cityofpflugerville.com/conservation
Mandatory Water Conservation Twice-a-Week Outdoor Watering Schedule:
Water schedule based on street address.Holiday Lights judging in the Bohls neighborhood was held in the evening of December 22, 2011. Judging was done by a committee of volunteers, who thereby enabled a neighborhood tradition to continue. Special thanks to Syndie Ramirez and Deeana Tilly.
WINNERS OF THE 2011 HOLIDAY TRAIL OF LIGHTS
Neighborhood addresses given recognition in past years can usually be found in past January issues of the BNA Newsletter.
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Pictures taken of some of the holiday decorations in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 have been posted in the Holiday Lights page of the BNA website. Those wishing to add pictures of their Bohls neighborhood decorations to this holiday album are invited to email jpg images to bohls2003@yahoo.com
THE LATEST POST AT BOHLS NEIGHBORHOOD TALK
About The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
There are currently 41 posts at the Talk website.
Directions (for Bohls Neighborhood residents) for signing up to add posts are available at the Instructions page (3 easy steps).
Anyone adding a post can edit it or delete it afterward at any time.
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The photograph was taken at Heritage Park a couple of years ago.
Collections of neighborhood Holiday Lights photographs for the past three years and 2011 can be seen here.
If you would like to have a photograph of your display added to the 2011 collection, please email it to bohls2003@yahoo.com
Neighborhood Association Benefits | Neighborhoods of Georgetown
What is written in the web page accessible from this link nicely complements the BNA purpose statement (above) with reasons for participating in a neighborhood association.
The rescheduled annual meeting of the Bohls Neighborhood Association was held at 3:00 PM on May 14, 2011, at the Pflugerville Recreation Center, 400 Immanuel Road. A quorum was present.
At the meeting, Carl Wasmuth, Dawn Janacek, and MaryAnne Wilson became the BNA president, vice president, and treasurer, respectively, for the year beginning June 1, 2011. The position of secretary was left temporarily vacant.
And special thanks to Aaron Rogers and Cheryl Callicott for their years of service as vice president and secretary, respectively.
The quarterly newsletter has been posted.
This year (2011), PfCONA donated a number of books useful to neighborhood associations and homeowners associations to the Pflugerville Community Library. A list of the books along with catalog numbers is shown below. More information about the books is given in this copy of a handout prepared by PfCONA.
There is an article (page A2) in the January 6, 2011, Pflugerville Pflag about plans being formulated for building a skateboard "spot" in Pflugerville, very possibly in Heritage Park. If Heritage Park were selected as the location, then the skate spot would be built on top of (and thus replace) the basketball court according to the article.
A link to the corresponding online article will be posted here if and when the article becomes available online.
January 14: here is the link.
February 26, Update (but without specific mention of Heritage Park): Please go to this City of Pflugerville webpage, click on "Video" for Feb 22, 2011, and then click on the circle just to the left of "Item 4" in the webpage that appears.
When Agenda Item 10C about future agenda items was taken up in the March 8, 2011, City Council meeting, one of the Council members asked that skate spot be included in a future agenda.
A poll about the basketball court in Heritage Park was completed on March 20, 2011. The results are posted here in the Bohls Neighborhood Forum website. Some comments appear here
Added Note, March 20, 2011: Parks and Recreation will hold a Skate Spot Public Meeting on Thursday, April 7, at 7:00 PM. There will be another meeting on April 28.
Also please see "Residents weighing in on skate spot" by James Rincon, The Pflugerville Pflag, April 8, 2011.
For reference, here are the guidelines for the operation of a skate park in Round Rock.
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SAFETY CONCERNS
"Neurosurgeons are seeing more severe skateboarding injuries" by Jim Bergamo, KVUE TV, May 12, 2011.
"Student Dies from Skateboarding Injury" KXAN.COM, May 11, 2011.
"Skateboarder says he's lucky to be alive!" (KEYE April 28, 2011).
"Always Wear a Helmet When Skateboarding" KVUE ABC News.
"Skateboard Head Injuries on Rise" by Joe Dana, 12 (TV) News, April 19, 2010.
Skateboarding Fall Causes Traumatic Head Injury
The Pflugerville Community Almanac is still available online.
It can still be found here. Some work is being done to address the spam problem. Note the comment that follows the January 11, 2011, entry.
Pflugerville Community Almanac blog entry titles for reference:
To access the Community Almanacs for some other cities, click here and then scroll down on the page that appears to bring the links into view.
