Pool Bath House and Community Building Information

The bath house is on the left in this view, and the community center entrance is on the right.
This view would be from the tennis courts closest to the parking lot.

Rebuilding the pool house: For those of you wondering what’s happening with the pool bath house building at Rattan Creek Park and why is it taking so long to rebuild, here is the story.  The pool bath house burned down in August of 2006. Initial plans to replace the building were started when these plans ran into snags with the City of Austin.

Since January of 2007 until May of 2007, the M.U.D. Board of Directors had worked with the City of Austin and legal counsel to establish the district's right to redevelop the site at all. Changes in the Health Codes and laws dealing with handicap access required that a larger building had to be built - a larger building meant that the City of Austin's site development regulations had to be met even before the design and planning of a building could begin. The long term dream for many residents and the directors was to have a community building so that the board could meet in the district and neighborhood groups would also have the use of such a building. It made sense to plan a combined project of the replacement pool bath house and a community building while going through the site development process. Finally in May of 2007, the City agreed that the district had the right to develop the park site and the actual design work on the building could begin. This was also the beginning of having to go through the City's normal development and planning approval process.

We solicited the help of an architect and made some rough sketches and developed a plan. The plan replaces the old concrete block 1,400 square foot pool bath house with a one story, five thousand square foot community center with a large meeting room, a kitchen, some staff offices, storage rooms, a conference room, and an office for use by the Williamson County Sheriff's Department. And attached to this building by an attractive breezeway is an 1800 square foot air-conditioned and heated pool bath house with locker rooms, showers and restrooms for the Rattan Creek Pool.

Groundbreaking was held on February 25, 2008: The pool bath house and pool entrance will have priority during the construction scheduled and it is hoped to have that portion of the project completed in time for the summer season so that the pool will be able to be open and in operation.

At the beginning of construction, the target date for completion of the pool bath house is June 8, 2008, although every effort will be made for an earlier completion. Temporary buildings will be brought in early in May so that the normal early May pool opening can be met for the neighborhood swim team practices and other hearty souls who like to swim while it is still a bit chilly. The Community Building will not be completed until late August or September.

Building Floor Plan

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