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SO[Call to Order]
STARTING OUR MEETING.SIX 15 STARTING ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING AND IT IS VIA VIDEO CONFERENCE ON ATX AND LIVE FOR THE COMMISSIONER, A GARY HERE, A COMMISSIONER BREWER RAMIREZ HERE.
COMMISSIONER BRAY, COMMISSIONER DINKLER, PRESENT VICE CHAIR, DUNCAN, COMMISSIONER EVANS, COMMISSIONER KING AND JULIAN CABASA HERE.
COMMISSIONER RAY AND COMMISSIONER SMITH.
[Reading of the Agenda]
AND I'LL READ THE READ THE AGENDA, THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES, A ONE APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM MAY 20TH, 2020 B IS B ONE IS C 14 DASH TWO ONE NINE DASH ZERO ONE TWO NINE DASH ONE OH EIGHT OH ONE WAYNE WRIGHT L LOOP DISTRICT FIVE AND THAT WILL BE A DISCUSSION ITEM A B TWO REZONING C 14 DASH 2020 DASH ZERO ZERO ONE FIVE DASH TECH RIDGE HOTEL DISTRICT ONE THAT IS FOR CONSENT.IT'S BECAUSE OF A MAPPING ERROR B3 A REZONING C 14 DASH 2020 DASH ZERO ZERO FOUR FIVE UH AND THAT'S ALL REZONING DISTRICT ONE THAT'S OFFERED FOR CONSENT AND S BEFORE REZONING C 14 DASH 2020 DASH ZERO ZERO THREE SEVEN TEN FOUR HUNDRED RESEARCH BOULEVARD BMU AND THAT IS OFFERED FOR CONSENT AND B AND B FIVE REZONING C 14 DASH 2020 DASH ZERO ZERO FOUR ZERO NEW LOT.
APPLICANT IS ASKING FOR A POSTPONEMENT TO JUNE 2ND C A B SIX THE REZONING C 14 2020 DASH ZERO ZERO 46 JOLLYVILLE APARTMENTS DISTRICT 10 OFFER FOR CONSENT.
C H J DASH 2018 DASH ZERO TWO TWO 5.08 FLORA'S MILK MELCOR MRO SUBDIVISION THAT'S OFFERED FOR CONSENT THE EIGHT C EIGHT DASH 2019 DASH ZERO ONE THREE 2.08 AURA RANCH DISTRICT C OFFERED FOR CONSENT
EFFICIENCY AND ZERO ZERO SIX THREE EIGHT ALLEGRA.
PARMA FINAL THAT IS OFFERED FOR CONSENT.
AND THEN, UM, THAT IS, THAT IS OUR AGENDA AND I, AND THEN WE HAVE NEW BUSINESS AND ALL THAT.
[Consent Agenda]
UH, THE CONSENT AGENDA, WHICH IS A ONE MINUTES B TO B FOUR B SIX AND B 10 OR APPROVALS AND THEN BE FINE WITH IS A POSTPONEMENT REQUEST TO JUNE 2ND BY THE APPLICANT.WHO WANTS TO CLOSE THE MEETING AND UM, AND THEN HAVE A VOTE ON OUR CONSENT AGENDA.
PLEASE, UH, SAY SOMETHING OR HOLD UP GREEN MOTION BY COMMISSIONER DINKLER, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER KING.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND HAVING THE CONSENT AGENDA, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND THAT IS OUR CONSENT AGENDA AND OUR FIRST ITEM
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OF BUSINESS AND ARE ONLY IN OUR OWN ZONING CASE IS ONE HAND.AND WE, AND THERE, AND I SHOULD ADD BEFORE, I WANT TO SAY EVEN BEFORE WE DO, UM, THE APPLICANT OR THE, THE STAFF, UH, REPORT THAT THERE IS SOME CARE LISTS FOR THOSE PEOPLE.
AND UM, I'LL READ A LONG LIST.
UM, SO WENDY RHODES IS THE STAFF MEMBER.
UH, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO AHEAD WENDY, AND THEN WE'LL HEAR FROM THE APPLICANT AND THOSE IN FAVOR AND THEN THOSE AGAINST AND THEN PUBLIC HEARING.
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OH, WHICH ONE? OH, I'M SORRY.THANK YOU HEATHER FOR KEEPING ME HONEST.
WOULD YOU WANT THESE NOT TO BE APPROVED? OKAY.
YOU WANT TO ADD THAT ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF B3 RAISE YOUR HAND AND SORRY ABOUT THAT AND ALL THOSE OPPOSED.
SO NOW WE'RE STARTING ON TO B ONE.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT I VOTED FOR B R.
YOU COULDN'T SEE ME BUT I DID BEFORE IT.
GOOD EVENING MADAM CHAIR AND COMMISSION MEMBERS.
MY NAME IS WENDY ROSE WITH THE PLANNING AND I MET THIS IS IS THE LANE WE'RE DEL CASE LOCATED AT ONE OH EIGHT.
THIS PROPERTY CONTAINS ONE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE.
IT IS AN INTERMODAL RESIDENCE AND ACCESS THIS OUT FIRST STREET AND THE TERMINATES OF WAYNE.
UH, THERE ARE A SINGLE FAMILY SUBDIVISIONS TO THE WEST AND THE SOUTH WATER CREEK IS CLOSER TO THE NORTH PORTION OF THE PROPERTY AND AKINS HIGH SCHOOL IS TO THE EAST.
UH, THERE IS A 30 FOOT WIDE AREA THAT'S OWNED BY THE NOSE OF SLAUGHTER CREEK HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION THAT CONTAINS THE GAS PIPELINE EASEMENT AND FUNCTIONS OF THE BUFFER AREA.
UM, IN ADDITION, THERE ARE LARGE GROUPINGS OF TREES AT THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH PORTIONS OF THE SITE AS WELL AS THE MORE SPORTS IN WHICH INCLUDES THE WATER CREEK FLOOD PLAIN.
THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING
THE APPLICANT'S REQUESTED CONDITIONAL OVERLAY LIMITS THE PROPERTY TO MS THREE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR THE FRONT YARD BUILDING COVERAGE AND PERVIOUS CAR AND METAL UPSIDE AREA REQUIREMENTS AND GREATER SETBACKS OR DWELLING UNITS AND FENCING ALONG THE SOUTH AND WEST PROPERTY LINE.
THE STAFF IS RECOMMENDING THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST FOR MS
UH, GIVEN THAT CONNECTIVITY WILL BE PROVIDED THROUGH THE TRACK, ADDING AN ACCESS OPTION FOR AREA RESIDENTS AND ADDITIONAL BUFFERS PROVIDED BETWEEN SINGLE FAMILY AND MULTIFAMILY.
UH, THE 60 FEET THAT IS PART OF THE FLOOR DISTRICT CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED AT APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET FROM THE CLOSEST SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES.
AND THERE IS AN EXHIBIT IN THE BACKUP THAT SHOWS WHERE THAT CAN BE ACHIEVED.
THERE WAS A TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS.
THIS CASE, IT DOES RECOMMEND THE EXTENSION OF WAYNE BURDELL LOOP FROM THE TERMINUS AT NO CREEK.
UH, NO WATER CREEK SUBDIVISION TO SOUTH FIRST STREET.
THE EXTENSION IS SHOWN IN THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN THAT WAS ADOPTED BY COUNCIL ON APRIL, 2019.
IT'S CONSISTENT WITH A PRIORITY OF THE IMAGINE AUSTIN PLAN TO CREATE A COMPACT AND CONNECTED CITY.
AND THERE IS ALSO A PROVISION IN OUR CODE, THE SUBDIVISION PORTION OF THE CODE THAT REQUIRES EXISTING STREETS BE CONNECTED.
ANOTHER BENEFIT OF CONNECTING STREETS IS DISPERSING THE CURRICULAR TRAFFIC AMONGST MULTIPLE STREETS IN THE AREA THAT WOULD BE CELL FIRST.
MINE WERE DEL DESERT PRIMROSE AND FM 1626.
AND FOR ALL THE REASONS THAT ARE ABOVE.
THESE ARE THE BASIS FOR STAFF, REQUIRES A REP RIGHT AWAY DEDICATION.
WHO ARE THE WIENER DELL EXTENSION AT THE SUBDIVISION.
THE FAN RECOMMENDATION IS SOUND ON WEIGHT.
ON PAGE ONE OF THE REPORT I SUMMARIZED IT EARLIER.
UM, ATD STAFF AT DSC STAFF ARE ALSO PRESENT FOR ANY, FOR QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
AND NOW WE CAN HEAR FROM THE APPLICANT AND I BELIEVE DAVID HARTMAN, ARE YOU SPEAKING? YES, THIS IS DAVID HARTMAN.
AND YOU WILL HAVE SIX MINUTES.
UM, ST ANDREW OR SOMEONE TELL ME WHEN SLIDE NUMBER TWO PROJECT AREA WAS AT
ANDREW, CAN YOU LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY? JUST A MINUTE.
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YOUR PRESENTATION IS UP TO SLIDE NUMBER TWO PROJECT AREA.DAVID HARTMAN ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT OVERUSE MULTIFAMILY.
WE HAVE THE TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS AS WELL, A CIVIL ENGINEER AND THOSE DEVELOPERS REPRESENTATIVES AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS ON THE PROJECT IS THE
THE PROPERTY IN MRR ACROSS THE STREET FROM
SOUTH FIRST STREET IS UNIMAGINED AUSTIN QUARTER AND THE PROJECT IS LOOKING AT A HALF MILE FROM SOUTH PARK MEADOWS, LESS THAN TWO MILES FROM IT, THREE, THREE OTHER IMAGINE AUSTIN CENTERS.
THE PROJECT BASICALLY IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ASAP, THE SIDEWALK AND THE BICYCLE MASTER PLAN, ALL CALLED FOR SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS IN THIS AREA AND IT'S ACROSS FROM THE CAT METRO BUS STOP.
PROJECT HAS SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT.
THERE'S TWO ONSITE PAWNS ON A SIGNIFICANT PARKLAND AND HERITAGE TREES THAT WE BELIEVE WERE POSITIVE, TREMENDOUS POSITIVE BENEFITS TO THE PROJECT, BUT THEY NEVER LAST.
IN FACT, DEVELOPMENT REQUIRES SENSITIVE DESIGN TO INCORPORATE AND WORK AROUND THE DEVELOPMENT CONSTRAINTS.
THE 6.25 ACRES PARKLAND ADJACENT TO SLAUGHTER CREEK AND THE TWO 45 ACRE RECREATION AND TRAIL.
THIS ILLUSTRATES THE COMPATIBILITY WHERE HE KNOWS FROM ZERO TO 25 FEET.
THIS IS ALL SUMMARIZED ON PAGE NINE AT THE BACK OF IT, YOU ALSO CANNOT HAVE PARKING OR DRIVEWAY IN THIS AREA AND THEN YOUR FIRST BUILDING BEGINS TO STEP BACK.
NEXT SIDE, IT'S ILLUSTRATED IN THIS NEXT SLIDE, THIS SLIDE, WHICH IS HAS THE 25 FOOT MOBILITY AREA IN RED.
NEXT SLIDE, AND THIS IS THE SIDE THAT MS. RHODES MENTIONED THAT WHERE YOU CAN ACHIEVE JUST 60 FEET WITH FLOOR HEIGHT 300 FEET AWAY FROM THE RESIDENTIAL MIXED SIDE.
THIS IS BASICALLY 37 ACRES CURRENTLY NOT PLANTED WITH NO WATER QUALITY OR DRAINAGE.
PROPOSING 750 MULTIFAMILY UNITS IN TWO PHASES.
ONE FOURTH OF THE PROJECT IS DEDICATED TO PARKLAND WHICH WILL ACTUALLY I'M EXCITED ABOUT.
UM, OUR ZONING APPLICATION IS WHAT I REFER TO AS NFL LIGHT SYMMETRY DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS EXCEPT FOR HIGHS ALONG THE SOUTH FIRST STREET.
THE LAST REQUESTING DEVELOPMENT, A MORE OPEN SPACE, SMALLER FOOTPRINT MOVE, A TREE PRESERVATION AND A SENIOR ALSO PROVIDES FOR THE ENHANCED COMPATIBILITY BUFFERING SENDING STAFF RECOMMENDS AS WELL AS THE NAVY MEADOWS HRA SUPPORTS IN A
THESE NEXT TWO SLIDES BASICALLY SUMMARIZE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS ARE ON PAGE 34 OF YOU IS ONLY BACK UP.
I'VE WENT THROUGH EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR AS MS. RHODES POINTED OUT, THERE'S A 30 FOOT WIDE ABANDONED PIPELINE EASEMENT ALONG THE LEFT THAT RESULTS IN AN 80 FOOT WIDE BUFFER ON THE WESTERN BOUNDARY AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM WAS LISTED THAT THERE'S A SIX, SIX FOOT HIGH FENCING THAT WE'RE COMMITTED TO DO ALONG THE SOUTH AND WEST PROPERTY LINE.
NEXT SIDE, THE INFRASTRUCTURE DANNY IS GOING TO COVER.
LOOKING AT THE SECOND BULLET AT THE PARKLAND AT THE ATRIAL RAISE REQUEST.
WE COORDINATED WITH PAR TO PROVIDE FENCING AND GATE SECURITY AND THE PRIVATE CLEAN BELTS AND SECURITY LIGHTING AND LOW LEVEL LIGHTING IN THE PARKLAND DAY AND THEN YOU SEE THE SECURITY MEASURES ONSITE.
THIS CONCEPTUAL PLAN SHOWS THE MULTIFAMILY PARKWAY IN NEW RECREATIONAL TORONTO AND ALSO LAYS OUT THE SIGNAL IN THE LANGUAGE OUR LOOP EXTENSION THAT ARE IN THE TIA SHOWING THROUGH LANES.
THAT'S A FIRST RATE, MARION'S TWO LANES.
THIS DETAILS THE ENHANCED BUFFER ALONG THE SOUTH PROPERTY LINE OF 70 FEET.
THIS IS THE TYPICAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS COMPARISON JUST WITH AN NFR LIGHT ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE WE CAN RETURN TO FOR QUESTIONS.
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SLIDE.THIS SHOWS BASICALLY TWO RECENT ADJACENT APPROXIMATE APARTMENT COMMUNITIES, WHICH BASICALLY DEMONSTRATES THAT OUR PROPOSED DENSITY AND HEIGHT IS AVERAGE AND RIGHT IN LINE WITH THE 10 ADJACENT PRIDE PROJECTS.
NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE PROPOSED SIDEWALKS INCLUDING THE OFFSITE SIDEWALKS FOR THE AREA.
THE NEXT SIZE SHOWS THE CONNECTING SIDEWALKS TO THE LARGER AREA.
THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE PROTECTED BIKE LANE THAT ATD IS REQUIRED IN THE TA.
THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE LARGER CONNECTIVITY OF TRAILS AND PARKLAND.
THEN THIS NEXT SLIDE JUST SUMMARIZES THE NO'S HR ISSUES.
WE BASICALLY ADDRESS MULTIPLE ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN LISTED THERE, BUT THE ISSUE THAT REMAINS BOILS DOWN TO WHETHER TO APPROVE CRASH GATE OR COMPLETE LANE WITHOUT LOOP EXTENSION FROM SOUTH FIRST STREET TO THE EXISTING LANGUAGE LOOP.
OUR PROJECT WORKS WITH OR WITHOUT A CRASH GATE THERE OBVIOUSLY ATB RECOMMENDED INCLUDING THE TIA AND THE CRASH GATE IN OUR VIEW AS A POLICY CHOICE FOR ZAP AND SEEK COUNSELING.
THERE'S SOME DISCUSSIONS IN THE PAST FROM THE NOSE HLA ABOUT CARVING OUT LAYING FROM RIVERDALE TRACK FROM OUR ZONING APPLICATION THAT THEY THEY WOULD LIKE TO DO TO BLOCK EXTENSIVE LANGUAGE OBVIOUS THAT MULTIPLE CITIES DEPARTMENTS WOULD RECOMMEND DENIAL IF THAT WERE TO OCCUR AND AS MS. ROSE SAYS ON PAGE THREE, LET ME BACK UP THERE REQUIRES EXPANSION.
THE LAST SLIDE IS THE REASONS TO SUPPORT AND I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH THAT.
IT BASICALLY FULFILLS IMAGINE LOSSES IN A S AND P IN MULTIPLE LOAD PLANS AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DAN MUNICI.
YOU HAVE, YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
ANDREW, WOULD YOU LET ME KNOW WHEN THAT PRESENTATION'S UP PLEASE? YEAH.
UH, GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONERS.
MY NAME IS DAN HENNESSY WITH WTI.
I'M THE ATTRACTOR ENGINEER FOR THE PROJECT AND WANTED TO, UH, BRIEFLY HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE MOBILITY CONCERNS AND THE WAYS THAT THE PROJECT ADDRESSES, UH, SOME OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE DEFICIENCIES IN THE AREA.
UH, HIGHLIGHTED AMONGST THOSE.
ON SLIDE TWO IS THE SIGNALIZED AT THE PROPOSED INTERSECTION OF BROOKLYN RIDELL LOOP AND SOUTH FIRST AND AT THE AKINS HIGH SCHOOL ACCESS DRIVEWAY, UH, WOULD BE AT A TRAFFIC CALMING, UH, ELEMENT FOUR SOUTH FIRST STREET.
UH, WE'VE HEARD AND OBSERVED SOME REPORTS OF HIGH SPEEDS ALONG SOUTH FIRST STREET, UH, OBVIOUSLY EXTENDING AND DEDICATING WAYNE RIDELL LOOP.
UH, AND DAVID SHOWED A COUPLE OF IMAGES OF THAT.
WE ALSO, UH, OFFERED TO PROVIDE, UM, TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES ALONG THE EXISTING SECTION OF WITHOUT A LOOP, UH, WHICH I'LL GET INTO IN A MOMENT.
UH, COMPLETING SIDEWALK AND PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS TO A HIGH SCHOOL AND ANOTHER, UH, PEDESTRIAN CONNECTION ACROSS OUR FIRST STREET WITH THE NEW SIGNAL.
AND THEN ALSO, UM, TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO THE DEVELOPER AND INCLUDED IN THE SITE PLAN.
UH, ONCE WE GET TO THAT STAGE.
UH, YOU SEE FROM THE IMAGE ON THE EAST SIDE, WE HAVE THE SIGNAL OF THE UH, ROADWAY FOLLOWED THE, UH, AUSTIN STREET DESIGN GUIDE, UH, AND CONNECTS TO EXISTING RIDELL LOOP, WHICH IS A 40 FOOT CURB TO CURB SECTION OF STREET WITH NO STRIPING AND OTHER NO OTHER DELINEATIONS.
UM, THAT SECTION OF STREET, UH, HAS NOTHING FRONTING IT EXCEPT FOR OFFENSES AND CONNECTIONS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND, UH, DOES INCENTIVIZE SOME HIGH SPEEDS BASED ON THE CURRENT DESIGN.
A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ABOUT OUR DESIGN FOR RIDELL.
A LITTLE BIT WOULD HAVE, UH, 13 FOOT TRAVEL LANES, UH, WITH A FOUR FOOT BUFFER AND A SEVEN FOOT BIKE LANE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET, BUT ALSO BE COMPLETE WITH A BIKE BOX, UH, AT SOUTH FIRST STREET TO ALLOW GREATER CONNECTIVITY FOR BICYCLISTS FROM TO AND FROM SOUTH FIRST STREET IN 1626 AND THIS COULD BE CONSISTENT WITH A NUMBER OF TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES PROPOSED FOR THE REMAINING, UH, RIDDLE.
THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT PROJECTS, UH, COMPLEX CONTEMPLATED RIGHT NOW, THE ORANGE LINE THAT YOU SEE, CITY OF AUSTIN, UH, UH, MOBILITY BOND PROJECT.
