Westminster Glen
Estates

Austin, Texas

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Welcome to Our Neighborhood

Westminster Glen Estates features more than 200 single-family homes on lots ranging in size from 1 to 5 acres. Our quiet neighborhood has a small-town atmosphere, nestled in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Spectacular views are enhanced by thousands of oak trees and many different types of birds and other wildlife. Our children can attend the nearby, award-winning Leander ISD schools, including River Place Elementary, Four Points Middle School and Vandegrift High School.

The subdivision is located just outside Austin’s city limits in Travis County and are not subject to City of Austin taxes. Portions of the subdivision are in Austin LTD and ETJ jurisdictions.

Located along City Park Road just west of Capital of Texas Highway near RM 2222, we are about 30 minutes from downtown Austin, and conveniently located to the Arboretum, the Domain, Four Points, Lake Austin and Lake Travis. 

Management Company

In December, 2022, the Westminster Glen HOA Board selected Preferred Association Management Company, also known as PAMco to be the managment company for our Association. This decision was made after several months of research by your Board with other neighborhoods and management companies.
The change was effective January 1, 2023.
Click Here to view the Announcement Letter from PAMco with details.

Preferred Association Management Company
700 Market Street, Building 3
Cedar Park, TX 78613
512-918-8100
PAMco Website

Property Manager: Martha Perkins
pamco@pamcotx.com

Resident Contact Info

Please update your contact information with the HOA and Management Company, allowing us to use email to communicate with residents. Just click here to update your contact information.

Our Local Community

2222 Coalition of Neighborhood Associations

Email to our CONA representative: Tony Iglesias

Four Points News

TXDOT Loop 360 Project

Lake Austin Collective

Right of Way Maintenance

Right of Way (ROW) Maintenance

Almost all of us are responsible for the maintenance of a strip of property we do not own...the county right-of-way between our property and the street. Learn more...

Landscaping Guidelines

Initial landscaping plans, require ACC approval. In addition, major landscaping changes, including the addition of fill or modifications to hardscape. Learn more...

Trash Bins

To improve the appearance of our neighborhood, please be sure to follow these guidelines for trash bins:

1. Trash pick-up days are Tuesdays for Texas Disposal Systems and Wednesdays for Waste Management.

2. You may place the bins at the street the night before pick-up day.

3. Remove the trash bins from the street no later than the evening of the pick-up day.

4. Store your trash bins out of sight of the street and your neighbors.

On their periodic neighborhood inspections, our Management Company checks for violations, and trash bins are the most frequent violation.

Most of the homeowners in Westminster Glen Estates use Texas Disposal Systems for their trash service.

Septic System Guidelines

All Westminster Glen homeowners have septic systems on their property. Learn more...

Mailboxes

Westminster Glen is fortunate to have curbside mail delivery. Each homeowner has their own mailbox, either in a single column or in one shared with their neighbor. These columns are located next to the street in the county right-of-way. Click for more….

Coyotes & Other Wildlife

Coyotes and Other Wildlife
The City of Austin Animal Protection Officer (Emery Sadkins) focuses on wildlife for Travis County and offers wildlife services to the community, including yard audits, game cameras, and presentations about wildlife. In addition, the City website and brochure provide useful information
For concerns or conflicts with wildlife, call 311 or 512-974-2000.

Violation Reporting

All Westminster Glen Estates property owners agreed to abide by the deed restrictions in our Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC&Rs) when they purchased their properties. You can find copies of the CC&Rs here.

The management company routinely inspects the neighborhood for violations and initiates enforcement action to correct the problems. In addition, residents may notice violations that might not have been found during the inspections, and these can be reported by any resident by email or phone to the Property Manager. The reporter’s name is kept anonymous.

Please be specific in your report, giving the address of the property in violation and the details of the violation. If you know the section of the CC&Rs in question, please include it also.

For specifics about CC&R enforcement, click here.

Good Things To Know

Summary of Our Restrictions
ACC Modification Request
Oak Wilt
Austin Jurisdictions
What Phase Am I In?
Lot 21

Our Common Areas

Westminster Glen Estates has only a couple of common areas, the front and rear entrances to the subdivision off City Park Road and Narrow Ridge. These areas are maintained by the HOA to provide a good, high quality first impression of the neighborhood. Some, but not all the land is owned by the HOA, the rest being licensed from Travis County. Click here for more information.

Useful Links

Be a Good Neighbor
Preferred Association Management
Leander ISD
Travis County
Travis County Central Appraisal District
City of Austin
City of Austin Utilities
Texas Gas Service
Texas Disposal Systems

News

Brush Clean-up

Austin Resource Recovery has scheduled the brush pick-up for Westminster Glen to be on January 8, 2024. Below are the guidelines for pick-up:

Branches and limbs longer than 15 feet should be cut down. Brush should be between 5 and 15 feet in length.
Tree trunks more than 8 inches in diameter should be 3 feet long or less.
Place large brush at the curb in front of your house by 5:30 a.m. on the first day of your scheduled collection week.
Stack loosely along the curb in one row, not more than 15 feet across and no higher than 4 feet, with cut ends facing the street.
Please don't block the sidewalk or extend into the street.
To prevent damage to your property, keep items 5 feet away from your trash cart, mailbox, fences or walls, water meter, telephone connection box, fire hydrants and parked cars.
Do not place any items under low-hanging tree limbs or power lines.

For additional information, please reference their site at https://www.austintexas.gov/brush
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Changes to our Board of Directors

10/25/2023
At the 2023 Annual Meeting on October 25, Adam Pugh and Robert Taylor were elected to three-year terms on the Board of Directors filling the positions of Chip Graves and Belinda Gallagher. Congratulations to Adam and Robert.

