NSCNA Blog Archive

  • SPECIAL CALLED MEETING JULY 24, 6:30-8:00 PM

    Administrator

    PLEASE COME TO A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING OF THE NORTH SHOAL CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 6:30-8:00 PM IN THE PILLOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARY, 3025 CROSSCREEK DR.

    The meeting topic is the three changes made by the Planning Commission to the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan:

    1) Allow for more accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and duplexes throughout the residential core by changing all single-family residential zoning to SF-3

    2) Up-zone Steck Avenue to allow for missing middle housing. Missing middle housing is “a range of multi-unit or clustered housing types compatible in scale with single family homes that help meet the growing demand for walkable urban living. Types include duplex, bungalow court, carriage house, courtyard apartments, live/work, and small multiplex, to name a few.”

    3) Improve connectivity between residential core and surrounding corridors

    The plan to be presented to the Austin City Council in August includes these changes. Should NSCNA approve or reject these changes? Come and contribute your voice and your opinion.

  • PLEASE TAKE ONLINE SURVEY ON IMPROVEMENTS TO NORTHWEST DISTRICT PARK AND POOL

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    Online Survey for Beverly S. Sheffield Northwest District Park:

    Make your voice heard! Please complete this short, online survey regarding future improvement projects to Beverly S. Sheffield Northwest District Park! This district park services our neighborhood and your feedback will influence project prioritization for years to come! Thank you for your time!

    www.tinyurl.com/northwestparksurvey

    P.S. Beverly S. Sheffield Northwest District Park, more generally known as “Northwest Park” or “Northwest Pool,” is located in the Allandale Neighborhood and is our neighborhood’s closest municipal park and pool.

  • COME TO THE 18TH ANNUAL NORTH SHOAL CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD JULY FOURTH PARADE AND CELEBRATION!!

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    Wednesday, July Fourth, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at Pillow Elementary School

     

    9:00 a.m.: Gather in the circle drive at the Pillow Elementary School entrance. To be eligible for a prize, register and pick up a number at the Parade Registration Table at Pillow

    9:10 a.m.: Brief opening ceremony

    9:20 a.m.: The parade begins

    10:30 a.m. Raffle winners announced

     

    Be sure to dress in your best patriotic wear.

    Prizes Awarded For:

    Best bike decoration (adult)   Best bike decoration (child)    Best historic decoration/costume (adult)    Best historic decoration/costume (child)

    Best wagon decoration     Youngest participant

    Most patriotic dog      Most creative overall

    Food and Games: After the parade, the celebration moves to the tent pavilion on the playground behind the school. Enjoy fun activities with your neighbors and stay for the announcement of raffle winners at 10:30 a.m. The best-decorated winners (see above) will also be announced at that time. Activities include:

    Local snowcone trailer           Face painting          Games for kids

    Austin Fire Department

    Plus, don’t forget to swing by our membership table and join NSCNA. Your $15.00 membership helps support events like this!

     

     

     

     

     

  • Planning Commission Revisions To North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan, June 12, 2018

    Administrator

    On a 10-2 vote, the Austin Planning Commission approved the following changes to our plan at its June 12 meeting:

    1) Change zoning along Steck Avenue to allow missing middle housing (missing middle housing includes duplexes, bungalow courts, carriage houses, courtyard apartments, live/work, and small multiplexes)

    2) Allow accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and duplexes throughout the neighborhood (currently, both SF-2 and SF-3 single family zoning exist in North Shoal Creek; ADUs and duplexes are allowed only on lots zoned SF-3; this change would allow ADUs and duplexes on lots zoned SF-2 as well)

    3) As redevelopment occurs, improve connectivity when possible between the residential core and the outer edges of the neighborhood

    These changes are the same as were recommended by the Small Area Planning Joint Committee (SAPJC) — which is comprised of both Planning Commission and Zoning and Platting Commission members — at its May 15 meeting. They are considerably less consequential than the changes proposed by some Planning Commissioners during their initial April 24 discussion. One such proposal, for example, called for up-zoning both Rockwood and Steck to allow missing middle housing. The SAPJC removed Rockwood from consideration for this up-zoning.

    Our plan, as amended above, will go before the Austin City Council on August 9. Between now and then, Development Committee members will lobby council members to pass our plan as originally agreed to by neighborhood stakeholders and Planning and Zoning Department staff (i.e., without the three changes listed above).  We need to have a strong show of support for our plan as originally written when council members begin discussing it on August 9. The Development Committee will arrange for a car pool to City Hall that day. Please participate – we need as many residents as possible in city council chambers for the August 9 discussion and vote.

    Please note: This report is based on the video of the June 12 meeting posted at austin.tx.swagit.com/play/06122018-851. It should be regarded as preliminary until confirmation of the Planning Commission’s changes are received in writing from the City or until official minutes of the meeting are posted online.

    Three pages are affected by these changes; a copy of each revised page is included below. Changes are highlighted in yellow.

     

  • HELP NEEDED WITH FOURTH OF JULY PARADE!

    Administrator

    PLEASE GIVE US A HAND: the volunteer sign up list for our neighborhood July 4th parade and celebration still has several unfilled slots. The unfilled slots include working at the registration table; judging best dressed and other contests; presenting awards; taking down decorations and cleaning up afterwards. Please go to
    https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b054aaca62fa5f85-nscna
    and sign up for one of the unfilled slots!!! You do not need to be a NSCNA member to volunteer. The more everyone pitches in, the better it’ll be!