THAT'S A QUARTER PLAN FOR THAT THAT IS NOT FUNDED.
UH, THE GREEN PROJECT IS A TEXTILE PROJECT THAT WOULD MAKE THAT SECTION BETWEEN, UH, SOMBRERO AND SOUTH FIRST STREET, SAFER WITH WIDER SHOULDERS AND AN ADDITIONAL TURN LANE AND A PROJECT TO THE WEST BETWEEN BRODY AND MANCHESTER IS,
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UH, EXPECTED TO START THE SUMMER AND WOULD WIDEN THAT SECTION FROM A TWO TO THREE, TWO OR THREE LANES CURRENTLY UP TO FIVE, UH, ACROSS THAT SECTION.ACTUALLY THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES ARE JUST, UH, ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF THOSE FOR YOU TO REVIEW IN THE BACKUP AND SHOW THE CROSS SECTIONS AND EXTENTS.
UH, ON SLIDE 10, UM, WE'VE ALSO HAD A NUMBER OF DISCUSSIONS WITH AKINS HIGH SCHOOL ABOUT, UH, CIRCULATION ISSUES.
THEY HAVE, UH, SOME CIRCULATION ISSUES RIGHT NOW RELATED TO THE CURING OF VEHICLES ON SOUTH FIRST STREET IN THE BIKE LANE.
YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE, UH, ILLEGAL MOVEMENTS RIGHT NOW AND WOULD BE PROHIBITED WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROTECTED BIKE LANES ON SOUTH FIRST STREET.
WE'VE DONE SOME REVIEWS OF, UM, UH, OF THAT PICKUP SITUATION.
ON THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE A SITUATION OF THE CARS PARKED AND ALSO PICK UP AND DROP OFFS.
HAVE ANY HAPPENING WITHIN THE TRAVEL LANES THEMSELVES.
UM, WE'VE MADE A NUMBER OF RECOMMENDATIONS THEY CAN TIE THAT WE FEEL LIKE, UH, WOULD FIX SOME OF THOSE ISSUES.
WE'VE DONE THESE TYPES OF CIRCULATION STUDIES THAT MORE THAN 20 SCHOOLS AROUND TEXAS AND, UM, UH, FIX THE NUMBER OF CIRCULATION ISSUES FOR BOTH PRIVATE CHARTER AND, UH, ISD SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT TEXAS.
UH, LASTLY ON SLIDE 13, JUST SHOWING SOME OF THE POTENTIAL OPTIONS FOR RIDELL LOOP, TRIPLE TRAFFIC CALMING.
UM, THERE ARE SPEED HUMPS, THERE ARE STOP SIGNS.
ATD HAS INDICATED GENERAL SUPPORT FOR THE CONCEPT OF TRAFFIC CALMING, BUT WE HAVE NOT, UM, IDENTIFIED EXACTLY WHAT MEASURES YET.
AND ALSO THIS WOULD BE AN OPTIONAL, UH, OFFER TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S OUTSIDE OF THE REALM OF THE TIA AND ALSO ABOVE AND BEYOND THEIR ROUGH PROPORTIONALITY REQUIREMENTS.
UH, THE LAST SLIDE JUST SHOWS THAT THE, UH, RIDELL LOOP EXTENSION IN THE AMP AND THAT IT'S CALLED FOUR BETWEEN THE EXISTING LOOP AND UH, IT CAN TIE IN EXACTLY WHAT THE DESCRIPTION OF THAT IS IN THE, UH, STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR HENNESSY.
AND IS BEN BROWDER WISHING TO SPEAK? UM, IT LOOKS LIKE HE SIGNED UP AND HE WILL ALSO HAVE THREE MINUTES.
UM, ARE YOU THERE? AND YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
HI, THIS IS SUSAN KIRKPATRICK.
UH, AS DAVID SAID, I'M WITH THE BOARD OF THE MEADOWS, THE DEVIL CREEK SUBDIVISION.
WE ARE JUST SOUTH OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH DAVID AND OTHER KEY MEMBERS OF THE ODU TEAM SINCE OCTOBER TO UNDERSTAND THE MANY FACETS OF THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
A KEY FACTOR OF THESE CONVERSATIONS HAS BEEN FOCUSING ON THE SOLUTIONS WITH DEVELOPMENT TEAM WOULD PROVIDE, UM, OUR AREAS OF CONCERN, UM, WHICH INCLUDED THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS AS WELL AS OUR OWN.
UM, THEY ADDRESS ALL OF OUR CONCERNS REGARDING TO PROXIMITY AND PLACEMENT OF BUILDINGS, DRAINAGE AND WATER TRAFFIC, INCREASE MOBILITY, SAFETY AND UH, AS WELL AS MAKING AN EFFORT TO PROPOSE A DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL BE THE OWNER, THE RESIDENTIAL FEEL OF OUR EXISTING COMMUNITY AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY BENEFITS TO THE AREA WHEN ISSUE THAT REMAINS OPEN IS THE EXTENSION OF THE WAYNE RIDELL CORRIDOR.
AS WE UNDERSTAND IT, THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM HAS OFFERED TWO SOLUTIONS FOR EXEMPTION.
UM, I THINK BOTH OF THOSE WERE HEARD TODAY.
WE WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT IF THE PROPOSED REASON IN CASE BE APPROVED, IT IS DONE.
SO WITH THE CORRIDOR EXTENSION FROM SOUTH FIRST STREET TO THE EXISTING WINDOW LOOP IS IN FACT, UH, TRAFFIC IS A KEY CONCERN FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, WE FEEL STRONGLY THAT THIS ROAD EXTENSION WILL REDUCE THE EXISTING CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC THAT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACTUALLY RECEIVED AS WELL AS USE SOME OF THE CONGESTION AT SOUTH VERSUS 1626 INTERSECTION.
AND THIS EXTENSION ALSO HELP DECREASE CONGESTION AT THE ENTRY AND EXIT POINTS TO AKINS HIGH SCHOOL DURING PEAK HOURS, WHICH PROVIDES ADDITIONAL SAFETY MEASURES FOR THE MANY, MANY STUDENTS THAT CURRENTLY CROSSED OUT FIRST TO AND FROM THAT SCHOOL.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT, THAT WE FEEL STRONGLY, UM, THAT WERE IN FAVOR OF THE DEVELOPMENT BRINGING, EXTENDING OUR SIDEWALK BIKE LANE IMPROVEMENTS ON SOUTH FIRST TO WHICH PULLS UP, IMPROVED, UM, WALKING PATH AND LIGHTING AREAS.
AND OF COURSE THEY'RE SAVING OUR HERITAGE TREES, WHICH WE ALSO FEEL PASSIONATELY ABOUT.
OUR COMMUNITY BELIEVES THAT THEIR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL BE A GOOD ADDITION TO OUR COMMUNITY AND THE ADDITION OF QUARTER EXTENSION THAT HELPS RESOLVE CRUCIAL AREA CONCERNS WILL PROVIDE FURTHER GROWTH AND ENJOYMENT OF OUR SOUTH AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THAT CONCLUDES THE SPEAKERS IN FAVOR.
AND NOW WE WILL GO ONTO THE SPEAKERS AGAINST, AND I'M GOING TO LIST PROBABLY ABOUT THE FIRST, APPROXIMATELY 20.
THE LEAD SPEAKER WILL BE BOBBY LUBINSKI, THEN GREG SANTIAGO, ORLANDO MARTINEZ, MATEA MATTEO MARTINEZ, MICHAEL PLASTER, REBECCA HOWE, KEVIN CHENEY, JIM DEW, SAM PRITCHARD, BECKY
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WOOD WITH HER FAMILY MEMBERS.UM, LOOKS LIKE JAMES WOOD AND, AND OH NO, IT ACTUALLY JUST LOOKS LIKE ONE OTHER PERSON UNLESS THERE'S A, BECKY WOULDN'T HAVE REBECCA.
UM, AND THEN AFTER HER WILL BE AARON SIMMONS AND THEN I'LL GO OVER THE LIST WHEN WE GO THROUGH THOSE.
SO BOBBY LEVINSKY, YOU'RE THE LEAD OFF AND YOU WILL HAVE SIX MINUTES.
THIS IS BOBBY LEVINSKY AND I'M REPRESENTING THE KNOLL THAT PLOTTER CREEK, THE NOLS HAVE ASKED ME TO COME ON AND HOPES OF WORKING OUT AN AGREEMENT WITH THE APPLICANT WHERE THEY WOULD ACTUALLY SUPPORT THIS DEVELOPMENT MOVING FORWARD.
I THOUGHT WE COULD GET THERE, BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE DIDN'T.
UM, WE STILL LACK A RESOLUTION MARGINALLY ON THE TRAFFIC CONCERNS CAUSED BY THE EXTENSION OF
BECAUSE IT WILL ALL THAT CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC THAT THEY'RE EXPERIENCING IS JUST GOING TO GO INTO UM, THE WINNING MADELL NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM A WIDE ARRAY OF SPEAKERS TONIGHT, UH, FROM A LOT OF DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS AND I'VE DONE MY BEST TO CONSOLIDATE SOME OF THE GENERAL THEMES AND THE REQUESTED MOTION SHEET THAT I EMAILED YOU EARLIER TODAY.
HOWEVER, I'M SURE YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR SOME OTHER CONCERNS AS WELL AND UM, ALTHOUGH SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AND THEY MAY NOT BE ALL REFLECTED ON THAT SHEET.
I'M JUST TRYING TO DO MY BEST TO CONSOLIDATE THE THINGS.
UM, I'M AMAZED BY THE TURNOUT WE HAVE.
WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 80 PEOPLE THAT HAVE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK AGAINST THIS PROJECT.
I THINK THAT HIGHLIGHTS THAT THIS CASE IS NOT QUITE READY TO MOVE FORWARD.
THERE'S MORE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AND I'VE DONE MY DARNEDEST TO REACH A RESOLUTION, BUT UM, WE JUST NEED MORE TIME.
TO ME, THERE ARE THREE MAJOR THINGS TO BE CONSIDERED.
IF YOU LOOK AT THESE OWNERS IN THE AREA NFR FAR EXCEEDS ANY ZONING REQUESTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE IN THIS AREA.
I JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, THIS TRACT WAS SET TO BE ZONED TO RR AS PART OF THE CODE NEXT.
UM, SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE ZONINGS THAT HAVE OCCURRED, THEY TYPICALLY FALL IN THAT RANGE, SO YOU BASICALLY MOTION SHOULD BE REDUCED A BIT.
UM, THE APPLICANT HAS SAID THAT THIS IS THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY CHALLENGING SITE THAT HE'S WORKED WITH.
UM, AND JUST IN MY EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH ENVIRONMENTALLY CHALLENGING SITES, THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT IS TO ACTUALLY THE WOMEN, THE DEVELOPMENT ON THE SITE, UM, BY CONSOLIDATING, UM, THE APPLICANT STILL PROPOSING A GARDEN STYLE APARTMENT COMPLEX WITH 65% IMPERVIOUS COVER.
UM, SO WE'D LIKE TO SEE THAT REDUCED TO 50% AND CONSIDER SOME OF THE FLOODING AND EROSION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION PROBLEMS THAT ARE KNOWN TO FODDER CREEK AND ONION CREEK WHERE THIS CONVERGES, UM, THAT ARE KNOWN IN THE AREA.
AND WE LIKE THEM TO DO WITH MAYBE SOME ONSITE WATER RETENTION REQUIREMENTS SUCH AS RAIN, RAIN GARDENS OR PERVIOUS PAVERS.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE THE LAST POINT IS THE EXTENSION OF THE ROADWAY.
UM, THIS AREA IS A TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE.
THIS IS LITERALLY AN AREA WHERE PEOPLE LINE UP BEHIND A GAS STATION NEAR 35 TO ACCESS 1626.
PEOPLE GET CREATIVE WITH THEIR CUT-THROUGH.
UM, THE TRAFFIC STUDY SHOWS THAT IT COULD DEFER UP TO 30% OF THE TRAFFIC OFFICE OUT FIRST INTO THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND I'M ALL FOR CONNECTIVITY.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE CONFIGURATION OF THIS ROADWAY, IT'S MUCH MORE AKIN TO AN EXTENDED RIGHT TURN LANE THAN IT IS, UM, CREATING SOME SORT OF CONNECTED GRID THAT WE KNOW WITH PLANNING PRINCIPLES.
UM, THE AFRICAN HAS SAID THAT THIS EXTENSION WORKS.
THERE'LL BE, UM, THIS EXTENSION WORKS FOR THE PROJECT.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T WANT IT AND WE'RE HOPING THAT YOU CAN HELP US REMOVE IT.
THE CODE PROVISION THAT WAS CITED BY STAFF, UM, THEY LEFT OFF A REALLY IMPORTANT PART.
IT'S SECTION 25, 41 51 AND IT ENDS THAT, UM, SHALL, IT SHALL BE ALIGNED WITH THE, UH, EXISTING STREETS AND ADJOINING PROPERTY UNLESS THE LAND USE COMMISSION DETERMINED THAT OTHER CONSIDERATIONS MAKE IT DESIRABLE TO DEPART FROM THAT ALIGNMENT OR CONNECTION.
SO THE FLEXIBILITY IS THERE AND WE'RE, WE'RE ASKING YOU TO EXERCISE THAT IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE FOUR POINTS AREA AND UM, AT SIX 20, 20 AND 2022 TEXTILE IS LITERALLY INSTALLING A BYPASS ROUTE THAT LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO THIS ROADWAY.
IT DIVERTS TRAFFIC AWAY FROM THAT INTERSECTION AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'VE GOT.
YOU'VE GOT JUST A, A LARGE CURVED LANE THAT JUST BYPASSES AN INTERSECTION AND WILL DIVERT TRAFFIC FROM THAT INTERSECTION LIKE THE PRIOR SPEAKER NOTED.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S A HUGE CONCERN FOR THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THE SACRIFICE TO BE THEIR CHILDREN AND THEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ITSELF.
SO, UM, AND FINALLY, UH, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO, UH, REPRODUCE ALL, UM, CONNECTIVITY.
THEY STILL ARE, THE NEIGHBORHOODS EXPRESSED A STRONG DESIRE THAT A PEDESTRIAN BIKE ACCESS STILL CAN MAKE IT WAY THROUGH THE SITE.
UM, AND SO THEY'RE JUST ASKING YOU TO HOLD BACK ON THE FRONT GATE TO THE ANGER, COMMUTERS AND EVENINGS.
AND, UH, I'M GOING TO STAY ON THE LINE TOWARDS THE END TO HELP ANSWER QUESTION, BUT, UM, MAYBE IS PROBABLY THE BEST, UH, TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AT THE END AS WELL.
AND THEN NEXT IS GREG SANTIAGO AND MR. SANTIAGO, YOU WON'T HAVE THREE MINUTES AS SPEAKERS UNLESS YOU HAVE DONATED TIME.
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YES.CAN ANDREW UPLOAD THE DOCUMENT, NOLS HOA PDF?
YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT AND I'M JUST GOING TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, OBVIOUSLY I'M GREG SANTIAGO AND I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE NOLS HOA.
AND, UH, I WANT TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE NOZZLE SLAUGHTER CREEK.
IT'S A SOUTH AUSTIN GREENBELT HIDEAWAY.
YOU'LL SEE WE ORIGINALLY CALLED THE STABLE.
WOULD IT SOUGHT A CREEK? UM, OR A NEIGHBORHOOD BUILT BY HOPEFULLY HOMES IN THE LATE NINETIES, EARLY TWO THOUSANDS.
NOLS IS A POPULAR CHOICE FOR SOMEONE LOOKING FOR EASY ACCESS TO
UH, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THESE PHOTOS, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T LOOK COOKIE CUTTER AT ALL.
IT HAS MANY STYLES OF HOMES, THE QUIET COMMUNITY, AND HE HAS BEEN, MY FAMILY SAW HIM FOR THE LAST 16 YEARS.
MARY MORRISSEY, RIGHT PARK TO THE NORTH FM 16, 26TH OF THE SOUTH AND THE WAYNE RIDELL PROPERTY TO THE EAST.
AND THIS ALL CREATES A NICE QUIET COMMUNITY.
YOU CAN SEE WE'RE SECLUDED BY A CREEK AND A GREENBELT, WHICH IS INCREDIBLE WILDLIFE.
THE PICTURES HERE WILL SHOW YOU RESIDENTS CAN FISH, SWIM AND CANOE AND SLAUGHTER CREEK AND THE NUMEROUS HIKING TRAILS MAKE FOR HOURS OF FUN AND ACTIVITY.
YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE BACKYARD WILDLIFE.
WE HAVE DEER, OWLS, HAWKS AND MUCH MORE RIGHT IN OUR BACKYARD.
WE WILL GO ON AND PUT ON A SPLASH PAD NEXT TO THE POOL, BUT WE ARE HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS.
IF THE ROAD GOES THROUGH THE SOUTH FIRST STREET.
ON SLIDE SEVEN, OUR RESIDENTS LOVE TO WATCH THE PARADES THAT GO UP AND DOWN WAYNESVILLE LOOP DURING THE SUMMERTIME, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, AUSTIN POLICE DEPARTMENT, THEY ALSO COME OUT TO OUR 4TH OF JULY PARADE.
YOU CAN SEE THE KIDS PARADE THROUGH THE KNOWLES ALL ALONG WAYNE RIDELL LOOP.
UH, EVEN THE SPECTATORS WILL GET A HUGE SPECTATOR TURNOUT AS WELL.
STICKBALL AND SOCIAL EVENTS ARE A BIG PART OF OUR COMMUNITY BUILDING HERE ON THE KNOWLES.
UH, WE'VE EVEN HAD DAN KITCHEN AND KEN CRAIG, THEY'VE JOINED SMITTY AND MYSELF FOR JULY 4TH PARADE.
AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE KIDS PLAYING STICK BALL AS WELL.
UH, SLIDE 10, WE HAVE POOL PARTIES WITH FRIDAY NIGHT
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FOOD TRUCKS.WE ALSO SHOW MOVIES THAT EVERYONE CAN WATCH FROM THE POOL.
WE USUALLY HAVE A VIDEO GAME TRUCK AND DANCE PARTY VIDEOS AS WELL.
ONE OF OUR FAVORITES, A CINCO DE MAYO FESTIVAL IS A FAVORITE WITH THE NOLS FAMILIES.
WE SERVE BRISKET SIDES HANG UP IN JADA AND HAVE ALL KINDS OF ENTERTAINMENT.
EVERYONE LOVES THE MARIACHI MUSIC.
WE HAVE PETTING ZOOS, PHOTOS WITH SANTA AND ALL TYPES OF FUN FOR THE KNOWLES FAMILY HERE.
THE NOLS HAS MANY VOLUNTEERS WHICH HELP OUT WITH OUR SOCIAL EVENTS.
OUR KIDS ENJOY THE EASTER EGG HUNT.
WE INSTALL THE FREE LIBRARY SO NEIGHBORS CAN SHARE MEDIA.
WE HAVE OUR HUNT FOOD TRUCKS AND OTHER EVENTS IN THE PARK ON THE MAIN LOOP.
EXTRA TRAFFIC WILL MAKE THESE EVENTS GO AWAY.
UH, THE LAST PICTURE HERE IS MY BACK DECK.
THIS IS A PHOTO OF MY BACK DECK.
YOU CAN SEE THE, UH, THE GREENBELT IN THE BACKGROUND.
I REALLY DON'T WANT TO OOP THIS BOUNTY OF NATURE.
I MOVED INTO A CLOSE COMMUNITY AND WOULD LIKE TO KEEP IT THAT WAY.
AND NOW ORLANDO MARTINEZ AND YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, COMMISSIONERS.
I'M A RESIDENT OF THE NOSE OF SLAUGHTER CREEK.
MY WIFE AND I HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 12 YEARS.
