Circle C Neighbors

Note how many comments there are about people wanting Circle C Swimming out of our pool. This was not even the question!

Tell your BOD that you want all information open to all members. NO MORE SECRETS in our HOA.
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CIRCLE C POOL COMMITTEE HOMEOWNERS SURVEY 2003
SUMMARY OF RESULTS
QUESTION # 5 (FACILITIES REQUESTED) AND COMMENTS

RESPONSES

Leave the gym stuff to the commercial ventures, please.?  I do exercise, but would not use a CC facility.?  (Sic re: willing to pay a service fee) Absolutely no - and there is no such thing as ''free''.?  If there is extra money, but the assessment please.?  Turn the pool back into a creational pool - not a sports venue for the select few and not a for-profit venture for the certain users.?  (Sic re: support & verification of membership cards)?  What are the ID cards we already receive??  I thought this was already in place.?  If there is a reason I would leave CC it is that the pool is no longer recreational and user-friendly and that it has become ugly to look at.?  It may eventually lower property value.

Thank you for addressing the pool problem.?  There are more homeowners than pool ''team'' members.?  The swimming area should be portioned out in the proper proportions.?  Meaning more room for recreational swimming.

Get rid of Reese & CC Swimming.?  Then maximize the use of the current pool within its budget before considering any new pool.?  If winter use by homeowners doesn't justify the cost, then close it!.(Sic re: membership cards)?  How else do you keep nonpaying homeowners and nonresidents out??  How else do you guarantee only those entitled to use are allowed in?

Petanque court; CLEAN restrooms & separate pool stuff storage.

Toddler & young child swimming lessons.

10 minutes per hour adults-only swim.?  Things are much better this winter.?  The pool is open at the posted hours.

Weights/exercise facility.?  Neighborhood - 2 courts & backboard - for children to get to by themselves - walking or biking.

Would welcome a water exercise or senior program of any type.?  More activities for seniors.

Backstop for playing baseball in neighborhood.?  Fitness center w/free weights, machines & cardio equipment (e.g. treadmills).?  10-ft basketball goal (not adjustable rim) closer to Wildflower Park residents.? 

More recreational swimming; less lap.? 

Beach volleyball?  & volleyball; basketball courts; dog park.

I believe any and ''all'' programs offered should be paid whatever fees apply by those who use the programs or facilities.?  I do not consider the amenities offered as a benefit of residing in CC nor do I believe in taxing those who do not participate.

More activities for adults, midlife seniors, (retirees).?  I really want to see a balance between programs/activities for families and those for older adults.?  As an ''empty nester'', I look forward to swimming, for example, when there are other adults or less noise and activity going on such as Saturday mornings.?  While I support the idea of swim teams, swim lesions, etc., they seem to be overriding a lot of time and availability of the pool/lanes for other adults.?  Several times this past year there was no area/lanes left for swimming because of team practices or lessons.
The parking situation concerns me the most.?  Few people pay attention to the posted signs and when there is swim team, the lot is crowded, full and congested with people driving in, dropping off and leaving.?  It seems like an ''accident waiting to happen''.?  There simply is not enough room for the parking for the pool, mailbox area and child development center.? 
I also think we should post some no parking signs on LaCrosse near the entrances to the pool complex - on summer days it's very difficult to safely exit the pool area and be able to see both ways on LaCrosse because of cars parked right up to the entrance.

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(Sic re: indoor pool) Great!.?  (Sic re: willing to pay a fee) Depends on what they were.?  Large, open playing fields.? 

The current situation at the pool has too much of the pool allocated to the swim team.

Soccer fileds.?  Recreational pool w/beach area & shaded area (pavilion).?  Supports membership cards if there is no fee.?  My greatest concern is the VERY limited space available for recreational swimming.?  The percentage of the pool dedicated to laps is outrageous.?  Also, the weights are the biggest eyesore for an otherwise classy facility & entrance to our neighborhood.?  It seems the swim team gets more privileges and exceptions than the average CC homeowner.

Gym and exercise facilities.?  More open lap lanes for adults in pool; swim teams often occupy almost entire pool.

Whatever facilities are provided should be available on a pay-per-use basis, so that those people using them the most carry most of the operating expenses.

Allow more of the pool to be used for recreational swimming (fewer lanes).?  Hire professional lifeguards who are polite, able to answer questions, and pay attention to the swimmers.

Take out most of the lap lanes and make more of the pool available for recreational swimming.

I would like the pool to be open during school hours during the school year so I could do lap swimming while children are at school.

A place to rent for parties.

Having a beach pool similar to the one in Cinco Ranch in Houston would be great. Has anyone thought about building an outdoor theater similar to the Cynthia Woods Mitchell (Woodlands) Pavilion in Houston??  Having this facility in South Austin would offset a balance to Dell Diamond in Round Rock for the city.

Either make the swim team get their own pool or cut their use.?  It's a sweetheart deal at our expense and to the detriment of the homeowners enjoyment of the pool.

It would be nice to be able to get into the pool.?  The swimming team and programs dominate the majority of the pool and leave most homeowners crammed into one small section.?  Our dues are high and the service, other than landscaping, is not evident.

Cheaper golf course usage.

