* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [CALL TO ORDER] [00:00:05] UM, PERMITTING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER, UH, 63, 10 WILHELMINA ELKO DRIVE. UM, LET'S GET GOING. LET'S DO ROLL CALL, I GUESS. UM, COMMISSIONER BARRETT, PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. AND WE'LL JUST GO AROUND THE ROOM. HERE. SCOTT, LINDA, SHERIFF. SORRY. YEAH, HERE RAM BERG IS HERE. WE'RE STILL HERE ON, I FORGOT YOUR LAST NAME NICKELS HERE. THIS IS HARDER WITH EVERYBODY HERE. UH, UH, GARY AND BRIMER. THANK YOU GUYS. I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'RE ALL BACK. UH, UH, SO THANKS FOR GETTING HERE, MOVING FORWARD. WHAT'S THAT? YEAH, THOMPSON'S UH, NOT HERE. UH, SO, UM, WITH THAT, UH, GOING [1.a. Approval of the April 20, 2022 Environmental Commission Regular Meeting Minutes (5 minutes)] ON TO AGENDA ITEM ONE, A, HAS EVERYONE HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE MINUTES? AND IF SO, WE WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO LISTEN, TO APPROVE EVERY SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY AYE, OR RAISE YOUR HAND. HI, THANK YOU, BARRETT. ALL RIGHT, BRIAN, ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? PERFECT. GOT A UNANIMOUS. UM, WITHOUT ACTUALLY I MAY WANT TO TAKE A SECOND. UH, UH, WE'VE GOT A NEW COMMISSIONER, UM, AND FROM DISTRICT FOUR COMMISSIONER SHIRA, UM, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND, JUST TAKE A BRIEF MOMENT, UH, TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF THEN, UM, MAYBE GIVE US A LITTLE BIT OF INSIGHT INTO WHAT MADE YOU WANDER IN HERE WITH THE REST OF US. DEFINITELY I'M MELINDA SHIRA. I HAVE LIVED IN AUSTIN SINCE 2005, AND I HAVE LIVED IN DISTRICT FOUR SINCE 2011. I AM JUST A, A VERY STRONG ADVOCATE IN DISTRICT FOUR. UH, I'VE BEEN, UM, ON THE EXECUTIVE TEAM FOR THE NORTH AUSTIN CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOR SEVEN YEARS AND JUST BEEN INVOLVED SINCE 2011, VERY MUCH FROM A PLANNING PERSPECTIVE. AND SO I AM EXCITED TO JOIN THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION FROM A, FROM A PLANNING PERSPECTIVE AND, AND ALSO ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND ACTION. THANK YOU. WHEN YOU CAME BACK. SO THIS IS A GOOD SIGN. SEE IF WE'LL TRY TO KEEP IT UP. THANK YOU. UM, ALL RIGHT. UM, MOVING [2.a. Discussion and recommendation of Austin Water Capital Improvement Projects located in the Drinking Water Protection Zone for approval to include in the 5-year Capital spending plan as required by Financial Policy #8—Aurora Pizano, Financial Manager II, Austin Water (15 minutes) (Part 1 of 2)] ON TO TWO ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION OF POSSIBLE ACTION, UH, DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATION OF AUSTIN WATER, UM, AUSTIN WATER, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS LOCATED IN THE DRINKING WATER PROTECTION ZONE FOR APPROVAL, INCLUDING THE FIVE-YEAR CAPITAL SPENDING PLAN AS REQUIRED BY FINANCIAL POLICY. NUMBER EIGHT, HAVE A STAFF PRESENTATION, UH, KAYLA OR TO A HELLO, GOOD EVENING. UM, CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME? YEP. YEP. WE'VE GOT YOU. THANK YOU. RIGHT. UM, SO MY NAME IS AURORA PISANO FINANCIAL MANAGER FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN IN THE AUSTIN WATER DEPARTMENT AND WITH ME, OR AT LEAST VIRTUALLY, UM, WE HAVE MARTIN TOWER MANAGING ENGINEERING, DANIEL LAMAS, AND OTHER ENGINEER HERE AT AUSTIN WATER. AND EACH YEAR AS PART OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN BUDGET APPROVAL PROCESS. UM, AUSTIN WATER SUBMITS A PLAN FOR THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM SPENDING FOR THE UPCOMING FIVE-YEAR PERIOD. AND, UM, THIS YEAR WE WENT AHEAD AND PROVIDED YOU WITH THE MEMO. UM, UH, IT'S A FOUR PAGE MEMO THAT SUMMARIZES WHAT THIS FINANCIAL POLICY IS, WHICH IS BASICALLY, UM, MAKING SURE THAT ANY NEW WATER OR WASTEWATER PROJECTS THAT ARE WITHIN THE DRINKING WATER PROTECTION ZONE ARE GO THROUGH THIS REVIEW PROCESS. SO WE'VE ALREADY GONE TO THE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMMISSION, UM, BACK JUST A FEW DAYS AGO IN APRIL 19TH, AND THEY PASSED THIS ITEM. AND SO NOW WE'RE HERE WITH THIS ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION TO SHOW YOU GUYS ON TABLE, THAT WOULD BE TABLE ONE, PAGE TWO, THAT THERE ARE NINE PROJECTS WITHIN THE DRINKING WATER PROTECTION, SEWN, FIVE OF THOSE ARE NEW, UM, AND THEY'RE LABELED BY THE ASTERISK [00:05:01] NEXT TO THEM. AND THEN FOUR OF THOSE ARE EXISTING PROJECTS. AND SO WE HAVE THIS NINE PROJECTS THAT COMBINED TOTAL EQUAL TO 27.4 MILLION. AND THAT THOSE NINE PROJECTS WERE PRESENT ABOUT 2% OF, UH, OF OUR FIVE-YEAR CIP PLAN. SO WITH THAT, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO SEE IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. PERFECT. THANK YOU. UM, WE'LL GO, UH, I GUESS WE'LL START REMOTE, UH, COMMISSIONER BARRETT. YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I DO NOT HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, THANKS. LET'S GO AROUND THE HORN HERE. BRAMMER DO YOU HAVE ANY, I DO NOT. NO QUESTIONS, NO QUESTIONS. OH, SORRY. NO QUESTIONS. I SHOULDN'T RUSHING. I FELT DUMB FOR HAVING NO QUESTIONS, BUT NOW I FEEL LIKE I FIT RIGHT IN NO QUESTIONS. I DO HAVE NO QUESTIONS. UM, UH, ALL RIGHT. WE MAY, UM, KAYLA, CAN WE TABLE THIS ITEM AND COME BACK TO IT WITH RECOMMENDATION HERE TIME? OKAY. WHAT'S THAT? OH, THANK YOU, GIRLS RIGHT THERE. UM, ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK TO THAT WITH EMOTION. THANK YOU. STOPPED. WE WEREN'T QUITE PREPARED FOR YOUR BRIEF, THE BREVITY OF YOUR, UH, PRESENTATION. SO, UH, WE, BUT WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT. UM, WE'RE GOING TO [2.b. Briefing on proposed changes to City Land Development Code Title 25 (§ 25-1, § 25-2, § 25-8) to address challenges to the successful design and construction of public mobility projects in the right-of-way—Susan Daniels, Deputy Director, Corridor Program Office. (30 minutes) (Part 1 of 2)] MOVE ON TO TWO B AND WE'LL COME BACK TO TWO-WAY HERE IN A LITTLE BIT, UM, WITH, UH, WITH POSSIBLE MOTION, UH, UH, FOR TWO B, UM, WHICH IS A BRIEFING ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE CITY LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, TITLE 25 SPECIFICALLY SECTION 25, 1 SECTION 25 2, AND TWENTY-FIVE EIGHT, UH, TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES TO THE SUCCESSFUL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC MOBILITY PROJECTS WITHIN RIGHTS OF WAY. UM, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A STAFF PRESENTATION, UM, UH, CHAIR [3.b. Name: Bull Creek PUD Amendment #4, Case No. C814-2009-0139.03 Applicant: David Armbrust, Armbrust & Brown Location: 5305, 5400, 5404, 5408, 5505, Paradox Cove; 4909, 4915-1/2, 4929 FM 2222 Road Council District: District 10 Staff: Leslie Lilly, Environmental Program Coordinator, Watershed Protection Department Watershed: Bull Creek Watershed, Water Supply Suburban, Drinking Water Protection Zone Requests: To amend a Planned Unit Development (PUD) Staff Recommendation: Staff recommended with conditions (1 hour)] RAMBERT, UM, IT'S POSSIBLE, UM, ITEM THREE B NEED MS. REQUESTING A POSTPONEMENT BY STAFF. WE COULD TAKE THAT UP AS WELL OUT OF THE TERM. YEAH. UM, WE NEED TO HAVE A MOTION TO POSTPONE. IS THAT CORRECT? OKAY. POSTPONE GOT A MOTION ON A SECOND. ANY, UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY AYE, OR RAISE YOUR HAND. OKAY. RIGHT. YES. MOTION TO POSTPONE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, STAFF. AND WE'RE READY WHEN YOU [2.b. Briefing on proposed changes to City Land Development Code Title 25 (§ 25-1, § 25-2, § 25-8) to address challenges to the successful design and construction of public mobility projects in the right-of-way—Susan Daniels, Deputy Director, Corridor Program Office. (30 minutes) (Part 2 of 2)] ARE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M SUSAN DANIELS. I'M WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN, UM, QUARTER PROGRAM OFFICE. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU CHAIR AND ALL THE COMMISSION MEMBERS FOR ALLOWING US TIME ON YOUR AGENDA TONIGHT. UM, IF SOMEBODY COULD BRING UP THE PRESENTATION, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED. YES, I'LL BE LOOKING OVER HERE TO KNOW WHAT SLIDE I'M ON. UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE GO DOWN A COUPLE OF SLIDES. ALL RIGHT. SO I WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT KIND OF THE HISTORIC NATURE OF MOBILITY INVESTMENTS RECENTLY IN AUSTIN. NEXT SLIDE. ONE MORE. ALL RIGHT. SO REALLY STARTING IN 2016, UM, THE CITY OF AUSTIN STARTED RAMPING UP, UM, BOND PROGRAMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE, INVESTMENT AND MOBILITY. UM, 2016 BOND, 20 18, 20 20 BOND ALL HAD MAJOR, UM, BOND PROPOSITIONS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY. UM, YOU CAN ALSO SEE BY THE GRAPHIC THAT ACCOMPANIES THIS SLIDE, THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE CITY OF AUSTIN PUT A CONTRACT WITH BOATERS RESOLUTION TOGETHER THAT WAS PASSED BY COUNCIL AT THE SAME TIME AS THE BOND ELECTION NOTIFICATION. AND THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THEY SAID TO, TO REALLY LOOK AT INVESTMENTS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY IN A DIFFERENT WAY. SO LOOKING AT IT, NOT JUST ON THE MOBILITY PRIORITIES, BUT ALSO FOR COMMUNITY CONSIDERATIONS AS WELL. UM, THEY ALSO PUT INTO THE CONTRACT WITH VOTERS RESOLUTION TO BRING BACK RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO ACCELERATE THE DELIVERY OF BOND PROGRAMS, WHICH SOMETIMES CAN TAKE A DECADE. AND THEY'D LIKE TO SEE THOSE BEING DONE IN A MUCH FASTER TIMEFRAME THAN IN THE PAST. UM, AND OF COURSE, PART OF THE HISTORIC, UM, INVESTMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE RECENTLY, UM, IS THE PASSAGE OF PROJECT CONNECT, UH, THAT WAS IN THE 2020 ELECTION AS WELL. NEXT SLIDE. I WANT TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THE CORRIDOR PROGRAM, SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE SCALE OF THE PROGRAM. [00:10:01] WE ARE WORKING 50 MILES OF ROADWAY. UM, THESE ARE PRIMARILY OUR ARTERIAL ROADWAYS IN AUSTIN, UM, AND THERE ARE NINE ROADWAYS THAT ARE RECEIVING CONSTRUCTION FUNDING FROM THE 2016 BOND. NOW THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER AREAS OF TOWN THAT HAVE RECEIVED BOND FUNDING FROM, YOU KNOW, 20 16, 20 18, 20 20 AS WELL. NEXT SLIDE. SO WITHIN THE QUARTER PROGRAM, UM, AND ALL OF THE BOND PROGRAMS WERE VERY FOCUSED ON OUTCOMES. WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE WITH THESE INVESTMENTS? UM, EVERYTHING FROM, UM, CREATING A MODE SHIFT, UH, REDUCING CONGESTION, REDUCING DELAY IN EILEEN, UM, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING SOME OF OUR, OUR, UM, BIGGEST CRASH INTERSECTION. SO OUR VISION ZERO INTERSECTIONS, UM, MAKING BIKE ROUTE CONNECTIONS, ENSURING THAT WE HAVE CONTINUOUS BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES UP AND DOWN OUR CORRIDORS ACROSS ALL 50 MILES OF ROADWAY IN THIS PROGRAM, WE'RE DOING A LOT OF SIGNAL UPGRADES, UM, UH, A WHOLE LOT OF, UH, VARIOUS INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL GET OUR CITY MOVING FASTER. UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT ITEMS, UM, HERE THAT REALLY GET TO OUR, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP WITHIN THIS PROGRAM. AND MOST SHIFT IS ONE OF THOSE SIGNIFICANT ELEMENTS. UH, YOU ALL MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN. IT WAS ADOPTED IN 2019 AND ONE OF THE, UM, TENANTS, UH, OR THE BIGGEST GOAL WAS TO GET TO A 50 50 MODE SPLIT, UM, WITHIN 20 YEARS. SO THAT'S A 20, 39 TIME HORIZON. AND WE LOOK TO THE STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN, UM, FOR SOME GUIDANCE THERE. AND WITHIN THE QUARTER CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM, WE'RE VERY FOCUSED ON HOW CAN WE CREATE THAT MOTION WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE'RE PUTTING INTO PLACE AND THROUGH OUR ANALYSIS, THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS PLANNED AND WILL BE CONSTRUCTED ON THESE NINE CORRIDORS WILL CREATE A MODE SHIFT AND A REDUCTION OF WHAT WE'RE ESTIMATING TO BE 4.3, 6 MILLION VEHICLE TRIPS ANNUALLY. SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE MAKING A DENT THERE. AND, UM, IN ADDITION TO OUR QUARTER PROGRAM, THE OTHER IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE FUNDED THROUGH THE 20 16, 18 AND 20 BONDS ARE ALSO MAKING IT INTO THAT AS WELL. NEXT SLIDE, UH, OF COURSE, ONE OF OUR PRIMARY FOCUSES IS ON SAFETY, UH, VISION ZERO, UH, AS WELL AS OTHER ENHANCEMENTS THAT REALLY GET TO PROTECTING, YOU KNOW, THE DIFFERENT MODES THAT ARE TRAVELING AS WELL AS REDUCING AS MANY CRASHES AS WE CAN AND GETTING THE IMPROVEMENTS IN PLACE. WE HAVE ESTIMATED THAT WE'LL HAVE A REDUCTION OF 200 CRASHES ANNUALLY. NEXT SLIDE. UM, ANOTHER ITEM I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN IS, UH, SOME OF THE EFFORTS THAT WE'RE DOING TO PUT BETTER LANDSCAPES, UM, SHADE TREES, UH, RAIN GARDENS IN, UH, WE'RE TRYING TO, OR WE'RE VERY COGNIZANT, ESPECIALLY IN A MODE SHIFT WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF VEHICLES AND INTO, UM, YOU KNOW, BICYCLE TRANSIT, UM, EVEN WALKING TO THEIR DESTINATIONS, THAT SHADE BECOMES REALLY IMPORTANT AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO COMBAT THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT? AND SO WE ARE, UM, LIKE THIS IMAGE HERE THAT YOU'RE SEEING AS WHAT WE'RE CALLING A POCKET GREEN, UH, THIS IS AN AREA WHERE WE HAVE A LITTLE EXTRA RIGHT OF WAY THAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING WITH. AND SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH WATERSHED PROTECTION DEPARTMENT TO DO A RAIN GARDEN HERE, AS WELL AS, UH, CREATE A LITTLE BIT OF A RESPITE FOR, UM, TRANSIT USERS AND PEDESTRIANS. UH, WE DO ANTICIPATE PLANTING AT LEAST 2000 TREES IN THIS PROGRAM. UM, WE HAVE A GOOD PARTNERSHIP WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO HELP FUND THOSE AND PLANT THOSE. UM, AS WELL AS I THINK I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED THE 2020 PLUS 22 PLUS RAIN GARDENS THAT WE'RE WORKING TO CONSTRUCT NEXT SLIDE WANT TO TALK ABOUT REDUCED EMISSIONS. UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THE CONTRACT WITH VOTERS, IT TALKS ABOUT REDUCING CONGESTION, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE WORKING IN REALLY, REALLY DILIGENTLY ON DOING. UM, TRANSPORTATION PRODUCES ABOUT A THIRD OF THE GREENHOUSE GASES HERE IN AUSTIN. AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO, TO REDUCE THAT NUMBER QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY, UH, WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE BUILDING, UH, REALLY BY REDUCING CONGESTION AND IDLING AND [00:15:01] GETTING PEOPLE INTO OTHER MODES. UM, WE DO ANTICIPATE THAT WE'LL HAVE ABOUT 20% REDUCTION IN, UM, IN EMISSIONS ON THE NINE CORRIDORS BY BUILDING THESE IMPROVEMENTS. NEXT SLIDE, UM, PROJECT CONNECT SIMILARLY, UH, HAS DONE A BIT OF THIS ANALYSIS AND YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS THERE THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO ACHIEVE BY IMPLEMENTING THE PROJECT CONNECTION LONG RANGE PLAN, WHICH INCLUDES THE, THE RAIL LINES AS WELL AS THE METRO RAPID LINES, UM, IN THAT PLAN. NEXT SLIDE. OKAY. SO YOU ALL ARE PROBABLY VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF MOBILITY PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE, BUT I WANTED TO ILLUSTRATE SOME