WE MOVED INTO THIS NEIGHBORHOOD 11 YEARS AGO, FEW MONTHS, UH, ABOUT NINE MONTHS AFTER WE GOT MARRIED, WE WERE LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE WHEN WE WANTED TO BUY OUR FIRST HOME, AND THIS IS OUR FIRST HOME, WE WANTED TO FILL THE HOME WITH A FAMILY AND WE HAVE DONE THAT WITH OUR TWO BOYS.
MY TAIL, YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM ME JUST A SECOND.
AND DIEGO, OUR SIX YEAR OLD, THE REASON WHY WE WERE LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE PERFECT HOME IS BECAUSE WE WANTED TO RAISE OUR FAMILY AND APPLIED COMMUNITY WHERE NEIGHBORS SHARED OUR SAME VALUES.
AND WE ARE VERY, VERY FORTUNATE FROM THE OF SLAUGHTER CREEK THAT WE HAVE FOUND THAT WE ARE OPPOSED TO THE DEVELOPMENT WE DRIVE THROUGH OF UM, WAYNE RIDELL LOOP SIMPLY BECAUSE WHEN WE GO WALKING, BIKE RIDING ALONG WAYNE RODALE LOOP OR OUR OTHER STREET, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP OUR CHILDREN SAFE.
AND AS WE WALK, AS WE HIKE, AS WE BIKE, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT TRAFFIC IS NOT INCREASED, ESPECIALLY THROUGH WAYNE RIDELL LOOP.
BECAUSE WE KNOW THE DANGERS THAT ARE INVOLVED WHEN IT COMES TO AN INCREASED TRAFFIC AND SPEEDERS THAT MAY BE GOING, THAT ARE GOING TO BE RACING THROUGH THE STREETS TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE.
UNLIKE WHAT WE CURRENTLY DO IS WE COME INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE GO HOME AND WE WAKE UP EARLY AND WE LEAVE FOR WORK.
BUT WHAT WE'RE AGAINST IS THIS DEVELOPED THE REASON WHY WE'RE AGAINST THIS DEVELOPMENTS BECAUSE AS YOU INCREASE, UH, TRAFFIC, AS MORE PEOPLE MOVE INTO THIS COMMUNITY, YOU ARGUE INCREASED THAT RISK OF DANGER WHERE A TRAGIC ACCIDENT COULD OCCUR AND I DO NOT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN.
I WANT TO PREVENT THAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
AND WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE RIGHT NOW IS A GREAT QUIET FAMILY ORIENTED NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE WANT TO KEEP OUR PARADES JUST AS GREG TALKED ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET OUR SPLASH SPLASH PAD FOR THE CHILDREN.
WE WANT TO KEEP OUR EVENTS AND I THINK HE'S STILL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND I CANNOT PREVENT THIS DEVELOPMENT FROM OCCURRING AND THE THROUGH TRAFFIC TO GO THROUGH WAYNE RIDDLE LOOP.
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR LISTENING.
AND MATTEO MARTINEZ WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
HELLO, MY NAME IS MATEO MARTINEZ AND I AM 10 YEARS OLD.
I DID NOT WANT THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX BUILT AND THAT AND I DO NOT WANT TO BE DRAGGED THROUGH THE STREET OUTSIDE AND RIDING MY BIKE WITH MY LITTLE BROTHER.
JUST LEARNED AND LEARNED HOW TO RIDE A BIKE APARTMENT BUILDING APARTMENTS AND WITHOUT WILL MAKE MY NEIGHBORHOOD UNSAFE BECAUSE OF SPEEDING CARS, WHICH WILL INCREASE THE RISK TO PEDESTRIANS IN CHILDREN IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
NEXT CAUSE MICHAEL POLLSTER, YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
THERE WAS AN ISSUE, UM, WITH THAT STUFF.
MY OPPOSITION TO BOTH THE PROPOSED 750 HEIGHTENS
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THE APARTMENT UNITS TO BE LOCATED ADJACENT TO AND A BUDDING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AS WELL AS THE EXTENSION OF WAYNE RIDELL LOOP TO SOUTH FIRST STREET.I BELIEVE THE TWO ARE TIED TOGETHER.
THE ADDITION OF HUNDREDS OF NEW VEHICLE TRIPS, WE'LL MAKE THE SOUTH FIRST FM 1626 INTERSECTION MORE CONGESTED IT SEVERAL TIMES THROUGHOUT THE DAY ESPECIALLY, SO GIVEN AN OVERCROWDED HIGH SCHOOL JUST ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE PROJECT, THE SUGGESTED MADE FOR AN EXTENSION OF WAYNE MADONNA, LUTHER SOUTH FIRST IS DUE TO THE PROPOSED PROJECTS HIGH DENSITY.
SHOULD THE RIDELL BE EXTENDED TO SOUTH FIRST THE AREAS LIVABILITY WOULD SUFFER WITH THE ADDITION OF 790 NEW TRIPS MOVING ON TO RIVERDALE LOOP DURING RUSH HOUR ALONE ALL THE TIME.
THE LOCAL CONGESTION NEAR THE END OF SOUTH FIRST WILL AFFECT EVERYONE IN THE AREA INCLUDING THE NEWER BUT LESS DENSELY BUILT APARTMENT PROJECTS.
WHY SHOULD THIS PROJECT BE OUT OF SYNC WITH THE REST OF THE DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA? THE EXTENSION OF THE RIDELL LOOP WILL CUT THROUGH THE HEART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD PROVIDING IT IN HALF AND MAKING IT MORE DANGEROUS FOR RESIDENTS AND CHILDREN TO ACCESS NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES.
IT WOULD BE AN EVER INCREASING THREAT TO RESIDENTS' SAFETY MOTOR.
LOOKING FOR SHORTCUTS SUCH AS AN EXTENDED AND CONNECTED RIDELL LOOP WILL GREATLY ADD TO NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC AND INCREASED CRASH EXPOSURE FOR PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLISTS, AND CARS.
MOTORISTS LED BY BIRTH THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD OFTEN DRIVE AT EXCESSIVE SPEED.
IF THE PROPOSED HIGH DENSITY PROJECT WAS INSTEAD DESIGNATED SINGLE FAMILY ARE LOW TO MEDIUM DENSITY MULTI-RESIDENTIAL UH, THERE WOULD BE PROBABLY A NEED TO, THERE WOULD NOT BE A NEED TO EXTEND THE RIDELL LIFT THE SOUTH FIRST STREET.
AND GIVEN THE PLAN, ADDITION OF PEDESTRIAN SIDEWALKS AND BIKE ACCESS, CONNECTING RIDELL LOOP ITSELF FIRST, THE CITY MAY BY CODE REJECT THE NEED FOR CONNECTING STREETS.
CITY PLANNING SHOULD TAKE A NEW LOOK.
PLACING EMPHASIS ON TRAFFIC, SIGNAL TIMING AND SYNCHRONIZATION AT SOUTH FIRST 1626 INCLUDING BETTER LANE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.
ONCE FINISHED, THIS DESIGN WILL BE HERE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
THE INTERSECTION IN QUESTION SHOULD BE MADE TO WORK, NOT DAMAGED NEIGHBORHOODS AND IT CAN BE BY REDUCING THE PROPOSED PROJECTS.
REBECCA HOWE NEXT AND THEN KEVIN CHENEY AND REBECCA, YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
SHE DIDN'T MINISTER BECAUSE THEY'LL JUST FAMILY IN A TYPE II GENERAL LAW MUNICIPALITY, SOUTH OF AUSTIN AND JUST WEST OF THE OLDEST BUTTER CREEK.
TODAY I'M ADDRESSING THE COMMISSION ON BEHALF OF NOT ONLY MYSELF BUT THE BOARD OF ALDERMAN AND THE GENERAL POPULATION OF THE VILLAGE OF FAMILY AND UH, AND OPPOSING THE MODERATE HIGH DENSITY ZONING CLASSIFICATION AND THE EXTENSION OF WIND RIDDLES LOOPS TO MEET SOFTWARE STREET.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND? 750 NEW DWELLING.
AND AS SOON AS AREA SURROUNDING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD PRESENTS MANY PROBLEMS INCLUDING PROFIT AND SAFETY CONCERNS THAT HAVE GONE UNADDRESSED FOR YEARS.
JUST DEVELOPMENT IS DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM A SCHOOL WHOSE STUDENTS ARE ALREADY CONTENDING WITH HEAVY TRAFFIC AND UNSAFE WALKING ROUTES AROUND OUR CAMPUS.
I WILL NOT BE GOING DEEPLY INTO THE SIDE OF THE TOPIC IF I ONLY HAVE THREE MINUTES.
AND I AM SURE THAT THERE ARE OTHER COLORS THAT WE'LL BE TOUCHING ON THESE ISSUES.
SO IF I HAVE TO SAY THAT THEIR CONCERNS AND OUR CONCERNS ON TRAFFIC, INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY ARE ONE IN THE SAME, THE VILLAGE OF STANLEY AND HIS RESOLUTION NUMBER TWO ZERO ZERO ZERO TWO OPPOSING SPECIFICALLY THE EXTENSION OF WAYNE RIDELL LOOP TO MEET SOFTWARE STREET WAS PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY OUR BOARD.
IT HAS BEEN PROVIDED IN YOUR BATHROOM MATERIALS WHEN YOU WERE DEALT WITH.
CURRENTLY SERVES AS A MAIN THOROUGHFARE FOR DINNER, THE OLDEST SOLDER CREEK PROVIDING ACCESS TO FM SECTION 26 FROM THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD DUE TO TRAFFIC CONDITIONS AND THE LACK OF A MIDDLE TURN LANE AT WAYNE REBEL LOOP.
MANY RESIDENTS OF CANOLES CURRENTLY EXIT THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD BY TRAVELING DOWN RACETRACK LANE TO FAMILY AND A DRIVE AND OVER TO CIRCLE DRIVE OR SAN SOMBRERO DRIVE WHERE THE MIDDLE TURN LANE IS PRESENT ON SM 1626 WE HAVE A NEIGHBORLY RELATIONSHIP WITH AN OLD RESIDENT, BUT EVEN THAT AMOUNT OF ADDED TRAFFIC HAS CAUSED PROBLEMS OVER THE YEARS FOR RESIDENTS OF FAMILY.
AND IF YOU LIVE IN TROUBLE ALONG THOSE ROADS, EVEN APPROXIMATE THE TRAFFIC CREATED BY 750 84 RESIDENTS.
OUR ROADS MIGHT NOT LOOK LIKE THE LIKELY BUT THEY ARE ACTUALLY MOST LIKELY ROUTES DURING CERTAIN TIMES OF THE DAY AND YET THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ADDRESSING ANY OF THE TRAFFIC THAT WE HAVE SEEN TO DATE.
SHEET MATERIAL IS OFTEN CONSIDERED PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT AND OFFICIALS WITH THOSE
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MOST AROUND PALLIATIVE AND EXERCISES EXCEPT BY THE CONTROL OVER IT.GROUPS WHICH ARE BUILT AND MAINTAINED USING PRIMARILY PROPERTY TAX REVENUE OR RESOURCES ARE LIMITED AND THIS CONNECTION SCANDALS DISPARATE TRAFFIC DIRECTLY TO OUR STREETS, MAINTAINED BY OUR TAXPAYERS WITHOUT ANY BENEFIT WHATSOEVER TO OUR RESIDENTS.
IF ALL REQUESTS ARE GRANTED TO THE APPLICANT AND WE ARE FACED WITH A MODERATE HIGH DENSITY DEVELOPMENT AT THE MOUTH OF SECTION TWO A HIGH TRAFFIC ROAD, THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION FOR PROTECTING OUR RESIDENTS WITH REGARD TO THEIR SAFETY AND OUR TAX DOLLAR INVESTMENTS AS IT PERTAINS TO THE ACCESSIBILITY OF OUR ROADS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION.
CHANEY IS FOLLOW UP AND DO AND LET ME SAY ACTUALLY FOR ANYBODY SPEAKING FAMILIALLY MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING VERY CLOSE TO THE PHONE AND ON A PRETTY GOOD PHONE LINE.
SO KEVIN CHENEY NEXT YEAR WE'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES PLEASE.
CAN WE PLEASE HAVE THE CALLERS ON THE PHONE LINE? THEIR PHONES.
THAT WAS THE PROBLEM WITH THAT CAR.
WE HAD OTHER CALLERS WITH THEIR PHONES NOT NEEDED.
I'M THE CHAIR ON COMMISSION AND I'M JUST WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE ALL THE FOLKS KNOW THAT BECAUSE I COULDN'T HEAR MOST OF WHAT WAS JUST SAID.
IF WE CAN'T HEAR, IF WE CANNOT HEAR WHAT THE SPEAKERS ARE SAYING, THEN IT'S INEFFECTIVE AND WE HAVE TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE.
I WILL REMIND PEOPLE TO KEEP ON MUTING.
I'LL DO THAT EVERY SECOND OR THIRD PERSON.
I WAS GOING TO ASK, IS IT POSSIBLE ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE TO MANUALLY NEW PEOPLE? I KNOW THAT'S A THING IN JUNE THAT ADMINISTRATORS CAN PEOPLE, THIS IS REBECCA HAD THE ONE WHO WAS JUST SPEAKING.
I KNOW HAVE A TRANSCRIPT OF MY MONOLOGUE I JUST MADE.
I COULD SEND IT TO YOU GUYS IF YOU WANTED A SCRIPT.
THAT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA IN OUR, OUR ADDRESSES ARE ON THE ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION WEBSITE.
AND THANK YOU COREY FOR TELLING US THAT.
AND SO WE'LL GO ONTO KEVIN, GO ONTO KEVIN CHENEY AND I WILL FOR THREE MINUTES AND I WILL REMIND PEOPLE TO KEEP MUTING IF YOU'RE NOT SPEAKING.
IS KEVIN CHENEY THERE? IF NOT, THEN WE'LL GO TO GYM.
JIM, DO ARE YOU THERE? AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES AND SAM PRICHARD WILL FOLLOW.
JIM DO, OH, ARE YOU THERE? YEAH.
WE MOVED HERE IN 2009 AND WE'VE MOVED TO A NICE QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD.
IS THAT KEVIN CHENEY? THEN WE'LL GO ON TO JIM.
UH, JIM, YOU HAVE A GOOD ONE TO SPEAK.
KEVIN SPEAK AND I ASKED THAT EVERYBODY PLEASE BE PREPARED.
I'M GOING TO BE READING OFF ONE OR TWO NAMES AFTER.
SO KEVIN CHENEY, THEN JIM DUES AND SAM PRICHARD.
SO KEVIN CHANEY, GO AHEAD AND YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
WATCHING LIVE ON THE TELEVISION, THEY NEED TO MUTE THEIR TELEVISION.
IF THEY'RE WATCHING THIS LIVE, THEY NEED TO MUTE IT.
PEOPLE NEED TO TURN THE TV OFF.
IT NEEDS TO BE, THEY NEED SOME, USE THAT AND JUST LISTEN THROUGH THEIR PHONE BECAUSE IT'S CAUSING THE DELAY.
AND THAT'S WHAT'S GIVING EVERYBODY FEEDBACK.
DON'T RELY ON THE TV BECAUSE IT'S, THERE'S A DELAY.
SO, AND I'LL REMIND PEOPLE THAT THERE IS ALSO A TV DELAY AND PLEASE
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MUTE YOUR PHONES AND WITH THAT TV, THE WAY PHONES AND ARE WE GETTING BACK TO KEVIN CHENEY? IF NOT, WE'LL GO ON TO JIM DO BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE.HEY JIM, DO, ARE YOU THERE? YES, I'M HERE TO KEVIN CHENEY POPPED IN.
SO WE'LL JUST KEEP ON GOING WITH YOU.
AND THEN SAM PRICHARD, AND THEN BECKY WOULD WITH REBECCA AND JAMES WOOD.
SO GO AHEAD, MR. DO AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
WE MOVED HERE IN 2009 AND HAVE SINCE UH, ADDED TO OUR FAMILY, UH, SIX GRANDCHILDREN, CHILDREN WHO'VE COME HERE TO PLAY IN THE PARK AND TO SWIM IN THE POOL AND TO RIDE BIKES ALONG THE STREET, WHICH RIGHT NOW ARE PRETTY SAFE.
UM, OUR, OUR CONCERN IS THE OPENING OF WAYNE RYEDALE LOOP AND THE INCREASED TRAFFIC THAT'S GOING TO COME FROM THAT.
OUR STREET, UH, NO, NO DRIVEWAYS BACK OUT ONTO WAYNE RYEDALE LOOP.
AND FOR THAT REASON, UH, THE SPEED LIMIT IS 35 OR 45 IF YOU CAN DO IT.
AND MOST OF THE PEOPLE, ALMOST ALL THE ONES THAT LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD DON'T DRIVE THE 35, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S EVEN TOO FAST.
IF, IF WE HAVE A CUT THROUGH, IT'S GOING TO BE TERRIBLE.
AND I KNOW THAT BECAUSE EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS THEM ENDS UP COMPLAINING JUST LIKE THE MEADOWS DEAD.
WE ALSO HAVE A SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL AND A MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT ARE ALREADY OVERCROWDED.
AND, AND, UH, THE
SO THE EAST OF, OF, UH, THIS COMMUNITY ON 1626, UH, ALL THAT TRAFFIC IS GOING TO END UP CUTTING THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOODS SO THEY CAN GET ONTO 16, 26 AND GO EAST FAST.
AND WHAT WE DON'T NEED IS, IS THE LINES BACKED UP HALFWAY DOWN, WAYNE, RIGHT OUT LOOP LIKE THE ARE BACKED UP HALFWAY DOWN SOUTH FIRST AT NIGHT.
WE, WE'VE WHAT WE NEED OUR SINGLE FAMILY HOME WHEN I IMAGINE, I IMAGINE AUSTIN HAVE BEING HOUSES AND COMMUNITIES RATHER THAN APARTMENT STUFFED INTO PLACES WHERE THEY CAN FIT, BUT WHETHER OR NOT NEEDED, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SINGLE FAMILY HOUSES NOW IN THE AREA.
UH, AND, AND AS FAR AS THE CREEK GOES, UH, IT'S ALREADY FLOODING MORE THAN WHAT IT USED TO.
AND THAT'S ALL BECAUSE OF ALL THIS DENSIFICATION.
WHAT WE NEED IS THE BOARD TO LOOK AT THIS AND TO FACTOR IN ALL OF THOSE
AND, AND AS REBECCA HOWE POINTED OUT, IF THEY PUT THIS ROAD CONNECTION THROUGH, THEY'RE GOING TO CLOSE OFF THE ROAD THROUGH SAN LEANNA.
THEY DON'T WANT TO DO IT BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALWAYS HELPED US.
BUT IF, IF THAT ROAD GOES, THEY WILL CLOSE OFF SAN LEANNA, WHICH WILL MAKE IT EVEN WORSE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
THE TUMOR DELAYS AND I PUSHED, I PUSHED THE BUTTON TO KILL MY PHONE RATHER THAN UNMUTE.
SO YOU HAVE TIME AND YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES AND THEN AFTER YOU WILL BE SAM PRICHARD AND THEN REBECCA AND BECKY WOOD AND JAMES WOOD.
I DID SEND IN A SPREADSHEET THAT IF YOU COULD BRING THEM UP, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
MEANWHILE, I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT I DO AGREE WITH ALL MY, UH, THE TRAFFICKING SIGNS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS AND THE CONGESTION CONCERNS THAT HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY BROUGHT UP.
UM, BUT I WANTED TO TAKE A LITTLE DIFFERENT TAKE ON THIS.
UM, I'VE LIVED IN LA FOR 10 YEARS AND UM, I'VE SEEN A LOT OF NEW STUFF GO IN SINCE THE TIMELINE MOVED.
THERE WAS A LOT OF THOSE ARE APARTMENT COMPLEXES.
