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Please join us Thursday, December 9 to learn more about the redevelopment of 8440 Burnet.
The North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Association (NSCNA) will host a Zoom meeting with representatives from Armbrust & Brown, the law firm representing Endeavor Real Estate Group, owner of the Spectrum Center at 8440 Burnet Road. Endeavor plans to redevelop that center into a 60-foot tall apartment complex of 355 to 375 units.
The meeting will be held Thursday, December 9, beginning at 7 pm, and is planned as an opportunity for neighborhood residents to learn more about the project and to ask questions about it.
If you want to attend this Zoom meeting, please send an email to media@nscna.org. You’ll be sent a link prior to the meeting that you can use to join the meeting and take part in the Q&A.
NSCNA’s Board of Directors held a Zoom meeting with representatives from Armbrust & Brown and Endeavor at the Board’s November 18 meeting. Here are NSCNA President Kevin Wier’s notes from that meeting:
-Originally 399 units, now 375
-Wrapped style with units wrapped around the parking; parking will be in the middle, with residential units wrapped around the parking
-Access only on Burnet Rd., basically the same curb cuts as exist now
-Max. 70% building coverage; Max. 80% impervious cover
-Class A apartments
-Filed for MF-6 (high density [KW note: city staff: downtown zoning]) unencumbered for up to 90 feet height; city staff recommended 60 feet max. height, felt is was more appropriate to the area.
-Up to 5 stories
-all multifamily
-60-70% will be 1 BR; the rest will be 2 BR
-no affordable units
-sidewalk/by street area will follow city code, so wider sidewalks, 12 ft. pedestrian zone in front of buiding
-1.2 cars per unit, about 450 cars
-will be less traffic than current use
-Trip generation: current = 3400/day; in a fully occupied scenario of the original 399 units the trips would be 1,273, but since the aim now is for approx.. 375 units, it will be a bit less than 1,273.
-public meeting December 14 with the Planning Commission
-will be in front of city council in the end of January if all goes well
-It will take 3-5 years for it to be 100% completed. Tenants leases have to expire and then it takes 2 years to build.
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City of Austin offices will be closed and there will be no curbside collections on Thanksgiving Day (November 25). All trash, recycling and compost collections will “slide” forward one day so your collections will take place on Friday this week.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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Free shred day returns when Austin ARMA again hosts a FREE SHRED DAY for household documents.
Saturday, November 6, 8:00 AM – 1:30 PM, At Balcones Shred, 9301 Johnny Morris Rd.
This event is for private households to securely destroy their confidential information. Basic requirements are:
• Documents must be dry paper only and packed in cardboard boxes no larger than 24in x 24 in x 36in. Boxes must have fitted lids securely closed using box flaps (not taped). No more than 10 boxes per vehicle.
• Both CDC and local mandates will be strictly followed for this event, by volunteers and attendees. Masks and social distancing will be required. We ask that you stay inside your vehicle at all times, limiting contact with others for your safety as well as the safety of our volunteers. Unlike previous years, you will not be able to witness the shredding of your documents at this event. The Fall Shred Day is subject to cancellation at any moment due to COVID concerns, so please check our website regularly for updates, including the day of the event.
• All shredded material and cardboard boxes are recycled.
• Event is free. However, Monetary donations will be kindly accepted, with proceeds going to the Austin ARMA Chapter and Operation Turkey.
• Both CDC and local mandates will be strictly followed for this event, by volunteers and attendees. Masks and social distancing will be required. ARMA asks that you stay inside your vehicle at all times, limiting contact with others for your safety as well as the safety of our volunteers. Unlike previous years, you will not be able to witness the shredding of your documents at this event. The Fall Shred Day is subject to cancellation at any moment due to COVID concerns, so please check the ARMA website regularly for updates, including the day of the event,Additional information and details may be found on the ARMA website:
https://www.austinarma.com/Shred-Day/
That website also has a guide to retention of household documents.
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I inadvertently used an out-of-date bio for Pam Ferguson’s article on page 12, “Tips on volunteering, donating.” Here’s the up-to-date one:
Pamela Ellen Ferguson, a longtime resident of Kerrybrook Lane, writes a column of observations about North Shoal Creek and the larger world for each issue. A dual-national British and American (Texan father, Cornish mother) Pam is the author of 11 books published internationally, the most recent being CROSSING LINES, an Austin and Border based mystery set at Halloween/Dia de Los Muertos. Pam welcomes comments via email at Pamelacudot@gmail.com. Her web-site is www.pamelaferguson.net.
Also on page 12, column 2, under “Further ideas,” the date for the Austin tan Cerca de la Frontera‘s annual “Women and Fair Trade” fair is November 20 (not Nov. 21) at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover Avenue at 49th Street. Volunteers are needed to help set up and take down. The fair is a great place to find handicrafts from women’s collectives in Texas, Central and South America. Call 512-474-2399 or visit website www.ATCF.org
Sharon Justice, Editor, North Shoal Creek Neighborhood News
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North Shoal Creek’s semi-annual residential bulk collection week begins Monday, September 27. Bulk items include:
•Doors
•Carpet
•Furniture
•Appliances (remove doors)
•Passenger car tires (remove rims; limit eight tires per household)
•Lawn mowers (remove gas/oil)
•Railroad ties (cut in half)
•Pallets
•Rolled fencing
•Nail-free lumberBulk item collection crews cannot collect:
•Brush
•Household trash
•Cardboard boxes
•Hazardous materials
•Mirrors
•Automotive chassis and bodies,
•Motorcycles
•Trailers,
•Boats
•Tires that are still mounted on rims
•Sheet glass and other construction and remodeling debrisCollection guidelines
•Place bulk items at the curb in front of your house by 6:30 a.m. on the first day of your scheduled collection week
•Separate items into three piles as described below
•To prevent damage to your property, keep items 5 feet away from your trash cart, mailbox, fences or walls, water meter, telephone connection box and parked cars. Do not place any items under low hanging tree limbs or power lines
•Austin Resource Recovery only collects bulk items from its residential trash and recycling customers
•Items will not be collected if they are in an alley, in front of a vacant lot or in front of a business
•Do not put items in bags, boxes or other containers. Bulk collection is for items too large to fit in containers. Bags will be treated as extra trash and are subject to extra trash fees.Separate items into three piles
1.Metal items – Includes appliances (remove doors). These are taken to our Resource Recovery Center for recycling
2.Passenger car tires – Rims must be removed. Limit of eight tires per household. We cannot collect truck or tractor tires. Tires will go to a tire recycling facility
3.Non-metal items – Includes carpeting and nail-free lumber. These items go to a landfill. Austin Resource Recovery is working on plans to salvage reusable items from bulk collection to help meet the City of Austin’s Zero Waste goalBecause these piles are collected by different trucks, they may be collected at different times throughout the week.
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