A broad recreation offering
The center describes youth sports, teen activities, adult exercise and senior programs. Its facility includes a gym, climbing wall, fitness center, public computers and multipurpose rooms.[1]
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Heritage Hills is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas boundary dataset. The saved source records its planning status as plan approved. These mapped categories differ from colloquial neighborhood names. Districts people name in conversation, like South Congress, Rainey Street or the Sixth Street entertainment district, are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area or straddle two. This boundary is a single polygon in the city's file, with ordinance 20110113-059 recorded in the source, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as HERITAGE HILLS.
Gus Garcia Recreation Center is a useful North Austin resource for recreation across age groups. Its city pages distinguish the existing programs and facilities from a proposed senior-wing expansion that is still being developed.
2 linked sources · CheckedThe center describes youth sports, teen activities, adult exercise and senior programs. Its facility includes a gym, climbing wall, fitness center, public computers and multipurpose rooms.[1]
The city records the center’s grand opening on April 26, 2008. Its history connects the project to earlier voter-approved park funding and a longer development process.[1]
The senior-wing project page describes an anticipated addition for adults aged 50 and older. At the source check, it was in community engagement and information gathering, not a completed new wing.[2]
The project source describes an anticipated expansion in the community-engagement phase. Check the latest city project update before assuming the additional space is available.[2]
The city lists a gym, climbing wall, fitness center, public computers and multipurpose rooms, alongside programs for several age groups.[1]
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Boundary drawn from City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas, as last modified September 22, 2021. Markers are placed from geocoded street addresses, so a record whose address we cannot geocode is listed below but not pinned. The panels under the map are the full text equivalent.
The 25 most recently issued inside this boundary (page limit 25)
Austin Public Health · up to 15 most recent inside this boundary
Texas Dept. of Licensing & Regulation filings · up to 15 inside this boundary
Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage filers we placed inside this boundary
We hold geocoded coordinates for none of the 100 filers in ZIP 78752, 78753, 78754, 78723, 78751 that would place them inside this boundary. Placement uses our address cache, so this is a gap in our data, not a claim that Heritage Hills has no bars.
Heritage Hills is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary dataset. Its status in the saved source is plan approved. Inclusion in this file does not by itself mean a neighborhood plan was adopted. Well-known districts such as South Congress, Rainey Street and the Sixth Street entertainment district are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area, or straddle two. The Heritage Hills boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin ordinance number 20110113-059 is recorded against this planning area in the city's Neighborhood Planning Areas dataset, with planning status plan approved.
City of Austin Development Services has issued 1,477 building permits that it has geocoded inside the Heritage Hills planning-area boundary, the earliest dated February 20, 1979 and the most recent September 29, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $321,697,188. Declared value is the figure the applicant put on the permit application, not market value or finished cost. Counted from the city's Issued Construction Permits dataset (3syk-w9eu), building permits only, over every issue date in that dataset. The boundary test needs a mapped coordinate, and about one building permit in seven (13.8% as published on 2026-07-26) carries no location, so those rows cannot be placed in any neighbourhood and are not in this figure.
No ZIP code centroid falls inside the Heritage Hills boundary, so we search the 5 nearest instead: 78752, 78753, 78754, 78723, 78751. We match ZIP codes to planning areas by testing each ZIP's centroid against the boundary polygon, so a large ZIP can overlap an area without its centre landing inside it. Use the boundary, not the ZIP, as the authority.