AND SO IN THIS SPREADSHEET THAT I PUT UP, UM, THAT I SENT IN THE FIRST 21 ENTRIES ARE APARTMENTS THAT ARE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THAT ARE WITHIN TWO MODELS OF THE PROPERTY THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, THE ZONING OFF.
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UM, SO IF YOU GO THROUGH, AND I GOT MY STUFF FROM APARTMENT.COM IF YOU COUNT HOW MANY UNITS THAT PEO, THERE'S, UH, 6,000, 459 UNITS.IT HAS GONE IN AND THE BETTER AROUND THE AREA OF THE, THE PLACE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND UM, SO IT'S ALSO PROBABLY, I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE NUMBER HERE.
I HAVE EIGHT 53 UNITS THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, THE LAST THROUGH ENTRIES.
APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
AND WHEN THEY FINISH, WHEN THEY SHARE ABOUT THE ONE THAT UH, 68, 26 THE LAST MONTH AND DON'T SAY THAT TONY WROTE, I HAVE THREE 72 LISTED THERE, BUT I THINK IT MAY BE GREATER NUMBER OF UNITS THAT ARE GOING IN THERE.
UM, AND OTHER UNITS THAT ARE THERE FEED THOUSAND 655 OF THEM HAVE BEEN BUILT AFTER 2013 SO THERE'S ALREADY IN THE AREA, A LOT OF APARTMENT COMPLEXES.
AND I ALSO INCLUDED, UH, EXISTING VACANCIES THAT WERE ON A SPECIFIC DATE BECAUSE THAT CHANGES AS TIME GOES ON.
SO WE HAVE A LOT OF APARTMENT COMPLEXES IN THE AREA ALREADY.
AUSTIN HAS BUILT A LOTS OF APARTMENT COMPLEXES.
FEBRUARY 28TH, UH, AUSTIN STATEMENT ARTICLE CLAIMS IN THE PAST 10 YEARS, THEY VOTED OVER 10,000 APARTMENT UNITS A YEAR IN AUSTIN AND THEY WERE ON TRACK TO ADD ANOTHER 1212 TO, THEY HAD ANOTHER 25,000 UNDER CONSTRUCTION AS OF FEBRUARY 20TH.
THOSE THINGS MAY CHANGE BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT SITUATION, BUT AT ANY RATE, UM, SO THE APARTMENTS IN THIS AREA, OUR LADY, WHICH I DIDN'T SEE MUCH CHANGING IN THE WAY OF INFRASTRUCTURE TO ACCOMMODATE ALL THE NEW FOLKS THAT ARE DRIVING AND MOBILIZING THEM THERE.
AND NOT ONLY WERE THEY NEW APARTMENT COMPLEXES BUT THEY'RE NEW DEVELOPMENTS AS WELL.
IT'S ABOUT PART MEADOW, ONE OF THE MPS AND THERE'S A NUMBER OF ASSISTED LIVING AND NURSING HOMES THAT ARE ALSO BUILT IN THE AREA WITHIN THE ONE MILE RADIUS I TALKED ABOUT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I'M VERY HAPPY THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO JOIN US.
NEXT IS SAM PRITCHARD, FOLLOWED BY BECKY, REBECCA AND JAY AND JAMES.
UM, GOOD EVENING COMMISSION MEMBERS AND THOSE OF SLAUGHTER CREEK NEIGHBORS.
I'VE BEEN A HOMEOWNER IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD FOR SEVEN YEARS AND I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY.
WE ARE RAISING OUR SON HERE AND PLAN TO BE HERE WELL INTO HIS HIGH SCHOOL YEAR.
WE'LL UTILIZE THE COMMUNITY PARK PLAYGROUND AND SOON TO BE SPLASH PAD EVERY WEEK, SOMETIMES TIMES, MULTIPLE TIMES.
THESE AREAS ARE THE ONES SO CLOSE TO THE PROPOSED PASS THROUGH STREETS THAT WE'RE ALL DISCUSSING.
OUR COMMUNITY USES THIS LOCATION TO MEET AND CELEBRATE EVENTS THAT BRING US ALL CLOSER TOGETHER AND THIS MAIN THOROUGHFARE IS OFTEN LOCATION FOR EVENTS LIKE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT 4TH OF JULY PARADE IN MANY OTHER CELEBRATIONS.
AFTER HEARING THE ITEMS SET FORTH AS MAJOR CONCERNS REGARDING THE SAFETY OF NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDREN, PRESERVATION OF HOME VALUES AND OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE, I WANT TO PRESENT A SEEMINGLY STRAIGHTFORWARD SOLUTION.
I CAN GLADLY FORWARD REFERENCE PHOTOS OF THE PAST THROUGH AREA WE WISH TO REMAIN CLOSED TO THROUGH TRAFFIC.
WE WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THAT THE DEVELOPER OF THIS PROJECT MODIFY BUILDING ORIENTATION TO PERMANENTLY BLOCKED THIS PASS THROUGH AS A POSSIBILITY BUT AT THE VERY LEAST INSTALL A NON PASSABLE GATE IF WE CAN HAVE THIS AGREE TO ALONG WITH DOWN ZONING OF THE CLOSEST NEIGHBORING BUILDINGS TO MS THREE HAVE OUR DRAINAGE CONCERNS ADDRESSED AS WELL AS THE ISSUE OF DARK SKIES DOWN LIGHTING.
AGREEABLE, I FEEL AS THE NOLS HAVE SLOTTED CRE WITHDRAWALS AND FURTHER DISPUTES WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AND ULTIMATELY ENCOURAGE OVERALL COMMUNITY CONNECTIVITY.
AND A REMINDER TOO, THERE WAS A TV DELAY.
SO TURN OFF YOUR TV OR DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO IT TOO MUCH CAUSE IT'S GOING TO THROW YOU OFF AND MUTE PHONES.
AND NEXT IS BECKY WOOD WITH REBECCA AND JAMES WOOD AND THEN FOLLOWED BY ERIN SIMMONS, THEN KAREN HAYDEN AND THEN YOU'LL ALL EACH HAVE THREE MINUTES.
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THANK YOU.HELLO, THIS IS BECKY WOOD AND I FIRST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR UM, GIVING, UH, NOT ONLY MYSELF BUT OUR COMMUNITY.
THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, SPEAK WITH YOU TONIGHT.
UH, WE MOVED INTO THE, UH, MOVE TO AUSTIN AND MOVED SPECIFICALLY INTO SOUTH AUSTIN BECAUSE SOUTH AUSTIN WAS A, UM, BEAUTIFUL, THRIVING, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTIAL AREA.
UM, WE MOVED HERE BEFORE SOUTH PARK MEADOWS EVEN WAS, UH, UH, WAS HERE.
AND WE ARE THRILLED THAT SOUTH PARK MEADOWS HAS COME BECAUSE IT IS, UM, JUST A, UH, A BEAUTIFUL ADDITION SHOPPING AREA.
SO, BUT OUR COMMUNITY, THE OPPORTUNITY, WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE WILL NOT, UM, UH, WE MOVED INTO AND WHAT WE WILL NOT ACCEPT HAVING COMPLEX BEHIND DIRECTLY BEHIND OUR HOUSE.
NOT ONLY WILL THIS AFFECT THE COMMUNITY, BUT SPECIFICALLY FOR, UM, FOR OUR HOUSE.
WE ARE, WE HAVE A 20 FOOT UTILITY EASEMENT BETWEEN, UM, UH, THE BACK OF OUR FENCE AND THE BARBED WIRE FENCE, WHICH STARTS WITH THE CONTEXT WE'LL START AND TO HAVE, UM, LOSE ALL THE WILDLIFE BACK THERE, ALL THE BEAUTY OF OUR, OUR COMMUNITY AND HAVE A 60 FOOT TALL, UM,
AND I'M JUST GONNA LIST SOME OF THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY ADDRESSED.
INCREASED TRAFFIC WITH THE, WITH THE CUT-THROUGH, UM, SAFETY OF OUR RESIDENTS.
YOU KNOW, OUR COLDEST SECOND IN PARTICULAR HAS A LOT OF CHILDREN THAT GREW UP HERE FROM, FROM LITTLE, AND THE CHILDREN HAVE ALWAYS HAD A SAFE AREA TO PLAY IN, UM, TO WALK TO THE POOL.
YOU KNOW, NO DEBT, NO DANGER OF ANYTHING WITH THE CUP.
TRUE OF POTENTIALLY WAYNE RIDELL.
UM, BUT THE SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN IS PARAMOUNT.
AND I WOULD JUST HATE TO SEE A CHILD, YOU KNOW, HIT BY A SPEEDING CAR THAT'S GOING THROUGH BECAUSE SOMEONE IS, IS RUSHING THROUGH BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH CONGESTION NOW BECAUSE NOW THERE'S 750 MORE UNITS.
THAT DOESN'T EVEN MEAN JUST 750 MORE VEHICLES.
THAT COULD BE TIMES TWO THAT ARE NOW, YOU KNOW, RUNNING THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
THE CONGESTION IS GOING TO INCREASE RIGHT NOW WITH THE, UH, BACK WITH THE GREENBELT AND EVEN THE, UM, AREA THAT IS THE PROPOSED PROPERTY.
UM, WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD A CONCERN WITH CRIME AND THERE'S BEEN CRIME BACK THERE.
UM, IT'S A SAFE AREA NOW WHEN YOU HAVE A 700 UNIT THING.
BUT I'M GOING TO, I'M GOING TO BE, TRY TO BE A STICKLER ON, CAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT GO THROUGH.
AND NOW REBECCA AND THEN JAMES WOULD, YES.
COULD I, I'M, MY DAUGHTER IS REBECCA.
COULD I DONATE REBECCA? REBECCA, DONATE HER TIME TO ME.
YOU'LL HAVE AN ADDITIONAL THREE MINUTES.
SO, AND I'M TRYING NOT TO GET WORRIED HERE, WHICH I APOLOGIZE FOR, BUT THE CRIME IS TIME IS A HUGE FACTOR.
UM, THE LIGHT POLLUTION, UH, WHICH WITH THE DARK SKY OF A, YOU KNOW, 60 FOOT BUILDING RIGHT BEHIND OUR COMPLEX IS, UM, AGAIN, JUST GOING TO CHANGE THE DYNAMICS OF THE, UM, OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY.
AND WHAT I WOULD PROPOSE WOULD BE, UM, A SINGLE FAMILY COMMUNITY RATHER THAN A MULTIFAMILY COMMUNITY BACK THERE.
UH, BUCKLEY FAMILY COME COMPLEX.
UM, COUPLED WITH THE ENVIRONMENT IMPACT.
UM, RIGHT NOW THAT WHOLE AREA IS FULL OF WILDLIFE AND IT IS GOING TO AFFECT THE, UH, AFFECT THE WILDLIFE.
THERE'S GOING TO BE STRESS ON THEM.
OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO RE, UH, FIND A NEW HOME, WHICH THEY'RE GOING TO BE RUNNING INTO THE STREET.
WE'VE HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE WHEN COMPLEX EVEN, YOU KNOW, UH, COMPLEX IS WHERE WE'RE BUILT THAT THE, UM, THE DEER ARE JUST RUNNING THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE STREETS BECAUSE THEY JUST DON'T
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EVEN KNOW WHERE TO GO.AND THIS IS GOING TO, UM, AFFECT IT SIGNIFICANTLY.
AND LASTLY, UM, THE, UH, THE, THE BUILDING OF AN MS FOR COMPLEX NEXT TO A SINGLE FAMILY, UM, COMMUNITY, UM, HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DECREASE OUR, THE VALUE IN OUR HOMES AND IT'S GOING TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE.
UM, IF THEY WANT TO SELL THEIR HOME, IF THEY WANT SOMEONE TO, UH, NEW TO MOVE IN AND HAVING, UH, HAVING THAT TYPE OF A COMPLEX, UM, SO CLOSE TO OUR SUBDIVISION, WE'LL JUST CHANGE OUR COMMUNITY TO A COMPLETE DIFFERENT DYNAMICS.
AND THAT IS WHY I AM SO OPPOSED.
AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MY HUSBAND.
AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES, MR. WOOD.
UM, YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS LISTENING TO US TODAY AND YOU KNOW, AS YOU TALK TO PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THESE ISSUES, UH, WE'RE EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT.
YOU KNOW, LIKE MY WIFE SAID, WE MOVED HERE IN 2003.
YOU KNOW, IF I GET UP AND SIT ON MY DECK ANY MORNING, I CAN SEE FIVE OR SIX DEER WALKING AROUND WHERE YOU KNOW, THERE'S A PROPOSED PARKING LOT IS GOING TO BE, AND YOU KNOW, THE ISSUES THAT PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT UP ARE REAL ISSUES.
YOU KNOW, THOSE DEER THAT I SEE ARE NOT GOING TO BE THERE ANYMORE AND THEY'RE GOING TO, LIKE MY WIFE SAID THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO FIND A HOME, WHICH IS GONNA PUT, YOU KNOW, DISPLACED THEM, WHICH IS NOT WHAT AUSTIN IS.
AUSTIN IS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UM, WILDLIFE AND ABOUT, YOU KNOW, TAKING CARE OF, UH, RESIDENTS OF AUSTIN AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, OTHER WILDLIFE TO DAWSON.
YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK IT'S A REALLY, REALLY GOOD, UH, IDEAS TO OPEN UP LANE RIDGEDALE THE GENTLEMEN WHO SHOWED THE PICTURES GAVE YOU A REALLY GOOD REPRESENTATION OF WHAT HAPPENS, YOU KNOW, ON DIFFERENT EVENTS.
BUT IF YOU WERE TO, IF THE COMMISSION WERE TO COME DOWN HERE AND I WOULD SUGGEST THAT AND DRIVE THROUGH HERE ABOUT SIX 30 ON ANY NIGHT, YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF PEOPLE WALKING WITH SMALL KIDS.
UM, YOU KNOW, THEIR DOGS AND IT'S GOING TO TURN INTO A DANGEROUS SITUATION.
UH, SO, YOU KNOW, THE ANIMAL LIFE IS REAL.
THE SITUATION OF THE DRIVE THROUGH AND IT BECOMING UNSAFE OR RESIDENCE IS REAL.
THE AMOUNT OF VALUE THAT'S GOING TO BE REDUCED FOR OUR HOMES AND THEREFORE TAXES PAID TO THE CITY IS REAL.
AND YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST A, UM, IT'S GOING TO BE AN IMPACT ON OUR COMMUNITY.
OUR COMMUNITY IS A NICE SAFE COMMUNITY AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FLYING, I THINK THAT TURNS INTO A REAL THING.
SO THERE ARE A LOT OF ISSUES THAT ARE JUST NOT GOOD FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN HERE A LONG TIME, UH, WHO'S BEEN TAXPAYERS FOR THE CITY AND IT'S JUST, IT'S GOING TO CHANGE WHERE WE LIVE AND THAT'S, UM, UH, THAT'S A BIG ISSUE AND I JUST APPRECIATE YOU GUYS' TIME AND, UM, SEXY FOR HEARING OUR R.
AND REMINDER TO MUTE PHONES NEXT IS AARON SIMONS OR SIMMONS POOL BY KAREN HA.
AND THEN IT LOOKS LIKE THE ASTRADA FAMILY.
SO AARON SIMMONS OR SIMONS, YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
UM, MY FAMILY, WE HERE A LITTLE OVER ABOUT A YEAR AGO.
UM, MY HUSBAND AND I WAS HERE WITH OUR THREE KIDS WHO ARE 15, UM, WELL AND 10.
AND WE'VE REALLY ENJOYED THIS NEIGHBORHOOD A LOT SO FAR.
UM, A LOT OF THINGS YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD.
WE HAVE KIDS WHO ENJOY HAVING THE FREEDOM TO RIDE BIKES AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
OUR PROPERTY ACTUALLY BACKS UP TO WAYNE RIDELL RIGHT TOWARDS THE END HERE WHERE THIS UM, COMPLEX IS BEING PROPOSED.
UM, DURING, DURING THIS QUARANTINE TIME.
OUR FAMILY HAS ACTUALLY USED THAT DEDHAM TO PLAY STREET HOCKEY AND HAVE ENJOYED THAT.
SO, UM, THERE'S KIND OF THREE MAIN THINGS THAT ARE CONCERNS FOR ME AND THEN I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST KEY THINGS IS TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS.
THE FIRST ONE OF COURSE IS THE FACET.
THEY INCREASED TRAFFIC IS A SAFETY CONCERN, BUT IT'S ALSO, UM, IT'S GONNA INCREASE THE, THE NOISE BEHIND OUR, OUR UM, PROPERTY.
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WAYNE.RAQUEL IS A CUT THROUGH, BUT IT ISN'T A STRAIGHT ROAD.
AND SO THERE ARE SOME CURVES THAT WOULD BE DANGEROUS, PARTICULARLY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE RUSHING THROUGH IN A HURRY BECAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO GET AROUND THE LIGHT.
UM, SECONDLY, WE DO HAVE A LOT OF GREEN SPACE.
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DREW US TO THIS AREA IN SOUTH AUSTIN WAS THAT THERE IS SOME BASIS AFTER DALLAS IN GREEN AND WE HAVE ACCESS TO OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD GREEN BELTS, UM, WITH WATER CREEK RIGHT THERE.
AND SO I'M ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THE, UM, THE IMPERVIOUS COVER IS GOING TO DO IN TERMS OF FLOODING AS WELL AS THE INCREASED TRAFFIC ON OUR GREENBELT IS GOING TO DO IN TERMS OF THE, THE UM, JUST THE CARE OF THAT FAITH AND THE QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT WE HAVE THERE.
UM, AND THEN THIRD IS JUST A BIGGER PICTURE OF, WE'VE SEEN A LOT OF GROWTH IN SOUTH AUSTIN AND THERE ARE QUITE A LOT OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSING PROJECTS AVAILABLE.
UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE SINGLE FOSTER HOMES AND, UM, SO, UH, WE'VE GOT FOOLS THAT ARE FROM MY UNDERSTANDING FROZEN AND I WONDER JUST WHERE ALL OF THESE, UM, KIDS IF THEY MOVE IN ARE GOING TO BE GOING TO SCHOOL AND HOW THAT'S GOING TO AFFECT A GREATER COMMUNITY.
SO, UM, UH, MY, I FEEL IT WOULD BE USED AS A GREEN SPACE THAT COULD BE DEVELOPED FOR EVERYONE, BUT IF THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE A GREAT REDUCTION IN THE DENSITY, THE HEIGHT, UM, THE LIGHTING BEING DOWN AND CLOSING, UM, WAYNE RIDDLE.
SO WE DO NOT HAVE A CUT THROUGH COMING THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, WHETHER THAT BE A DATE OR SIMPLY PROTECTING THAT SORT OF FOUR ACRES WITH A HOUSE ON IT.
SO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN TO MY CONCERN.
AND THEN NEXT IS KAREN HAYDEN, THEN JERRY PATTERSON, AND THEN THE ASTRADA FAMILY.
SO KAREN HAYDEN, ARE YOU THERE, KAREN HAYDEN? SURE.
IF KAREN HAYDEN IS NOT THERE AND HELLO, ARE YOU THERE? YES.
AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
UM, I APPRECIATE THE CHANCE TO TALK.
UM, THIS IS A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WE ALL LOVE AND WE'RE REALLY LUCKY THAT WE HAVE THE BEAUTIFUL SLAUGHTER CREEK RUNNING THROUGH HERE AND IT'S A CREEK THAT HAS A TERRIBLE NAME, DOESN'T SOUND PRETTY, BUT IT'S VERY, VERY BEAUTIFUL.
AND AS YOU HEARD EARLIER, WE SWOOPED IN AND CANOE AND KAYAK AND PEOPLE FISH.
THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT SPRING FED CREEK THAT WE NEED TO PROTECT JUST AS MUCH AS BURTON CREEK AND THE OTHER IMPORTANT CREEKS IN OUR REGION.