Links to all of the parts of the final version of the Pflugerville 2030: Your Voice, Your Choice Comprehensive Plan are available at http://www.cityofpflugerville.com/index.aspx?nid=1490. Downloading of Part 6 can be very slow.
A map (page 39 in Part 6) shows the final change in the designated land use for the area just east of Bohls Crossing. This change can be seen in the part of the map displayed on the right.
In the final modification, the area just to the right of the dotted line indicating the east edge of Bohls Crossing was changed from medium to high density residential (tan) to low to medium density residential (yellow).
Residentials density definitions from page 42 in Part 6 of the Pflugerville 2030 Comprehensive Plane are
"Low Density Residential -- This designation includes single-family homes located in areas with densities between .5 and six units per acre."
"Medium Density Residential -- This designation includes single- or multi-family homes located in areas with densities between six and 15 units per acre."
"High-Density Residential -- This designation includes single- or multi-family homes located in areas with densities greater than 15 units per acre."
These definitions are included here for convenient reference in this BNA Home Page in response to a question brought up at the 2011 BNA annual meeting.
The presentations by the nine candidates who spoke at the PfCONA Political Forum can be seen and heard on videos posted here.
The sixth most dangerous neighborhood in the United States for property crime is that bordered by Guadalupe, Lamar, Martin Luther King, and 24th street in Austin, Texas according to this WalletPop website.
Please click here and then send the message that comes up if you would like to have your email address included in the list maintained by BNA for sending out announcements about the neighborhood and city. Membership in BNA is not required for inclusion.
At right is an "after" picture of the Plumbago entrance area after the maintenance described in a December 1, 2010, email to the neighborhood was completed.
The email address of the Bohls Neighborhood Association is bohls2003@yahoo.com
All households in the Bohls neighborhood are welcomed to join the Bohls Neighborhood Association. Membership is voluntary. You can send your $10 household membership dues for the year beginning June 1, 2011, to:
Bohls Neighborhood Association
P.O. Box 2484
Pflugerville, TX 78691-2484
Please write your street address and "2011 BNA dues" on your check.
A link to the BNA Members Forum can be found in the menu near the top of this page on the right.
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information is available in the September 2010 BNA Newsletter.
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Our Pf Voice provides a forum for the examination and discussion of some current national issues as well as regional issues of possible interest in Pflugerville.
Year by year as Pflugerville grows, more is heard about smart growth both locally and at the national level.
Smart growth was mentioned in an open letter attached to the end of the minutes of the March 25, 2003, Pflugerville City Council meeting.
Smart Code concepts related to smart growth were later incorporated into SH 130 and SH 45 zoning regulations. More information is available here.A PCDC web page includes the statement: "City leaders are dedicated to facilitating smart growth while diversifying the tax base, and to providing strong support to both commerce and a culture of community."
Toward the end of the year 2006, a City of Pflugerville video that included a smart growth presentation produced by the Smart Growth Network in 1998 appeared many times on television channel 10. This video can still be accessed here.
The emphasis on dense centers in the land use map that appears on page 39 in the Pflugerville 2030: Your Voice, Your Choice Comprehensive Plan is not inconsistent with smart growth.
On the national level, the Livability Initiative currently promoted by Transportation Secretary LaHood does not appear to be greatly different from smart growth. The Livability Initiative, however, is controversial. This is evident in a video featuring Randal O’Toole, an advocate of home ownership.
The conflict of smart growth with development patterns in Pflugerville noted in the open letter written in 2003 can still easily be found now more than seven years later. The claim made in the PCDC web page that city leaders are dedicated to facilitating smart growth seems a bit odd. Many people still come to Pflugerville to pursue a suburban lifestyle and live in single-family homes rather than in dense urban developments.
Some books having information and commentary about smart growth were listed here in the October 2010 BNA Newsletter. These books are available in the Pflugerville Community Library.
Added February 28, 2011: There is information about the promotion of density and the New Urbanism in Austin in "Densely urbanist vision of growth up for deliberation" by Marty Toohey, Austin American-Statesman, February 27, 2011, page A1.
It was reported in a November 2010 Statesman article that the outcome of the lawsuit against the Texas Open Meetings Act would not be known before February 2011. See "Judge hears complaints on Texas open meetings" by Chuck Lindell, Austin American Statesman, November 23, 2010.
Added note, March 27. 2011: The outcome is now known although an appeal is likely. Please see "Judge: Open Meetings Act does not violate politicians' rights" by Chuck Lindell, Austin American-Statesman, March 25, 2011.