Chip is our outgoing president and has done an excellent job handling the myriad of management details for our Association. Belinda has been the driving force behind the improvements we’ve seen at the entrances to our subdivision. Their tireless efforts on our behalf have helped keep Westminster Glen Estates a great place to live.

Also, Reena Ubha resigned after the annual meeting, leaving a vacancy that will be appointed by the Board of Directors at the next board meeting.

We want to thank Belinda Gallagher, Chip Graves, and Reena Ubha for their service to the community. They have made great strides in improving our neighborhood, and the new Board will continue their efforts.

The new board and officers are
Eowyn Gorman, President
Adam Pugh, Vice President
Diane Love, Treasurer
Robert Taylor, Secretary
Sandhya Murti, Director-at-large

HOA Meetings

2023 HOA Board and Annual Meeting dates

First Quarter Board Meeting:
6:00 pm March 27 at Austin Baptist Church
Click here for the Agenda
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Second Quarter Board Meeting:
6:00 pm June 13, 2023
Click here for the Agenda
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Third Quarter Board Meeting:
6:00 pm September 12, 2023
Click here for the Agenda
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Fourth Quarter Board Meeting:
6:00 pm November 9 at River Place Country Club
Click here for the Agenda
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Meeting Minutes

Short Term Rental Policy

09/09/2022

Our CCRs do not directly address Short Term Rentals (STRs); however, there are some city limitations that we fall under, and there is an additional overlay that the Board has voted to approve to protect our neighbors.

To have a short-term rental in Westminster Glen, you must be licensed by the City of Austin (unless you live in phase 3, you are exempt). The city limits the number of STR licenses per neighborhood; no more licenses will be allotted when that number is hit.

The additional protection that we have voted to support is that any STR in ANY phase of Westminster Glen must have a property manager or other responsible party (designee) available to address any issue within an hour.

If you have an STR in Westminster Glen, you need to notify the board, and we will keep a master list with your designee's name and contact info and share it with our management company. For now, Linda Solomon will manage that list, and you can send your information to Lsalomon@me.com.

If there are any complaints or disruptions by your renters, your designee must address them immediately. Failure to do so may result in fines by the HOA.

We also request that you supply your immediate neighbors with the name and contact of your designee. The goal is to allow people to utilize their homes for STRs while protecting the other families and homes in our neighborhood.

Thanks for giving us the time to sort through what is fair and legal and still protective of our lovely neighborhood.

Linda, Belinda, Reena, Ashley, and Chip

Construction Violations and Fines Policy

On December 20, 2021, the HOA Board approved a new policy to address a growing number of property improvements being undertaken without prior ACC approval. The new policy states that when the ACC becomes aware of an unapproved project, that they will issue a Stop Work email to the resident requesting that plans and other required documentation be submitted for ACC approval within 4 days or face fines from $25 to $100 per day.
The policy also includes a fine schedule for other construction-related violations.
Click here to see details of the new policy, and contact the ACC if you have questions.

Events

Social Events

Each year we have a Halloween Party on October 31 and in December our Holiday Party at River Place Country Club.

These events are communicated to residents via Facebook and Nextdoor. Join the Westminster Glen Families Facebook page by contacting our Social Chair Ashley Sherman.

Neighborhood Garage Sales

Twice each year the HOA sponsors community garage sales, the first Saturday in May and the first Saturday in October. These are the same dates as the River Place neighborhood sales. Although residents can have sales at other times, we encourage them on these dates to maximize sales traffic opportunities.

The HOA places ads on Next Door and Craigslist for these dates and puts signs at the City Park Road and Narrow Ridge entrances to Westminster Glen. Residents can place additional signs at their homes and at intersections as needed. Please remove the signs after the sales.

Wildfire Danger

Burn Bans

Please be sure to check the current Travis County burn ban status before using firepits or outdoor fireplaces.

Westminster Glen Estates is in a wildland-urban interface zone, with natural areas within and surrounding our subdivision. Wildfires are a common occurrence in such areas and made worse by alternating years of plentiful rainfall followed by drought.

Click here to see the Westminster Glen Firewise® website for information about our initiative and see what you can do to reduce the danger to you and your neighbors.

Austin Wildland-Urban Interface Code

To help mitigate a potential wildfire disaster, the Austin City Council voted on April 9, 2020 to approve the new 2015 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code (WUIC), making Austin the first major city in the state of Texas to adopt such a code; implementation is slated to begin on January 1, 2021.

The City can identify areas of wildfire vulnerability beyond just the structures that are adjacent to wildlands, but embers can travel up to a mile and a half from their point of origin. If the only folks who hardened their homes against wildfire were the ones who lived next to the woods or parks, a large wildfire would just skip over the street and burn down the rest of the neighborhood. The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety recorded a fantastic case study where they engineered an ember storm in a controlled setting to test the resistance of home-building materials to a fire nearby, which supports the rationale for the WUIC.

To read about the plans, click here to see the posting from Austin Fire’s Wildfire Division.

Click Here to see the Ember Storm Video

Traffic

Please obey the speed limits in Westminster Glen. The posted limit on our streets is 30 mph or less. Unfortunately, too many residents and others passing through ignore it routinely.

For the safety of our residents, especially the children, and to avoid a speeding fine, please SLOW DOWN.

Water

Westminster Glen is currently under City of Austin Water Restrictions. Please be sure you are following the rules to conserve water (and to reduce your water bill!).

Current Water Restrictions

Austin Water has installed advanced digital water meters in our neighborhood. Among the advantages for homeowners are very detailed analyses of water usage that can help you reduce your bills. Water leaks and unusual usage patterns can be seen on a daily basis, and you can set billing and usage notifications to let you know when something is out of the ordinary. Details of the rate structure and how it affects your bill is also available.

The software that does all of this is easy to access, just go to MyATXWater and sign up.

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