UM, WE DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S BEEN ENOUGH, UM, EMPHASIS ON THE STUDY FOR STORM WATER IMPACTS AND THAT IT WON'T BE COMPLETED BEFORE YOU GET TO VOTE ON THIS AND BEFORE COUNCIL GETS TO VOTE.
AND WE'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
WE'VE HAD A SITUATION, THIS CREEK FEEDS INTO ONION CREEK AND I'M A CREEK IS FLOODED SO BADLY IN THE PAST THAT THE CITY HAD THE BUYOUT 956 HOMES AND THAT COSTS CITY $45 MILLION.
SO ANYTHING WE DO THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THAT SLEDDING IN THE FUTURE HAS POTENTIAL TO IMPACT THE CITY ONCE AGAIN IN A WAY.
THERE WAS A STUDY COMMISSIONED BY THE CITY OF AUSTIN BY DR KATHARINE HAYHOE ABOUT CLIMATE IMPACTS AND SHE FOUND THAT HEAVY PRECIPITATION IS INSPECT IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE, UM, MORE THAN TWO INCHES OF RAIN.
AND THE AMOUNT OF RAINFALL DOING FIVE CONSECUTIVE CONSECUTIVE WEATHER STAYS OF THE YEAR IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN THAT COMING IN.
THE APPLICANT IS RIGHT NOW LOOKING AT, UM, THE ATLAS 14 STUDIES AND THEN AN UPDATED VERSION, UM, WHICH IS GOOD, BUT THAT SAYS THAT THERE COULD BE A 14 FOOT RISE IN THE CREEK HERE CREEK, BUT THERE HAS ACTUALLY BEEN ALREADY AT, UM, AN EXCEEDANCE OF THAT.
THERE'S ALREADY BEEN A 16 FOOT, UM, FLOOD RISE, UM, IN THE 2013 FLOOD.
WE NEED TO BOOK BECAUSE THE ACTUAL FLOODING AND RUNOFF NOW ALREADY ALREADY EXCEEDS WHAT'S BEING LOOKED AT.
UM, THE CUMULATIVE IMPACTS OF THE TWO DOZEN NEWLY BUILT AND PLANNED PROJECTS ABSOLUTELY NEED TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS ANALYSIS AND BY CYNTHIA AND TODAY A CHART THAT SHOWS THAT THE FLOW OF SLAUGHTER CREEK CAN INCREASE GOING FROM ONE TO THE FOR THE SECOND UP TO 40 CUBIC FEET A SECOND IN MINUTES WITH JUST A FOUR INCH RAIN.
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IMPORTANT.SO HERE'S WHAT WE'D LIKE TO ASK OF YOU, UM, IS THAT YOU REDUCE THE LISTENING FIRST OF ALL, TO MAKE IT NOT SO DENSE TO MFT OR MF THREE THAT WOULD HELP REDUCE RUNOFF THAT YOU USE PERVIOUS PAVERS THAT HELPS, UM, THE SINK INTO THE SOILS, BUT RAINWATER COLLECTION BE UTILIZED.
AND THAT A SERIES OF SWIRLS AND BERMS TO USE TO RETARD RUNOFF.
UM, IT SHOULD BE A GOAL TO CONSIDER CLIMATE CHANGE, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE CITY HAS AN EMERGENCY CLIMATE RESOLUTION FOR ALL DEPARTMENTS THAT, UH, IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT THIS.
UM, AND SO THAT RUNOFF SHOULD BE ON TO BEACH PROJECTED 2100 LEVELS OF FLOODING.
AND LASTLY, UM, IN THE WORLD OF CARBON EMISSIONS, THE PROJECT SHOULD INCLUDE, UM, PLENTY OF SPACES FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES BECAUSE ONE WAY THAT WE CAN IN FACT DEAL WITH CLIMATE CHANGE.
I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT, UM, I AGREE WITH THE SPEAKERS ABOUT KEEPING WAYNE RIDELL CLOSED.
CURRENTLY THE SITE IS FULL OF WILD FLOWERS AND IT'S REAL DIVERSE.
IT'S A VERY RICH HABITAT RIGHT NOW.
IT INCLUDES MILKWEED, WHICH IS REALLY CRUCIAL FOR MIGRATING MONARCH BUTTERFLIES.
SO I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT THE DEVELOPER LEAVE A BEAUTIFUL FIELD OF WILD FLOWERS, RIGHT WHERE THE WAYNE RIDELL CROSSING WOULD GO THROUGH, BUT EVERYONE COULD ENJOY BOTH THE PEOPLE IN THEIR PROJECT AND THE PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
AND THEN NEXT IS JERRY PATTERSON AND AFTER JERRY PATTERSON IS THE ASTRADA FAMILY AND THEN AFTER THE STRATA FAMILY IS TONYA BETANCOURT.
MR. PATTERSON, YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR AND COMMISSIONER JERRY PATTERSON, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE ONION CREEK MOTOR ASSOCIATION WHEN YOU, GREEK IS LOCATED, UH, JUST EAST OF THIRD, UH, EAST OF UH, ESSENTIALLY BORDERED BY
AND OUR CONCERNS ARE, AS MS HAD MENTIONED, ALL THE WATER, TOO MUCH WATER AT THE WRONG TIME IN THE WRONG PLACE.
WE HAD A 2000, 15, 2015 FLOOD.
THE BUYOUT THAT MISS HADN'T MENTIONED TO 56 HOMES WAS MUCH FARTHER DOWNSTREAM THAN JUST HERE ON THE CREEK IS ABOUT 140.
AND ESSENTIALLY ANYTHING THAT INCREASES THOSE SMALLER BLOWED ON AUTOMATICALLY DOES.
SO NOT ONLY ON SLAUGHTER BUT ALSO ONION CREEK.
SLAUGHTER CREEK CROSSES 35 MOVING TO THE EAST, IT TURNS SOUTH.
THEN IT TURNS EAST AGAIN AND THERE'S ABOUT 40 PROPERTIES WHOSE LOCKS BACK UP TO SLAUGHTER CREEK, INCLUDING MINE.
AND DURING THE 2013 FLOOD, I HAD 16 FEET OF WATER VERTICALLY ON THE BACK OF MY LOT.
NOW I HAVEN'T SMOKED STILL, THEREFORE IT WASN'T QUITE AS A HOUSE.
BUT THE FLOODING ISSUE IS OUR ISSUE.
IT IS THE ISSUE FOR PRESIDENTS IN 90 DEGREE, UH, HOMES ARE BEING BOUGHT OUT TODAY, UH, AND UH, BORE, UH, THE SUBDIVISION IS BEING LOOKED AT FOR POTENTIAL FUTURE BUYER.
UH, SO WE ARE OPPOSED TO ANYTHING THAT INCREASES THE LOAD WATER DRAINAGE ON SLAUGHTER CREEK BECAUSE SLAUGHTER CREEK JOINS ANY CREEK JUST IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF THE SUBDIVISION AND WHATEVER THE STANDARD MAY BE.
AND I HEARD SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES TO YOUR FLOOD.
UH, WE DON'T THINK THAT WOULD BE SUFFICIENT.
WE WOULD, WE WOULD SUGGEST THAT MITIGATION DETENTION, UH, MEASURED RELEASE, BUT SOMETHING HAS TO BE ADDRESSED AS TO THE ADDITIONAL LOAD ON STORM WATER DRAINAGE AND SLAUGHTER CREEK AND ULTIMATELY ONION CREEK.
CAUSE WE'RE, UH, WE, WE, WE WANT TO PROTECT THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT DOESN'T PULL OUT FROM FLOODING.
SO APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND THANKS FOR THE USE OF THE HALL.
AND NOW WE HAVE, UM, UH, RACHEL GARCIA STRATTA, MARCUS STRADA, ISABELLA ASTRADA, MIKAILA ASTRADA, GABRIELA ESTRADA AND MARK CHRISTIAN.
ASTRADA ARE YOU ALL HERE? OKAY, GREAT.
AND SO, UM, JUST UM, JUST SAY YOUR NAME AND WHOEVER SPEAKS FIRST AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES AND EACH OF YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES AND I'VE BEEN CORRECTED.
THERE'S NO DONATION OF TIME BECAUSE IT'S VERY HARD TO VERIFY THAT.
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UM, YOU'LL EACH HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.I THINK I KNOW THE FATHER CREEK AFFORD THE QUALITY OF LIFE DESIRED BY SAM RUSE.
IF THE FAMILY HAS A LONG GAME LITTLE LOOP RIDING THEIR BIKES.
RESIDENTS OF ALL AGES OUT WALKING OR RUNNING FOR EXERCISE OR WALKING IN PARKS AND CHILDREN RIDING THEIR SCOOTERS.
YEAH, THE COMMUNITY SWIMMING POOL AND A PARK AREA LOCATED JUST OFF WAYNE LOOP.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THAT YOU INSTEAD CONSIDERED ZONING.
STAN CONNECTING LANE GOODELL TO SOUTH FIRST WOULD EFFECTIVELY DIVIDE ON QUIET, WELL ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOOD AND HALF HOPING DANGER TO OUR RESIDENTS.
SECOND TO AN INCREASING TOPIC AND COMPLETELY CHANGING
OUR CHILDREN WILL HAVE THE ADDED CHALLENGE OF CROSSING BLOOM.
THE DELTA SIMPLY VISIT WITH THEIR FRIENDS.
THE FEET EASILY ACCOMPLISHED WITH DANCE.
IMAGINE YOUR CURRENT NEIGHBORHOOD DIVIDED BY A BUSY, NOISY AND HEAVILY TRAVELED ROAD AND ADJACENT NEIGHBORING SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT WITH TRANSITION, MUCH LESS INTRUSIVE AND ALLOW US LIGHT NOISE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION.
REDUCTION OF
RESIDENTS THAT ARE 400 PLUS SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WITH QUITE A CHALLENGE TRYING TO EXIT FROM THAT FOOD AND GETTING TO WORK IN THE CHALLENGE.
ALSO INCREASE IN TRAFFIC VOLUME THREATENS THE SAFETY OF CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS AND TRAVELING THE DELTA ACCESS THE COMMUNITY PARKING AREA.
THE DELL LUPUS AFFECTS THE AVAILABLE PEDESTRIANS DEPENDING ON THE SPEED TRAVELED.
WHEN THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, THE DESPERATE INJURIES CAUSED BY AUTOMOBILE COLLISIONS ARE A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG CHILDREN FIVE TO 14 YEARS.
THOSE STATISTICS ARE NOT SOMETHING THAT WE WANT FOR THE MIDDLE RESIDENTS THAT WOULD MOVE INTO THE AREA WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 750 UNIT COMPLEX AND THE EFFECTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT.
SO FOR THESE REASONS AND OTHERS IS EXPRESSED BY MY OTHER NEIGHBORS, I AM OPPOSED TO THE ZONING AND REQUESTED ABDUCTION BY AT LEAST 50% OR CHANGE TO SINGLE FAMILY.
AND MOST CERTAINLY I OPPOSED IT TO SOUTH FIRST STREET.
I'M ACTUALLY ON A CALL WITH WORK, SO IF I COULD PUT MY YELLOW NEXT OFF THE MARK.
I WAS ON BECAUSE I DON'T THINK HE SHOULD BE APARTMENTS BECAUSE
I DON'T WANT HER TO FEEL UNSAFE OR UNCOMFORTABLE.
I DON'T WANT HER FEELING SCARED ON THE SIDEWALK AND SNOWDEN POSSIBLY GETTING SERIOUSLY HURT.
IT ALSO BE DANGEROUS TO WALK ACROSS THE STREET TO GO TO MY SON'S HOUSE.
WHEN PEOPLE ARE WALKING THEIR DOGS, THEY MIGHT GET SCARED AND RUNNING INTO THE STREET AND THAT WOULD BE GOOD.
I ALSO THINK THEY SHOULD INVADE ANIMAL HABITATS LATELY ABOUT ANIMAL HABITATS AND ADOPTION.
NOW THAT WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF DEER AND OTHER WILDLIFE IN MY BACKYARD AND AROUND THE NEIGHBORS ON YOUR HOUSE.
NOW NONE OF THOSE HAVE TO TRY TO ADAPT SOMEWHERE ELSE.
NOW THEY ARE AT A FIVE RISK OF GETTING HURT, WHICH TO ANIMAL POPULATION.
ONE OTHER THING IS I FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE, REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE KNOWING THAT PEOPLE COULD WATCH ME WHILE I'M TRYING TO HAVE FUN ON MY CHEST, MY IN MY BACKYARD WITH MY DAUGHTER'S SIBLING.
YOU SHOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE, SAFE AT YOUR OWN HOME.
THESE WERE THE IMPORTANT REASONS WHY I THINK YOU SHOULD NOT LOOK.
ASTRADA YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
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OKAY.MIKAYLA, BECAUSE OF CATHOLIC SCHOOL, BECAUSE I NEED HELP FOR THINGS IN SCHOOL.
IT'S MY DOG AND OTHER ANIMALS IN THE CHAT.
AND THEN UH, UH, GABRIELA ASTRADA, YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
IT IS CONSIDERED TO BE ANY UNWANTED OR DISTURBING ASYLUM THAT AFFECTS THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF HUMANS AND OTHER ORGANISMS IF THOSE ARE TO PRESSURE HER CUISINE, SLEEP DISTURBANCES IN STRESS PROBLEMS THAT AFFECTS ALL AGE GROUPS, EVEN CHILDREN, SO THESE HAVE SO MANY
IT IS IMPORTANT WE RECOGNIZE THAT MOST POLLUTION IS A SERIOUS HEALTH CONCERN WHERE THEY AREN'T ATTENTION AND FINDS A REALISTIC IN SUBSTANTIAL WAYS TO MANAGE IT AND WE DO USE IT WHEN MEANS I WISH WE CAN REDUCE NOISE POLLUTION.
OVERPOPULATION CAUSED BY HIGH TO MODERATE DENSITY WITH SUCH, I AM EXPOSED TO RECENTLY AT THE PROPERTY IN DISCUSSION TO MSR WHICH WILL ONLY ASK THE RISING LEVEL OF HER PERSONNEL AREA.
ALSO THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF CARS.
THIS WILL BE ADDED BY A 750 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX TO OUR ALREADY BATTLE AREA FOR ONLY SATURATE IN COG.
AS I SPEAK WITH YOU TODAY, AN APARTMENT COMPLEX IS BEING CONSTRUCTED KELLY CORNER TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS A MEDICAL USE HIGH RISE TOWER.
FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD ON FARMER'S MARKET, 1626 IN RECENT YEARS, YOU'VE ALSO SEEN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MULTIPLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES, NURSING HOME FACILITIES AND SINGLE FAMILY HOME SUBDIVISIONS CHANGED.
THE ONES WILL ESCAPE TO WHEN THEY'RE BY REPOPULATING OUR WORST QUIET AREA.
TRAFFIC MOVES CAN ALSO AFFECT PROPERTY VALUES AND HE'LL LET ME SELL AT EIGHT TO 10% LESS THAN A COMPARABLE HOME ON A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD STREET.
ADDITIONALLY, HEAVY TRUCK TRUCK TRAFFIC CONTRIBUTES TO THE LAYERING OF PROPERTY VALUES DUE TO NOISE EMISSIONS, WHICH ARE FOR EITHER HIGHER THAN THAT OF A CAR.
SO THESE REASONS AND OTHER STATED FACTORS.
THEN THERE'S THE, FOR ME, I AM AGAINST THE REASONING TO MFR AND THE CONNECTION OF WINDOWS TO SOUTHWEST STREET.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR SALES CONSIDERATION OF THESE INDICATIONS ON MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
GABRIELA ASTRADA SHE JUST SPOKE.
I DIDN'T CROSS ACROSS HER NAME OFF.
WELL, HE HAS CHOSEN NOT TO FULLY COVERED THE TOPICS WE'VE DISCUSSED.
OKAY, THEN NEXT WE WILL GO ON TO UM, TANYA BENTON COURT, THEN CARL KNUTSON, MANNY RUIZ AND ANDREW HAD HAD AND YOU WILL EACH HAVE THREE MINUTES.
SO IS TONYA BENTON COURT AVAILABLE? OKAY, THANKS.
UM, MY FAMILY AND I HAVE BEEN AT THE NOSE OF SLAUGHTER CREEK SINCE 2011.
WE STRONGLY PROPOSE OPPOSE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AND THE EXTENSION OF WAYNE RETAIL LOOP AS HE WILL SEVERELY AND NEGATIVELY AFFECT THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE RESIDENTS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ELIMINATE ONE OF THE LAST PIECES OF SOMEWHAT UNDEVELOPED LAND FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO
THIS WAS AN AREA THAT NINE YEARS AGO WHEN WE MOVED HERE, HAD AN ABUNDANCE OF WILDLIFE, DARK SKY, QUIET NIGHTS, AND VERY LITTLE CRIME.
MY HEART IS BROKEN TO KNOW THAT MY 11 MONTH OLD DAUGHTER WILL GROW TO SEE ONLY A FRACTION OF THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE REGION THAT WE HAVE COASTAL TREASURE.
I BELIEVE THAT IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE US STAND AND OF COURSE WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE FUTURE GENERATION AND FOR OUR CITY
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AND OUR NATURE HABITAT.UM, I STRONGLY OPPOSED THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AND THE EXTENSION OF WHEN YOU READ A LOOP FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS, IT WILL LIKE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS DEED BY TRANSFORMING WAY RETAIL INTO A HIGH TRAFFIC ROUTE THAT COMPUTERS CAN USE AS AN EASY WAY TO CROSS FROM 1626 TO FIRST STREET.
THIS TRANSFORMATION WOULD MAKE THE ROUTE A VERY NON PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY.
IT WOULD PREVENT THEIR CHILDREN FROM RIDING BICYCLES, RIDING SCOOTERS OR WALKING CAREFREE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARK OR THE POOL.
HE WOULD MAKE IT MORE CHALLENGING FOR THE MANY RESIDENTS THAT EXERCISE BY RUNNING OR BICYCLING WHO TAKE THEIR PETS ON WALKS TO DO SO SAFELY.
HE WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF A PEDESTRIAN BEING HIT.
EVEN ALSO ROUGH ROBOTS FROM THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY I SUPPOSE NOW AS WE WALK DAY, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, WE'RE ABLE TO WAVE TO EACH PASSING CARS BECAUSE WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE WITH COMMUTERS WHO DON'T LIVE HERE PASSING THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ON A DAILY BASIS.
I DON'T KNOW THAT MANY PARENTS WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE ALLOWING THEIR KIDS TO TAKE A STROKE TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD ANYMORE FOR FEAR OF THEIR SAFETY.
NUMBER TWO FOR THE DEVELOPMENT, ESPECIALLY DEVELOPMENT OF A HIGH DENSITY AS IT IS PROPOSED WILL ALSO PUT SIGNIFICANT PRESSURE ON AN ALREADY STRETCHED SCHOOLS AND ROADS.
THE COMMUTE FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO AND FROM
NOWADAYS, UNLESS TRADITIONAL FUNDING BECOMES AVAILABLE FOR THE, FROM THE DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPERS OR FROM THE CITY TO ADDRESS SCHOOLS AND THE TRAFFIC CHALLENGES IN THE AREA, THESE DEVELOPMENT REQUESTS SHOULD NOT BE APPROVED.
THE HIGH DENSITY DEVELOPMENT FOR POSTS WITH HIGH IMPERVIOUS COVER PERCENTAGE IS GOING TO ALSO SEVERELY AFFECT THE ECOSYSTEM BALANCE OF SLAUGHTER CREEKS LEADING TO MUCH MORE FLOODING, WHICH WILL NOT ONLY LEAD TO NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS, BUT COULD ALSO POTENTIALLY HAVE DEADLY OR COSTLY EFFECTS ON DOWNSTREAM COMMUNITIES.
NOW I AND OTHER RESIDENTS HAVE THEN ALSO SLAUGHTER CREEK HAVE HAD THE ABILITY TO TAKE LONG WALKS THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE GREENBELT.
