ACC in Leander
ACC in Leander
Friday, 18 July 2008
The Austin Community College Board of Trustees voted unanimously July 7 to approve moving forward with negotiations to purchase between 50 and 100 acres in Leander.
Potential locations were not made public, but stakeholders have discussed the transit-oriented development as an option.
In late May, the ACC board of trustees went into executive session to discuss proposals for land acquisition in Leander And decided not to move forward with any of them.
“We are following our master plan, and the master plan calls for us to do some land banking in Leander, Manor and Bastrop,” ACC board of trustees member Alan Kaplan said at the time.
The request for proposals was released in October after the board approved the land banking strategy earlier in the year. Interested parties were allowed to submit sales and/or donations until Jan. 31. The board received several proposals, of which at least one met the board’s primary criteria: size.
Vic Villarreal, Leander City Council member, first organized a meeting among Leander city officials, then Leander Independent School District superintendent Tom Glenn and ACC officials in 2005 to discuss the possibility of an ACC campus in Leander.
In 2006, ACC announced its fiscal year budget included creation of the ACC Leander Center, located inside Leander High School, which offers multiple college courses open to the public. The center opened for the spring 2007 semester.
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