Sustainable Neighborhoods Meeting, Aug. 17

Posted Aug 12, 2010 11:25am by Chip Rosenthal in City Planning, Events | no comments

Date: Tuesday, August 17
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
Location: Village Christian Apartments Activity Room, 7925 Rockwood Ln (directions)

Sustainable Neighborhoods of North Central Austin will have its monthly meeting on Tuesday, August 17. Here is information from their recent mailing:

Kelly Snook, the new Parks and Recreation assistant director of operations, planning, design and construction, will speak to Sustainable Neighborhoods on Tuesday, August 17, about planning and design of pocket parks along transit corridors like Airport, Anderson, Burnet and Lamar.

Snook is also the incoming president of the Texas chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Pocket parks are a key gap in the City’s zoning of Burnet, Lamar and other commercial streets to permit apartments and condos. Like many redevelopment issues, this is something that has to be planned for years before new buildings actually get built, or it will never happen. Snook brings experience in this area and will share her ideas with those in attendance.

Sustainable Neighborhoods, July 20

Posted Jul 16, 2010 12:00pm by Chip Rosenthal in City Planning, Events | Comments Off

Date: Tuesday, July 20
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
Location: Village Christian Apartments Activity Room, 7925 Rockwood Lane

Sustainable Neighborhoods of North Central Austin will have its monthly meeting on Tuesday, July 20. Here is the meeting information from their recent mailing:

Street Trees, Sidewalks on Burnet, Lamar

Burnet and N Lamar are the public face of our North Central Austin neighborhoods. They have their gritty charm, but for the most part they are ugly and unsafe for pedestrians and children. They encourage policymakers and developers to make the kinds of comments we heard during the VMU process: “Anything is better than what you have now.” That’s not true. We have to fight that kind of thinking by taking better care of our streets.

The Sustainable Neighborhoods meeting on Tuesday July 20, will look at concrete steps we can take to make both Burnet Rd and N Lamar Blvd more attractive. An obvious place to start is with street trees – to complement the sidewalks that are part of the proposed Mobility Bond Package. Where might trees be planted, what species would be appropriate, how would they be maintained?

Please, if you love trees and care about the future of our neighborhoods, attend this meeting and learn what you can do to help. 6:30 to 8:00 PM, at the Village Christian Apartments Activity Room, 7925 Rockwood Ln. http://sites.google.com/a/snaustin.org/snaustin-external-site/meeting-directions

Comprehensive Plan “Meeting in a Box,” June 26

Posted Jun 19, 2010 10:00am by Chip Rosenthal in City Planning, Events | Comments Off

Date: Saturday, June 26
Time: 3:30 – 5 pm
Location: North Village Branch Library

The City is creating a comprehensive plan for the future development of Austin, and has asked community members to share their vision for Austin’s future. Your participation is important to ensure we build a future that Austinites desire. To learn more about the comprehensive plan process, visit the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan website.

On Saturday, June 26, the NSCNA Development Committee will be conducting a “Meeting in a Box” for neighborhood residents. At this meeting, we will be reviewing the draft components of the Vision Statement for Austin’s future. We will also complete a community design exercise to determine which housing types would be appropriate for different areas of Austin. The City will use this information to help gauge the community’s level of agreement with the draft vision statement, which has been created to gather your input on how our community should look.

Please RSVP if you would like to participate, so we can be sure to have enough materials for all attendees. For further information and to RSVP contact Mary Jane Wier at maryjane3 [at] earthlink [dot] net, or Development Committee Chair Kevin Wier at (512) 731-8832.

Austin Strategic Mobility Plan Open House, June 17

Posted Jun 15, 2010 12:40pm by Chip Rosenthal in City Planning, Events, Traffic | Comments Off

Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010
Time: 4 – 8 pm
Location: Austin City Hall, 301 W. 2nd Street

The City of Austin is considering holding a transportation bond election this fall. Some of the projects our neighborhood needs, such as sidewalk improvements and the Anderson Urban Trail project (improving the trail alongside the Village shopping center) are on the master “gaps” list.

Unfortunately, at this time, none of these projects are ranked high enough to qualify for funding.

The city’s transportation improvement projects will be presented during an open house this Thursday. This is an opportunity to learn more about how the city made its funding decisions.

Here is the announcement for the event:

Whether it’s traffic congestion on MoPac or incomplete sidewalks in your neighborhood, transportation is Austin’s No. 1 issue. As part of the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan, the city is assembling a package of transportation improvements that could go before the voters in a bond election as soon as this November.

The Open House is another chance for citizens to learn about important short-term and long-term transportation projects and share their ideas. Since December, thousands of Austinites have offered their input to the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan at public forums and via the AustinSMP.com Web portal.

Visuals: Maps, visuals and graphics available for future transportation projects

Available Sources:
City staff from the Austin Transportation Department
Members of the Council-appointed Citizens Task Force
Members of the City Council may also be present at the Open House

Project Website: www.AustinStrategicMobility.com

Sustainable Neighborhoods Meeting, Apr. 20

Posted Apr 16, 2010 11:42am by Chip Rosenthal in City Planning, Events | Comments Off

Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Time: 6:30 – 8 pm
Location: Village Christian Apartments Activity Room, 7925 Rockwood Ln

Sustainable Neighborhoods of North-Central Austin works to ensure that development is implemented in North Central Austin in a way that is sustainable and neighborhood-friendly.

The April 20 meeting will feature a presentation from City Mobility Staff on Planning Burnet, Lamar Transit Corridors

Gordon Derr, Assistant Director of Mobility Planning with the City of Austin, will speak at the next meeting of Sustainable Neighborhoods on April 20 regarding planning of suburban transit corridors like Burnet and N Lamar.

Mobility staff are undertaking a Strategic Mobility Plan for the entire City. This meeting will provide an opportunity to focus on transportation and land use planning in North Central Austin specifically.

For more information on the organization, visit their web site: http://www.snaustin.org/

Participate in the Strategic Mobility Plan Online Survey

Posted Feb 22, 2010 1:56pm by Chip Rosenthal in City Planning, Traffic | Comments Off

We posted previously about the Strategic Mobility Forums held earlier this month. The City of Austin is using these forums to gather citizen priorities on transportation projects.

If you weren’t able to attend a forum, now you have the opportunity to participate online through an online survey.

Here’s the announcement from the City:

“The City of Austin today launched a new online survey asking citizens about their transportation priorities to help guide how future transportation dollars will be spent. The survey mirrors the workshop exercises conducted at the six Austin Mobility Forums across the city this week. [...] Results from the survey will be shared with the City Council as it considers future mobility projects.”

The survey is available here: http://www.austinstrategicmobility.com/get-involved/survey/

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