OF THOSE FOR YOU AND GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE TYPES OF A SPECIFIC IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE DOING. A LOT OF BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY, INTERSECTION, WORK, PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACONS, UM, REALLY HAVING AN EMPHASIS ON SAFETY AND SAFE, UM, SAFE CROSSINGS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN GET TO THEIR DESTINATIONS COMPLETE STREETS. UH PLACEMAKING AS WELL AS TRANSIT AND RAIL OPERATIONS AS WELL. NEXT SLIDE. AND REALLY THE, THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES ARE JUST IMAGES OF THE TYPES OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN, PLEASE. OKAY. SO LET'S, LET'S TALK NOW ABOUT, UM, THE PROPOSED CODE AMENDMENTS THAT WE HAVE. UM, WE'RE KIND OF BACK TO THAT, UH, CONTRACT WITH VOTERS RESOLUTION THAT CITY COUNCIL PASSED. UM, THEY ASKED US TO LOOK AT HOW TO ACCELERATE THE DELIVERY OF BOND PROGRAMS. LOOK AT ALL OF OUR PROCESSES, ALL OF THE LITTLE KINKS ALONG THE WAY THAT ADD TIME AND MONEY TO A PROJECT. AND SO WE DID THAT ANALYSIS STARTING BACK IN 2018 AND, UM, LOOKING AT THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE WAS ONE OF THEM AND PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF WAIVERS AND VARIANCES THAT WE TEND TO NEED AND MOBILITY PROJECTS. AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF KEY THINGS THAT WE FOUND WHEN WE DID THIS ANALYSIS. UM, THE FIRST BEING THAT TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY PROJECTS ARE, ARE NOT REALLY COVERED DIRECTLY IN THE CODE, UH, WERE LUMPED TOGETHER WITH COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT. AND SO COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT, UH, REGULATIONS WERE DEVELOPED BASED ON, YOU KNOW, YOUR STANDARD, UM, COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES THAT HAVE ACCESS FROM, UH, ONE OF THE STREETS OR ROADWAYS, AND TYPICALLY HAVE FOUR SIDES. AND EVERYBODY KNOWS THE TYPES OF PROPERTIES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. UM, AND WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS TRANSLATE SOMETHING WRITTEN FOR COMMERCIAL ONTO ROADWAYS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, UH, THE NATURE OF THE TWO ARE VERY DIFFERENT. AND SO WHEN WE DO THIS TRANSLATION, IT CAN CAUSE A LOT OF CONFUSION AND A LOT OF INTERPRETATIONS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE. AND, UH, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF THAT INTERPRETATION. AND SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU SEE HERE ARE JUST SOLIDIFYING THAT, UM, AND MAKING IT A MUCH MORE CLEAR. EXCELLENT. UM, I DO WANT TO, UH, THANKS SPECIFICALLY, SOME PEOPLE HERE, UM, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER STAFF MEMBERS, BUT KATIE COIN JOHNSTON, UM, DONNA GALOTTI OVER THERE, SHARON HAMILTON, UM, BUT WE'VE HAD A REALLY AMAZING GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS ACROSS CITY DEPARTMENTS, UM, WORKING TOWARDS THESE, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS KIND OF REALLY HASHING OUT, UH, THE PROS AND CONS AND HOW DO WE BEST ARTICULATE, UM, THAT TRANSLATION, HOW TO BEST CLARIFY SO THAT IT WORKS FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT, UM, PEOPLE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING FROM DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT, HOUSING AND PLANNING, UH, PROJECT CONNECT OFFICE, PUBLIC WORKS, TRANSPORTATION, UH, YOU NAME IT, WE'VE PROBABLY, UH, PINGED SOMEBODY FROM MANY OF THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS ALONG THE WAY. NEXT SLIDE. THIS IS A LITTLE CLIP OF THE RESOLUTION ITSELF. IT IS IN YOUR BACKUP MATERIALS. UM, BASICALLY IT TOLD US TO LOOK AT A LOT OF THE DIFFERENT FACTORS AND WE'LL BE GOING THROUGH THOSE TODAY. UM, THE ONES THAT ARE LISTED HERE THAT ARE NOT IN THE PROPOSED LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE CHANGES FOR ACTUALLY HANDLING THROUGH, UH, CRITERIA, MANUAL UPDATES. SO, UH, IF YOU DON'T SEE IT HERE, THAT'S WHERE IT'S GOING TO BE ADDRESSED. NEXT SLIDE. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, YOU KNOW, I TALKED ABOUT THAT TRANSLATION AND HOW TO CLARIFY, UM, BUT REALLY [00:20:01] WE'RE WANTING TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THAT ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, BUT DO SO IN A WAY THAT ALLOWS US TO, TO GET OUR PROJECTS ON THE GROUND SOONER. UM, WHAT CAN WE DO TO REDUCE CONFUSION? UM, SOME OF THE CLARIFYING ITEMS THAT ARE PROPOSED REALLY ALLOW NOT ONLY CITY STAFF, BUT OUR DESIGN CONSULTANTS AND THE REVIEWERS TO ALL BE ON THE SAME PAGE AS TO WHAT'S EXPECTED. UH, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S ADEQUATE TOOLS IN OUR TOOL KIT, UH, TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD. AND, UM, AND IN GENERAL, MAKING SURE THAT, UH, WE HAVE, UH, THE ABILITY TO ADDRESS THESE, THESE PRETTY CRITICAL SAFETY AND MOBILITY NEEDS. NEXT SLIDE. SO NOW I'M GOING TO GET INTO THE VARIOUS, UM, PROPOSED CHANGES. UM, THESE ARE IN THE DRAFT ORDINANCE THAT, UM, YOU HAVE, UH, AS BACKUP MATERIALS AND I'M JUST GOING TO GO THROUGH THEM. I'VE DONE THESE IN A DIFFERENT ORDER BECAUSE I THINK IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO GROUP THEM, UM, PER SUBJECT, AS OPPOSED TO HOW THE, THE CODE FROM ALL OUR DOC CHRONOLOGY, UM, NUMBERS, UM, KIND OF JUMP AROUND A LITTLE BIT. SO BEAR WITH ME A LITTLE BIT, UM, IT'S NOT GONNA, IT'S NOT GONNA FOLLOW THE DRAFT ORDINANCE TO A T, BUT I DO ADDRESS ALL OF THE DIFFERENT ITEMS. SO THESE FIRST FEW ITEMS ARE REALLY HOUSEKEEPING. THESE ARE ITEMS THAT WE ALREADY, UM, DO YOU WANT A REGULAR BASIS, BUT THIS JUST MAKES IT SUPER CLEAR. UM, BOTH FOR FISCAL SECURITY AND USE CLASSIFICATION, WHICH IS THE SUB CHAPTER II ITEMS WHERE RIGHT AWAY AS AN ZONE, THEREFORE WE'RE NOT SUBJECT TO LAND USE AND ZONING REGULATIONS. NEXT SLIDE, DEVELOP WATER QUALITY AND PERVIOUS COVER CALCULATIONS. UM, THIS IS, UH, AN ITEM THAT THERE THERE'S A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT THINGS HERE. UM, AND THIS, THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR CA CLASS, OUR CALCULATIONS ARE DERIVED IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE'RE DEALING ON A WATERSHED BY WATERSHED BASIS. SOMETIMES OUR MOBILITY PROJECTS, YOU KNOW, UNLIKE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT CAN BE QUITE LONG IN NATURE AND OFTENTIMES TRAVERSE FROM ONE WATERSHED TO ANOTHER. AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT WATER QUALITY CALCULATIONS, THAT, THAT WITHIN A SINGLE PROJECT THAT SPANS THE, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT WATERSHEDS THAT FOR THIS WATERSHED, FOR DOING THE CALCULATIONS FOR IT, AND FOR THIS OTHER WATER SHED, WE'RE DOING THE CALCULATIONS FOR THAT PARTICULAR WATERSHED. AND SO THAT ALLOWS US TO DO IT. UM, THE OTHER PIECE HERE IS THAT WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO GET CREDIT FOR REMOVING IMPERVIOUS COVER, UH, WHICH WE'RE ABLE TO DO IN CERTAIN INSTANCES, UM, BY TAKING A, UM, A FLAT MEDIAN AND TURNING THAT INTO A RAISED MEDIAN WITH TURF, UM, OR WHEN WE'RE REDUCING SUPER WIDE DRIVEWAYS DOWN TO A CURRENT CODE COMPLIANT, UM, OR CRITERIA COMPLIANT, DRIVEWAY, WIDTH. UM, SO WE'RE ABLE TO REMOVE A BIT OF IMPERVIOUS COVER THERE. AND SO WE'RE ASKING TO BE ABLE TO COUNT THAT TOWARDS OUR CALCULATION AND DO A NET CALCULATION. UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. ONE OF THE OTHER ITEMS RELATED TO THE WATER QUALITY, UM, IMPERVIOUS COVER CALCULATIONS IS THE ABILITY TO DO A PAYMENT AND LOU AND TREATMENT. UM, THE ROADWAYS THEMSELVES OFTEN HAVE VERY LITTLE ROOM FOR, UM, FOR ITEMS OUTSIDE OF MOBILITY AND UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE. AND SO IT'S REALLY CHALLENGING FOR US TO BE ABLE TO DO TREATMENT, UH, WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY, OF COURSE, FOR WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE THAT ANYWHERE WE CAN. UM, AND THAT IS OUR FIRST GO TO, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, IF WE CAN DO IT, WE DO. AND THEN IF WE NEED ANOTHER TOOL IN TOOL KIT, UM, LET'S CREATE, UH, AN ABILITY TO DO THAT. UM, ONE OF THE THINGS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THIS IS A NORTH LAMAR EXAMPLE, AND I LEAVE, I CAN'T, CAN'T SEE FROM THIS FAR AWAY, BUT I BELIEVE THAT WAS THE KRAMER INTERSECTION. UM, BUT YOU CAN SEE HERE WHERE IT CHANGES, UH, WATERSHEDS. AND IF YOU'RE THERE IN THAT ENVIRONMENT, YOU HAVE NO IDEA, RIGHT? THE ROADWAY DOESN'T CHANGE. THE MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE DOESN'T CHANGE, UM, THOUGH THERE'S DIFFERENT REGULATIONS FOR BOTH. AND SO WE'RE WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT WHERE WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO PURCHASE LAND, UH, BECAUSE IT'S BUILT UP LIKE [00:25:01] IT IS IN THIS EXAMPLE, UM, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO A PAYMENT AND LOU NEXT SLIDE. SO WHAT WE'VE TALKED TO STAFF ABOUT, UM, AND WATERSHED PROTECTION IS CREATING A PUBLIC MOBILITY PROJECT, STRUCTURAL CONTROL FUND. UM, SO THIS WOULD BE FOR THE VARIOUS WATERSHEDS OUTSIDE OF THE BARTON SPRINGS ZONE, UM, MAKING SURE THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO PAY INTO A FUND THAT WOULD ALLOW WATERSHED PROTECTION DEPARTMENT TO POOL THOSE FUNDS IN ORDER TO CREATE A MORE IMPACTFUL, UH, PROJECTS. AND SO THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO, UM, DEVELOP PROJECTS BASED ON THE, UH, POOLING OF THAT FUNDING THAT WE PAY INTO. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UM, REALLY THE NEXT THREE SLIDES, UM, HAVE YOU, IS OUR CLARIFYING SLIDES AND THEY ALL HAVE TO DO WITH, UH, RAILWAYS AND PUBLIC MOBILITY PROJECTS, HAVING THE SAME ABILITY TO HAVE X EXCEPTIONS, UM, LIKE ROADWAYS HAVE. AND SO THIS FIRST ONE IS ABOUT CRITICAL WATER QUALITY ZONES, WHERE YOU CAN SEE THERE, WE'RE ADDING IN THE LANGUAGE FOR RAIL, OUR PUBLIC MOBILITY PROJECTS IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. AND THIS IS JUST TO CLARIFY THAT THEY LIKE ROADWAYS HAVE THAT SAME ABILITY. NEXT SLIDE, UM, SAME HOLDS TRUE FOR CUTTING FILL REQUIREMENTS, UM, ALLOWING, UH, OUR CLARIFYING THAT RAIL CLIENTS HAVE THAT SAME ABILITY NEXT SLIDE. AND THIS IS THE LAST AREA WHERE YOU'LL SEE THAT RAIL LINE AND PUBLIC MOBILITY PROJECTS ADDED TO THE LANGUAGE. AND THIS IS IN THAT WATER QUALITY TRANSITION ZONES. NEXT SLIDE. OKAY. THE NEXT FEW SLIDES I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT ALL HAVE TO DO WITH ALLOWING ROADWAYS SUFFICIENT, MAXIMUM AND PERVIOUS COVER. AND SO I'M GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH SOME OF OUR METHODOLOGY, UM, TO ARRIVE AT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE MAKING. UM, YOU ALREADY INTUITIVELY KNOW THIS, THAT MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE IS IMPERVIOUS BY NATURE, AND WE NEED TO HAVE, UM, THE ABILITY TO BUILD THESE FACILITIES TO OUR CURRENT, UM, TRAPS, TRANSPORTATION, AND MULTIMODAL DEMAND THAT WE HAVE IN OUR SYSTEM. AND SO WANTED TO POINT OUT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT THINGS HERE. UM, THE MAXIMUM IMPERVIOUS COVER LIMITS THAT EXIST ON A SUBURBAN WATER SUPPLY, SUBURBAN WATER SUPPLY, RURAL WATERSHEDS, UM, WANTING TO MAKE A LITTLE BIT OF A TWEAK TO THOSE. SO THE ROADWAYS, IF YOU LOOK AT THIS IMAGE, THIS IS WILLIAM CANNON DRIVE ON THE EAST SIDE OF WILLIAM KENNAN BY SOUTH PLEASANT VALLEY. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE IMAGE, YOU CAN SEE KIND OF THE, THE TRANSECT OF, UM, KIND OF THE LEAST IMPERVIOUS COVER TO THE MOST IMPERVIOUS COVER. AND THE ROADWAYS INEVITABLY IN ALL OF THE WATERSHEDS HAVE THE MOST INTENSE, UM, IMPERVIOUS COVER COMPARED TO THE OTHER PORTIONS IN THAT TRANSECT. UM, WE ARE ALREADY OVER THE IMPERVIOUS COVER LIMIT IN SOME OF OUR EXISTING CONDITIONS, LET ALONE, BEFORE WE GO AND TRY TO MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS, UM, FOR MOBILITY TO THOSE ROADWAYS. NEXT SLIDE. OKAY. SO ONE HAD TO WALK YOU THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF THE ANALYSIS THAT WE DID TO ARRIVE AT THE, THE NUMBERS THAT WE'RE PROPOSING FOR, UH, NEW IMPERVIOUS COVER LIMITS. UM, SO WE LOOKED AT THE ROADWAYS AND LOOKED AT ALL THE DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF IT. WHAT MAKES UP THE IMPERVIOUS COVER ALONG A ROADWAY AND WHAT ARE THOSE PIECES THAT MIGHT VARY ACROSS THE CITY? AND SO WE LOOKED AT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE REGULATORY ZONE, THE BLOCK LENGTH, WHAT'S THE CURB TO CURB DISTANCE FOR THAT ROADWAY. UM, HOW OFTEN ARE THEIR DRIVEWAYS, HOW WIDE ARE THOSE DRIVEWAYS? UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE INTERSECTIONS LIKE? WHAT'S THE RHYTHM OF MINOR INTERSECTIONS, MAJOR INTERSECTIONS? WHERE DO WE NEED TO TURN LANES? WHERE DO WE NEED TO HAVE THOSE MISCELLANEOUS OTHER PIECES THAT ADD TO THE IMPERVIOUS COVER? AND BY THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT TRANSIT STOPS, UM, UH, BIKE, PARKING, CONCRETE PADS, UM, PADS FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL BOXES, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS THAT CAN ADD UP TO QUITE A BIT IN SOME CASES. SO WE LOOKED AT ALL OF THAT ON A WHOLE SLEW OF DIFFERENT ROADWAYS IN OUR DIFFERENT WATERSHEDS AND, UM, ARE MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THAT NEXT SLIDE. [00:30:02] OKAY. SO HERE'S, HERE'S SOME OF THAT ANALYSIS, UM, URBAN WATERSHEDS ALREADY ALLOW A HUNDRED PERCENT IMPERVIOUS COVER. UM, SO RIGHT HERE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE JUST SEEING SUBURBAN WATER SUPPLY, SUBURBAN AND WATER SUPPLY RURAL, UM, WITHIN THE SURBURBAN WATERSHED, THAT'S THIS, I WOULD SAY WHERE THE MAJORITY OF OUR WORK IS. UM, AND WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT EXAMPLES, BUT, UH, BASED ON OUR ANALYSIS, WE HAVE A RANGE ANYWHERE FROM ABOUT 84 TO A HUNDRED PERCENT NEED FOR IMPERVIOUS COVER. UH, REALLY DEPENDS ON THE ROADWAY ITSELF. UM, BUT THOSE NUMBERS AND SUBURBAN WATERSHED ARE FAIRLY CONSISTENT. UM, THE AVERAGE OF WHAT WE SAW IS ABOUT 91% AND FOR A CODE REVISION, WE'RE ASKING FOR 90% MAXIMUM IMPERVIOUS COVER AND SUBURBAN WATERSHEDS. NOW, WHEN IT COMES TO WATER SUPPLY, SUBURBAN AND WATER SUPPLY, RURAL, UM, WE HAVE A WIDER, UH, RIGHT AWAIZ. UH, WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE ROOM TO DO SOME OF THE WORK THERE. UM, AND YOU CAN SEE THE, THE RANGES, UM, OF OUR NEED, UH, VARY QUITE A BIT MORE THAN THEY DO IN SUBURBAN, SUBURBAN. UM, THE RIGHT OF WAY WAS, ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE STANDARDIZED IN THE WATER SUPPLY, SUBURBAN AND WATERS, PLY, RURAL. WE HAVE MUCH MORE FLUCTUATIONS AND RIGHT AWAY WIDTHS TO DEAL WITH. AND SO, UM, HERE WE SHOW, UH, YOU KNOW, A WIDER RANGE OF, OF NEEDED IMPERVIOUS COVER, LIKE WATERSHEDS WATER SUPPLY SUBURBAN HAS, UH, ANYWHERE FROM LIKE 53 TO 92% NEED FOR IMPERVIOUS COVER TO GET OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE. UM, WE LOOKED AT THE AVERAGE IS ABOUT 69 AND WORKING WITH STAFF, WE CAME UP WITH THE, THE PROPOSED RECOMMENDATION OF 65% MAXIMUM IMPERVIOUS COVER AND VERY SIMILARLY FOR, UM, WATER SUPPLY RURAL AS WELL. WE LANDED ON A 55%, UM, MAXIMUM THAN PERVIOUS COVER PROPOSED, UH, CHANGE. NOW, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS, WELL, WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU KNOW THESE AREAS WHERE THERE'S MORE NEED THAN WHAT THE, THE LIMIT, THE LIMITS THAT WE'RE PROPOSING ARE, UM, AND THAT WILL HAPPEN. UH, WE TRIED TO SET THESE NUMBERS SO THAT THEY WOULD HIT MOST OF OUR PROJECTS, BUT NOT NECESSARILY ALL OF THEM. AND SO WHEN WE DO BUMP UP AGAINST THAT NEED TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE A MECHANISM IN PLACE FOR A VARIANCE, UM, TO ALLOW US TO GO AHEAD AND GET THAT MOBILITY AND SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE. SO GO ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND WE'LL SEE HOW THIS SHOWS UP IN THE, THE ORDINANCE LANGUAGE. SO THIS FIRST ONE IS AN ADMINISTRATIVE VARIANCE, UM, UM, APPLICATION. AND YOU CAN SEE THERE THAT THIS WOULD BE, UM, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE WATERSHED PROTECTION DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR FOR SUBURBAN WATER SUPPLY, SUBURBAN AND WATER SUPPLY RURAL, UM, AFTER WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT, UM, IT'S NOT FEASIBLE TO DO IT WITHOUT A VARIANCE AND THAT IT'S NOT IN THE BARTON SPRINGS ZONE, UM, THAT IS THE MINIMUM AMOUNT NECESSARY. AND THAT I CAN'T READ THAT LAST ONE COMPLETELY FROM HERE, BUT, UM, JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE DOING ALL OF OUR DUE DILIGENCE. EXCELLENT. UM, AND THIS IS HOW IT WAS SHOW UP, UM, IN THE DRAFT ORDINANCE. UM, I ALREADY MENTIONED THAT WATER AT THE URBAN WATERSHED ALREADY ALLOWS A HUNDRED PERCENT, UM, THIS JUST, IT DOESN'T EXCITE IT EXPLICITLY, SO THIS SPELLS IT OUT AND IT SPELLS IT OUT IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU'LL SEE ROADWAYS, UM, SPELLED OUT FOR EACH OF THE DIFFERENT WATERSHEDS HERE. AND SO YOU CAN SEE THERE, UM, SUBURBAN WATERSHED, 90%, UH, WATER SUPPLY, SUBURBAN 65 AND WATER SUPPLY RULE 55. UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY. SO THAT, THAT'S THE END OF THE PRESENTATION. I DO WANT TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF ANOTHER BIT OF BACKUP MATERIAL THAT YOU ALL HAVE, AND THAT'S A KIND OF A SPREADSHEET THAT SUMMARIZES, UM, THE INFORMATION THAT'S IN THIS AND IT REAL, IT POINTS OUT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT THINGS. WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH AS WELL AS WHETHER AS A CLARITY AND SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY MEANT TO JUST CLARIFY THE CODE OR WHETHER IT'S A POLICY CHANGE. AND WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOU COMING TO WALK THROUGH ALL OF THAT PLUS, CAUSE IT'S, THERE'S A LOT, UM, WITH JET. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. [00:35:02] COMMISSIONER BARRETT, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? HI, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. UM, I HAD SOME QUESTIONS, UM, KIND OF ON, UM, WHAT, WHAT EARLY ON IN THE PRESENTATION, UM, ON SLIDE SEVEN, THIS IS JUST AN EDUCATION QUESTION, BUT IT WAS, UM, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE GOALS OF THE MODE SHIFT OR THE 50 50 MODE SHIFT, UM, FOR TRANSPORTATION. AND I JUST WANTED TO, UM, UNDERSTAND THAT A LITTLE BIT BETTER. SO WOULD, WOULD, UM, ONE SET OF MODE, LIKE ONE CATEGORY BE WALKING, BIKING, WORKING FROM HOME AND THEN THE OTHER CATEGORY B LIKE DRIVING AND YEAH. AND THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT, UM, I WORK IN THE TRANSPORTATION REALM AND SO IT'S SECOND NATURE TO ME, BUT IT'S NOT ALWAYS TO EVERYBODY ELSE. SO I APOLOGIZE. UM, YES, REALLY IS TALKING ABOUT, UM, 50% OF PEOPLE STILL DRIVING, UM, DRIVING IN THE CARS FOR THEIR DAILY ACTIVITIES, WHETHER THAT'S GOING TO WORK OR THE GROCERY STORE OR ANY OTHER DESTINATION, AND THEN, UM, 50% BEING BY OTHER MODES, EXACTLY THE ONES THAT YOU HAD MENTIONED. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WALKING, BIKING, TAKING TRANSIT TELEWORKING, UM, AND MAYBE IT WAS ON THE SIDE, BUT HOW'S, HOW'S THE PROGRESS GOING IN THAT AREA? YOU KNOW, IT'S, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING. I WOULD SAY THE BULK OF THE 2016, UM, 18 AND 2020 BONDS ALL ARE, ARE FOCUSED, OR I HAVE A SIGNIFICANT FOCUS ON ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION MODES. UH, SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE WORKING QUITE DILIGENTLY TOWARDS. AND OF COURSE, WITH PROJECT CONNECT, UM, PASSING THE WITH, BY THE VOTERS IN 2020, WHEN THAT INFRASTRUCTURE GETS IN, THAT WILL HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT, UM, TO THAT MODE SHIFT AS WELL. SO I WOULD SAY THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, IS SOMETIMES HARD TO MEASURE, UM, BECAUSE WE'RE CONTINUOUSLY CHIPPING AWAY TOWARDS THAT MODE SHIFT GOAL. UM, BUT AS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE INVESTING IN SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE CITY AND IS ALREADY STARTING TO MAKE A BIG DENT. GREAT. UM, I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION, UM, ON SLIDE 10, UH, THIS WAS, UM, UM, SPECIFIC TO THE CORRIDOR CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM, AND THIS IS KIND OF IN THE WEEDS QUESTION HERE, BUT I SAW THAT ONE OF THE GOALS WAS TO, UM, LOWER OR REDUCE IDLING AT INTERSECTIONS. AND SO I WAS JUST THINKING LIKE, HOW CAN YOU DO THAT? UM, LIKE IT WITHOUT, IS IT LIKE CHANGING THE LIGHT? LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE HOW LONG YOU SIT THERE OR, UM, IS IT JUST HAVING, IS THAT MORE SPECIFIC TO CONGESTION AND JUST NOT HAVING AS MANY COLORS TRAVELING TO IT IS IT'S DEFINITELY TIED TO CONGESTION AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT FACTORS AND THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING TO ADDRESS IT. UM, SO FIRST IS MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE, UM, THE NEWEST, UH, SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY IN ALL OF OUR SIGNALS. AND SO THAT'S BEEN A BIG EMPHASIS, UM, IN OUR PROGRAM, UM, SYNCHRONIZING THE SIGNALS. UH, YOU, YOU PROBABLY NOTICED THIS MOST IN DOWNTOWN WHEN THERE'S, YOU KNOW, A SHORT DISTANCE IN BETWEEN SIGNALS AND YOU CAN SEE IF YOU'RE SITTING AT, YOU CAN SEE IT TURNED GREEN AND THE NEXT ONE AND THE NEXT ONE. UM, AND, AND THAT'S TIME SO THAT WHEN YOU'RE IN A VEHICLE AND YOU HAVE A GREEN LIGHT, BY THE TIME YOU GET TO THE NEXT ONE THAT HAS TURNED GREEN AS WELL. UM, THE OTHER WAY THAT WE, WE CAN AFFECT, UM, IDLING AND CONGESTION IS BY PUTTING IN ADDITIONAL TURN LANES WHERE WE NEED THEM. AND SO THESE TYPICALLY HAPPEN AT THE MORE MAJOR INTERSECTIONS. UM, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN THINK OF SOME OF THE, UM, BIGGEST INTERSECTIONS, OR MAYBE NOT THE BIGGEST, BUT, BUT THE ONES THAT CARRY THE MOST TRAFFIC A REALLY GOOD EXAMPLE WOULD BE BURNET, UM, ROAD AT, UM, FRAMER OR, UH, YOU KNOW, OTHER ROADWAYS LIKE THAT. UM, SO THERE'S A LOT OF PLACES AND WE'VE DONE ANALYSIS UP AND DOWN THE 50 MILES OF ROADWAY, WHICH INTERSECTIONS WOULD BENEFIT FROM ADDITIONAL TURN LANES. AND SO THAT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO MOVE THROUGH THE INTERSECTIONS MORE QUICKLY. THE OTHER THING THAT WE'RE DOING IS, UH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN A TURN LANE, SOMETIMES THAT TURN LANE STACKING DISTANCE CAN BE A LITTLE TOO SHORT. UM, AND SO WE ARE EXTENDING SOME OF THOSE AS WELL, SO THAT WE'RE ABLE TO GIVE PEOPLE THROUGH THE INTERSECTIONS MORE QUICKLY. THANK YOU. [00:40:01] UM, IT WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION AND, UM, THANKS FOR THESE ANSWERS. THANKS FOR YOUR QUESTIONS. YOU'RE WELCOME AROUND THE PRIMER. YES. I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE VARIANCES YOU'RE REQUESTING. IT SEEMS TO BE, TO ME AT YOUR SETTING GOALS, SAY FOR HAVING A 65%, YOU KNOW, PERVIOUS COVER LIMIT IN A CERTAIN AREA, BUT IF YOU CAN'T MEET THAT FOR A PARTICULAR REASON, THEN YOUR, WHAT YOU DO THEN IS YOU GO TO SOMEONE AND ASK FOR AN ADMINISTRATIVE BARRIERS TO THAT, TO EXCEED IT. UM, SO THAT COULD GO UP TO A HUNDRED PERCENT OR BE IS COVERED, BUT THIS IS JUST AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS THAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH AT NO POINT, ARE YOU GOING THROUGH ANY SORT OF, UH, PUBLIC REVIEW I GOING FRONT OF A BORDER COMMISSION HAVE THAT REVIEWED, SEE WHAT THE IMPACT OF THAT IS BROADLY SPEAKING, IS THAT CORRECT? I WOULD SAY THAT THE ATTEMPT IS TO TRY TO, UM, MEET THE CODE FIRST, RIGHT. UM, AND THEN WHERE WE CAN FOR MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE SOME CHECKS AND BALANCES IN PLACE SO THAT IT'S NOT A FREE PASS. UM, WE, WE DON'T WANT TO, TO USE THIS AS THE GO-TO, UM, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE, AND YES, WE ARE SUGGESTING THAT THAT IS AN ADMINISTRATIVE, UM, VARIANCE THAT THE WATERSHED PROTECTION DEPARTMENT WOULD OVERSEE AND ENSURE THAT WE MEET CERTAIN CRITERIA. AND SO THERE WERE THREE CRITERIA EXPLICITLY WRITTEN IN THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE STILL, UM, ONLY USING IT TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE AND NOT NECESSARILY AUTOMATICALLY GOING TO A HUNDRED PERCENT, BUT SAY, SAY, UM, THE LIMIT IS SET AT 65 AND WE REALLY NEED 75. UM, SO THERE WE'RE BUILDING IN SOME OF THOSE CHECKS AND BALANCES. IS THERE ANY MECHANISM BY WHICH THERE YOU CAN AUDIT THESE THINGS AS YOU'VE GONE? SEE IF YOU'RE MEETING METRICS UP TO SEE THAT IT IS TRULY DONE ON EXCEPTIONAL BASIS, OR IS IT JUST A BUNCH OF MATERIAL YOU PUT UP ON A BOARD AND IT LOOKED NICE AND THEN YOU'RE ACTUALLY NOT MEETING THE 65% GOAL, AND IT'S ALWAYS 87% BECAUSE YOU'RE USING THIS ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE AND CIRCUMVENTING THE PUBLIC REVIEW PROCESS TO DO THAT BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T MENTIONED ANY SORT OF AUDIT FEATURE OF THIS TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE MEETING YOUR GOALS. YEAH. SO A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT THINGS TO THAT END. UM, PART OF OUR ANALYSIS IN WATERSHED DEFINITELY HELD OUR FEET TO THE FIRE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE PROVING OUT WHAT THAT NEED IS UPFRONT. UM, I WOULD SAY RIGHT NOW THE CITY HAS THE ABILITY TO, UM, LOOK AT PAST PROJECTS TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE UPHOLDING ONLY TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, UM, THAT ADDITIONAL, UH, LENIENCY, UM, SO, WELL, WHILE THERE'S NOTHING THAT I KNOW OF DIRECTLY IN THE CODE LANGUAGE ABOUT AUDITING FOR THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO, AS A CITY AND WATERSHED PROTECTION AS KIND OF THE LEAD OVER THIS AREA, UM, HAS THE ABILITY TO REQUEST THAT INFORMATION AND TO ENSURE THAT, UM, THE CODE LANGUAGE IS SET AN INAPPROPRIATE LEVEL. I GUESS MY CONCERN IS THAT UNLESS THERE IS A SPECIFIC MECHANISM SET FORTH BY WHICH THE METRICS ARE TRACKED DELIBERATELY, THEN THERE'S NO WAY GOING BACK SAY TWO YEARS FROM NOW AND SAY, GEE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE PROVED THIS LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE THAT SAID, WE HAVE A TARGET OF 65%. WE HAVE A VARIANCE PROCESS. THAT'LL, YOU KNOW, UH, THAT ALLOWS US TO GO UP TO A HUNDRED PERCENT AS NEEDED, BUT WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT ON AN EXCEPTION BASIS. NOW LET'S GO BACK AND SEE HOW MANY EXCEPTIONS WERE BLASTED, WHAT THE VARIANCE LIMIT WAS AND ALL THAT SORT OF THING, BECAUSE FELONS, NO ONE HAS REQUIRED TO KEEP ADA ON ALL THIS. SO IF WERE TO COME BACK IN TWO YEARS AND ASK YOU, WHAT'S THIS LOOK LIKE, WELL, THERE'S NO INFORMATION BECAUSE NO ONE TRACKED IT. YEAH, THAT'S VERY GOOD POINT. UM, WE DEFINITELY ANY TIME THAT WE DO GET A WAIVER OR VARIANTS, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, CAN BE TRACKED. AND I THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA. WE SHOULD BE LOOKING EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS OR ARE AT WHATEVER INTERVAL AS APPROPRIATE, [00:45:01] UM, TO ENSURE THAT THAT, THAT NUMBER IS A CORRECT NUMBER. UM, AND, UH, WE CAN CERTAINLY WORK WITH WATERSHED PROTECTION TO, UM, BUILD SOME, SOME TRACKING MECHANISMS BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THERE'S A LOT OF TIME DELAY JUST TO BUILD A ROAD, FOR EXAMPLE, IT JUST ALONG THE PROCESS. YEAH. AND CERTAINLY, I DON'T WANT TO BE THE ONE HOLDING UP PUTTING A LEFT-HAND TURN LANE ON BURNETT ROAD. BUT THEN ON THE OTHER HAND, UH, IF WE, AS A, YOU KNOW, THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION HEALED THAT CONVENIENCE TO YOU TO SPEED UP THE PROJECT, THEN IT'S INCUMBENT, I THINK, ON SOMEONE TO COME BACK TO US AND REPORT ON A PERIODIC BASIS, WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF US YIELDING THAT REVIEW PROCESS TO OTHER PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE WAS THAT A REASONABLE THING WE DO OR WAS THAT, DID THAT NOT JUST WORK OUT THE WAY WE HAD PLANNED AND DO WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT GOING FORWARD, YOU KNOW, IT WORKS BETTER THAN IT PERHAPS TURNED OUT, RIGHT? YEAH. I, I, I DEFINITELY THINK I'M LOOKING AT THIS EVERY SO OFTEN IS A GREAT IDEA. UM, MOBILITY PROJECTS DO TAKE A WHILE TO GET IN PLACE. SO IT MIGHT NOT BE EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS, IT MIGHT BE EVERY FOUR YEARS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY, UM, WORK WITH THE WATERSHED DEPARTMENT TO, TO PUT SOME TRACKING IN PLACE FOR WHAT WE DO. 'CAUSE I, I THINK IT'D BE REASONABLE TO COME BACK. I'M GOING TO SAY TWO YEARS JUST BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY TO COME BACK AND HAVE A REPORT BACK SAYING, OKAY, HERE'S WHAT WE DID. HERE'S WHAT THE GOALS WERE HERE AT THE VARIANCES. AND, YOU KNOW, DOES THIS LOOK ACCEPTABLE TO THE VARIOUS BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS WHO HAVE PURVIEW OVER THIS? AND IF IT LOOKS GOOD, THEN JUST LETS GO AND KEEP ON GOING. IF IT SEEMS TO BE AT ODDS WITH YOUR BOWL OF NOT PAVING THE COUNTRY OVER AND PERHAPS WE NEED REEXAMINED THE PROCESS AND, UH, DO THAT, YOU KNOW, AND I'D BE HAPPY TO COME BACK FROM A COUPLE OF YEARS. UM, WE'LL HAVE QUITE A BIT UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS. SO I CAN'T IMAGINE SO. YEAH. WELL WE'LL HAVE SOME GOOD INFORMATION FOR YOU. I JUST WAS WONDERING, UM, YOU'RE A TAPE THAT GIVES US, YOU HAVE TO BE PERFECT PER WATERSHED. I'D HAVE TO RELY ON OTHERS FOR THAT INFORMATION, TALKING ABOUT THE EXISTING AMOUNT OF POLICE COVER OR THE REGULATION WITH THE EXISTING AMANTADINE PER COVER PER WATERSHED, UH, SORRY. KATIE COYNE, ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICER, UH, AT DATA IN THAT I THINK WOULD BE IMPORTANT THAT INFORMATION, BUT THIS IS A PROPOSED ADDITIONAL IMPERVIOUS COVER ON EXISTING, YOU KNOW, WATERSHEDS AND IN THE URBAN AREA IN-CITY ALREADY, IT HAD PREVIOUS COVER. SO HOW MUCH ARE WE COMPROMISING PUBLIC SAFETY? AND THEN, SO I JUST WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IS THE ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM LEVEL LIVING PURPOSE CUPBOARD THAT EACH WATERSHED INDIVIDUALLY AND HANDLE. AND OF COURSE THEN THERE'S ALSO THE COMPARISON BETWEEN URBAN AND SUBURBAN WATERSHEDS. AND THERE'S SOME WATERSHEDS THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THE AUSTIN CITY LIMITS CTG THEY'RE IN THE ETJ. SO HOW DOES THAT CALCULATION VIDEO? SO I'M, I'M, UH, I'M CONCERNED THAT WE MAY BE TAKING A POSITION ON THIS CODE, WOULD THAT NOT HAVING THAT T I THINK WHICH IS CRITICAL INFORMATION, UM, JUST, JUST CLAIRE, CLAIRE CLARIFICATION. UM, ARE YOU CERTAIN WITH BATTERSON VACCINE FOR THE FLOODING? SO THE MAXIMUM PREVIOUS COVER IS SPECIFICALLY INTENDED TO, TO CURB, UH, WATER QUALITY IMPACTS, BUT ANY OF THESE PROJECTS, REGARDLESS OF THE IMPERVIOUS COVERS, THAT CAP WOULD STILL HAVE TO MEET NO ADVERSE IMPACT FROM A FLOODING PERSPECTIVE. WELL, I SAW THE LANGUAGE THAT SAYS, UM, NO SIGNIFICANT PROBABILITY, UH, AS OPPOSED TO NO ADVERSITY IMPACT. SO REGARDS TO THAT IN THE LANGUAGE, IN THE CODE, IT SAYS SIGNIFICANT PROBABILITY, BECAUSE I'M GOING TO ASK YOU FIND THAT WHO AND WHO WOULD