Home Care In Liberty Hill, TX

LIBERTY HILL, Texas, July 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE:TOL), the nation’s leading builder of luxury homes, announced that the Company’s Regency at Santa Rita Ranch community, located in Liberty Hill, Texas, was honored as the Best 55+ Community at the 2024 MAX Awards hosted by the Home Builders Association of Greater Austin. The MAX Awards celebrate the best in residential construction, development, sales achievement, and marketing.

Regency at Santa Rita Ranch is a Toll Brothers community of luxury homes for 55+ active adults located in a vibrant neighborhood. The community offers 15 home designs with luxury appointments including gourmet kitchens, spacious living areas, and versatile flex rooms. Five professionally designed model homes are open daily for tours. Homes are priced from the upper $300,000s.

The community recently hosted a grand opening celebration for its new clubhouse and amenity center, which was attended by over 500 people. Toll Brothers homeowners in Regency at Santa Rita Ranch enjoy onsite amenities including a resort-style pool, nine pickleball courts, two bocce courts, game lounge, event lawn, and more.

“We are honored to receive the Best 55+ Community award for our very special Regency at Santa Rita Ranch active-adult community,” said Brandon Cooper, Division President of Toll Brothers in Austin. “With the exciting debut of our new resort-style amenities, homeowners can now fully experience the exceptional 55+ active-adult lifestyle offered at Regency at Santa Rita Ranch.”

Regency at Santa Rita Ranch offers a host of recreational amenities and a dedicated onsite Lifestyle Director who plans year-round programs, events and social gatherings for residents. Current homeowners and home buyers are already enjoying regularly hosted events and outings coordinated by the Lifestyle Director while building friendships with their future neighbors. Home buyers who purchase now can start enjoying the incredible lifestyle Regency at Santa Rita Ranch offers right away, while their home is being built.

In addition to the exclusive Regency amenities, homeowners also enjoy access to the award-winning Santa Rita Ranch master-plan amenities which include pools, waterslides, a fitness center, fishing lake, dog park, and more.

Home buyers will experience one-stop shopping at the Toll Brothers Design Studio. The state of-the-art Design Studio allows home buyers to choose from a wide array of selections to personalize their dream home with the assistance of Toll Brothers professional Design Consultants. In addition, a selection of homes with beautifully curated Designer Appointed Features are already in progress and available for quick move-in.

Toll Brothers Regency active-adult communities across the United States are planned with the active lifestyles of their residents in mind. Each community offers exquisitely designed homes with an array of luxury resort-style amenities, activities, and social events available for residents 55 years of age or older.

For more information on Regency at Santa Rita Ranch and Toll Brothers communities throughout Austin, call 833-405-8655 or visit TollBrothers.com/Austin.

About Toll Brothers Toll Brothers, Inc., a Fortune 500 Company, is the nation's leading builder of luxury homes. The Company was founded 57 years ago in 1967 and became a public company in 1986. Its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “TOL.” The Company serves first-time, move-up, empty-nester, active-adult, and second-home buyers, as well as urban and suburban renters. Toll Brothers builds in over 60 markets in 24 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, as well as in the District of Columbia. The Company operates its own architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, land development, smart home technology, and landscape subsidiaries. The Company also develops master-planned and golf course communities as well as operates its own lumber distribution, house component assembly, and manufacturing operations.

In 2024, Toll Brothers marked 10 years in a row being named to the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies™ list. Toll Brothers has also been named Builder of the Year by Builder magazine and is the first two-time recipient of Builder of the Year from Professional Builder magazine. For more information visit TollBrothers.com.

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Student cannot wear tribal regalia to graduation

A Liberty Hill ISD senior says the district denied her request to wear Native American regalia to her graduation ceremony.

Liberty Hill ISD seniors will graduate on Friday, but one of those students said she may not be able to participate because she adorned her cap in Native American regalia.

"This is my vase project that I submitted this year," said Kaira Kellywood as she showed off her work from her ceramics class.

Kellywood is graduating from Liberty Hill High School on Friday.

"I was able to express the way I felt through my art," said Kellywood.

Even after turning in her final art projects, self-expression remains important to her.

On her graduation cap, small purple beads line the edge of the mortarboard, and a plume feather hangs next to her tassel.

"A real eagle feather will someday replace this," said Merilyn Betoni, Kellywood’s grandmother.

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Kellywood belongs to the Navajo tribe.

"We are proud of our accomplishments, and this is how we show it," said Shawna Onley, Kellywood’s mom.

Ahead of the graduation ceremony, the family adorned and blessed her cap. They said they found out on Wednesday that Kellywood could not wear it.

"We already beaded the cap so everything was ready for graduation, and then we were told ‘no,’" said Kellywood.

Liberty Hill ISD sent the following statement to FOX 7 Austin.

Kellywood said if she breaks the policy, she will not be able to participate in graduation, but she’ll show up in her cap and gown regardless.