KNOWING THAT WE WERE SAFE FROM TRAFFIC BEING MADE.
UM, IS KNUDSEN THERE AND THEN MANY RELEASE AND THEN ANDREW HAD THAT.
MR CARL NOT KNUTSON ARE YOU THERE?
I JUST WANTED TO, UH, UH, UH, TALK ABOUT MY OPPOSITION TO THIS DEVELOPMENT.
UM, MOST OF THE REASONS FOR US, UH, OPPOSING THIS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSED, SO I'LL KEEP IT PRETTY QUICK.
UH, WE MOVED HERE 19 YEARS AGO, UM, THAT MADE HAVE THREE KIDS LIVE ON THE GREEN SPACE AND THE NOLS, IN FACT, WE MOVED ONCE WITHIN THE NOSE TO THE DIFFERENT HOUSE AND, UM, JUST REALLY OPPOSE THIS FOR THE MAIN REASONS OF THE THREE TRAFFIC FROM WAYNE RIDELL EXTENSION SINCE THE TOPIC ALREADY IN THIS AREA IS SO CONGESTED, THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ALONG THE SPOTTER CREEK AND THE FLOODING OF FODDER CREEK AND THEN, UM, REALLY EVERYTHING THAT WE OPPOSE HAS ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSED.
SO I'LL KIND OF LEAVE IT, LEAVE IT AT THAT AND THAT WE CAN'T DONATE ANY TIME, BUT I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE TIME.
ARE YOU THERE? YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
WE MOVED INTO THE NOSE OF SLAUGHTER CREEK BACK IN 2001 BACK THEN FAMILIES WERE ABLE TO RIDE THEIR BIKES ROLLERBLADE AND RUN DOWN TO EXERCISE.
19 YEARS FORWARD, 2020 FAMILIES ARE STILL UTILIZING WAY DALE RIDING THEIR BIKES, EXERCISING, BUT NOW THEIR KIDS ARE ALSO USING WAYNE BY DALE, BY RIDING THEIR BIKE, EXERCISING AND ALSO CATCHING THE AISD SCHOOL BUS IN THE MORNING AND IN THE AFTERNOON, TRAFFIC HAS INCREASED FEDEX, AMAZON, UPS, THE POSTAL SERVICE OPENING UP WILL BE UNSAFE FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND FOR THE KIDS THAT RESIDE IN OUR
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COMMUNITY.I REALLY WANT YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS AND MAKE A WISE DECISION ON THE SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THE SAFETY OF OUR KIDS, ESPECIALLY WITH THOSE THEM CATCHING THE SCHOOL BUS.
AND THEN NEXT IS HIM, ANDREW HEDBERG FOLLOWED BY HILDA REYES AND AARON LASHEY AND GAIL RANDALL.
ANDREW, ARE YOU THERE? ANDREW? YES, I ASKED HER.
YOU DON'T HAVE THREE, THREE MINUTE LIMIT.
I APPRECIATE THE TIME THIS EVENING TO SPEAK TO THE COMMISSION AND I'D LIKE TO COVER JUST A COUPLE OF POINTS.
MY NEIGHBORS HAVE REALLY DISCUSSED A LOT OF GOOD THINGS, BUT I WANT TO REVISIT A COUPLE OF THINGS AND SPECIFICALLY SPEAK TO OUR FAMILIES.
UH, OUR FAMILY HERE IN THE NOTES WHERE WE BACK UP, WE ARE ONE OF THE 20 SOME ODD HOUSES THAT ARE DIRECTLY NEXT TO WHERE THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE.
AND I SEE THREE PHONES, ONE ON SAFETY.
AND REALLY THIS IS SPECIFICALLY FROM THE, UH, EXTRA ACCESS THAT, UH, THE BACK OF OUR HOUSES HERE WOULD HAVE WITH A CONNECTION TO SOUTH FIRST STREET WITH THE WAINWRIGHT DELL EXTENSION WITH THESE, WITH THIS EYE LOCKS AND UM, A NEIGHBORHOOD TRAIL THAT'S BEEN PROPOSED.
UH, BASICALLY LEADING TO THE BACK OF OUR PROPERTY, UH, TOOK A LOT MORE ACCESS THAN WE HAVE RIGHT NOW WHERE WE'RE PRETTY MUCH ISOLATED.
AND SO I HAVE A GREAT CONCERN THERE, UH, IN TERMS OF POTENTIAL SAFETY ISSUES THERE.
ALSO, FROM A PRIVACY STANDPOINT, I CAN STAND, LOOK OUT MY BACK DOOR AND THERE ARE NO BUILDINGS, UH, STRAIGHT OUT THE BACK.
I HAVE RELATIVES, UH, SECLUSION.
AND WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MOVING TO IS SIX STORY BUILDINGS, UH, WITH, YOU KNOW, FOLKS BEING ABLE TO LOOK DIRECTLY DOWN INTO, INTO OUR YARDS, UH, GREATLY REDUCES THE PRIVACY THAT, UH, THAT WE HAVE HERE IN OUR HOUSES.
AND THEN, UH, ALSO, UH, YOU KNOW, WE MENTIONED SOME DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF HEALTH, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, ONE THING THAT, UH, WHEN LOOKING AT THE PROPOSED MAP, IT LOOKS LIKE WHAT'S GOING TO BE RIGHT NEXT TO OUR HOUSE IS A PARKING LOT.
SO I HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT INCREASED EXHAUST FUMES AND, UH, YOU KNOW, DECREASED AIR QUALITY DUE TO THE INCREASED TRAFFIC, BOTH, I MEAN, RIGHT OUT.
AND THEN RIGHT OUT MY BACK DOOR.
AND FINALLY, I JUST WANT TO URGE, UH, THE COMMISSIONERS TO LOOK AT A MAP OF THIS AREA.
SOUTH FIRST 16, 26 WEST, THE SOUTH FIRST ARC AND HOUSES.
IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO PUT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX RIGHT THERE IN THAT SPACE.
IT SHOULD BE PARKED OR HOUSES.
YOU'VE GOT CITY OF BOSTON PARK PROPERTY RIGHT THERE.
YOU'VE GOT OUR GREENBELT, YOU'VE GOT NEIGHBORHOODS ALL AROUND LOOKING AT THE MAP.
IT WOULD JUST STICK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB.
IT'S NOT, DOESN'T FIT THE VISION OF WHAT THIS PART OF AUSTIN SHOULD BE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
AND THEN HILDA REYES, ARE YOU THERE? FOLLOWED BY AARON LASHEY, GAIL RANDALL AND MARGARET HANKS.
SO HILDA REYES, ARE YOU THERE? YES, THIS IS REBECCA.
YES, MY NAME IS
I AM HERE TO ASK, UM, FOR EIGHT BLOCK FOR THE OPENING OF LANEWAY DEL LOOP TO BE INTERCONNECTED FROM FIRST STREET TO 1626.
MS. SALAZAR, THE PRINCIPAL OF BACON'S HIGH SCHOOL, SIGNED A LETTER IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR OPPOSING THE OPENING A BRAIN WRITE DOWN, UM, SOME OF THE CONCERNS.
I'M GOING TO GO OVER JUST A FEW OF THE CONCERNS.
WE'LL BE SHORT CUTTING THROUGH THE NOSE IF RAIN RAQUEL IS OPEN TO THROUGH TRAFFIC BETWEEN 1626 AND SOUTH FIRST AND EIGHTH AND HIGH SCHOOL.
THIS WILL CREATE SAFETY CONCERNS FOR NO CHILDREN, NO AND AKINS CHILDREN, PARENTS AT AKINS HIGH SCHOOL DROP OFF AND PICK UP THEIR STUDENTS RIGHT NEXT TO THE PROPOSED COMPLEX.
MANY TAILLIGHTS PARKED OUT IN THE STREETS ALONG SOUTH FLORIDA.
DURING THESE TIME PERIODS, ADDING EXTRA TRAFFIC FROM THE
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COMPLEX AND THE OTHER COMPLEXES GOING IN ON OLD SAN ANTONIO ROAD WILL ONLY MAKE A DANGEROUS SITUATION.WORSE, I NEVER CONCERN IS THE INTENDED INTAKE AND ECLIPSE FROM THE PROPOSED GREEN AREAS LOCATED AT THE BACK ENDS OF THE COMPLEX FROM THE SIDEWALK ON THE WEST SIDE OF SOUTH.
FIRST WE FEEL THIS WILL BE AN ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE THAT COULD ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO LEAVE THE CAMPUS.
LASTLY, THE HIGH DENSITY HIGH DENSITY APARTMENT COMPLEX WITH GYM PACKED ARE GREAT, ALREADY OVERCROWDED SCHOOLS IN THE AREA.
AS MENTIONED, I'VE OTHERS OF THE SCHOOL BUSES ARE NO CHECK AND IT'S IN HIGH SCHOOL SO ON BEHALF OF THE AIKEN FACULTY THEY CAN PTSD, THEY CAN PARENT AND THE NOSE.
UH, THE RESIDENCE OF THE NOSE, THE POLY CREEK, WE ARE ASKING YOU TO PLEASE CONSIDER MOST OF THE UPCOMING TRAFFIC CONGESTION PROBLEMS MAKING THE AREAS SAFE FOR STUDENTS, THE PARENTS AND THE FAMILY OF MEMOS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FROM THE SNAKE.
AND IS AARON LASHY THERE FOLLOWED BY GAIL RANDALL.
LASTLY, MY HUSBAND AND I BOUGHT OUR FIRST HOME HERE IN 2013 WE HAVE A DAUGHTER WHO IS NOW FOUR YEARS OLD AND OUR SON IS ALMOST TWO.
I'M OPPOSED TO THE 750 UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX BEING PROPOSED BECAUSE OF THE NEGATIVE IMPACT THAT WILL HAVE ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND TRAFFIC CONGESTION.
I'M ALSO EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT THE NEGATIVE IMPACT IT WILL HAVE TO WAYNE RIGHT OUT LOOP.
WAYNE RAIL LOOP IS THE HEART OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
IT'S THE MAIN ARTERY FOR ALL OF US.
THERE ARE NO DRIVEWAYS THAT LEAD ON TO THE STREET, WHICH MAKES IT PRETTY SAFE FOR MANY OF US.
OUR CHILDREN RIDE THEIR BIKES OR SCOOTERS ON AND JUST GO EXPLORING.
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS FRUITS AND GET TOGETHER FOR THE KIDDOS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR LONG LANE, RIGHT OUT LOOP.
AND OUR PARK EMPLOYEES ARE LOCATED AROUND THE STREET AS WELL.
IT'S THE MAIN PLACE THAT BRINGS PEOPLE TOGETHER AND WE WANT TO KEEP THAT SPECIAL PLACE IN TAX AND WE THINK IT'S FAIR TO ASK THAT THIS DEVELOPER DOES IT IMPEDE ON OUR SPACE.
SO THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC AND THE SPEED AT WHICH PEOPLE TRAVEL UP AND DOWN THIS STREET, THE APARTMENT COMPLEX, UM, ALLOWING IT BY LINE TRAFFIC, UM, AND IT WILL CAUSE A HUGE JUMP AND RESONANCE IN THE AREA.
AND IT'S THE DEVELOPER'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTROL THEIR OWN TRAFFIC FLOW AND NOT COMPROMISE THE SAFETY OF OUR RESIDENTS.
WE HAVE SEEN AN INCREASE IN TRAFFIC AND IT'S ALREADY HARDER TO GET OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ONTO 16, 26.
OUR RESIDENTS HAVE MADE HUGE INVESTMENTS INTO THEIR HOMES.
AND HOW FAIR IS IT THAT ONE DEVELOPER WHO DOESN'T LIVE HERE CAN JUST COME IN AND COMPLETELY DISRUPT THE REASON.
MANY OF US HAVE SPENT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AS WELL AS AT TIME TO CREATE A SENSE OF COMMUNITY.
THERE IS A WAY FOR US TO COEXIST AND SHARE COMMUNAL RESOURCES.
WE WENT TO STILL ENJOY THE PERKS OF WHY WE INVESTED IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
I WENT TO SEEK VARIOUS AND FOR THE ADDITIONAL DENSITY THE DEVELOPER WILL BE BRINGING IN AND CONSERVING WHAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS STILL INTO, WHICH IS THE STREET AND BUILDING COMMUNITY.
IDEALLY, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, I WOULD JUST CLOSE OFF ACCESS TO WAYNE L LOOP FROM THIS DEVELOPMENT.
IT WOULD BE A NICE COMPROMISE IF THEY COULD JUST CUT OFF THE TRAFFIC FLOW TO ELIMINATE A LOT OF THE ISSUES AND CONCERNS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS.
WHAT IS THE NEED FOR THESE RESIDENTS TO CUT THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY TO GET TO 1626 WHEN SOUTH FIRST ALSO LEADS DIRECTLY TO 1626 REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE DEVELOPMENT IS ON THE RAIL PROPERTY, I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO HAVE ADDITIONAL ACCESS TO GREEN, RED VELVET.
AND STACY, YOU GAVE ME A NUMBER TO PUT IN.
SOMEBODY WHO'S WAITING TO SPEAK, IF YOU CAN PLEASE MUTE YOUR PHONES CAUSE WE CAN HEAR CONVERSATIONS THAT YOU MIGHT NOT WANT US TO HEAR.
AND UM, NEXT IS, UH, GAIL RANDALL, THEN MARGARET HANKS AND THEN ROBERT STEVENSON AND SUSAN STEVENSON.
IS GAIL RANDALL HERE? THIS IS GAIL RANDALL.
I MOVED FROM SAN MARCUS TO THE NOLS 10 YEARS AGO.
I LOOKED FOR 18 MONTHS FOR A HOME.
UH, AND I FINALLY FOUND ONE HERE IN THIS LOVELY, LOVELY NEIGHBORHOOD.
ONE OF THE REASONS I LOVED IT SO MUCH WAS BECAUSE I KNEW THAT, UM, THERE WERE A LOT OF FAMILIES HERE.
I HAVE GROWN CHILDREN, BUT SOMEDAY I'LL HAVE GRANDCHILDREN.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LOVE ABOUT THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS WHENEVER YOU HAVE
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A COMMUNITY LIKE THIS, PEOPLE ARE REALLY LOOKING OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER.I JOG A LOT AND THERE'S ALWAYS BICYCLE RIDERS ON THERE.
PEOPLE HAVE THEIR CHILDREN RIDING THE BICYCLES ON THE STREET.
I GET TO STEP INTO THE YARD, I MEAN, INTO THE STREET, PEOPLE HAVE DOGS.
THERE'S A LOT OF FOOT TRAFFIC AND BICYCLE TRAFFIC.
UM, IT'S, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
SO AS WE'RE SAYING THIS, I'M JUST TELLING YOU, THERE IS OUR THOROUGH, THIS IS OUR, UM, OUR LIFEBLOOD.
UH, WE'RE A COMMUNITY, UM, PLAYGROUND.
OUR POOL IS ON THE CORNER ON WAYNE REGALE.
PEOPLE COME UP AND DOWN ALL THE TIME GETTING THERE.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I LOVE MOST ABOUT THIS IS THAT PEOPLE ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN TO GO UP AND DOWN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD BY THEMSELVES.
IT'S A FREE RANGE KIND OF THING.
SO CHILDREN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE, TO, TO, TO BRANCH OUT, WELL, TO BE INDEPENDENT.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CONCERNS ME.
ANOTHER THING THAT CONCERNS ME IS, UM, AS H 45 WAS BUILT AND IT DUMPS EVERYBODY ONTO 16, 26, SO THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC COMING EAST ON 1526 HAS INCREASED EXPONENTIALLY.
TURNING LESS OUT OF THE NODES OF SLAUGHTER CREEK, UM, OFF OF WINE.
RIDELL LEFT ONTO 16, 26 HAS BECOME A PROPOSITION WHERE YOU KIND OF TAKE YOUR LIFE INTO YOUR OWN HANDS.
YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR A LONG TIME.
AND ESPECIALLY IN THE MORNINGS WE, WE OBVIOUSLY BEEN OUT OF SCHOOL, BUT IT CERTAIN TIMES IN THE MORNING, IT'S A TWO LANE ROAD AND THE TURNING LANE TO TURN LEFT TO GET ONTO SOUTH FIRST STREET TO GET TO AKINS HIGH SCHOOL BACKS UP ALL THE WAY PAST THE EXIT ON, ON WAYNE RIDELL LOOP.
SO WE HAVE TRAFFIC SEC DURING, DURING THE MORNING IN THE AFTERNOONS AT WHERE PEOPLE GET OFF WORK.
IT TAKES A LONG, IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET OUT OF THIS SUBDIVISION ALREADY AND TURN LEFT MUCH LESS WITH INCREASED TRAFFIC ON THIS, ON THIS, UM, UM, THOROUGHFARE.
I ALSO FOUND IT WAS INTERESTING THAT THE ADVOCATES FOR THE MEADOWS, ONE OF THE REASONS SHE SAID SHE WANTED TO THE ROAD TO THE, UM, UM, THE DELTA TO BE A PASS THROUGH WAS BECAUSE THEY WERE TIRED OF TRAFFIC COMING THROUGH THEIR SUBDIVISION.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO AVOID.
UM, I'M AGAINST THIS FOR ZONING AND I THINK THAT YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS AND, UH, YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE IT A BLOCKED, GATED AREA.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, AGAIN, OUR REPRESENTATIVE SAID AT THE VERY BEGINNING.
UM, SO I HOPE YOU'LL TAKE THAT AND STRIDE AND DO THAT FOR US AND MAKE SURE THAT IF THAT IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO THIS, CHANGE THE ZONING AND BLOCK THE GATE.
AND THEN, UM, MARGARET HANKS AND THEN AFTER MARGARET HANKS, ROBERT STEVENSON, SUSAN STEVENSON, MICHAEL RAVES, AND LINDA OWEN.
SO ARE YOU THERE, MARGARET HANKS? YES.
YOU WILL HAVE, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE, UM, THREE MINUTES AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
UM, THE CONCERNS I HAVE AS A RESIDENT OF NOLAN WATER CREEK ARE SIMILAR TO WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE, UM, ALREADY VOICED.
UM, BUT ONE THING THAT HASN'T BEEN MENTIONED IS IN THIS NEW PROPOSAL FOR THE APARTMENT COMPLEX, THERE'S ALREADY, UH, PROPOSED THREE ENTRANCES AND EXITS GOING TO SOUTH FIRST.
SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE NEED TO HAVE A WAYNE MADELL OPENED UP.
AND AS THE PRIOR, UM, PERSON WAS JUST TALKING, UM, I COMMUTE DOWNTOWN EVERY DAY AND I'VE BEEN IN THE NOLS FOR 16 YEARS, AND WHEN I COME OFF OF 35 ON TO 16, 26, SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T EVEN TURN ON ON 16, 26.
IT'S BACKED UP ALL THE WAY TO THE FREEWAY.
AND WHAT I'VE SEEN OVER THE YEARS IS THE DEVELOPERS COME IN AND THEY PUT IN THESE HUGE COMPLEXES AND THERE'S NO, THERE'S NOTHING THAT'S DONE TO HELP WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE ROADS.
WE JUST PACK MORE AND MORE PEOPLE, AND THEN IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE PROBLEM.
AND, UM, I THINK THAT THE DEVELOPER SHOULD, SHOULD THIS IN MIND, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT, UH, AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX OF THAT SIZE AND, UM,
IT'S NOT CITE AS IT IS THAT WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE CARS BEING PARKED, UM, BECAUSE THERE'S PLACE TO GO.
SO THOSE ARE MY CONCERNS AND I, I HOPE THAT UM, WAYNE RIDELL WON'T BE OPENED UP.
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AND NEXT IS ROBERT STEVENSON, STEVENSON AND THEN MICHAEL REEVES.UM, MUTE YOUR PHONES, EVERYBODY ELSE.