DETERMINE THAT. AND SO IN LOOKING AT WATER QUALITY YES, BUT ALSO THERE'S OTHER IMPACTS THAT COULD BE [00:50:01] TRYING TO LOOK AT AND MAKE SURE I'M LOOKING AT THE SAME LANGUAGE AS YOU WHERE IT SAYS NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT DID THAT IS ON PAGE FIVE, HOLD ON, ARE THE ORDINANCE, THE DIRECT ORDINANCE. SO LET ME TALK ABOUT THE, I CAN CLARIFY THAT REALLY QUICKLY, UH, THE NO SIGNIFICANT PROBABILITY OF ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, THIS IS, WOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED THE SAME THING AS FLOODING IMPACTS. THOSE ARE PUBLIC SAFETY OR CLASSIFY THOSE DIFFERENTLY AFTER. YEAH. AND JUST TO LIZ JOHNSTON, DEPUTY ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICER, JUST TO CLARIFY ALL OF THE DRAINAGE DRAINAGE REQUIREMENTS ARE IN A DIFFERENT CHAPTER CHAPTER 25, 7, AND NOTHING THERE IS BEING CHANGED. AND SO AS FAR AS ADVERSE, I THINK WE SAY ADVERSE IMPACT A LOT AND WE MEAN FLOODING, BUT IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, IT'S ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT. SO THAT WOULD BE, UH, INCREASED POLLUTION, INCREASED EROSION IMPACTS TO TREES OR SEEK CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. OKAY. YEAH. SO WOULD IT, IT STILL WOULD BE US TO HAVE AN IDEA AS TO WHAT THE LEVEL OF IMPERVIOUS COVER EACH IS FOR EACH WATERSHED WOULD I WOULD THINK SO. UM, WELL, I WILL SAY THAT IN COMING UP WITH THESE IMPERVIOUS COVER LIMITS, WATERSHED DID AN ANALYSIS OF SOME OF THE EXISTING CORRIDORS TO DETERMINE WHAT THE LEVEL OF IMPERVIOUS COVER WAS JUST FOR THEIR ROADWAYS. UM, UH, THEY ALSO CAME BACK AND THEY DID THEIR OWN ANALYSIS WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE PRECISE INFORMATION. AND SO MOST OF THE CORRIDOR, MOST OF THE ROADWAYS THAT WE LOOKED AT COLLECTIVELY WERE ALREADY ABOVE THE IMPERVIOUS COVER LIMITS. UM, AND SO IT'S KIND OF HARD TO SAY IF WE'RE ACTUALLY IN REALITY, INCREASING IMPERVIOUS COVER FOR, FOR THESE, UM, BECAUSE WE PROBABLY AREN'T IN MOST CASES, UM, MOST OF THE TIME THEY'RE NOT ADDING THE TRAFFIC LANES. YEAH. YEAH. AND THAT'S, THAT'S A REALLY GOOD POINT. UM, UH, IN, IN URBAN AND SUBURBAN IN PARTICULAR, YOU KNOW, THE RIGHT OF WAY WIDTHS THAT WE HAVE ARE WHAT THEY ARE, UH, WE'RE NOT IN ANY CASE GOING AND BUYING, UM, SWATHS OF LAND SO THAT WE CAN ADD, UM, YOU KNOW, MORE THROUGH LANES, UM, ABOVE AND BEYOND THE RIGHT OF WAY THAT WE HAVE. SO ALL OF THAT IS ALREADY SET. AND SO WE'RE JUST WORKING WITHIN THE LIMITS THAT WE HAVE. RIGHT. BUT THAT'S FOR THE CORRIDORS ONLY, CORRECT. WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LEVEL OF IMPERVIOUS CORPORATE BOARDS. CORRECT. AND, AND JUST TO BE CLEAR, THE INCREASE IN THE MAXIMUM PURVIEWS CAP WOULD ONLY APPLY TO PUBLIC, UH, MOBILITY PROJECTS WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY. SO THIS DOESN'T EXPAND THAT MAXIMUM CAP FOR ANY OTHER KIND OF OKAY. BUT, OKAY. BUT THIS HAS AN IMPACT, NOT ONLY ALONG THE CORRIDORS IS WORN AS DOES ANY IMPACT ON ANY OF THE QUARTERS, IT IMPACTS ALL OF THE PROJECTS CONNECTED TO PROJECT CONNECT. SO LIKE RAPID RAIL, I MEAN, RAPID, RAPID BUS, ET CETERA. SO MAYBE WE'VE MAY NOT HAVE THOSE CALCULATIONS OR WOULD THOSE, THOSE WOULD CHANGE, RIGHT? THIS IS, YEAH, THIS IS NOT JUST FOR QUARTER PROJECTS, BUT W WOULD EDDIE AFFECT ALL MOBILITY PROJECTS? SO TRAINS, ROADWAYS, BIKE PATHS, ET CETERA, BOTH SERIOUS WOULD CLEARLY HAVE A GREATER INCREASE OF IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE IS BECAUSE OF THIS, BECAUSE IF THERE'S NOT, I MEAN, THOSE ARE NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR MOBILITY. SO THOSE AREAS ARE GOING TO SUSTAIN AND CORRECT. YES. AND THOSE AREAS TYPICALLY ARE WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY WITHIN A ROADWAY SYSTEM. SO, UM, THE PROJECT CONNECT ORANGE LINE AND BLUE LINE ARE ALL WITHIN CITY ROADWAYS. UH, SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE THE FIRST WOULD FALL. OKAY. I WOULD STILL BE CURIOUS TO FIND OUT WHAT THE LEVEL IS, THE LEVEL OF IMPERVIOUS COVER IS FOR EACH WATERSHED. AND YEAH. WOULD YOU BE ASKING FOR THE, THE TOTAL IMPERVIOUS COVER PER WATERSHED OR JUST WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY OF THE ROADWAY? I WOULD SAY THE TOTAL, JUST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T WITHIN THE WATERSHED AT SOME POINT EACH WATERSHED COULD PROBABLY MAX OUT ON, WE KNOW, PUT CAPACITY, THEY CAN SUSTAIN AS FAR AS WATER QUALITY AND SO FORTH. SO YEAH, WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THAT IS. AND AT WHAT POINT DO WE STRESS THAT WATERSHED TOO MUCH THAT IT'S LIKE NOT DOABLE. AND AT THAT POINT I WOULD THINK WATERSHED PROTECTION WOULD STEP IN AND SAY, NOPE, NOT DOABLE. WE NEED TO PROTECT. SO THANK YOU. HI THERE. I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, BUT I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR VERY DETAILED, WELL THOUGHT [00:55:01] OUT PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. UM, I JUST HAD A ONE QUESTION. UH, I NOTICED ON THE PRESENTATION THAT WE MENTIONED 2000 TREES. I WAS KIND OF CURIOUS IF THERE WERE CERTAIN SPECIES THAT WERE MORE FAVORABLE TO PLANNING, SO COMPARED TO OTHERS WITHIN THE NATIVE SPECIES. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. SO WE ARE, UM, WORKING WITH SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS, UM, ON NOT ONLY TREE SPECIES, BUT ALSO TREE PLANTING DETAILS, UM, THAT WILL ACHIEVE THE, THE LONGEST LIFESPAN POSSIBLE AS WELL AS PROTECT OUR UTILITIES AND THE OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY. UM, SO, UH, YOU PROBABLY KNOW THAT AUSTIN ENERGY HAS A LIST OF TREES THAT, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO USE. WE'VE ALSO, UM, NOT ONLY WORK WITH AUSTIN ENERGY, BUT WORKED WITH PUBLIC WORKS, ARBORIST, UM, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, ARBORIST, AND OTHERS TO LOOK AT, UM, EXPANDING THAT LIST. UM, AND I THINK, I THINK ONE TREE WAS ADDED TO THE LIST, UM, WITHIN THE LAST YEAR. UM, AND WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS. UM, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE WANTING TO USE TREES THAT, UH, LITTER AS LESS AS POSSIBLE, RIGHT. WE DON'T WANT, UM, LARGE ACORNS OR OTHER, YOU KNOW, FRUIT TYPE OF, OF, UH, TREES TO BE, UH, DROPPING, UM, INTO THAT SIDEWALK OR BICYCLE ZONE OR EVEN A CAR ZONE. SO WE'RE VERY COGNIZANT ABOUT THE TYPES OF TREES THAT WE WOULD BE SUGGESTING. UM, ARE THERE ANY LIKE CERTAIN NAMES OF THOSE TREES THAT WERE, YEAH, SO A COUPLE OF THEM, RED OAKS, UM, CEDAR ELMS, UH, THERE'S ANOTHER ONE THAT I'M, I'M FORGETTING AT THE MOMENT, BUT, UM, THOSE TWO IN PARTICULAR OR GOOD STREET TREES, AND YOU CAN SEE THOSE IN MANY DIFFERENT AREAS AROUND TOWN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. UM, I, I REALLY, UH, GA PRESENTATION, I DO THINK THAT MOBILITY BOND PROJECTS DO NEED TO BE PRETTY QUICK PROJECT CONNECTS. THAT MAKES SENSE. UM, ESPECIALLY IN DISTRICT FOUR, THERE ARE A LOT OF SEEING SIDEWALKS AND, UH, REALLY WANT TO MAKE WELL, UM, IN AUSTIN AND IN DISTRICT FOUR CAN GET TO THE RAIL LINE SAFELY AND EASILY AND REALLY PROMOTE THAT. UM, MY QUESTION IS, WHAT CAN YOU TELL ME JUST GENERALLY WHAT THE IMPERVIOUS COVER IS FOR A STREET LIKE NORTH LAMAR? SO NORTH LAMAR, UM, IS IT, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT STRETCH OF IT, BUT THE MAJORITY OF NOTE NORTH LAMAR PROBABLY IS IN, UM, SOMEWHERE AROUND THE 90. UM, I WOULD SAY IT SPANS ANYWHERE FROM ABOUT, UH, 87 TO 95% AND PERVIOUS COVER. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE STRETCHES, UH, PARTICULARLY THE TXDOT ROADWAY PORTIONS OF IT THAT DEVELOPED, UM, YOU KNOW, MANY YEARS AGO, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, THE, THE ROAD LOT OF LANES, BUT THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF DRIVEWAYS AND IT WAS AT A, IT DEVELOPED AT A TIME WHEN THOSE DRIVEWAYS WERE VERY WIDE AND SOMETIMES THOSE DRIVEWAYS WERE USED, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY AS THE PARKING LOT. SO, UH, WE IN TRANSPORTATION CALL THOSE DRIVE WALKS WHEN THEY'RE SUPER WIDE AND WE NEED TO TRY TO ACCOMMODATE PEDESTRIANS AS WELL AS CARS. UM, SO IN THOSE AREAS, THAT'S WHERE THE HIGHER IMPERVIOUS COVER IS. NOW, THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE CONTROL OVER, UM, HOW OFTEN DRIVEWAYS CAN OCCUR. UH, WE CAN WORK WITH PROPERTY OWNERS THOUGH TO AUGMENT THEIR DRIVEWAYS, UM, TO REDUCE THE, ESPECIALLY THOSE SUPER WIDE ONES, TO REDUCE IT DOWN, TO CREATE A LITTLE BIT MORE SAFETY SAFETY FOR PEDESTRIANS WHILE WE MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE ALLOWING THEM THE ACCESS THAT THEY NEED FOR THE TYPES OF VEHICLES THAT ARE VISITING THEIR PROPERTY. AND, AND JUST AS COMPARISON, WHAT WOULD THAT IMPERVIOUS COVER BE FOR A STREET LIKE PEYTON, GEN? OH, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. UM, I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT PEYTON GIN IN PARTICULAR, UM, BUT I WOULD SAY THAT ACROSS THE URBAN AND SUBURBAN WATERSHEDS, UM, IT'S FAIRLY CONSISTENT. AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT, UM, EXISTING AND THEN WHAT TYPES OF INFRASTRUCTURE A MOBILITY PROJECT WOULD BE PUTTING IN, [01:00:01] UM, YOU'RE, YOU'RE GENERALLY LOOKING AT THE, THAT SAME NUMBER RANGE. SO ANYWHERE FROM LIKE 85 TO 95% OF PERVIOUS COVER. OKAY. I THINK THAT'S, UM, THE MAIN QUESTION, I GUESS, UH, MAYBE RELATED, BUT HOW DOES INCREASING, YOU KNOW, AUTOMATICALLY BEING ABLE TO INCREASE THEM PERVIOUS COVER AFFECT ANY CHANGES TO THE RIGHT OF WAY BEING ABLE TO, UM, INCREASE, YOU KNOW, OBTAIN MORE OF THE RIGHT OF WAY OF A LOT OF HOMES, UH, BACK UP TO PEYTON, JEN, FOR EXAMPLE. YEAH. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TRY TO DO, UM, IS, IS BALANCED THAT OUT. WE DON'T WANT TO, UM, IMPACT ANY PRIVATE PROPERTY TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, UM, AND IN PARTICULAR RESIDENTIAL. AND SO IT MAY BE THE CASE, AND THERE ARE SEVERAL OF OUR PROJECTS WHERE WE MIGHT NEED A SLIVER, UH, SO THAT WE CAN HAVE AN ADEQUATELY SIZED, UH, SIDEWALK OR SHARED USE PATH FOR BOTH BIKES AND PEDESTRIANS. UM, A LOT OF TIMES, UH, WE CAN, UH, HAVE PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT PUT IN SOME INFRASTRUCTURE AND DO THAT WITHIN AN EASEMENT. UH, SO IT, IT, UH, IS LESS DEMAND ON THE CITY TO GO OUT AND ACQUIRE THAT, THAT PROPERTY. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. THAT'S A LOT OF VERY GOOD COVER, AND I APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME AND GOING TO, UH, UH, A LOT OF, UH, COMPLEX AND DETAILED, UH, INFORMATION TO, UH, TO GIVE TO US TODAY. UM, HOWEVER, I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS, UM, AS THINGS COME TO US, THEY COME ONE AT A TIME AND, AND SO WE REVIEWED THEM ONE AT A TIME. AND THEN I THINK I KEEP THINKING OF THE JONI MITCHELL SONG. UM, THEY DON'T KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'VE GOT TIL IT'S GONE. UH, THEY PAVED OVER PARADISE, PUT IN A PARKING LOT, AND I'VE SEEN THAT HAPPEN TO US. AND I'VE SEEN THAT HAPPEN IN, UH, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. AND I DON'T WANT TO SEE US PIECEMEAL OURSELVES TO DEATH. UM, I THINK BY WAY, NONE OF US IN THIS ROOM DO SO THE QUESTIONS ARE WHAT COMPROMISES CAN WE MAKE AND HOW CAN WE BEST DEAL WITH A GROWING POPULATION AND ITS NEEDS, UM, AND STILL PRESERVE A LIVABLE SPACE. AND I THINK WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT ABOUT THAT. AND THE QUESTION IS JUST WHEN IT, HOW'D IT GET THERE. UM, UH, SO I DON'T WANT TO CREATE CONFLICT WHERE THERE ISN'T ANY, UM, JUST TO PREFACE THAT, UM, I HAVE BECOME AWARE OF RECENTLY THAT THERE ARE SOME NEW MATERIALS AVAILABLE, WHICH ARE BEING REFERRED TO AS PERVIOUS COVER, WHICH CAN BE USED FOR, I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY CAN BE USED FOR ROADWAYS, BUT COULD BE USED FOR WALKING AND FOR BICYCLING. AND IT SEEMS THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS THAT, THAT CAN BE USED TO CREATE THAT. AND I DON'T, I WONDERED IF YOU HAVE, UM, LOOKED INTO SOME OF THOSE AS THAT IS, UM, A POSSIBLE WAY TO, UM, UH, PREVENT SOME OF THE RUNOFF ABSORBED SOME OF THE WATER THAT CAN THEN KIND OF KEEP WHAT'S GREEN AROUND IT ALIVE. YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. UM, PERVIOUS PAVEMENT HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT THE CITY HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT, AND, UH, NOT AS MUCH IN OUR ROADWAYS AS IN SOME OTHER APPLICATIONS WHERE WE CAN TEST THAT OUT AND GET SOME GOOD DATA. UM, I DO KNOW THAT THERE IS SOME PILOTING OF PERVIOUS PAVEMENT, UM, HAPPENING. I, I'M NOT INVOLVED PERSONALLY, SO I DON'T WANT TO, UM, I DON'T WANT TO OVERSTEP MY OWN BOUNDARIES HERE, BUT, UM, THAT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT THE CITY HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN AND DEFINITELY IS SOMETHING THAT WE AS A CITY SHOULD CONTINUE TO PURSUE AND COLLECT INFORMATION AND DATA TOWARDS THAT GOAL. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR TIMELINE IS IN TERMS OF, ARE YOU PUTTING IN CONCRETE AS WE SPEAK OR ASPHALT AS WE SPEAK? SO I'M WONDERING I LOOKING AT IT AS GOOD, BUT, UM, IS IT SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DISCUSS AGAIN AT, UH, IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, JUST TO FIND OUT IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S, UH, FEASIBLE? IS IT ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE? IS IT, [01:05:01] UH, IT APPEARS THAT IT'S, THAT SOME DEGREE OF, UH, PERVIOUS NESS CAN BE ACHIEVED, NOT NECESSARILY COMPLETELY, BUT, UM, BETTER THAN PURE CONCRETE OR SOMETHING THAT NOTHING GOES THROUGH. SO, UM, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ASK IF THAT'S A, IF THAT'S A POSSIBILITY THAT WE COULD DISCUSS AGAIN, UM, WAS IT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME GIVEN TO LOOK AT IT? IS IT SOMETHING THAT'S, UH, UM, IS THAT YOUR PROJECT CAN BE LOOKING AT IN A TIMELY WAY THAT SHOWS THAT IT COULD BE USED? YEAH. KATE, IF YOU ORGANIZE YOUR TALK FIRST, JUST REALLY QUICKLY, JUST, UM, KATIE CORNY, ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICER, UH, AT LEAST IN TERMS OF, OF ROAD ROADWAYS THEMSELVES, THERE'S NOT A VERSION OF PERMEABLE OR PERVIOUS PAVING THAT WOULD EVER BE CONSIDERED THAT BECAUSE OF THE COMPACTION THAT IS NECESSARY FOR THAT ROADWAY WHEN IT COMES TO SIDEWALKS AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE THAT MIGHT BE PART OF THAT RIGHT AWAY, CERTAINLY INTERESTED IN SEEING IF THERE'S COST EFFECTIVE METHODS AND WORKING WITH CPO AND OTHER, OTHER PARTNERS IN FIGURING OUT IF THAT'S A VIABLE SOLUTION IN SOME PLACES. BUT I WOULD DEFER TO SUSAN ON, ON KIND OF DESIGN STANDARDS WITHIN THEIR PRACTICE AS WELL. YEAH, I WOULD SAY THAT, UH, DESIGN STANDARDS ARE, ARE CONSTANTLY BEING UPDATED, BUT, UM, REALLY TAKES A LOT OF DATA. AND, UM, UNDERSTANDING PRIOR TO THAT BECOMING A STANDARD. UM, I WOULD SAY THAT YES ARE A LOT OF OUR PROJECTS ARE EITHER UNDER CONSTRUCTION OR GOING TO CONSTRUCTION WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS THOUGH, WE AS A CITY, UM, YOU KNOW, HAVE, HAVE OTHER PROGRAMS BESIDES THE QUARTER PROGRAM WHO COULD POTENTIALLY BE LOOKING AT THESE THINGS. AND SO, UH, I WOULD OFFER SUGGEST THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE KIND OF HUDDLE UP WITH WATERSHED PROTECTION AND SEE WHO MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE TO HAVE IN THAT CONVERSATION. AND, AND THEN IF IT'S A DESIRE TO, FOR YOU ALL TO HAVE TO CONTINUE HAVING THAT, THAT, UH, WE COULD CERTAINLY PARTICIPATE, BUT LOOKING FOR OTHERS TO BE PART OF THAT CONVERSATION AS WELL. YEAH. IT'S SOMETHING I'M, I'M