"You’re willing to take that risk?"

"Yes."

Last week, the Navajo Nation issued an executive order relating to tribal regalia.

Dr. Buu Nygren, President of the Navajo Nation, said, "Native students have the fundamental right under Navajo, state, and federal law to display cultural and ceremonial regalia at graduation; and such rights cannot be infringed by allegedly facially neutral policies, which, as applied, discriminate against Native students by outlawing expressions of Native culture and beliefs."

The ACLU also has a statement posted on its website that states, "Graduation from high school is a pivotal, once-in-a-lifetime achievement. Many Indigenous students cannot fully celebrate this achievement, from both a spiritual and cultural perspective, unless they are permitted to wear their ceremonial tribal regalia (for example, an eagle feather or beadwork on their graduation cap) during the event. Some schools have prohibited Indigenous students from wearing these items at graduation, claiming that it would violate the school’s dress code and speculating, without any basis, that it would disrupt the ceremony. However, there are various state and federal laws that protect public school students’ rights to wear tribal regalia during commencement."

Two generations sit beside Kellywood in her decision to wear her cap at graduation, whether she’ll cross the stage or not.

"I want my grandkids, my children to all know where they come from," said Betoni.

"I'd rather her show who she is," said Onley. "Instead of walking across the stage knowing she has to hide that away."

The ceremony is Friday at 8 pm.

Liberty Hill voters might consider adopting the city’s Home Rule Charter in the upcoming November election.

The Home Rule Charter, which almost every city has, allows cities with over 5,000 residents to determine and manage their own affairs, such as city manager and council relationship as well as council terms.

Zooming in

The city’s Home Rule Charter Commission is about halfway through the process of having a draft of the charter ready for council’s review. City Secretary Elaine Simpson said the draft should go before council in July.

If council approves the draft, it would then call an election for it in August. The election for the city’s Home Rule Charter would then go on the November 2024 ballot.

Simpson said the commission is using a generic document called “the model city charter” to draft Liberty Hill’s Home Rule Charter. Almost every city in Texas uses a variation of the model city charter.

So far, Simpson said the commission has discussed including the following on Liberty Hill’s Home Rule Charter:

“[These] are things that a little town that’s a general law city like we are now—we can’t do that. Because it’s not part of state law for cities,” she said. “So this is one of the big benefits of going to home rule. You get to determine [these things].”

What’s next?

The Home Rule Charter Commission will be hosting a town hall-style meeting June 10, where the community will be allowed to ask questions about the charter. Simpson said a draft of the charter will more than likely be presented to council on July 8.

“I am positive on this one. I’ve been impressed with the commissioners [and] the work of the commission so far,” she said. “I think they’re going to turn in a really, really well-thought-out draft.”

Government Reporter

Zacharia joined Community Impact in January 2022 after a year spent working at the Texas Observer. She is a government reporter covering Cedar Park, Georgetown, Leander and Liberty Hill. Prior to CI, Zacharia graduated from Huston-Tillotson University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in communication; shortly after, she graduated from The University of Texas with a master’s degree in journalism and media. Zacharia has a passion for journalism, service and the community, and she's honored to work at a place with the same values as her own.

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By 2027, Liberty Hill officials are planning to complete a total of 17 water projects and 12 wastewater projects, all of which are part of an updated version of the city’s water and wastewater capital improvement plan.

Council unanimously approved the updated plan during its April 24 meeting.

Zooming in

The five-year, $258.4 million plan allocates $152.2 million toward wastewater projects and $106.2 million for water projects.

During the April 24 meeting, Curtis Steger with Steger & Bizzell Engineering Inc. presented some projects identified in the plan. A few water projects in the updated plan include:

The following wastewater projects were also outlined in the plan:

City Manager Paul Brandenburg said the updated plan is the plan the city will follow and move forward with, and it will be reviewed and updated every year.

Also of note

City staff also presented a draft CIP for transportation, parks and city facilities during the April 24 meeting.

The roughly $87 million city facilities CIP spans over the course of five years and includes the following projects:

Costing roughly $18 million, the parks CIP is broken up into eight different phases as identified by community needs, said Katie Amsler, director of community engagement and communications.

With most of the roads in Liberty Hill being owned by the state or Williamson County, the transportation CIP addresses smaller, city-controlled streets, Brandenburg said. Projects outlined in the plan include:

Further, Brandenburg said he’s been working with Williamson County on using Long Run to get traffic headed to US 183 off of Hwy. 29.

Government Reporter

Zacharia joined Community Impact in January 2022 after a year spent working at the Texas Observer. She is a government reporter covering Cedar Park, Georgetown, Leander and Liberty Hill. Prior to CI, Zacharia graduated from Huston-Tillotson University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in communication; shortly after, she graduated from The University of Texas with a master’s degree in journalism and media. Zacharia has a passion for journalism, service and the community, and she's honored to work at a place with the same values as her own.

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