In the section on pool usage you neglected to ask about swimming lessons which is very important and frequent use for us.?  Also as far as paying for added services, I said yes, but I must qualify that.?  It would depend a whole lot on the cost and how you bundle services, which added services you offered.?  So, the yes is not absolute.

I would like to see pilates classes or yoga offered for CC residents.?  P.S.?  I would like for the pool water to be warmer during the summer months so that the pool can be utilized by neighborhood recreational swimmers and not solely for the swim team members.?  It was a big problem for my family during the summer of 2002.?  Please consider a compromise for those of us who are not professional swimmers.?  Thank you.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!!! Our community needs a 100% family-oriented swimming pool with lots of shallow areas with water toys for children.?  Also covered areas for adults/children for use during the hottest months and areas to lay out.?  For ideas, look at some of the Schlitterbahn family/children pool areas.?  The current swimming pool is really unacceptable for this because it is set up for a competitive/lap swimming pool.?  It's TOTAL waste because my children and I do not like to go to the pool.?  This would be a HUGE asset to the community and I think would raise homeowner values.

We need more room to recreational swim, we support the swim program however, the regular homeowner is not allowed to use very much of the pool.?  We are given a small square of the pool to use while the swim program has 85% of the pool.

Club house.

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Some open space areas where there is a place for quiet.?  Seems like a lot of the parks are noisy w/kids all the time.?  A heated indoor pool might be nice and a gym BUT I am not in support of cutting down more forest land in CC for another building.?  How about finding an area that is ''naturally'' an open space??  A great gym near by that would be more UPSCALE!

Fitness equipment & water aerobics, skateboarding area for youth, playground for younger children.
Softball teams for adults would be great, nutrition services for adults also.?  Cheaper swim lessons for homeowners.

Playscape for Circle C at Wildflower Park.

Definitely a health club type facility.

Just a couple of comments.?  A health club would be the best addition, there could be a lap pool included.?  Low membership fees would be acceptable as well as membership verification, but especially for the pools, guest attendance should be free with homeowner or very low cost.?  I would be interested in some of the child activities after we had kids.?  Thanks for getting our input!

None, just a clean and safe pool area for families/homeowners to enjoy (the way it was when we moved here 6 years ago).?  And to continue improving the swimming lesson programs for homeowners and Skimmers for homeowners.

The new pool should be for residents only and more family friendly.?  The swim team should not be able to use the new Family pool.?  The new pool should be in an enclosed, central air building for comfortable winter usage.?  A divided and separate portion of the building should be dedicated as a community center, with 40 - 60% portion that could be blocked off and rented for parties.

I would like to see the baby pool covered with some sort of shade tent this summer!?  Something similar to the tents at the pool at Tanglewood Park seem like they would work.

I would like the pool to be open during the morning hours in Aug/Sept for those parents with children not in school.?  As it was this year the pool was only open after school until October when it was getting cooler for younger children to be swimming.

Would love it if a water aerobics program was started without a fee, I feel we pay a lot in prop taxes to live in this subdivision, and also paying a homeowner fee should be able to cover this beside the landscaping costs!!?  I'm getting ''fee'd'' out!!!! And the taxes are high compared to the salary I make as a nurse, which the pay in Austin stinks for how hard we work!!!!

Pool with more child friendly areas not just for swim team & Olympic swimmers.?  There are a lot of young families who live in CC.

Mid-life adults get no use of the pool due to the swim teams & practices.?  Working adults need water exercise classes at convenient times.?  A decent gym would be nice.?  Also, the swim team coaches should not use the basketball courts exclusively for the teams, they should allow kids who play basketball the same privileges as the swimmers at the same times.?  We seem to have a problem with ''swim status'' coaches that continually kick other kids out of the area.

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More children's play areas - pool & dry land.

If you have a health club type facility it should have child care to use while you workout.

Spin class!

We really need a recreational pool.?  The swim team dominates the use of the current pool.
Get the swim team out of here.?  They have taken over our pool and are rude to the homeowners.?  Every year the free swim area gets smaller & smaller.?  I am tired of my kids being verbally abused and yelled at by the people who run the swim program.?  This is NOT their pool!?  I thought it was the neighborhood pool.

Health club.

Simply a pool facility I could take my family without being booted out by the swim team.?  A facility that I felt comfortable going to (like in the years past) that my family could relax and enjoy the swim area and not feel like the swim area was second to the swim team!

Pilates, yoga.

Return pool to the attractive neighborhood pool that it was portrayed when we moved here, not a gaudy, overlit, tented, overrun, filled with non-resident, professional training facility.?  We wish these people all the success in the world, its just that this was our pool at one time, now ourselves and our neighbors no longer use the pool at all.? ?  Most of the neighborhood has built their own pools due to the commercial overrunning of the ''old'' community pool.?  While we once had the entire pool to use and enjoy we are now frequently relegated to 3 sq ft or 1 lane.?  I would like to deduct my portion of homeowners dues that go toward the pool as it no longer serves any needs of my family or me.

Indoor basketball.

Golf school.?  Racquetball facilities!!!! Use coded card system for verification of membership.

Tennis courts.?  Tennis courts locked for fee paying members only, otherwise they'll get abused by skaters, bikers, boarders, etc.

Premiere racquetball courts (more than one), no an open-ended one.? 

Tot lot or playscape in Wildflower Park.?  There are no facilities for young children on that side of MoPac.

Boat storage area!!!!