INTERESTED IN IN SEEING, BECAUSE IT SEEMS, IT JUST SEEMS, UM, USEFUL OH, IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE AND MORE CONSTRUCTION, MORE BUILDING. SO THE MORE WE'RE ABLE TO, UH, PRESERVE, UM, WHAT LITTLE WATER, UH, WE GET DURING DROUGHT PERIODS THE BETTER. UM, ALSO I'M WONDERING WITH THE TREES, UM, APPARENTLY IT'S, IT'S POSSIBLE TO PUT IN, UM, WHAT YOU WOULD CALL THE CANOPY TREES. AND AT THE SAME TIME ALSO PUT IN SOME KIND OF SUB CANOPY TREES, SUCH AS REDWOODS, DOGWOODS, UH, THINGS OF THAT SORT. AND I WONDERED IF YOU'D LOOKED INTO THAT BECAUSE, UM, UH, I BELIEVE WE'VE BEEN QUOTED, UH, SOMETHING LIKE, UH, GOING FROM 31% TO 50% BY 2050. AND I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THAT MUCH TIME. UM, AND, AND I I'D LIKE TO SEE AS MANY TREES AS, AS POSSIBLE GO IN. UM, AND, UM, SECONDLY, UM, UH, IN THE AREA WHERE I LIVED, THERE WAS A ROUNDABOUT THAT WAS PUT IN AND IT WAS BEAUTIFULLY LANDSCAPED LOOKED UP, NO PROFESSIONALLY LANDSCAPED. I WAS IN AWE AND THEN THERE WAS NO MAINTENANCE AND IT'S MOSTLY ALL DEAD. SO IS THERE A, IS THERE A PLAN FOR THAT, FOR WHAT GOES IN TO BE MAINTAINED SO THAT WE, WE AREN'T BASICALLY JUST, UH, SPENDING MONEY, UH, WITHOUT CUTTING TREES, UH, AS A RESULT. YEAH. AND THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. UM, I'M GOING TO ANSWER IT IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS. SO, UM, ONE THING THAT WE'RE DOING, WE'RE PREDOMINANTLY PLANTING STREET TREES, UH, SO, UH, UH, TALL IN NATURE, UM, YOU KNOW, SINGLE, UH, SINGLE TRUNK. UM, WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO LIMB THAT UP SO THAT IT DOESN'T CONFLICT WITH, UM, VEHICLES PASSING BY AND KNOCKING OFF LIMBS. AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS ARE, UM, IMPACTED BY BRANCHES. AND SO WE ARE, UM, WE'RE, [01:10:01] WE'RE GOING TO BE PLANTING TREES THAT ARE, OR MAYBE APPROXIMATELY FIVE INCH CALIPER, UH, FROM THE START SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THAT ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION USE, UM, BE ON OUR ROADWAYS. WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO DO THE UNDERSTORY FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. WE CAN DO THAT, YOU KNOW, WHERE IT MIGHT, UM, HAVE PARKLAND BESIDE US. UH, BUT WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY, THERE'S, THERE'S TWO REALLY SIGNIFICANT ITEMS THAT WE NEED TO BE LOOKING FOR. ONE IS VISIBILITY, SO THAT, THAT CARS, UM, HAVE THAT CLEAR, UM, VIEW ANYTIME THAT THEY'RE TRAVELING OR TURNING, UM, THOSE SIGHT LINES ARE REALLY IMPORTANT. AND THEN ALSO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, NOT HAVE THAT CONFLICT BETWEEN LOW BRANCHES AND STRAINS AND CYCLIST FROM A MAINTENANCE PERSPECTIVE. UM, YES, WE'RE WORKING VERY CAREFULLY WITH OUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT TO HAVE A LOT OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS. UM, ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING IS, UM, PARTICULARLY FOR THE STREET TREES IS LOOKING TO A TWO YEAR ESTABLISHMENT PERIOD, AS OPPOSED TO A TYPICAL ONE-YEAR WARRANTY, UH, THAT YOU WOULD SEE ON A TYPICAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM PROJECT. AND SO THERE'S SMALL THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING, AND THAT WE'RE BAKING INTO OUR PROGRAM TO TRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE THERE. IT'S, THAT'S A GOOD ANSWER. I LIKE, I LIKED THAT. UM, UM, UH, I'M NOT THAT FAMILIAR WITH R I HAVEN'T PAID THAT MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT OUR BUS STOPS LOOK LIKE. ARE THEY COVERED OR ARE THEY OPEN OR, OR IS THERE A MIX OF THEM? THERE'S DEFINITELY A MIX AND I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR A CAPITAL METRO. UM, BUT I KNOW THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING WITH THEM, UM, ON THE CORRIDOR PROGRAM, UH, THERE IS A MIX, SO WE'RE, IN SOME CASES, RELOCATING EXISTING BUS STOPS FOR THEIR LOCAL ROUTES. UM, WE'RE PUTTING ON SOME BUS PADS, UH, WHERE THEY'RE NEEDED, UM, WHERE OUR CAPITOL METRO IS WANTING TO PERHAPS ADD A STOP IN, AND THEN IT REALLY IS UP TO THEM WHETHER THEY WANT TO COME BACK AND, AND PUT DIFFERENT AMENITIES IN, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE PUTTING IN THE BASE INFRASTRUCTURE SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE THOSE CHOICES AS THEY GO. IS IT A CRAZY IDEA TO THINK OF, UM, UH, PUTTING SOMETHING GREEN GROWING ON TOP OF THEM? WE ACTUALLY HAVE ONE, UH, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE IT IS IN TOWN, BUT LARA STANLEY WAS, UM, I THINK THE ARCHITECT THAT WAS PERHAPS, UH, AN ART RELATED, UM, STOP, UM, THAT WAS DONE IN CONJUNCTION WITH CAPITAL METRO. UM, THAT WAS DEFINITELY A ONE-OFF CASE. UH, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, I I'M, I'M A FIRM BELIEVER THAT WHEREVER THERE'S A TRANSIT STOP, THAT THERE, THERE SHOULD BE SHADE AVAILABLE OF SOME SORT, WHETHER THAT'S FROM THE SHADE TREE OR FROM A SHELTER, UM, THAT PROVIDES IT AT THE STOP. SO I HAVE A FRIEND FROM HONG KONG ORIGINALLY WHO TOLD ME THAT, UH, THERE'S, UH, A TOWN IN KOREA WHERE, UM, EVERY, UM, HERITAGE TREE HAS, UH, SOMEBODY ASSIGNED TO IT WHO LOOKS AFTER IT, MAKES SURE IT'S STILL STANDING, UH, GOOD. IT'S NOT DYING OR WHATEVER. UM, I'M JUST WONDERING IF THERE ARE WAYS WE CAN INVOLVE THE PUBLIC. UM, MAYBE WITH THESE, UH, BUS BUS STOPS, MAYBE PEOPLE WOULD ENJOY, UM, BEING ABLE TO HELP MAINTAIN THOSE. UM, MAYBE THERE WOULD BE GROUPS THAT WOULD VOLUNTEER FOR THE ONES IN THEIR COMMUNITY OR WHATEVER, JUST AN IDEA. AND THAT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE CAN TAKE BACK TO CAPITAL METRO, UM, FROM THIS CONVERSATION. YEAH. I'M JUST THINKING ANY ANYWHERE THAT WE CAN, UM, PUT IN PLANTS, WHETHER THEY'RE TREES OR WHATEVER, I THINK IT'S IT'S TO OUR BENEFIT. AND, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND, AND IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU'VE DONE A LOT OF, A LOT OF, UH, RESEARCH AND, AND HAVE REALLY, UH, THOUGHT AS MUCH TOO AS POSSIBLE. AND I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUESTIONS. HEY, YEAH. UH, JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE CAN AGREE THAT, YOU KNOW, SPEEDING UP DEVELOPMENT [01:15:01] TIMELINES AND STREAMLINING THE PROCESS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO, YOU KNOW, UM, PUBLIC MOBILITY OR PUBLIC TRANSIT, UH, IS PRETTY MUCH A NO BRAINER, VERY COMMON SENSE. UH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, COMMISSIONER BRIAN MORAG IDEA ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UM, RUNNING SOME KIND OF BOUGHT IT, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, ANNUALLY, BIANNUALLY, WHATEVER, AS FAR AS LIKE, YOU KNOW, ADMINISTRATIVE STUFF, UH, YOU KNOW, COMMISSIONER SCOTT HAD A GREAT IDEA ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BUS STOPS. I ACTUALLY LIVE AROUND THE CORNER FROM WHERE ONE OF THOSE ARE, IT'S ACTUALLY FUNNY CAUSE IT'S IN LIKE ONE OF THE WORST PARTS OF TOWN. CAUSE IT'S LIKE, ALL RIGHT, NO ROWS IN THE CONCRETE, WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, UM, I GUESS, UH, YOU KNOW, MY QUESTION WAS, AND THIS WAS MORE RELATED TO THE, UH, QUESTION. YEAH. I HAVE A PRETTY CLOSE TO A, TO AIRPORT BOULEVARD AND, UH, I MEAN EVEN HERE, RIGHT. TO GET TO, UH, THE PC, YOU KNOW, UH, AIRPORT IS BASICALLY THE ONLY NON FREEWAY WAY TO GET HERE. UM, BUT THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION HERE, UH, I GUESS SOUTH OF, YOU KNOW, TWO NINETIES, UH, RELATIVELY LACKING, ESPECIALLY IF YOU GO FURTHER SOUTHEAST IT PRETTY MUCH JUST DEGRADES AND GET WORSE AND WORSE, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S A TON OF DEVELOPMENT HAPPENING AROUND THERE. I WAS JUST CURIOUS, UH, WHAT ARE THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT Y'ALL GONNA MAKE IN THAT AREA? YEAH. UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF IMPROVEMENTS PLAN FOR AIRPORT BOULEVARD, UM, ALL THE WAY, UM, FROM, UH, NORTH ARE ON THE NORTH END, UM, ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 180 3 ON THE SOUTH END, UM, I GUESS SMELL DIAGONALLY, BUT, UH, UH, WE'RE WORKING TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE CONTINUOUS BIKE PATHS, SIDEWALKS, UM, SIGNAL INFRASTRUCTURE. UH, WE ARE INSTALLING, I BELIEVE THREE PEDESTRIAN HYBRID BEACONS WHERE INTERSECTION TO INTERSECTION THERE'S A LITTLE BIT TOO FAR FOR SOMEBODY TO TRAVEL AND TO CROSS THE STREET. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT PEDESTRIAN HYBRID, BEACONS, THOSE PREDOMINANTLY ON THE SOUTHERN SEGMENT, UM, CLOSE TO OAK SPRINGS. AND IN THAT GENERAL AREA IN PARTICULAR, THERE'S MORE OF A NEED, UM, IN THAT LOCATION. UM, WE'RE LOOKING TO PUT SOME DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND PARTICULARLY ON THE SOUTH END WHERE THAT DOESN'T, UM, DOESN'T HAVE THAT NOW I'M LOOKING AT TURN LANES WHERE THAT'S APPROPRIATE. UM, WE DO HAVE, I THINK IT'S MLK IS ONE OF OUR VISION ZERO INTERSECTION. SO WE'RE LOOKING TO DO A LOT OF SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS THERE AS WELL. THAT'S ON MLK FROM BIKING. YUP. UH, YEAH, I MEAN, UH, NO FURTHER QUESTIONS, ALTHOUGH I WILL SAY THAT EVERY TIME I BIKE ON THE AIRPORT, I FEEL LIKE A COMPLETE IDIOT. I'M LIKE, WHY AM I DOING THIS? YEAH. SO ANY IMPROVEMENTS ARE GREATLY NEEDED FOR SURE. UM, KAYLA, WE HAD A CALLER. UM, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND, UH, DO YOU KNOW, UH, HIS NAME INTRODUCED HIM IN AND HE GETS THREE MINUTES. IS THAT CORRECT? OKAY, CHRIS RILEY, ARE YOU THERE? YES, I'M HERE. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES. ONE MOMENT MAY TO MOVE THEM BACK OVER. HELLO. CAN YOU HEAR ME? HELLO, CHRIS, JUST GIVE US A MOMENT. WE'RE HAVING A FEW TECHNICAL ISSUES. OKAY. CHRIS. I COULD HEAR YOU IN THE WEBEX, BUT I COULD NOT HEAR YOU IN THE ROOM. AH, OKAY. NOT SURE WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM. WELL, THAT'S VERY STRANGE. DO YOU WANT ME TO ASK A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS WHILE WE'RE SHOOTING? UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. UH, A COUPLE OF KIND OF QUESTIONS TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF SOME OF THE IDEAS ON THE COMMISSION. I, I DO THINK, UM, COMMISSIONER, BRIMER HIS IDEA OF SOME WAY TO TRACK THIS, UM, WOULD BE TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MAYBE HOW WE CAN DO THAT WOULD BE, WOULD BE HELPFUL. UM, IN ADDITION, THE, THE IN LIEU FEES, YOU KNOW, THE, WHERE THEY'RE GOING, I THINK THERE WAS A SLIDE ABOUT KIND OF THAT GOES INTO A BUCKET AND THEN WATERSHED, UM, KIND OF HELPS FIGURE OUT THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE, BUT MAYBE TO WHERE WE CAN UNDERSTAND HOW THAT WAS USED. UM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE GREAT, UM, TO SPEAK TO SOME OF THE IMPERVIOUS COVER. I, UH, I'VE, I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT ALL THINGS ARE CONSIDERED PERVIOUS UNDER CODE, UH, AT TIMES WHEN I'VE ASKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PERVIOUS PAVERS OR, OR POROUS PAVEMENT AND OTHER ELEMENTS. BUT YEAH, I WOULD [01:20:01] DEFINITELY ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS TO LOOK FOR MAYBE SOME PILOT PROGRAM AREAS OR, OR OTHERWISE WHERE, UM, MAYBE IN THOSE PROJECTS WHERE YOU'RE ABOVE 85 OR WHATEVER THE ELEMENT WAS, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAYBE TRY TO DO SOMETHING, UM, FOR, FOR SOME OF THE PET AREA MAYBE, OR DEFINITELY NOT THE TRAVEL LANES, BUT, YOU KNOW, UH, IF WE'RE TRYING TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO DO IT, MAYBE SEE IF WE CAN FIGURE IT OUT OURSELVES, UM, AS WELL. UH, YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. WE'LL WORK WITH WATERSHED PROTECTION ON, ON EACH OF THOSE ITEMS AND BE ABLE TO GET BACK SOME INFORMATION TO YOU. PERFECT. UM, AND THEN IS THERE A CORRIDOR WEBSITE OR WHERE EACH OF THE COMMISSIONERS CAN KIND OF LOOK AND DARYL INTO THEIR DISTRICT TO SEE WHERE SOME OF THESE PROJECTS ARE? ABSOLUTELY. UH, WE DO HAVE A WEBSITE AND IN FACT, IT'S ON THE LAST SLIDE THERE. IT HAS, UM, UH, OUR WEBSITE, UH, GENERALLY, IF YOU GO TO AUSTIN, TEXAS.GOV OF WORD SLASH 2016, BOND TAKES YOU TO OUR WEBPAGE AND IT HAS ALL OF THE DIFFERENT PROJECTS THERE. UM, THERE IS WHAT'S CALLED A CAPITAL PROJECT EXPLORER, A LINK THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GO TO, AND THAT SHOWS NOT ONLY OUR QUARTER PROJECTS, BUT OTHER PROJECTS ACROSS THE CITY, UM, BEYOND JUST MOBILITY, UH, IT GOES INTO ALL OF THE CITY PROJECTS. AND SO YOU CAN, THEY HAVE A LITTLE TOOL WHERE YOU CAN ZOOM IN AND OUT AND KIND OF GO TO THE PART OF TOWN YOU'RE MOST INTERESTED IN, AND YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE ACTIVE PROJECTS THAT ARE UNDERWAY. PERFECT. THANK YOU. UM, AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS KIND OF WHEN WE WERE STARTING THE PRESENTATION, I FELT LIKE WE'RE TRYING TO DO MOBILITY. THAT'S MORE THAN JUST STREETS AND THE CODES KIND OF HINDERING YOUR ABILITY TO DO THAT. UM, ARE WE, ARE YOU LOOKING TO THE FUTURE FOR, I'M THINKING, YOU KNOW, THERE'S DISCUSSIONS OF TUNNELS FOR, FOR, UH, PROJECT CONNECT, BUT ARE THERE OTHER, I'M TRYING TO TELL YOU TO PREDICT THE FUTURE, BUT I THINK A LOT OF THINGS HAVE CHANGED JUST IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WITH, WITH TRANSPORTATION, BUT HOW ARE YOU GUYS TRYING TO STAY AHEAD OF THAT OR INCORPORATE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS OF BUILD-OUT? YEAH. UM, SOME OF THIS MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT OUTSIDE OF MY REALM, SO I'M GOING TO ANSWER PRETTY CAREFULLY. UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S ALL KINDS OF THINGS THAT THE CITY IS INVOLVED WITH, UM, INNOVATION WISE. AND SO DEFINITELY PROJECT CONNECT IS LOOKING AT A LOT OF INNOVATION. UM, THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, SMART MOBILITY GROUP IS ALSO LOOKING AT SOME OF THOSE THINGS AS WELL. SO THAT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS ON AND WE DO TRY TO LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT, WHAT WILL BE THAT BEST PRACTICE DOWN THE LINE AND, UH, TRY TO CHIP AWAY TOWARDS THAT AS MUCH AS WE CAN. OF COURSE, WE HAVE TO FEEL VERY CONFIDENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION DETAILS AND THE SPECIFICATIONS AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE PUTTING FORWARD AS WE DO INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS, UH, BUT DEFINITELY LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY AND TOWARDS THE FUTURE OF CAPITAL PROJECTS AND WHAT THEY CAN BECOME. PERFECT. YEAH. I MEAN, IT'S HARD TO PREDICT A FUTURE, BUT TRY NOT TO PRECLUDE YOURSELF FROM HAVING AVAILABILITY OF ELEMENTS, THERE'S ALL KINDS OF GREAT THINGS, UM, THAT ARE OUT THERE, UM, BEING TESTED BY OTHER FOLKS AND CERTAINLY BEING COGNIZANT OF, OF WHERE THOSE CONVERSATIONS ARE GOING IS THERE'S A LOT OF FUN. PERFECT. THANK YOU. HOW ARE WE DOING ON THE COLOR COURSE? I THINK WE FOUND THE ISSUE. ARE YOU THERE? UM, WE CAN HEAR YOU A HUNDRED PERCENT. MY NAME IS AUSTIN SEND SOME MERGER OF BOSTON WALK AND WE'RE GOING TO BE WORKING TOWARDS THEM AND SAFER AND MORE APPEALING PLACES FOR EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO AREN'T IN CARS. SO WE FULLY SUPPORT THE SPIRIT OF THE AMENDMENTS STAFF OUT TODAY. REALLY WANT TO THANK STAFF, ALL THE WORK. IT'S A REAL IMPORTANT EFFORT. YOU GET BEHIND THE PROJECT CONNECT OR PROGRAM TO THE GOALS AND THE PRIDE. UM, THEY JUST WANT TO RAISE ONE CONCERN ABOUT THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE PROPOSED THE AMENDMENT. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE ACTUAL EXTENT THE AMENDMENTS YOU HAVE, UM, MY, MY CONCERN IS IN PART FOUR, WHICH ON PAGES FIVE TO SIX OF THOSE AMENDMENTS DEALING WITH SECTION 25 DASH EIGHT DASH SEVEN, WATER QUALITY CONTROL REQUIREMENT ACTIONS. [01:25:01] IF YOU LOOK DOWN TO PARAGRAPH E UM, THEN THAT PARAGRAPH PROVIDES, UM, AN EXCEPTION FOR, FOR, FOR WHILE THE WATER QUALITY CONTROL REQUIREMENTS OF LESS THAN 8,000 SQUARE FEET FOR CERTAIN ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS. AND CURRENTLY THE LANGUAGE, UM, INCLUDES SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED BY CLAIMS AS PART OF THAT EXEMPTION, WHICH MAKES A LOT OF SENSE BECAUSE IF YOU'RE PROVIDING IMPERVIOUS COVER FOR BIKE LANES, THAT REALLY PRESENTS A WHOLE, A VERY DIFFERENT PROBLEM FROM ADDING IMPERVIOUS COVER FOR CAR LANES, CURLING DO INVOLVE ALL TYPES OF POLLUTANTS TIDBITS. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET FROM, FROM BIKE LANES. AND SO, UM, I'M GLAD THAT CURRENT TOAD ACTUALLY EXEMPTS BIKE LANES, THE, THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE THAT YOU SEE THERE ACTUALLY INSERTS OR RESTRICTION THERE IN FRONT OF BICYCLE LANES OR INSERTS THE, THE, THE LIMITATION CURB SEPARATED. AND WHILE WE LOVED HER GROUP SEPARATED BIKE LANES AND GENERALLY ANY PHYSICALLY PROTECTED BIKE LANES, UM, I DON'T THINK THAT THAT, UH, THAT, THAT PARTICULAR CHANGE MOVES US IN THE DIRECTION THAT WE WANT TO GO, THAT THAT WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE IT HARDER TO GET, UM, BUY PLANES IN BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT. UM, BECAUSE OTHER OTHER TYPES OF BIKE LANES, OTHER THAN CURB SEPARATED BIKE LANES WOULD NO LONGER BE WITHIN THAT EXCEPTION. FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU HAD A, A BIPLANE THAT IS PHYSICALLY SEPARATED BY LANDSCAPING, BUT NOT A CURB, BUT IT WOULDN'T BE CURB SEPARATED BIKE LANE. BUT TO ME ALL SUPPORT FOR THAT EXEMPTION. I HAVE TALKED WITH STAFF ABOUT THIS TODAY, AND I THINK THEY AGREE THAT THAT, THAT, THAT, UM, THAT THERE WAS SOME MISUNDERSTANDING, UM, THAT, UM, THAT LED TO THAT PHRASE BEING INSERTED THERE. AND THEN THEY SEEM TO MEAN A BOWL TO REMOVING THAT. I JUST WANTED TO FLAG IT FOR THE RECORD BECAUSE I, I THINK, UM, I TOTALLY SUPPORT THE, THE, UM, THE SPIRIT OF WHAT, WHAT STAFF WAS LAID OUT. AND I JUST DON'T THINK THAT PARTICULAR CHANGE IS CONSISTENT WITH THAT SPIRIT. SO THAT'S THE ONE IN ONE BRING MINOR CHANGE, BUT I WOULD SUGGEST, BUT APART FROM THAT, UM, WE FULLY SUPPORT THE PACKAGE OF AMENDMENTS THAT, THAT STAFF PRESENTED. AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE STAFF'S WORK ON THIS, AND WE APPRECIATE THE ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMISSION TAKING THE TIME TO CONSIDER IT. THANKS SO MUCH. YOU WOULDN'T MIND IF YOU COULD, COULD EMAIL, UM, EMAIL ME THAT CONCERN SPECIFIC THE SPECIFIC ELEMENT THAT WOULD BE GREAT, THEN KAYLA CAN SPREAD IT AROUND TO THE COMMISSION. UM, BUT WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOU STICKING IN THERE AND STAND ON HOLD AND, AND COLEMAN. AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. UM, WITH THAT, UM, WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOU COMING BY AND GIVING US A VERY DETAILED BRIEFING. UM, WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME TO NOT APPRECIATE IT TONIGHT. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO JUMP [2.a. Discussion and recommendation of Austin Water Capital Improvement Projects located in the Drinking Water Protection Zone for approval to include in the 5-year Capital spending plan as required by Financial Policy #8—Aurora Pizano, Financial Manager II, Austin Water (15 minutes) (Part 2 of 2)] BACK TO, TO A NOW, UM, AND SEE IF WE HAVE AN EMOTION PER CHANCE, JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY THIS IS, UH, ITEM TWO, A DISCUSS, RECOMMEND, UH, DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATION OF AUSTIN WATER, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS LOCATED IN THE DRINKING WATER PROTECTION ZONE FOR APPROVAL TO INCLUDE IN THE FIVE-YEAR, UH, CAPITAL SPENDING PLAN AS REQUIRED UNDER FISCAL POLICY. NUMBER EIGHT, WE'VE HAD A, A VERY BRIEF, BUT, UM, UH, GOOD PRESENTATION FROM STAFF. AND WHERE ARE WE? THANKS, KEVIN. WE DO HAVE A MOTION. CAN YOU HEAR THAT? LET ME KNOW ANYTHING HERE. I HAVE A MOTION. I'M NOT PICKING UP HER. MIKE, CAN YOU HEAR HER ON THE MIC? THAT'S ME. THAT'S ME. IT'S ON, BUT IT'S NOT WORKING GOOD NOW. OKAY. RIGHT. SO, UM, MAY 4TH, 2022 DISCUSSION RECOMMENDATION OF AUSTIN WATER CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS LOCATED IN THE DRINKING WATER PROTECTION ZONE, UH, FOR APPROVAL TO INCLUDE THE, A WS FIVE-YEAR CAPITAL SPENDING PLAN AS REQUIRED BY AWU FINANCIAL POLICY, NUMBER EIGHT, A WHEREAS THE CITY OF AUSTIN UTILITY PRESENT [01:30:01] PRESENTED AN UPDATE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION ON NEW GROWTH RELATED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, CIP, UM, LOCATED IN THE DRINK AND WATER PROTECTION ZONE. AND WHEREAS THE AUSTIN WATER UTILITY PROVIDES ADEQUATE DRINKING WATER AND RELIABLE SYSTEMS FOR, UM, CURRENT AND FUTURE CUSTOMERS. THEREFORE THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE REQUEST FOR INCLUSION OF THE CIP PROJECTS AND THE AUSTIN WATER UTILITIES, FIVE-YEAR CAPITAL SPENDING BUDGET. SO I CAN, ALRIGHT, WE GOT A MOTION AND A SECOND ANY DISCUSSION THAT THINKS, YEAH, YES, IT'S GOT, I WONDER IF WE GOT, IF WE SHOULD, UH, HAVING AN AMENDMENT TO ASK FOR A, UM, A RETURN, A BRIEFING AT A REASONABLE PERIOD OF TIME AND, UM, AMENABLE TO A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT THAT TIME MIGHT BE. YEAH. SO THIS MOTION ON I'M JUMPING AROUND A LOT, BUT THIS MOTION IS BACK TO THE FIRST, UH, STAFF PRESENTATION. THAT WAS THE VIRTUAL PRESENTATION. I'M CONFUSED. NO, YOU'RE NO, YOU'RE, I'M, I'M JUMPING AROUND, BUT SO, UH, THIS IS FOR THE, THE FOR ITEM TWO, A, UM, AND, UH, THE BRIEFING THAT WE JUST HAD ON ITEM TWO, B WAS, WAS, WAS JUST A BRIEFING. OH, OKAY. SORRY. YOU'RE YOU'RE FINE. ANY OTHER THOUGHTS ON QA? ALRIGHT. UM, UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. RAISE YOUR HAND OR SAY, AYE. I SEE EVERYBODY. THANK YOU. UM, ALL RIGHT, SO GOING TO KEEP ROLLING. I'VE GOT, I'M SORRY, DID WE GET A SECOND ON THAT MOTION? YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, ON THE [3.a. Name: Pinnacle at Wildhorse Ranch, C8-2021-0152 Applicant: Kevin Burks, Kimley Horn & Associates Location: 12000 Blue Bluff Rd, Austin, TX 78724 Council District: District 1 Staff: Pamela Abee-Taulli, Environmental Program Coordinator, Development Services Department Watershed: Gilleland Creek Watershed, Suburban Classification, Desired Development Zone Requests: Variance requests are as follows: 1. Request to vary from LDC 25-8-341 to allow cut to 15 feet. 2. Request to vary from LDC 25-8-342 to allow fill to 15 feet. Staff Recommendation: Staff recommended with conditions (30 minutes)] THREE A AND I'M GOING TO RECUSE SOMEONE HANDED OFF TO YOU. OKAY. UM, NEXT UP FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS, WE HAVE ITEM THREE, EIGHT PER PINNACLE AT WILD HORSE RANCH, C EIGHT DASH 2 0 2 1 0 1 5 2 APPLICANT, KEVIN BURKE'S KIMLEY HORN AND ASSOCIATES LOCATION IS 12,000, UH, BLUE BLUFF ROAD, AUSTIN, TEXAS 7 8 7 2 4. AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE A STAFF PRESENTATION FOR PAMELA. OKAY. SO GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. THIS IS PAMELA AB TALI ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM COORDINATOR. THANKS WITH THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT. UH, UM, AS WAS JUST SAID THAT, UH, I'M PRESENTING TONIGHT, THE PINNACLE AT WILD HORSE RANCH VARIANCES, UM, ADDRESS 12,000 BLUE BLUFF ROAD, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78 74, THE CASE NUMBER C 8 20 21 0 1 5 2. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED ON THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN, RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF THE CITY'S FULL PURPOSE JURISDICTION. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF HIGHWAYS TO THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS TWO 90 AND ONE 30 NORTH THERAP DECKER LAKE. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THE PROPERTY IS IN THE GILLILAN CREEK WATERSHED, WHICH IS CLASSIFIED SUBURBAN AND IN THE DESIRE DEVELOPMENT ZONE, THIS IS IN THE FULL PURPOSE JURISDICTION. AS I SAID, IT IS NOT LOCATED OVER THE EDWARDS AQUIFER RECHARGE ZONE. THERE ARE TWO WETLAND CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES, AND THIS IS IN COUNCIL DISTRICT. ONE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UH, ON THIS SLIDE, THE, UH, THE RED LINE SHOWS EXACTLY WHERE, UH, DEVELOPMENT IS PROPOSED WITH THIS PROJECT, THE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSES, SINGLE FAMILY, RESIDENTIAL, LOTS WATER QUALITY, AND DETENTION FACILITIES, AND OUR RIGHT OF WAY TO WRITE A WHIZ ON THE, ACROSS THE BOTTOM THERE. AND THE SINGLE [01:35:01] FAMILY LOTS ARE OVER TO THE LEFT. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TWO VARIANCES, ONE TO LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE 25, 8 31 CUT REQUIREMENTS TO CUT OVER FOUR FEET TO 15 FEET. AND THE SECOND TO LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE 25 8 3 42 FILL REQUIREMENTS TO FILL OVER FOUR PEOPLE, EIGHT TO 15 FEET. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE GRADING EXHIBIT. THE BROWNS ARE BROWN AND ORANGE ARE THE, THE CUT, AND THEN THE GREENS SHOW THE FILL. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THE NEXT THREE SLIDES ARE JUST CLOSE UPS TO THAT, SO YOU CAN GET A BETTER IDEA. NEXT SLIDE. PLEASE SLIDE PLEASE. NEXT SLIDE. SO A LITTLE BACKGROUND ABOUT THE SITE CONSTRAINTS, UM, THE SITE, OBVIOUSLY, WELL, THIS IS THE GRADING EXHIBIT, WHICH SHOWS, UH, IN THE PROGRESSIVELY DARKER GRAYS, THE GRADING, UH, OR THE I'M SORRY, NOT THE GRADING, THE SLOPES. DID I SAY GRADING IS THE SLOPES EXHIBIT, SORRY. UM, IT SHOWS THE SLOPES OVER 15% OVER 25% OVER 35%. UM, AND, UH, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE, THE RIGHT OF WAY, THE BOTTOM KIND OF THREADS ITS WAY THROUGH THE STEEPEST SLOPES AND THE, UM, SINGLE FAMILY HOUSES, UH, LOTS ARE SITUATED BETWEEN SLOPES OVER THERE ON THE, ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE AND IN THE FLATTER AREA. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THE OTHER CONSTRAINT ON THIS PROPERTY IS THE TWO WETLAND CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES. THE WETLAND ON THE LEFT IS ACTUALLY OFF THE PROPERTY, BUT THE BUFFER IS ON THE PROPERTY. AND THEN THE OTHER WETLAND ON THE RIGHT SQUARELY ON THE PROPERTY. UH, THE GREEN SHOWS THE MODIFIED WETLAND BUFFERS, UH, ADJUSTED A BIT. UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE STAFF, UH, RECOMMENDS THESE TWO VARIANCES FIRST BECAUSE SIMILAR VARIANCES HAVE BEEN GRANTED FOR PROJECTS WITH SIMILAR CODE REQUIREMENTS ALSO BECAUSE THIS VARIANCE IS NECESSITATED. WE FEEL BY TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES RATHER THAN DESIGN CHOICE. THE TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES ARE BEING THE STEEP SLOPES AND THE, UM, AND THE WETLAND, UH, CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES. THE VARIANCE IS THE MINIMUM DEVIATION FROM CODE. WE BELIEVE, UH, AS I MENTIONED, UH, THE RIGHT OF WAY THREADS ITS WAY THROUGH THE, THE STEEPEST OF THE SLOPES OR AVOIDING THE THREADS ITS WAY THROUGH KIND OF AVOIDING THE STEEPER SLOPES. UM, AND THEN THE, A SINGLE FAMILY LOTS ARE PLACED ON THE FLATTER AREA IN BETWEEN THE, THE CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL PICTURE BUFFERS. THE VARIANCE IS ALSO UNLIKELY TO RESULT IN HARMFUL ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES AT THE VARIANCES. AND, UH, THE WATER QUALITY WILL BE EQUAL TO THE WATER QUALITY WITHOUT THE VARIANCE. UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE STAFF RECOMMENDS THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS. THE APPLICANT WILL PROVIDE ENHANCED VEGETATION FOR THE WETLAND CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES RATING OVER EIGHT FEET WILL BE TERRORIST ARE CONTAINED WITH WALLS. WATER QUALITY REQUIREMENTS WILL BE MET BY USING BIOFILTRATION, WHICH IS A GREEN STORM WATER QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THANK YOU. AND, UH, THE APPLICANT ALSO HAS A PRESENTATION, SO, UH, I INVITE YOU TO ASK QUESTIONS NOW OR WAIT UNTIL THE APPLICANT'S PRESENTATION. UH, LET'S GO AHEAD AND HEAR FROM THE APPLICANT FIRST. UM, I HAVE TO, UM, SIGN UP AS APPLICANT, ROB SMITH AND KEVIN BURKE'S. OKAY. OKAY. AND YOU'LL HAVE A 10 MINUTES. SEALING ENGINEER FOR PINNACLE AT WILD HORSE RANCH, AS WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING ROB SMITH COLLEAGUE IN MY OFFICE IS ALSO HERE TO HELP ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS Y'ALL MAY HAVE, UM, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND HITTING THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UH, PAMELA DID A GOOD JOB OF DISCUSSING THE GENERAL PROJECT INFORMATION A MOMENT AGO, BUT DID WANT TO ALSO POINT OUT THAT [01:40:01] THE PROPERTY IS WITHIN THE WILD HORSE RANCH PUD, WHICH THE CITY HAS CLASSIFIED AS A MATCHING AUSTIN TOWN CENTER. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. A COUPLE OTHER QUICK CLARIFICATIONS THAT I WANT TO POINT OUT BEFORE WE REALLY DIVE IN, UM, OUR PRELIMINARY PLAN BOUNDARY DOES INCLUDE TWO MULTIFAMILY TRACKS. UH, BUT OUR VARIANCE REQUEST IS NOT INCLUDED EITHER OF THOSE PARCELS JUST MAY GO WITHOUT SAYING, BUT WANTED TO JUST CLARIFY THAT. UM, AS PAMELA MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, OUR SITE PLAN IS KIND OF CONSTRAINED BY TWO WETLAND CES, BUT WE ARE THREADING THE NEEDLE BETWEEN THEM AND WE ARE PRESERVING BOTH OF THOSE FEATURES. AND THE LAST THING THAT I WANNA POINT OUT ON THIS SLIDE IS AT THE VERY RIGHT END OF THAT SCREENSHOT, YOU CAN SEE A CUL-DE-SAC AND A FEW OTHER LOTS. THAT'S ACTUALLY OUR SETTLE RIGS PROJECT, UH, AND WE APPLIED FOR AND RECEIVED A VERY SIMILAR VARIANCE AROUND THIS TIME LAST YEAR FOR CUTTING FILL UP TO 15 FEET. UH, IF YOU COULD GO AHEAD AND HIT THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THANK YOU. THIS IS JUST REITERATING OUR VARIANCE REQUEST OF CUTTING FILL UP TO 15 FEET. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THANK YOU. THIS IS JUST OUR KIND OF OVERALL COOKEVILLE EXHIBIT. AND AS I'M DIVING INTO THE FINDINGS OF FACT, I ALSO WANTED TO TAKE A QUICK BEAT TO DESCRIBE HOW WE LANDED ON 15 FEET AND WHY MYSELF AND ROBERT HERE TO DISCUSS THIS WITH Y'ALL TONIGHT. UH, THE CRUX OF OUR ASK IS REALLY DRIVEN BY THE GEOMETRY OF OUR PROPOSED PUBLIC STREETS. THE CITY'S TRANSPORTATION CRITERIA MANUAL HAS VERY STRICT REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GEOMETRY OF THOSE STREETS, SO THAT CURVES AREN'T TOO SHARP. AND SO THAT AS PEOPLE ARE NAVIGATING DOWN, THEN THEY HAVE APPROPRIATE VISIBILITY. SO THEY CAN SEE IF A PEDESTRIAN IS CROSSING AT A HILLTOP, OR IF THEY NEED TO HIT THEIR BRAKES. IF THEY'RE COMING DOWNHILL, THE OTHER BIG KIND OF DESIGN CONSTRAINT THAT'S DRIVING OUR VARIANCE REQUEST IS THE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR INTERSECTIONS IN ALL OF OUR STREETS ARE ADA COMPLIANT. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, FOR KIND OF THAT RIGHT CONNECTION TO BLUE BLUFF ROAD AND TO OUR SADDLE RIDGE PHASE OF THE PROJECT, THAT THE INTERSECTION, UH, HAS A CROSS SLOPE, THAT'S SHALLOW ENOUGH THAT PEOPLE CAN CROSS IT, UH, AND COMPLY WITH ADA REGULATIONS. YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE SUBDIVISION AND ALL THE AMENITIES THAT WE'RE PROPOSING ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO BE ENJOYED AND UTILIZE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY, NOT JUST A PORTION OF IT. AND SO IT'S KIND OF GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THIS PLAYS OUT, EVEN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE. IF YOU CAN HIT THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, SORRY, FEEDBACK. YOU CAN SEE A DESIGN PROFILE OF WEST RIB THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT EARLIER, THAT KIND OF SPLITS. WHAT'S CALLED WILD HORSE RANCH TRAIL. AND THERE'S A FEW NOTES AND COMMENTS. I'M SORRY, WE'RE GETTING SOME FEEDBACK. IF EVERYBODY COULD CHECK THEIR MIX AND THEN ALSO WHATEVER ELSE ONLINE, MAKE SURE YOU'RE MUTED, PLEASE. AWESOME. THANK YOU. UM, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF JUST ENGINEERING NOTES. I KNOW IT'S PROBABLY PRETTY SMALL ON THE SCREENS. THAT'S PRIMARILY JUST FOR ME AND MY TEAM TO CHECK IN AUTOCAD TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE COMPLYING WITH THOSE TCM REGULATIONS. THE MAIN TAKEAWAYS THAT I HOPE THAT YOU CAN SEE IN MY KIND OF VIDEO, MAYBE BLOCKING THE VERY END OF THE PROFILE, BUT AS WE TRANSITION BACK AND CONNECT TO BLUE BLUFF ROAD, WE ARE COMING IN AT A FLAT SLOPE TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE ADA COMPLIANT. UM, YOU CAN ALSO SEE IT KIND OF THE HIGH POINT OF THE ROAD, KIND OF WHERE THAT ROUNDABOUT IS THAT CONNECTED TO JUST THE PREVIOUS DEVELOPMENT THAT ALSO LEVELS OFF TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE ADA COMPLIANT THROUGH THERE AS WELL. UH, SO WE HAVE A SAFE, FUNCTIONAL DESIGN THAT COMPLIES WITH THE TCM IT'S ADA COMPLIANT, BUT YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO TELL AT THIS SCALE, BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE NOT ABLE TO SATISFY BOTH OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS AND STAY WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATIVELY CUT AND FILL GREAT AND CHANGE WHAT IT'S. UM, THIS PROFILE NEEDS ABOUT 15 FEET CUT AND FILL. YOU CAN JUST SEE THAT KIND OF THAT SPOT HALFWAY DOWN THE PROFILE, WHERE IT JUMPS PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY. WE WERE DOING OUR BEST TO FOLLOW THE EXISTING TOPOGRAPHY, BUT FOR CASES LIKE THAT, THERE'S NO WAY TO MAKE A SAFE STREET THAT NAVIGATES SMOOTHLY IN INSTANCES LIKE THIS. UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY. THANK YOU. PERFECT. SO AS PAMELA MENTIONED, WE FEEL THAT WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB OF LAYING THIS OUT AND ARE PRESENTING THE, MAYBE A MINIMUM DEVIATION, EXCUSE ME, FROM CODE, UM, THOSE WETLANDS CF CONSTRAINTS THAT WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING. UM, THEY KIND OF DICTATED TO OUR LAND PLAN AND HOW WE LAID OUT THAT STREET AND THAT SINGLE FAMILY LAWS. AND IT WORKED OUT IN A PRETTY ADVANTAGEOUS WAY FOR US BECAUSE IT PUT THE ROAD RIGHT ON THE RIDGE LINE, DIVIDING, UH, THE DRAINAGE BOUNDARY TO THOSE CES. AND SO WE LAID OUT OUR DRAINAGE TO WHERE THE LOTS ACTUALLY DRAIN BE CAUGHT IN DRAINAGE SWALES, AND [01:45:01] IN DRAINAGE EASEMENTS, AND BE ROUTED TO THE WATER QUALITY IN DETENTION FACILITIES DOWNSTREAM THAT WAY. UM, THAT ALSO MINIMIZE THIS ARE ASKED FOR THE CUT AND THE FILL BECAUSE WE ARE FOLLOWING THE NATURAL TOPOGRAPHY. UM, AND AS AN ADDED BONUS, IT ENSURES THAT RUNOFF CONTINUES TO GO TO THE CES AS IT CURRENTLY IS. UM, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND HITTING THE NEXT LINE, UH, AS PAMELA MENTIONED, ONE OF THE CONDITIONS THAT WE'VE KIND OF SETTLED ON FOR THIS PRESENTATION TONIGHT WAS USING RETAINING WALLS AND TERRACING TECHNIQUES TO HELP MINIMIZE THE IMPACT FOR THE GREAT CHANGE OVER THAT ADMITTED ADMINISTRATIVELY APPROVABLE THRESHOLD. UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, AND WANTED TO BRIEFLY DISCUSS THE WATER QUALITY COMPONENT AS WELL. UM, WE DO HAVE TWO SEPARATE BASINS FEEDING, ONE FEEDING EACH OF THOSE CES. UH, THEY'RE PROPOSED TO BE BIOFILTRATION PAWNS AS WELL, SO SLIGHTLY ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT STANDARD CODE WOULD REQUIRE, BUT IT'S ALSO KIND OF HAND IN HAND WITH OUR CF SETBACK MITIGATION AS WELL. UM, SO IN TALKING THROUGH WITH STAFF ABOUT OTHER POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL BETTERMENTS, WE CAME UP WITH WHAT I'M PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT AND WHAT I THINK IS A PRETTY SOLID IDEA. IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND JUMPING TO THE NEXT SLIDE IN INVESTIGATING THE SITE AND YOU'RE GOING OUT AND WALKING IT WITH STAFF AND EXAMINING THE AERIALS, UM, THAT KIND OF HIGHLIGHTED SPOT LEFT OF THAT STOCK POND CF, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, SUBSTANTIAL TREES. THERE'S NOT A LOT OF EXISTING VEGETATION OUT THERE. IT'S ABOUT AN ACRE AND A HALF. UM, YOU CAN ALSO KIND OF SEE IN THAT AREA, THAT'S, I'LL SHOW PHOTOS IN A MOMENT AS WELL, BUT THERE'S A PRETTY BAD, JUST A ROASTED SWALE COMING OUT OF THAT STOCK BOND, PRETTY BAD DROPS. AND WE VIEWED THIS AS A PRETTY GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF BEAUTIFY THAT AREA, HELPING MONETIZE THAT CF, AND ALSO JUST KIND OF GIVE IT SOME TLC THAT IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN GETTING FOR THE LAST HOWEVER MANY YEARS. UM, IF YOU CAN JUMP TO THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE AND SHOW YOU KIND OF WHAT THE CONDITIONS ARE OUT THERE TODAY. SO, UM, THAT'S SOME OF THE KIND OF EROSION ON THE OUTFALL THAT WE'RE HOPING TO MITIGATE BY THESE ADDITIONAL PLANTINGS TO HELP KIND OF SMOOTH THAT OUT. THE OTHER THING THAT REALLY JUMPS OUT TO ME LOOKING AT THIS SLIDE IS JUST, THIS IS A REALLY NICE SEE. YEAH. UM, IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE'RE EXCITED TO PRESERVE. UH, I ACTUALLY SHOWED MY ROOMMATE PICTURES OF THIS AFTER I GOT BACK FROM MY SITE VISIT. AND AS I WAS PREPPING FOR THIS PRESENTATION AND HE WAS JOKING THAT WE HAD FOUND A NEW SWIMMING HOLE UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY CONSTRUCT THE PROJECT. UM, SO ALL THAT TO SAY WHERE WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT KEEPING THIS, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE RESIDENTS OF THE PROJECT ARE EXCITED ABOUT AS WELL. I MEAN, IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS GREAT POTENTIAL TO BE A PLACE THAT FAMILIES COULD GO FISHING OR, YOU KNOW, TAKE A HIKE AROUND A TRAIL. UM, I, I THINK THAT THIS IS A REALLY COOL WAY TO, YOU KNOW, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE NATURE THAT WE HAVE ONSITE. UH, IF YOU WOULD MIND JUMPING TO THE NEXT SLIDE, THESE ARE JUST A FEW MORE PICTURES, KIND OF COMPARING WHAT'S OUT THERE. WHAT WE SAW ON OUR SITE VISIT, UH, COMPARED TO SOME OF THE OTHER AMENITIES AND KIND OF PLANTING OPTIONS THAT WE COULD PROVIDE TO THE DEVELOPMENT. AND IF YOU JUMP TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND SHOW SOME OF THE KIND OF STREETSCAPING AND KIND OF TREE PLANTINGS ALONG THE RIGHT OF WAY AS WELL, UH, IN SHORT, WE FEEL LIKE WE'VE GOT A GOOD PATH FORWARD HERE. WE FEEL LIKE THE ADDITIONAL PLANTINGS, UM, THAT WE'VE BEEN PROPOSING. UM, I DID FAIL TO MENTION THIS INITIALLY, BUT THOSE PLANTINGS ARE IN ADDITION TO THE CF SETBACK MITIGATION. WE'RE NOT DOUBLE-DIPPING ON THAT FRONT. UM, BUT WE FEEL THAT THAT'S A FAIR ASK. IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT AS I MENTIONED, UH, WE THINK THAT THIS PARENT'S REQUEST MAKES SENSE SINCE OUR PROJECT RIGHT NEXT DOOR PROCEED A SIMILAR VARIANCE REQUEST AS WELL. UM, BUT THAT BEING SAID, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH ALL I HAVE. SO CERTAINLY OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT Y'ALL MAY HAVE TO. THANK YOU. OKAY. UM, AND THE COMMISSIONERS HAVE QUESTIONS. LET'S SEE, LET'S START WITH COMMISSIONER BARRETT. HI, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. BRIMER. YEAH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. UM, IT'S A LITTLE BIT OUT, A LITTLE BIT OUTSIDE OF THE SCOPE OF WHAT WE'RE BEING ASKED TO PROVE, BUT, UH, THAT, UH, CF THE POND. ARE YOU GONNA MAKE THAT INTO KIND OF LIKE A SEMI RECREATION AREA FOR RESIDENTS OF THE AREA, OR ARE YOU JUST GOING TO PRETTY MUCH LEAVE IT AS IS? I KNOW WE'VE SPOKEN WITH OUR CLIENT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, INCORPORATING A TRAIL NETWORK AND PROVIDING ACCESS FOR THE RESIDENTS DOWN THERE. UM, WE ARE STILL PRETTY EARLY ON THAT PROCESS. I'M NOT QUITE SURE HOW THEY'RE GOING TO AMENITIZE IT, BUT THAT IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. I HAVE NO QUESTIONS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. THANK [01:50:01] YOU. SO NO QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME EITHER. UM, HOWEVER, UH, THANKS FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU FOR HELPING BRING VERY, VERY BADLY NEEDED SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING, AUSTIN. THANK YOU. MA'AM. THANK YOU, CARRIE BRISTOL. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND OF COURSE, I'M GOING TO GET SOME FEEDBACK ON MY MIC HERE. UM, SO, UM, YOU TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. YOU'RE WORKING WITH YOUR CLIENT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO CREATE THE, UH, PUBLIC SPACE, UM, WITHIN THAT. UM, AND THEN YOU, YOU'VE ALSO TALKED ABOUT KIND OF HAVING SOME PLANTINGS AND STUFF WITHIN THAT 1.5 ACRES. I THINK YOU SAID IT WAS, UM, IN, IN THINKING ABOUT THIS IS IN THE BLACKLINE PRAIRIE, YOU KNOW, ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT HOW DOES THAT LOOK AS A PRAIRIE? UM, AS WELL AS, INSTEAD OF JUST COMING IN AND PLANTING A WHOLE BUNCH OF TREES, WHICH ARE NICE AND THEY'RE SHADY AND IT'S WONDERFUL. UM, HOWEVER ALSO KEEPING, KEEPING IN MIND THAT WHERE YOU ARE, UH, IN YOUR RESPECT TO TEXAS AND, AND RESPECT TO THE NATIVE PLANTS OF THAT AREA. YEAH, DEFINITELY. GREAT QUESTION. UM, PAMELA OR LIZ MAY BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THE ACTUAL REQUIREMENTS, PLEASE, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG A BIT, THE PROPOSAL IS A BELIEVER, ONE CANOPY TREE, AND TWO KIND OF UNDER BRUSH TREES FOR EVERY 700 SQUARE FEET. I THINK SO. AND IF SO, OKAY. IF I JUMP IN A PANEL TALI, IT'S ONE OF THE SAY ALSO WE ARE DOING THIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH A WETLAND BIOLOGIST REVIEWER WHO WILL BE, UH, OVERSEEING THE, HE WILL RECEIVE THE, THE PLAN AND THE CHOICE OF PLANTS. SO THANK YOU, LIZ JOHNSTON. UM, THAT IS A, AN INTERESTING, UM, QUESTION. AND, UM, WE DO TEND TO, ESPECIALLY ON RIPARIAN CORRIDORS, UM, UH, ENCOURAGED WOODY SPECIES ALONG DRAINAGE'S AND WATERWAYS. UM, I THINK LOOKING BACK AT THE HISTORICAL RECORDS, IT WAS PRAIRIE IN THE UPLANDS, BUT THEY'RE DRAINED. THE CORRIDORS, THE REPAIRING CORRIDORS WOULD HAVE HAD MORE DIVERSITY OF TREES AND EXISTS CURRENTLY TODAY AND, UH, YOU KNOW, MORE HEALTHIER DENSER WOODY AREAS. AND SO WE DO TEND TO, UM, KIND OF MIGRATE TO THOSE, UH, REQUIREMENTS WHEN LOOKING AT CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES OR CREEK RESTORATION, UM, PRAIRIE'S ARE GREAT FOR A LOT OF THINGS GREAT FOR CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND INFILTRATION. UM, THEY DO REQUIRE MAINTENANCE, UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A WAY TO PREVENT WHAT HE SPECIES FROM INVADING EFFECTIVELY. AND SO SOMETIMES IT'S, UM, EASIER TO, UH, UH, UH, ALLOW A WOODY AREA TO GROW UP AND HAVE A SUCCESSION OCCUR IN A, IN A WAY THAT WE CAN CONTROL A LITTLE BIT MORE THROUGH PLANTING THE SPECIES THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE RATHER THAN INVASIVES, BECAUSE OTHERWISE THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE SOME SORT OF A MOWING REGIME OR CONTROLLED BURN TO KEEP IT A PRAIRIE. SO WE DO TEND TO ASK FOR WOODY SPECIES MORE. YEAH, I DO RECOGNIZE THAT IT DOES TAKE MORE MAINTENANCE. UM, HOWEVER, YOU KNOW, IT IS THE ECOSYSTEM, UH, OF, OF THAT AREA. SO, UM, I JUST WANT TO ENCOURAGE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN, UM, TO USE THOSE PLANTS. OF COURSE, THOSE ARE ATTRACTED TO THE WILDLIFE AND SPECIES THAT LIVE THERE AS WELL. UH, ONE THING I MISSED WAS THE TOTAL ACREAGE OF THE WHOLE PROJECT. I DIDN'T SEE IT ON THERE. YES. UM, THE TOTAL AREA OF OUR VARIANCE REQUEST IS ABOUT 18 AND A HALF ACRES. UH, IF YOU ADD IN THIS MULTIFAMILY TRACKS, I THINK IT GETS UP TO AROUND ON THE ORDER OF 40 ISH ACRES. AND WHAT'S THE TOTAL ACREAGE OF THE PROPERTY THAT YOU'RE, UH, THE ENTIRE WILD HORSE RANCH POD? UM, NO, JUST THIS, THIS PIECE, JUST THIS PIECE. THAT'S ABOUT THAT 40 ACRES. OKAY. THANK YOU. NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER SIERRA, NO QUESTIONS, BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND CARE AND YOUR WORK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. SCOTT, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION, JUST TO TRY AND GET A PERSPECTIVE ON THIS BETTER PERSPECTIVE ON THE SITE. WHAT'S THE SIZE FOR EACH OF THE PROPERTIES? UH, EACH OF THE SINGLE FAMILY LOTS. YEAH. UH, I BELIEVE THE CURRENT DIMENSIONS ARE 50 FEET BY 120 FEET. OKAY. AND THAT, AND IT'S ABOUT 1.6 ACRES SETS IN THAT AREA, UH, WHERE YOU'RE THINKING OF PUTTING SOME TREES IN THE ADDITIONAL PLANTING AREA. YES MA'AM. YEAH. I, [01:55:01] I JUST WANTED TO SECOND THAT CONCERN ABOUT THE, UM, THE, THE PRAIRIE'S, UH, LIVED IN BETHEL ALASKA FOR A TIME, AND THERE WERE CERTAIN SPECIES OF BIRDS WHO LAID THEIR EGGS IN THE TUNDRA. I DON'T IMAGINE YOU HAVE ANY TUNDRA HERE. UM, BUT, UM, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THAT THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN AS IT'S CURRENTLY EXISTING, BUT, UM, A LOT OF, A LOT OF WILDLIFE ADAPTS TO THE AREA WHERE IT IS. SO I THINK IT'S SOMETHING TO BE, UM, JUST PAYING SOME ATTENTION TO, AND I UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR, FOR, FOR THE TREES IN THE, UM, IN THE PLANTINGS AS WELL. BUT MAYBE IF, IF YOU CAN, UM, IF YOU CAN PAY SOME ATTENTION TO THAT IN, UM, IN YOUR PLANNING, UM, I THINK IT MIGHT JUST BE A MO MORE SUCCESSFUL OVERALL FOR, UH, UH, COEXISTENCE WITH WILDLIFE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YEAH. MUCH AGGRESSION. UH, YEAH, NO REAL QUESTIONS. UH, THINK THIS VARIANT SEEMS PRETTY REASONABLE, YOU KNOW, AND THERE'S DEFINITELY A BIG NEED FOR, YOU KNOW, HOUSING, BOTH SINGLE AND MULTIFAMILY AND THE NORTHEAST AUSTIN SLASH MAYNOR AREA. UH, I GUESS, UH, MY ONE QUESTION NOW, I THINK BAT ISN'T A WILD HORSE SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE ON THE PROJECT CONNECT GREEN LINE EXTENSION LINE SOMETHING. UM, I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT IN GREAT DETAIL. ROB, DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THAT ASPECT, PROJECT CONNECT? THIS IS A TRAIN MEETING. YEAH. YEAH. