{"id":170711,"date":"2026-02-19T02:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170711\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T02:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:36:06","slug":"catch-up-on-4-stories-from-pflugerville-hutto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170711\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch up on 4 stories from Pflugerville, Hutto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe city of Pflugerville and city of Hutto is working on multiple projects to improve water infrastructure, parking and more. Catch up on these four stories from Pflugerville and Hutto.<\/p>\n<p>1. Pflugerville awarded $750K for major water infrastructure improvements<\/p>\n<p>The city of Pflugerville was awarded $750,000 in federal Community Project Funding to support construction of new water infrastructure needed to accommodate continued growth along the SH 45 corridor.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>The funding, announced Feb. 6 during a press conference with Mayor Doug Weiss and U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, will help pay for the design and construction of a 5 million-gallons-per-day pump station and a 1.25 million-gallon ground storage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/pflugerville-hutto\/government\/2026\/02\/09\/pflugerville-awarded-750k-for-major-water-infrastructure-improvements\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keep reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Portion of Gilleland Creek Trail in Pflugerville to close<\/p>\n<p>As the city of Pflugerville continues work on its Downtown East project, a portion of Gilleland Creek Trail will close to allow construction on future connections to the city hub and the Monarch Recreation Center.<\/p>\n<p>Overview<\/p>\n<p>The trail is expected to close Feb. 17 and last for approximately one year. While the trail is closed, the city will install signage for a detour that will add about 1,000 feet, or 0.2 miles, to the route.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/pflugerville-hutto\/government\/2026\/02\/09\/portion-of-gilleland-creek-trail-in-pflugerville-to-close\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Seven candidates file for two Hutto City Council seats<\/p>\n<p>The filing period has closed for Hutto\u2019s upcoming City Council election, with multiple candidates entering the races for two seats that will appear on the May ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Place 1 and Place 4 on City Council will be up for election May 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/pflugerville-hutto\/government\/2026\/02\/16\/seven-candidates-file-for-two-hutto-city-council-seats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>4. Hutto to begin work on downtown parking project Feb. 17<\/p>\n<p>The city of Hutto will begin reshaping the downtown area Feb. 17, when crews begin updating signage and restriping East Street in an effort to expand parking.<\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>The new signage and road stripes will be installed as the city prepares to transition East Street to a one-way road beginning March 5. The change is part of phase 1 of the project to expand downtown parking from 141 spaces to over 400 spaces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/pflugerville-hutto\/transportation\/2026\/02\/13\/hutto-to-begin-work-on-downtown-parking-project-feb-17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Pflugerville and city of Hutto is working on multiple projects to improve water infrastructure, parking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,66946,69011,13633,66944,69013,8885,68992,69014,69012],"class_list":["post-170711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-city-of-hutto","tag-city-of-pflugerville","tag-hutto","tag-hutto-downtown","tag-hutto-election","tag-pflugerville","tag-pflugerville-downtown","tag-pflugerville-trail","tag-pflugerville-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}