AND SO ROBERT STEVENSON, YOU'LL HAVE NINE MINUTES.
YEAH, I'VE BEEN HERE AND I KNOW THE SLAUGHTER CREEK FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW.
IT'S A VERY FAMILY FRIENDLY AREA.
MY FAMILY, MY DOG LIKES CHICKEN ALL THE TOP OF ME, BUT WE NOT ABIDE SMUCKER DOG DOWNWIND.
I'M NOT GOING TO FEEL SAFE RIDING MY BIKE DOWN.
WE'VE GOT THIS NICE GROVE OF TREES THERE THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SET THE STAY THERE WITH BEAUTIFUL WILDLIFE TO LIVE IN THOSE TREES.
ALMOST EVERY NIGHT I HEAR THE AL'S HOOTIN WE SEE THE DEER GO THROUGH.
AND I DON'T WANT PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO PEEK OVER OUR YARD FROM THEIR BALCONIES AND SAYING WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OUR BACKYARD.
OTHER ISSUE IS THE OVERPOPULATION OF AKINS HIGH SCHOOL.
WE PUT THESE, THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX OR THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH ROOM FOR THEM TO BE GONE THERE.
IF THEY PUT THAT APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT THAT HIGH SCHOOL IS GOING TO GO ALMOST 4,000 STUDENTS, MAN.
HEY, HEY, HEY, I DON'T GOT TIME FOR THIS BULLSHIT MAN.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER ISSUE IS THE TRAFFIC.
NADEL TURNING RIGHT OR LEFT ON TO 16, 26 IN THE MORNINGS AND THEN IN THE EVENINGS BECAUSE WE'RE BACKED UP ON 16, 26 MOSTLY GOING BOTH WAYS.
SO I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT AND SEND IT OFF TO MY WIFE.
AND THEN, SO, UM, NEXT IS YOUR WIFE SUSAN STEVENSON.
YES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
UM, I, I THINK, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS MAKING FOR A LONG NIGHT BECAUSE OUR COMMUNITY IS EXTREMELY PASSIONATE ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, I HAVE BEEN AN AUSTINITE MY WHOLE LIFE, ONE OF THE RARE KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD CHICKS THAT WAS BORN HERE IN THE SEVENTIES.
AND I'VE SEEN AUSTIN GROW AND GROW AND GROW AND IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE BECAUSE IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE.
I, UM, USED TO LIVE IN NORTH AUSTIN AND MY COMMUTE TO SOUTH AUSTIN HAS A SCHOOL TEACHER, AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER TOOK ME 30 TO 40 MINUTES IN THE MORNING AND SOMETIMES AN HOUR AND AN HOUR AND A HALF IN THE EVENING.
AND WE DECIDED THAT FOR OUR SANITY AND FOR OUR ENJOYMENT OF LIFE, WE WOULD MOVE TO SOUTH AUSTIN CLOSER TO WHERE I WORK.
SO WE PUT EVERYTHING WE HAD, EVERYTHING WE HAD INTO MOVING TO THE NOLS OR SOUTHERN GREEK SO THAT I COULD BE CLOSER TO WORK.
AND SO MY SON COULD GROW UP IN A COMMUNITY THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT LIKE AUSTIN USED TO BE.
UM, MY CONCERN IS THIS DEVELOPMENT ARE ALREADY THE TRAFFIC IN THE AREA.
THE INFRASTRUCTURE HAS NOT BEEN IMPROVED FOR THE ALREADY EXISTING DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE POPPING UP LEFT AND RIGHT AND THE ROADS ARE NOT BEING IMPROVED.
UM, MY COMMUTE IS STILL 30 MINUTES TO GET TO WORK EVEN THOUGH I MOVED ALL THE WAY DOWN HERE, UM, TO BE CLOSER TO WORK BECAUSE OF THE ALREADY EXISTING TRAFFIC ISSUES IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA.
BUT THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE WE HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BACKYARD AND WE HAVE THE MOST WONDERFUL PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND WE FEEL SAFE AND IT FEELS A LITTLE BIT SECLUDED.
IT'S GOT THAT FEELING OF OLD AUSTIN PEOPLE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD
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WAVING HELLO TO EACH OTHER AND THE, UM, CUT THROUGH WOOD, UM, DEVASTATE THAT AND THE HEIGHTS OF THE BUILDING AND THE INCREASED DENSITY OF THE POPULATION IN THE AREA IS, UM, GOING TO HAVE, UM, PERMANENT, UM, AND DEVASTATING EFFECTS ON THIS COMMUNITY.UM, MY OTHER ISSUE IS THAT I CHOSE THIS AREA FOR MY 14 YEAR OLD SON WHO, UM, PROBABLY IS NOW NOT EVEN GOING TO BE ABLE TO GO TO AKINS BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY FROZEN FROM THE OVERPOPULATION OF THE AREA.
SO I WOULD LIKE, I HOPE THAT THE COUNT THE COMMISSION, UM, TAKES THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HELP THE CITIZENS OF AUSTIN AND THE NOLS OR SWEATER CREEK, UM, TO PRESERVE SOME OF WHAT MAKES AUSTIN AUSTIN.
UM, SO I BEG YOU TO PLEASE, PLEASE DO WHAT YOU CAN.
SO WHEN THAT THE, THE IMPACT OF DENSITY IN THE AREA AND TO UM, STOP THE CUT THROUGH.
AND THE NEXT STEP IS MICHAEL REEVES, THEN LINDA OWEN, MIKE SMUTS AND MICHAEL STACK.
MICHAEL, ARE YOU THERE? AND FOR EVERYBODY ELSE, PLEASE MUTE YOUR PHONES.
AND YOU'LL HAVE IT, UM, UP TO THREE MINUTES.
UM, MOST OF MY NEIGHBORS HAVE ADDRESSED EVERYTHING THAT I WOULD WANT TO ADDRESS.
UM, I'M A 12 YEAR RESIDENT HERE AND MY WIFE AND I ARE HAPPILY UP AGAINST THE EASEMENT ON THE BACKSIDE WHERE THEY'RE PROPOSING THE FOUR OR FIVE, SIX STORY BUILDINGS TO LOOK OVER INTO OUR BACKYARD.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE ALWAYS KNEW THAT THERE WAS A POSSIBILITY THAT THERE MIGHT BE HOMES THAT WOULD GO IN THERE.
AND NOW THAT IT'S LOOKING LIKE APARTMENT COMPLEXES, THAT'S JUST, UH, DEVASTATING NEWS TO THE IDEA OF, UH, RETAINING THE VALUE OF OUR HOME AND HAVING THE PRIVACY THAT WE'VE ALWAYS HAD HERE IN THE NOLS.
UM, ALONG WITH THAT, WE ARE OPPOSED TO THE, UM, WAYNE RIDELL LOOP EXTENSION.
UH, TRAFFIC IS ALREADY A PROBLEM AND IT'S ALREADY SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT.
AND BY EXTENDING IT THROUGH, YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO BE BRINGING MORE CARS THROUGH HERE EVERY DAY.
UH, SADLY I DON'T THINK THERE'S A LOT OF COORDINATION BETWEEN THE COUNTY AND THE CITY.
AND I WORRY ABOUT THAT EIGHT, 16, 26 LANE RIDDLE LOOP, NEVER HAVING ANY SAFETY, UM, WITH A LIGHT OR SOMETHING OF SIMILAR NATURE.
AND IT'S JUST GONNA MAKE THINGS MISERABLE HERE.
SO WE ARE VERY OPPOSED TO BOTH OF THOSE THINGS AND WE HOPE THAT THE COMMISSION WILL DECLINE ALL OF THIS.
SO LINDA, ARE YOU THERE? I AM.
AND YOU CAN USE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
I AM, I'M CALLING TO SHARE MY OPPOSITION TO THIS PROPOSAL.
WE, WE'VE HEARD ABOUT THE TRAFFIC AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT I'LL JUST DO MY SHORT BLURB.
I, I BOUGHT MY HOUSE AS A PLACE TO RETIRE.
IT'S ON THE SLAUGHTER, GREAT GREENBELT AND WE CAN SEE IN HERE BIRDS AND SQUIRRELS AND DEER AND SEE THE OCCASIONAL
IF 750 APARTMENT UNITS ARE BUILT BEHIND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THE RESULTING NOISE AND LIGHT, WE WILL LOSE MANY OF THOSE THINGS THAT BRING US PLEASURE.
IT'S BEEN A LONG NIGHT FOR YOU.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME TO LISTEN TO OUR CONCERNS AND TAKING THEM INTO CONSIDERATION.
AND THEN IS MIKE SMUTS AND THEN AFTER THAT IS MICHAEL STACK AND THEN OUR NEW ALDO RODRIGUEZ.
ARE YOU THERE? THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
UM, I HAVE THREE, THREE ITEMS THAT I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS.
UM, OBVIOUSLY WITH ALL OF US ARE OPPOSED TO THIS DEVELOPMENT IN ITS CURRENT FORM.
UH, THE THREE THINGS THAT I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS GOING TO BE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
FIRST OF ALL, THE STUDENT OVERCROWDING AT THE ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL IN THE AREA, AND THE, UH, ZONING APPARENT ZONING DIVERGENCE INSTEAD OF COMPATIBILITY.
UH, FIRST OF ALL, THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS A HEADACHE STUDY FOR THE FLOOD PAIN STUDY THAT, UH, INCLUDED ONION CREEK.
THEY'RE FREE, THEY'RE FREE FOR SOME REASON.
WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THAT STUDY.
OBVIOUSLY THIS, THIS DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON THAT AND I THINK THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT AGAIN WITH THE INCLUSION OF SENATOR CRAIG.
UH, THE SECOND ITEM OF CONCERN IS THE OVERCROWDING
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AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL AND IN OUR AREA BECAUSE THE SCHOOL WAS GREENVILLE LAST YEAR,THERE WERE SOME ZONING PRINCIPLES THAT RELATION, UM, THE SIXTH OF TRENCH SINCE
UH, PRIMARILY ARE SF ZONING DESIGNATIONS AND ALL THE SURROUNDING AREAS AND ACROSS FIRST STREET
UM, I WOULD APPRECIATE THE COMMISSIONERS TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT THIS AND SAYING, IF WE CAN'T COME TO SOME MUTUAL CONSENT
AND AGAIN, THAT LAST SPEAKER, I COULDN'T HEAR ABOUT HALF OF WHAT HE SAID AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ON HIS END OR OUR END, BUT AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S INEFFECTIVE IF WE CAN'T HEAR CLEARLY HEAR THE COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC.
AND THAT'S WHY I HAVE TO REMIND AS OUR, UM, COREY TOLD US, OUR TECH PERSON, COREY, EVERYBODY ELSE, PLEASE MUTE YOUR PHONES AND ALSO TURN OFF OR, UH, AND UH, DON'T HAVE THE TV PLAYING VERY LOUD, BUT THAT, YES.
SO MR SMITH'S, IF YOU CAN SEND US YOUR CON, UH, YOUR COMMENTS TO OUR EMAIL ADDRESS, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
IT'S ON THE ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION WEBSITE.
AND THEN SINCE WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT GO THROUGH, UM, MICHAEL STACK IS NEXT AND THEN OUR KNOWABLE RODRIGUEZ AND THEN ADRIAN PLASTER AND TELL HIM OR HOON.
AND I'M SORRY, I'M BUTCHERING THAT.
UM, BUT NEXT IS MICHAEL STACK AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE UP TO THREE MINUTES, BUT YOU HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
COMMISSIONERS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK BEFORE YOU.
UM, FIRST I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT I AM DEFINITELY AGAINST, UH, THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT BUT MORE VEHEMENTLY OPPOSED TO THE OPENING OF, UH, WAYNE RIDELL LOOP EXTENSION.
I ALSO SUPPORT EACH AND EVERY STATEMENT MADE BY MY FELLOW NEIGHBORS WHO, UH, SPOKE EARLIER.
IT SEEMS THAT THIS DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO SERIOUSLY DEGRADE THE QUALITY OF ALL OF OUR LIVES.
AND, UM, AS THE DEVELOPERS WERE, UM, PRESENTING EARLIER, IT KIND OF STRUCK ME THAT HEY, THEY HAVE A LOW REGARD FOR THEIR, FOR THESE FUTURE TENANTS OF THEIRS.
YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC GOING, UH, YOU KNOW, GOING ALONG.
UH, WAYNE WITH DELL POURED, UH, GOING THROUGH OUR PROP, UH, GOING TOWARDS, UH, FM 16, 26, BUT GOTTA REMIND THEM TOO THAT THE TRAFFIC GOES TO THE OTHER WAY.
SO IF I WERE A FUTURE TENANT, I COULD BE SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE EXTENSION ON THAT BEHALF AS WELL.
BUT THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER SERIES ISSUE NOT YET DISCUSSING THAT WITH DELL LOOP BECOMES AN OPENING ROAD WHICH WILL INCREASE TRAFFIC.
THERE WILL BE AN INCREASE IN CRIME IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD RIGHT NOW.
I FEEL SAFE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND SHOULD YOU ALLOW WHEN YOU WERE DEALT A BEAT, AN OPEN ROUTE, WE ALL WOULD FEEL LESS SAFE IN OUR HOMES AND OUT WALKING THE DOG AND FAMILY WALKS AND BICYCLE RIDES WITH OUR KIDS.
RESEARCH AND PUBLISHED STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT NEIGHBORHOODS SUBJECTED TO INCREASE TRAFFIC ARE MORE VULNERABLE TO ALL KINDS OF CRIME AND INCREASING ALL ANONYMOUS DRIVERS AND EVEN FOOT TRAFFIC GIVES CRIMINALS TIME TO ASSESS VICTIMS. YOU KNOW, THERE'LL BE STUDIES THAT HAVE SHOWN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE MORE PERMEABLE TO CRIMINAL CRIMINALS ARE LOCATED NEAR HIGHWAYS LIKE I 35.
THAT ACCESSIBILITY AND TO, AND FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOOD
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MAKES US MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CRIME, CRIMINAL STUDY, TRAFFIC PATTERNS.AND THE MORE OPEN LANES LIKE AN OPEN WAYNE RIDELL MAKES IT EASIER FOR THEM TO QUICKLY ESCAPE.
IT'S BEEN SHOWN THAT FEWER EGRESS IS PLUS THE SHAPE OF INTERSECTIONS.
LIKE WHAT EXISTS NOW MAKES IT LESS ASSESSABLE AND MORE DIFFICULT FOR THESE GUYS TO ESCAPE.
YOU KNOW, FINALLY, I LOVE WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD AND, AND, AND I GOTTA TELL YOU, I'M VERY PROUD OF MY HOME AND I'M PROUD OF THE WAY THE NEIGHBORS KEEP THEIR HOMES.
BUT I GOTTA TELL YOU, I HATE LITTER.
YOU OPEN UP WAYNE RIDEAU AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE LITTER ON OUR STREETS.
SO, UM, I'M ALMOST DONE, BUT I GUESS I'LL FINISH WITH THE FAMOUS LYRIC FROM A SIXTIES ROCK AND ROLL SONG.
AND THAT'S AIN'T TOO PROUD TO BEG.
I'M NOT BEGGING YOU TO, YOUR THREE MINUTES ARE UP, BUT WE WOULD HAVE LIKED TO HAVE HEARD THAT.
AND THEN NEXT IS OUR NODAL RODRIGUEZ.
AND THEN AFTER HIM IS ADRIAN PLASTER, THEN THOU HUN, AND THEN BRIAN CHOW.
SO OUR NODO RODRIGUEZ, ARE YOU HERE OR NOBEL RODRIGUEZ? IF NOT, WE'LL GO ON TO ADRIAN PLASTER.
ARE YOU HERE? ADRIAN? ADRIAN PLASTER, ARE YOU HERE? IF NOT YOU THERE.
AS A RESIDENT OF THE NOSE, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN SAID BEFORE, BUT AS A PARENT, A GRANDPARENT, AND AN EDUCATOR, I WOULD LIKE TO EMPHASIZE A COUPLE OF THINGS.
FIRST OF ALL, THE SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN ON THE STREETS AND OUR FAMILIES ON THE STREETS.
I THINK THE NOS ENJOYS A FABULOUS COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE THAT VERY, VERY FEW COMMUNITIES HAVE HEARING AUSTIN.
AND AS AN EDUCATOR, I'M PARTICULARLY WORRIED ABOUT BRINGING IN 750, UM, UNITS INTO, UH, UH, THE AREA BECAUSE YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE CRIME IS ALREADY OVER, OVER.
POP'S HORRIFIED IF ANYONE WAS HURT, CONCERN FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
BUT, UM, I THINK I'M BEING OVERRIDDEN HERE BY SOMEBODY ELSE.
BUT IN ANY CASE, UM, I WOULD WITH EVERYBODY ABOUT THE SAFETY CONCERNS AND THE OVERCROWDING AT AKINS HIGH SCHOOL.
AND I APPRECIATE YOUR LISTENING TO OUR CONCERNS AND HOPE YOU WILL VOTE AGAINST, UM, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS, UH, UM, SEVEN 50 UNIT, UH, AREA AND, UH, THE OPENING OF WAYNE REGALE, UH, ON TO SOUTHWEST.
ON A REMINDER TO EVERYBODY WHO'S WAITING ONLINE TO PLEASE MUTE YOUR PHONES.
AND THEN NEXT IS NOW T H A OH EIGHT AND THEN H U.
AND, UM, I KNOW I'M BUTCHERING YOUR NAME, BUT ARE YOU THERE THOUGH, HUN? I GUESS I'M, YEAH, YEAH, CORRECTLY.
AND THEN AFTER YOU AS BRIAN ZHAO, MICHAEL AND RILEY AND MARK WHITE HAIR, SO, BUT YOU HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES, NOBODY HAS TO USE ALL THEIR TIME.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH THOUGH THAT I THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK.
YEAH, I AGREE WITH ALL THE PREVIOUS PRESENTER AND I'M PULLING OUT AGAIN, THAT'S THE BEAUTY
AND NEXT IS BRIAN'S NOW OR DID I CUT YOU OFF? I THOUGHT YOU SAID THAT WAS IT.
WE'LL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES AND THEN ACTUALLY AFTER USE MICHAEL AND RILEY, MARK WHITE HAIR AND NATHAN RUDOLPH.
UM, MY FAMILY, WE MOVED IN TO THE NOS NEIGHBORHOOD ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO AND THEN WE BUILD OUT OUR LIFE AROUND HERE.
AND UH, WE JUST HAD A 11 MONTH OLD BABY GIRL AND I REALLY HOPE THAT, UH, I WILL BE ABLE TO TEACH HER HOW TO RIDE A BIKE AND SHE WAS SAFE TO LET HER PLAY OUTSIDE WHEN HE COMES TO THAT AGE.
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SO I'M REALLY AGAINST, I'M STRONGLY AGAINST THE DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPING THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX AND THE OPENING THE WING, THEY'LL LOOP TO, UH, SOUTH FIRST STREET.SO BY OPENING THE STREET AT THE WISE, OUR NICE NEIGHBORHOOD INTO TWO SECTIONS BY HIGHLY TRAFFIC THE STREET.
AND THEN DURING RUSH HOUR IN THE MORNING ALL AROUND A FIVE 30 TO SIX A TWO I'LL TAKE, I TAKE THE WHILE TO UP TO 1626.
WE SAID A DECENT OR TRAFFIC COMING INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, IT'S GOING TO BE A NIGHTMARE.
ALSO, OUR SCHOOL CAPACITY IS, IS REALLY FULL, LIKE THE MAIN CHAKRA, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND ACHING HIGH SCHOOL.
SO BRINGING SEVERAL HUNDRED 50 MORE FAMILY INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
THEN THE DAY JUST MAKE IT, UH, MAKE THE SITUATION WORSE.
AND UH, THAT'S ALL I HAVE AND THE SANCTUARY MUCH.