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ROD SMITH HERE WITHIN THE HORN. UM, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CAT METRO LINE. YES. I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH COLOR IT IS, BUT YOU SAY IT'S THE GREEN LINE. YEAH. THIS IS THE RIGHT OF WAY CUTS ALONG THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY AND GOES NORTH OF THIS SITE, DOESN'T ACTUALLY TOUCH THIS PIECE OF WOBBLE. WOULD YOU MANAGE A LOT OF THE RANCH IS ABOUT 2000 ACRES. THAT'S A SMALL PIECE ON THE NORTHERN SIDE OF GOTCHA. YEAH, NO, CAUSE I'D NEVER REALLY HEARD OF WILD HORSE UNTIL I SAW THAT MAP AND I WAS LIKE, I KNOW MANOR. I KNOW ALGEN GOT NO CLUE WHAT WILD HORSES NOW I KNOW. APPRECIATE IT. YOU GOOD? THANK YOU. UM, I JUST HAD ONE QUESTION. I WAS KINDA CURIOUS THAT, UM, THERE'S ANY CERTAIN SPECIES OF WILDLIFE I'VE BEEN NOTICED IN THE WETLANDS? YOU KNOW, I DO REMEMBER. I THINK I CAN RECALL SEEING SOME FISH IN THERE WHENEVER I FIRST WENT. UH, UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S PRETTY OUT OF MY WHEELHOUSE. I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHAT I DID SEE. UM, BUT I DO KNOW THERE WERE FISH IN THERE. THANK YOU. UH, DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING? WE DID A PUBLIC HEARING, RIGHT. WE HAVE A, UH, IF IT'S SOMEONE MAKE A MOTION, THE MOTION TO CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING, WHICHEVER WORKS. OKAY. THANK YOU NOW TO BE ABLE TO MOST, OKAY. UM, MAY FOUR, UH, 2022 PINNACLE AT WILD HORSE RANT, C EIGHT DASH 2 0 2 1 DASH 0 1 5 2. UM, WHEREAS ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION RECOGNIZE THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING YOUR PARENTS AS FOLLOWS, UH, REQUESTED BERRY FROM LDC TWO, FIVE DASH EIGHT DASH 3 4 1 2 ALLOW CUT TO 15 FEET OR REQUEST TO VARY FROM LDC TWO, FIVE DASH EIGHT DASH 3 4 2 TO ALLOW PHIL TO 15 FEET. WHEREAS THE VERMONT COMMISSION RECOGNIZES THE SITE IS LOCATED IN THE GHILLEAN CREEK WATERSHED, UH, SUBURBAN CLASSIFICATION IN THE DESIRE DEVELOPMENT ZONE. AND WHEREAS THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION RECOGNIZES THAT STAFF RECOMMENDS THIS VARIANCE WITH STAFF CONDITIONS, HAVING DETERMINED THAT DETERMINED THE REQUIRED FINDINGS OF FACT HAVE BEEN MET. THEREFORE THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION RECOMMENDS THE VARIANCE REQUEST WITH THE FOLLOWING STAFF CONDITIONS. NUMBER ONE, THE APPLICANT WILL PROVIDE ENHANCED VISITATION. UM, WELL WETLAND CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES DO BE COMPRISED OF ONE CANOPY TREE AND TWO UNDERSTORY TREES FOR 700 SQUARE FEET TO BE PLANTED IN CLUSTERS WITH PLANTS NO CLOSER THAN THREE FEET ON CENTER. AND GENERALLY, AND IT GENERALLY, UM, TREELESS AREA THAT IS ROUGHLY 7,000 SQUARE FEET. [02:00:01] TWO GRADING OVER EIGHT FEET WILL BE STABILIZED BY CONTAINMENT AND OR TERRACING. AND THREE WATER QUALITY REQUIREMENTS WILL BE MET BY USING BIOFILTRATION A GREEN STORM WATER QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE. ARE THERE ANY, UM, FOLLOWING ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION CONDITIONS THAT YOU'D LIKE TO ADD? THE CITY OF AUSTIN RECENTLY? UM, UH, RATHER THAN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, UH, UH, CITY COUNCIL RECENTLY VOTED, UH, FOR US AND TO WORK, TO BECOME, UH, A B CITY THAT IS TO SAY, BE FRIENDLY, UM, TO BE, AND WE HAVE 400 NATIVE SOLITARY BEE SPECIES IN TEXAS, UM, NINE BUMBLEBEE SPECIES AND THEY'RE THREATENED IN PART BY HABITAT THAT ALSO QUITE, UM, QUITE A BIT BY, UM, SEVERAL, UH, VERY COMMONLY USED PESTICIDES, INCLUDING ROUNDUP, UH, NICOTINE AND MITES, UH, PARAQUAT. AND, UM, I JUST AM WONDERING IF MAYBE THIS IS THE TIME WHEN WE SHOULD BE, UM, ASKING FOR PEOPLE TO, UM, TO, IN ORDER TO, UH, UH, KEEP THE, THE WATER SAFE AND KEEP THESE PESTICIDES FROM MIGRATING, FROM WHERE THEY START TO ENTER THE WATER SYSTEM. AND THEN BACK INTO THE, UH, MORE AND MORE LAND WITH HER, WHETHER WE SHOULD START REQUIRING PEOPLE TO, UM, STOP USING PESTICIDES AND USE, UH, ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR CONTROL OF, UM, ESPECIALLY THERE IS CRITICAL FOR, UH, UM, WATER AND, UH, WILDLIFE. UM, SURE. SCOTT, CAN I, CAN I TAKE A STAB AT WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO GET AT? UM, MAYBE, UH, MAYBE OBSCURE. OKAY. YEAH. SO TH SINCE THIS IS, UM, A CONDITION THAT WE WOULD HAVE FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION THAT WE'RE ASKING THE DEVELOPERS, UM, TO DO, UM, I WROTE, UH, CREATING POLLINATOR ZONES WHERE POSSIBLE, I BELIEVE THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE GOING WITH THAT. AND THEN, UM, USE NATIVE PLANTS, UM, THAT REPRESENT THE PERRY ECOSYSTEM. WHERE POSSIBLE DOES THAT SOUND ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING AND AVOID THE USE OF PESTICIDES AND HERBICIDES? I DON'T THINK AS WE'RE IN THIS DISCUSSION PART THAT Y'ALL CAN JUMP IN. I'M SORRY. SO I, I, THIS MAY BE A RADICAL DEPARTURE, BUT I, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT WE HAVE TO START THINKING ABOUT WHAT WHAT'S OKAY TO, TO DO TO OUR LAND. AND, UM, I'M NOT SURE THAT IT'S, UM, SO REALLY, UM, SO JUST ON PROCEDURE, I WANT TO MAKE SURE, SO WE'RE WE'RE RIGHT NOW, WE'RE, UM, WE'RE FOCUSED ON THIS MOTION AND THEN ONCE WE OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION, OH, I THOUGHT WE WERE OPEN FOR, NO, THIS IS JUST FOR, DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER FALLEN CONDITIONS THAT WE WANT TO ADD ON THERE? OKAY. WELL, I GUESS THAT WOULD BE A CON WHEN THAT'D BE A CONDITION THAT YOU WANT TO, UM, ASK THEM TO LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF PESTICIDES USE, UM, IN THEIR PROJECT, UM, PESTICIDES AND HER HERBICIDES, COMMISSIONER BRISTOL, WE COULD ASK FOR AN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN TO BE ADDED. THAT IS A PROCESS THAT EXISTS, AND WE HAVE AN, IT INCLUDES PESTICIDES, HERBICIDES, ET CETERA, BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES RELATIVE TO THAT. YEAH, THAT SOUNDS LIKE THAT WOULD WORK. CAN I ASK A QUESTION? UM, CAN I ASK A QUESTION OF THE APPLICANT? WOULD THAT BE ALLOWED EVEN THE WORD? OKAY. SO WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS NEW CONDITION? YEAH, ROB AND I WERE ACTUALLY SPEAKING WHILE Y'ALL WERE KIND OF DRAFTING THE MESHES AND CONDITIONINGS AND THE INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT RESTRICTIVE COVENANT WAS WHERE WE WERE LANDING AS WELL. THAT'S A GOOD AGREEMENT. YOU THINK? OKAY. SO TO RECAP, LET ME JUST MAKE SURE I SPELLED THAT CORRECTLY. UM, SO WE HAVE ONE CREATE A POLLINATOR, UM, CREATE POLLINATOR ZONES WHERE POSSIBLE, UM, USE NATIVE PLANTS THAT REPRESENT THE PRAIRIE ECOSYSTEM WHERE POSSIBLE AND INCLUDE [02:05:01] AN INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PLAN. OKAY. DO WE HAVE A SECOND SECOND BY MR. SHIRA? UH, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION? OKAY. LET'S DO A VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY AYE, OR RAISE YOUR HAND. OKAY. THIS LOOKS UNANIMOUS PERSON PASSES. THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. I SHARE A BED REMINISCED ABOUT AND SEE IF I CAN FIND CHEAP RENT. MOST OF YOU JOINED US. I THINK WE HAVE MAYBE A COUPLE MORE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA. THANK YOU, GALA. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE CRANKING. UM, SO WE HAVE ON HERE THREE B, BUT WE HAD A MOTION TO POSTPONE. UM, SO HOPEFULLY THAT'LL GET KNOCKED ON THIS NEXT, NEXT MEETING, UM, COMMITTEE REPORTS, [4. COMMITTEE REPORTS] JUST KIND OF GOING DOWN THE LIST. DO, UH, ANY COMMITTEES HAVE ANYTHING TO REPORT? YES. SO THE SELF CENTRAL WATER WATERFRONT AT BATH REPORT MET AT THIS PAST MONDAY ON THE 2ND OF MAY. AND WE HAD A, UM, A PROPOSAL REGARDING THE BED THAT, UM, ASKING THE CITY TO, OR THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AS PART OF THE BUDGET AND RECOGNIZING THAT THE PLAN IS MOVING FORWARD. SO WE NEED TO ALLOW FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BECAUSE THE LAST TIME ANY COMMITTEE ENGAGEMENT WAS RECEIVED WAS IN 2017. SO WE MAKE, WE'RE MAKING THAT RECOMMENDATION. WE HAD A, A PRESENTATION ON THE, UH, REGULATING PLAN. THERE'S STILL NO REGULATING PLAN. UH, WE HAD A PRESENTATION ALSO FROM, UM, THE, ON THE ECONOMIC, UH, FROM THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. UH, CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE CORPORATION BOARD DID A PRESENTATION AND WE DISCUSSED SOME OF THE ISSUES RELATED TO THE WATERFRONT PLAN. AND IT'S GOING TO START MOVING FORWARD REALLY QUICKLY. UM, WE'RE GOING TO GET DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS, WE'RE GOING TO GET SOME, UM, THE ACTUAL PLAN ITSELF AND, UM, ALSO PROVIDE A RECOMMENDATION AND IT'S GOING TO GO BEFORE COATS AND ORDINANCES WHEN COMMITTEE IN AUGUST, BEFORE THE PLANNING PERMISSION AGAIN, ALSO IN AUGUST INTO THE CITY COUNCIL IN SEPTEMBER. SO THAT'S THE PROPOSED TIMELINE FOR THAT. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ANY OTHER, UH, BOARDS, I MEAN, ANY OTHER COMMITTEES ARE NON-COMMITTED ANYTHING BEFORE YOUR MIC MIGHT NOT BE ON? DID THANK YOU. UM, THEN FATS COMMISSION, UH, INITIATIVE MET ON MAY 2ND, WHICH WAS MONDAY WITH, UM, UH, THE, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION AND PRESENTED INFORMATION TO THEM ABOUT, UM, UM, TORNADO HAZARDS. UM, AND DO YOU HAVE THAT, UH, ONE SLIDE THAT I GAVE YOU, I THOUGHT I'D JUST FOR CHANGE, BE BRIEF. AND, UM, THE, UH, THIS KIND OF SUMMARIZES THE REASON WHY, UM, IF YOU SEE THAT KIND OF DARK AREA, UH, ON THE LOWER PART OF TEXAS THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF TEXAS, THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE TRAVIS COUNTY IS. UM, THAT'S YEAH, THAT'S THE ONE. WELL, UH, IT'S YOU NOTICE IT'S KINDA [02:10:01] KINDA DARK COMPARED TO SOME OF THE OTHERS, BUT, BUT THERE, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THOSE ARE AREAS THAT THE FEMA, UM, FOLKS, WHEN THEY DID A COUNTY BY COUNTY ASSESSMENT OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, UM, IT'S, UH, IT'S OUR TORNADO RISK AND THE, UH, UH, AMOUNT THAT IT WOULD COST IN LIVES AND PROPERTY THAT LED TO THOSE COUNTIES BEING HIGHLIGHTED IS THEY ARE, IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A SIGNIFICANT RISK AND, AND IT'S, IT'S NOT WELL APPRECIATED IN AUSTIN. UM, WE HAVE HAD ABOUT APPROXIMATELY, UH, ONE TORNADO A YEAR IN TRAVIS COUNTY. UM, THEY, OF COURSE WE HAVE 1200, UH, TORNADOES A YEAR IN THE UNITED STATES, UH, ON AN AVERAGE. AND BY FAR, THE, MOST OF THEM ARE IN THE F E F UH, ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE, A ZERO AND ONE AND LESS THAN IN, IN THE, UH, INTO, IN, IN FAR LESS THAN THREE. AND IN VERY RARELY IN THE , WHICH ARE, UH, JUST, UH, INCREDIBLE, UH, DISASTERS. BUT, UM, TODAY IS THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TWIN TORNADOES THAT HIT AUSTIN. UM, ONE ON EITHER SIDE OF THE CAPITOL, KILLING 13 PEOPLE AND, AND DESTROYING PROPERTY IN THE AMOUNT OF, UH, OR WHAT WOULD TODAY BE, BUT WAS $11 MILLION. AND, UH, THERE ARE A LOT OF MYTHS ABOUT AUSTIN THAT WERE PROTECTED BY THE HILLS THAT WERE, UM, UH, THAT, THAT TORNADO STONE HAD CITIES. AND, UH, AND UNFORTUNATELY, UH, THAT'S NOT TRUE. UM, WE HAD A SUPER CELL, UH, SYSTEM OF VERY LARGE ONE THAT WAS OVER AUSTIN ON MAY 21ST. AND BECAUSE THAT SUPER CELL WAS SHOWING ROTATION, THAT'S WHY THE, UH, TORNADO WARNING WAS ISSUED. AND IT DID COME DOWN. A TORNADO DID APPEAR IN ROUND ROCK JUST OUTSIDE OF AUSTIN. SO I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THAT GIVEN WHAT WE SEE FROM FEMA'S ASSESSMENT, THEIR WHOLE POINT BEING TO GET AWAY FROM WHAT EVERYBODY THINKS AND TO APPROACH, UH, HAZARD MITIGATION FROM A, UH, A MORE OF A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE. I THINK THAT W THAT, THAT REQUIRES US TO CONSIDER IT SERIOUSLY AND TO DO, UH, WHAT MITIGATION THAT WE CAN. WE WERE TOLD THAT, UH, THE MITIGATION PLAN IS COMPLETE AND THAT WE COULD APPLY FOR, UM, GRANTS FOR, UH, HOMES, UM, HOMEOWNERS TO APPLY FOR SAFE ROOM GRANTS BY, UH, I THINK THE TEXAS, UH, TV, PC, OR TDC OR WHATEVER IT IS. BUT, UH, I THEN TALKED WITH, UM, UH, THE FEMALE REPRESENTATIVE FOR OUR REGION WHO SAID, NO, WE'RE NOT. UM, AND THE REASON WE'RE NOT IS THAT THE CITY DID NOT APPLY FOR THAT, UH, FOR AUSTIN RESIDENTS. AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY NOT IT'S MONEY SITTING ON THE TABLE THAT AUSTIN RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR IF THEY, IF THEY ARE GIVEN A CHANCE. AND WHY WOULD WE NOT ALLOW PEOPLE TO, UH, TO HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY? UM, MY FEELING ABOUT IT BEING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE FRANKLY SCARED WHEN THERE'S A TORNADO WARNING AND, UM, CONCERNS THAT IF IT'S, UM, A MORE , UH, ANY, UH, FOR THAT THEY, THEY, THEY, IN THEIR FAMILIES, UH, THEIR ANIMALS COULD BE KILLED. UM, AND SO THERE'S A GREAT DEAL OF PEACE OF MIND THAT COMES FROM HAVING TO A SHELTER. I GREW UP IN AN AREA WHERE WE HAD FREQUENT TORNADO WARNINGS AND WE HAD A BASEMENT. SO THAT'S WHERE WE WENT. AND, UM, OUR HOUSE WAS NEVER HIT, BUT THE POINT WAS THAT WE WEREN'T SITTING THERE AFRAID ALL NIGHT, OR FOR SEVERAL HOURS, WE WERE HAPPILY PLAYING GAMES IN THE BASEMENT, FEELING SAFE. AND, AND I, I WANT TO GIVE AUSTIN RESIDENTS A CHANCE TO NOT ONLY FEEL SAFE, BUT TO BE SAFE IF THEY, IF THAT'S THEIR, THEIR WISH. SO, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE'RE PURSUING. AND, UM, UH, I THINK WE WERE GOING TO NEED TO KIND OF REGROUP. AND NOW THAT WE FOUND OUT [02:15:01] THAT IT'S NOT BEING RE REQUIRED BY THE, THAT IT HASN'T BEEN APPROVED, THAT WE'RE GONNA REGROUP, UH, AS TO WHAT OUR STRATEGY IS NEXT. UH, AND, UM, UH, WE BELIEVE THAT THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION IS THE APPROPRIATE PLACE TO TAKE THE LEAD ON THIS. AND, AND, UH, BUT THERE, BUT THERE'S STILL, UH, AREAS BEING THAT, UH, ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THE ENVIRONMENT IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN AND THAT, THAT ARE, UM, HAVING READ OUR MISSION AND WHAT IT SAYS IN THE CODE ABOUT, UH, UH, WHAT IT IS IT'S IT'S TO, UM, ASSURE THE, UH, THE, THE HEALTH, THE SAFETY AND WELLBEING OF THE CITIZENS OF AUSTIN WITH REGARD TO, UH, ENVIRONMENT. UH, AND THAT'S THE, THE REASON FOR MY, UM, UH, TAKING, TAKING THIS ON, UH, WE'RE TWICE AS MUCH AT RISK, UH, FOR DAMAGE TO LIVES AND PROPERTY, UH, FROM TORNADOES THAN WE ARE FROM ANY OTHER SINGLE HAZARD, INCLUDING FLOODING, UH, BECAUSE THE CITY HAS DONE SUCH A GOOD JOB ON FLOODING, UH, UH, MITIGATION THAT, THAT WE'RE IN A MUCH BETTER POSITION. NOT THAT ANY OF THAT'S STILL TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY BECAUSE IT'S, THOSE ARE STILL REAL CONCERNS. HAIL IS A REAL CONCERN. UH, FLOODING IS A REAL CONCERN. UH, WINTER STORMS ARE STILL REAL CONCERNED. UM, WE HAVE ABOUT 10 WHEN, SORT OF LIKE THE CROSSROADS, THE APOCALYPSE HERE, UM, ALL THE THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN. RIGHT. I HAVEN'T SEEN THE LOCUS SHOW UP YET, BUT THAT'S ABOUT IT. SO, UM, THAT'S WHERE WE STAND RIGHT NOW. PERFECT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. ANYBODY ELSE GOT ANYTHING? I HAVE A QUESTION. YES, MA'AM. UM, I AM NOT ON THE URBAN URBAN FOREST FORESTRY COMMITTEE, BUT I DO HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE COMMITTEE, UM, UH, AND POTENTIALLY FOR CITY STAFF. UM, MY CONCERN IS RELATED TO A WINTER STORM OR A URI, EH, APOCALYPSE, AND THE EFFECT OF ON LARGE CANOPY TREES IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, ESPECIALLY IN, UM, UH, DISTRICT FOUR. I KNOW THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF HACKBERRIES THAT ARE DYING AND HAVE, DID DIE DURING THE SNOWPOCALYPSE. AND SO I WANTED TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF IF WE KNOW WHAT THE IMPACT WAS TO THE LARGE CANOPY TREES AND WHAT, UH, MS. CALLE GEMMA WATERSHED PROTECTION. I BELIEVE THAT, UH, KEITH MARS WITH THIS, OUR FIRST PROGRAM HAS GIVEN AN UPDATE ON THIS TO THE URBAN FORESTRY COMMITTEE. I WILL GO BACK AND CHECK TO SEE IF WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION THAT'S ALREADY BEEN PROVIDED. AND IF NOT, WE CAN REACH OUT TO THE CITY ARBORIST, NAOMI ROSEMOUNT, OR MR. MAURICE TO GET THAT MENTIONED. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU GUYS. UH, EIGHT TWENTY ONE. LET'S CALL IT A TONIGHT. APPRECIATE IT. JUST TO YOU FIND TO ADJOURN, PLEASE RSVP TO MY PARTY. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.