Business View Civil Municipal - July 2023

162 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 7 success for our community,” he expands. The City is looking to also bring in a new boutique hotel and is actively looking at bringing in a mobile healthcare system. Zeno points to several healthcare facilities that may fit into the City’s needs through grant writing mechanisms to secure the grant money needed to bring these welcome additions to the city. “We are attracting those businesses right now by having great partnerships with the chamber, the school district, and all of our other partners,” Zeno states. “We also have a ‘Keep Lago Vista Beautiful’ organization committed to the beautification of the city. We are all working together for one Lago Vista.” Paving the way with infrastructure When all is said and done, with Lago Vista’s current and anticipated growth and ongoing business attraction initiatives, the need becomes even more urgent to ensure that the city’s infrastructure is up to speed. As several residential developments are in the planning and zoning phases and a master-planned housing development is in the works on the west side of the city, pressing infrastructure upgrades have been pushed to the top of the City’s agenda. “When we were moving into being an incorporated city, we had some extremely aging infrastructure, and it continues to age. We are at that tipping point where we really have to take care of our infrastructure,” Hlavinka says. “Our council will be considering future certificates of obligation (CO) bonds. They want to aggressively repave almost 95% of the roads in Lago Vista in a three-year period and