Wild Birds Unlimited in Georgetown is moving locations. The new store is expected to open late September or early October, owner Christina Darlington said.

About the business: Wild Birds Unlimited specializes in bird feed and supplies. Founded in 1981, the company now has over 300 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada.

What’s changing: The new store will be larger, able to accommodate more inventory. It will also have a larger parking lot, Darlington said.

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Georgetown City Council members gave initial approval to establish an in-city municipal utility district for the Yearwood development at a Sept. 8 meeting.

Located on approximately 728 acres of land north of Sun City, and west of the Ronald Reagan Boulevard and Rattlesnake Road intersection, the site has operated for decades as a stone quarry.

What happened: The Yearwood family, developer Freehold Capital Management and Georgetown officials have been working together since February to reach a development agreement for the site.

If given final approval, Yearwood MUD will be a multiuse development with residential and commercial features, according to city documents.

The development plan allocates the majority of the property for residential development, paired with commercial land planned at the corner of Ronald Reagan Boulevard and Rattlesnake Road.

Because the development is an in-city MUD, the land will be annexed into Georgetown city limits, and future homeowners will pay both Georgetown property taxes and a MUD tax.

The maximum MUD tax rate for Yearwood is $0.65 per $100 of assessed valuation.

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Across Texas, the taxes that homeowners pay to their local school districts went down by about 13.6% in 2025, one state senator found.

The overview: Across the board, many Texas counties mailed out reduced property tax bills for the 2025 tax year, Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, reported. During a Sept. 1 hearing of the Senate Local Government Committee, he said the average homeowner's property tax bill went down by about $140 last year, falling from $1,037 per year in 2024 to $896 per year in 2025.

Texas' 2026-27 budget includes $51 billion in property tax relief, previous Community Impact reporting shows. Unless the legislature rolls back existing tax exemptions, the state will be required to spend that much or more on tax relief in future bienniums.

How it works: The state does not charge property taxes, meaning homeowners are taxed by local entities such as school districts, cities, counties and municipal utility districts. The Texas Legislature, however, can place limits on how much local governments raise taxes annually and require tax exemptions for certain groups.