SO NEXT IS MICHAEL AND RILEY, THEN MARK WHITE HAIR.
MICHAEL AND RILEY, ARE YOU HERE? I AM.
AND YOU CAN USE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
I AM A CONCERNED HOMEOWNER, PARENTS AND AISD MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER WHO HAS LIVED IN THE NOLS FOR 13 YEARS WITH MY HUSBAND AND MY TWO YOUNG SONS, AGE SEVEN AND 10.
AND I AM OPPOSED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WAYNE RIDELL PROPERTY AT THE
SHOULD THE WAYNE RESOLUTE BE EXTENDED FROM FM 1626 THROUGH TO SOUTH FIRST STREET, THERE WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT SAFETY AND SAFETY ISSUES WITH THE TREMENDOUS INCREASE IN TRAFFIC THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AS DAILY COMMUTERS, AKINS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC USE ARE SINGLE, NARROW, CURVED MAIN STREET AS A CUT-THROUGH BETWEEN THESE TWO UNDERDEVELOPED AND ALREADY HEAVILY TRAVELED AND CONGESTED MAJOR THOROUGHFARES, AS HAS ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED, WE ARE LIKELY TO SEE AN INCREASE IN HUNDREDS OF CARS TRAVELING THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IF THE EXTENSION OCCURS.
EVEN WITH THE STREET IMPROVEMENTS BEING OFFERED BY THE WAYNE RESULTS, PROPERTY DEVELOPERS THAT MANY MORE PEOPLE ACCESSING OUR STREET MAKES IT LESS SAFE FOR OUR FAMILY TO FREQUENTLY WALK AND BIKES THROUGH THIS ROAD.
OUR COMMUNITY POOL IS DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO THIS ROAD AS IS OUR PARK AND FAMILIES TRAVEL ALONG THIS ROAD TO REACH THE AMENITIES.
IT'S HIGHLY LIKELY THAT THE DRIVERS CUTTING THROUGH.
THERE'S ALSO A SCHOOL BUS STOP ON WAYNE ROZELLE LOOP AND CHILDREN ARE EXITING THE BUS DURING MORNING AND AFTERNOON COMMUTING HOURS WHEN THIS ROAD WILL BE MOST HEAVILY AND TRAVELED AND UM, BY THE CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC.
ADDITIONALLY, THE WAYNE RIDELL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT AS PROPOSED AT THE MFR ZONING, UM, WELL B, UM, WELL IT WAS GOING TO BRING IN, UM, AN INCREDIBLY HIGH DENSITY OCCUPANCY AND AS A PARENT AND A TEACHER IN AISD, I'M VERY CONCERNED WITH THE ALREADY OVERCROWDED PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WHICH ARE IN SHOCK AT ELEMENTARY PREDATOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AND AKINS HIGH SCHOOL, TWO OF WHICH ARE ALREADY FROZEN FOR THE 2021 SCHOOL YEAR BECAUSE OF ENROLLMENT EXCEEDING THEIR CAPACITIES.
AS PREVIOUSLY SHARED, AKINS HIGH SCHOOL OBJECTED TO THIS EXTENSION OF WAYNE RIDELL LOOP AND TO THE DEVELOPMENT FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS, WHICH I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER, UM, FOR THESE REASONS AND OTHERS ALREADY EXPRESSED BY THOSE OPPOSED TO THIS DEVELOPMENT.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR CONSIDERATION OF OUR CONCERNS TO HELP US MAINTAIN THE SAFETY AND THE VALUE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
FOR OUR CHILDREN AND OUR FAMILIES TO CONTINUE TO LIVE AND THRIVE HERE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THEN NEXT IS MARK WHITE HAIR.
NATHAN RUDOLPH, BUT MARK WHITE HAIR.
YOU WILL HAVE TO THREE MINUTES.
MY DEFINITION OF THE AMERICAN DREAM INCLUDES LIVING IN A HOUSE IN THE SUBURBS.
I AM A NEW RESIDENT TO THE NOLS AND I'VE ONLY LIVED HERE FOR TWO YEARS, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT I WOULD NOT HAVE BOUGHT A HOUSE THAT HAD AN APARTMENT COMPLEX IN THE BACKYARD.
I WOULD HAVE REJECTED THAT HOME IS UNACCEPTABLE.
I WOULD ALSO HAVE NOT BOUGHT A HOUSE WHOSE MAIN THOROUGHFARE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS A SPEEDWAY AND I'M AFRAID THAT'S WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
I, I'M OPPOSED TO APARTMENT COMPLEXES BECAUSE I THINK THAT THEY WILL BRING UNWANTED TRAFFIC AND CRIME TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND I JUST REALLY, ABSOLUTELY EVEN MORE OPPOSED TO THE EXTENSION OF LANE RIDELL
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BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES CHANGE MY PEACEFUL, QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD INTO SOMETHING THAT I PLACED.I WOULD NOT WANT TO LIVE ANYMORE.
AND THEN NATHAN, RUDOLPH, LARISSA, WARREN AND MICHAEL STEPHAN.
SO ARE YOU THERE? NATHAN RUDOLPH? YES, I AM.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME THIS EVENING.
UM, AS AS YOU MENTIONED, MY NAME IS NATHAN RUDOLPH, MY WIFE AND I AND OUR THREE CHILDREN, UM, HAVE UH, LIVED, LIVED HERE IN THE NOLS FOR FOUR YEARS.
UM, AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A LOT OF POINTS OF ARGUMENT MADE THAT I SUPPORT, UM, CERTAINLY ALL THE POINTS.
BUT UM, I JUST WANTED TO BRING UP A COUPLE OF MORE THINGS REGARDING THE OPENING UP OF WAYNE RIDELL TO UH, 1626, UM, TO, TO FIRST STREET.
UM, AND I THINK IT HAS ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED TO SOME EXTENT THAT IN THE MORNING AND IN THE EVENINGS, UM, GETTING ONTO AN AUTHOR, 1626 ON ONTO A WAYNE RIDELL, UM, IS A, IS A TASK.
AND, UM, THIS SITUATION IF, IF YOU WERE TO OPEN THAT STREET UP IS ONLY GOING TO EXACERBATE THAT PROBLEM.
UM, THERE'S BEEN NOTHING THAT I'VE HEARD FROM, UM, FROM THE PROPONENTS OF THE PLAN THAT, UM, THEY TALKED ABOUT THINGS THAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
UM, AND AGAIN, WE, WE HAVE ISSUES WITH THE, WITH THE CITY IN THE, UM, IN THE STATE AND COUNTY NOT COMMUNICATING WITH, WITH EACH OTHER TO WHERE WE HAVE ANY KIND OF SENSE THAT THERE'S ACTUALLY GOING TO BE A SOLUTION.
IT'D BE A LIGHT OR SOMETHING THAT WOULD, UM, THAT WOULD GET THE SITUATION THAT EXISTS NOW TO A MORE PALATABLE LEVEL, LET ALONE ADDING A TON OF CARS EVERY DAY TO THE, ONTO THE STREET THAT'S ALREADY OVERWHELMED.
IT'S UM, ALSO, UM, IT'S BEEN MENTIONED ABOUT PREVIOUS PEOPLE DON'T OWN A CALL THAT, UM, THAT THERE'S WINE DELLA IS CURVED.
UM, AND I WOULD, I WOULD MENTION THAT IN PARTICULAR THERE'S A PROXIMITY OF WHERE THE CURVE OCCURS AND WAYNE RODEL IS VERY CLOSE TO THE SWIMMING POOL, UM, UH, ONWARDS.
SO, NOT THAT PERSON THAT MATTERS PER SE, BUT IT DOES FROM A STANDPOINT OF IF YOU'VE GOT KIDS AND PEOPLE THAT ARE CROSSING THE STREET FROM ONE SIDE OF A WAYNE RIDELL TO GET TO THE POOL OR ARE, ARE LEAVING THE POOL AND ARE CROSSING THE STREET AND THEY CAN'T SEE A SPEEDING CAR, THAT'S WHAT I'M CUTTING THROUGH TO GET TO 626 OR THE FIRST STREET.
UM, BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT GOING TO BE PAYING ATTENTION BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT RESIDENTS AND DON'T HAVE A STAKE IN PAYING ATTENTION AND WATCHING OUT FOR, UM, THE PEOPLE ON THE STREET.
UM, IT PUTS, IT PUTS KIDS, IT PUTS RESIDENTS THAT ARE TRYING TO ENJOY, UM, JOIN THE POOL AND LEAVE OR COME TO THE POOL WITHOUT HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT WHO'S GOING TO BE DRIVING THROUGH AND WHETHER THEY'RE GETTING RUN OVER IT PUTS THEM IN DANGER.
AND THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME AND I DON'T WANT TO SEE CERTAINLY ANYONE GET HURT OR GET KILLED.
UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAVE THIS EVENING.
AND THEN IS WILL RISA WARREN THERE FO FOLLOWED BY MICHAEL, STEPHAN, JEN, GENEVIEVE HAFTA AND JUDITH GONZALEZ.
SO IS LARISSA WARREN THERE? YES, I'M HERE.
YOU'LL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
I JUST WANTED TO START BY SAYING THAT I AM SO THANKFUL FOR YOU ALL PROVIDING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO SPEAK.
I KNOW CORONAVIRUS HAS KIND OF MADE THIS WHOLE THING WEIRD AND AWKWARD.
SO I'M REALLY GRATEFUL THAT Y'ALL FIGURED SOMETHING OUT.
UM, AND I KNOW WE HAVE A HUGE TURNOUT, BUT I'M ALSO NOT FULLY CONVINCED THAT EVERYBODY WHO WANTED TO PARTICIPATE EVEN KNOWS ABOUT THIS MEETING CAUSE IT'S JUST SO HARD TO COME TOGETHER AND INFORM EVERYONE AT THIS TIME.
SO I THINK THIS IS A HUGE TESTAMENT TO HOW WE FEEL ABOUT THIS AND ZONING COMMITTEE.
I WANT TO ADDRESS YOU DIRECTLY AND JUST SAY THAT YOU MAY FEEL A LACK OF CONNECTION TO US BECAUSE, UM, IT MAY BE EASIER TO DISMISS WHAT WE'RE SAYING WHEN YOU DON'T SEE OUR FACES.
SO I HOPE YOU AREN'T JUST HEARING A VOICE BUT THINKING ABOUT US AS REAL PEOPLE, IMAGINING US AS YOUR OWN NEIGHBORS AND YOUR FRIENDS AND YOU'RE PUTTING YOURSELF IN OUR POSITION.
WELL YOU'RE SPEAKING FACTUALLY THIS EVENING, BUT IT'S VERY EMOTIONAL FOR US AND THE OTHER 400 PLUS FAMILIES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, NOT TO MENTION THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND WE JUST HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND WHERE WE'RE COMING FROM.
I WANT TO STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT I AM ADAMANTLY AGAINST OPENING OF WAYNE MIDDLE LOOP AS A THROUGH STREET.
OUR HOUSE BACKS UP TO IT AND IT WOULD BE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FOR US AND OUR YOUNG CHILD AT THE OPENS AND I'M NOT GOING TO DIVE TOO DEEPLY BECAUSE MY HUSBAND IS ABOUT TO SPEAK AND THAT'S SOMETHING HE CAN'T TOUCH ON.
I JUST RAN UP MY STAIRS SO I'M VERY OUT OF BREATH RIGHT NOW.
UM, ANYWAY, SO FOR, I JUST WANTED TO FOCUS ON THE DEVELOPMENT
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AND SAY THAT DEVELOPMENT FOR THE SAKE OF DEVELOPMENT SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING AS THE ZONING COMMITTEE NEEDS TO MAKE A DECISION RESPONSIBLY AND ETHICALLY.AND I'M NOT CONVINCED YOU HAVE THAT INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO YOU RIGHT NOW TO SUPPORT THAT TYPE OF DECISION.
THE SCHOOLS AS HAD BEEN MENTIONED, ARE ALREADY FROZEN TO TRANSFER DUE TO OVERCAPACITY IN THE EDUCATION IMPACT ANALYSIS FORM SUBMITTED BY THE DEVELOPER, HAD THE NUMBER OF BEDROOMS AND MISSING ON THAT IT WAS LEFT BLANK.
AND ALL OF THIS DOESN'T EVEN INCLUDE THE CURRENT IN NUMEROUS RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE PLANNED IN ALREADY IN PROGRESS IN OUR AREA.
SO INAPPROPRIATE ANALYSIS INCLUDE THOSE SAME THING FOR WATER QUALITY AND RUNOFF.
THE ANALYSIS NEEDS TO INCORPORATE THE PLANNED AND IN PROGRESS DEVELOPMENT TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF WATER QUALITY FOR FODDER CREEK AND THE FLOOD CLAIM FOR FODDER AND ONION CREEK.
UM, I'M JUST GOING TO WRAP UP HERE AND SAY THAT I UNDERSTAND THAT DESPITE WHAT WE WERE TOLD AS NEIGHBORS BY THE ADULT FAMILIES, THAT THIS LAND IS LIKELY TO BE DEVELOPED, BUT LET'S NOT DEVELOP IT.
SO THEN SLEEP IN AN AREA THAT'S ALREADY STRUGGLING WITH SERIOUS TOPIC PROBLEMS DUE TO GROWTH.
LET'S FOCUS ON SINGLE FAMILY OR MSQ.
AND THEN, UM, MICHAEL STEPHAN, GENEVIEVE HAVE DONE JUDITH GONZALES.
STEPHEN, ARE YOU THERE? OKAY, GREAT.
YOU WILL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
SO I'LL JUST TRY TO HIT ON SOME BULLET POINTS CAUSE I BELIEVE A LOT OF PEOPLE ALREADY HIT THE ITEMS THAT I WAS GOING TO SPEAK TO.
UM, I'VE LIVED HERE WITH MY WIFE FOR SEVEN YEARS AND WE HAVE A ALMOST TWO YEAR OLD DAUGHTER.
UM, WE LIVE AS MY WIFE MENTIONED WHERE WHEN RIDDLE IS DIRECTLY BEHIND HER HOUSE.
SO MY CONCERN IS THE ADDITIONAL 4,500 DAILY PROJECTED CAR TRIPS, UM, IN ADDITION TO THE CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC AS THEY TYPICALLY DRIVE 20 TO 30% FASTER THAN NEIGHBORHOOD CARS.
AND THIS IS PER THE TEXAS TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE.
SO I WANTED TO TOUCH ON THE SAFETY ASPECT.
I KNOW WE'VE, A LOT OF US HAS TOUCHED ON IT BUT PERSONALLY WE GO ON A LOT OF WALKS ALMOST DAILY WITH OUR DAUGHTER AND WE FREQUENTLY RING THE DELL.
SO I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
IN ADDITION TO THE HIGHER VOLUME OF TRAFFIC, THREATENING THE SAFETY OF OUR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AS WE SPEND TIME IN OUR BACKYARDS, MANY OF WHICH ARE NEXT TO THE ROAD.
SO WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IF THERE'S A CAR ACCIDENT AND IT, MY DAUGHTER'S PLAYING IN THE BACKYARD AND IT THREATENS HER SAFETY AND COSTLY LIFE.
SO ANOTHER ISSUE THAT I, I BELIEVE WE HEARD WAS THE NOISE POLLUTION.
I'M CONCERNED THAT THE IS POLLUTION, UH, DUE TO THE ADDITIONAL VOLUME OF TRAFFIC WILL DISRUPT OUR DAILY LIVES.
WE ENJOY A QUIET NEIGHBORHOOD.
IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE MOVED THERE WHEN WE HOMES, INCLUDING OURS, LIKE I SAID, IS RIGHT NEXT TO WAYNE WIDOW'S GROUP.
OUR BACKYARD PATIO IS 20 FEET FROM THE STREET AND IT'S ONE OF THE PLACES OF SOLITUDE AS I SIT ON THE PATIO CINDRA THE QUIET OF THE MORNING.
ANOTHER ISSUE IS MY DAUGHTER'S BEDROOM WINDOW FACES THE STREET.
I'M CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THE EXTRA MOON IS, WILL DISRUPT HER SLEEP AND DAILY LIFE.
AND THEN THE LAST POINT ON BRINGING UP IS WHAT IMPACT IS THIS GOING TO HAVE TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD OVERALL? THERE'S 400 PLUS FAMILIES.
HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL BE DISCOURAGED IF THERE'S A OPENING OF WINDWARD, OUR LOOP HIRA NEIGHBORHOOD CHANGE.
HOWEVER, OUR HOME VALUES CHANGE HOW OUR QUALITY OF DAILY LIFE CHANGE.
AND THESE ARE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO CONSIDER.
THE DEVELOPER HAS LISTENED TO OUR CONCERNS AND SUBMITTED A PROPOSAL WHICH KEEPS WIND WITH OUR ROOF CLOSED AND DEDICATES THE RIDDLE.
I REQUEST THAT YOU PLEASE BACK THIS PLAN AND KEEP LINGERED OVER CLOSED.
THIS MEANS A REVERSAL ON THE IMAGINE AUSTIN CONNECTIVITY PLAN FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT.
AND I ARGUABLY ASK THAT YOU ALLOW THIS.
PLEASE VOTE AGAINST MAKING LANGUAGE A THREE STREET.
AND THEN GENEVIEVE
GENEVIEVE, ARE YOU THERE? YES, YES, I'M HERE.
UM, GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY.
I'M 13 YEARS OLD AND I'M AGAINST THIS PROPOSAL.
I KNOW THE MAIN ISSUES ARE SAFETY AND TRAFFIC ISSUES WITH MANY PEOPLE HAVE MENTIONED ALREADY, BUT THAT'S CONSIDERED THE ISSUE OF LIGHT POLLUTION.
MY BACKYARD BACKS UP TO THE FIELD WHERE THE APARTMENTS WILL BE FOR 10 YEARS.
WE'VE LIVED HERE FOR 10 YEARS CAUSE YOU AFFORDED BY THE FIELDS
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BEHIND US.WHAT WAS THE GORGEOUS SUNRISES, DREAM AND HORIZON.
IF THE APARTMENTS ARE BUILT AND GO WITH HIGH STAKES GLORY, NOT ONLY WILL THESE GORGEOUS MOMENTS BE LOST, BUT THE GLARE FROM THE VERY LIGHT, WELL THAT'S MANY OF THEM WILL START.
IMAGINE TRYING TO STARGAZE WITH LIT BUILDINGS COVERING THE HORIZON MY PARENTS HAD RECENTLY.
LET ME SLEEP ALONE OUTSIDE ME.
I'M, I'M WORRIED WITH THE APARTMENT.
I WILL NOT BE A SAFE, YOU KNOW, TO BE OVERPOWERING AND THE LICENSE BLOCK AT THE START PLEASE.
I LOVE HER AND HER NEIGHBORHOOD BY NOT SUPPORTING THIS PROPOSAL.
AND NEXT WE HAVE JUDITH GONZALES AND MICHELLE HAHN.
SO, SO JUDITH GONZALES, ARE YOU HERE STUDENTS GONZALEZ? IF NOT, WE'LL GO TO MICHELLE HAHN.
MICHELLE HAHN, ARE YOU HERE? MICHELLE HAHN.
CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? AND YOU ARE MICHELLE OR JUDITH? I'M MICHELLE.
AND YOU WILL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
UM, I KNOW THIS IS A LOT, BUT I AGREE WITH, UH, THE PERSON THAT SAID THERE'S PROBABLY NOT EVEN THERE WOULD BE MORE IF, IF THIS WAS A NON-COVERED TIME AND WE WERE ABLE TO GET OUT, UM, THE WORD TO PEOPLE.
UM, SO MY, MY NEIGHBORS HAVE MADE A WONDERFUL PRESENTATION.
MY HUSBAND AND I MOVED HERE AND UH, HE, HE JUST DIED IN FEBRUARY.
AND THIS IS, THIS WAS OUR RETIREMENT HOME.
THIS IS WHERE WE ARE, OUR HOUSE BACK TO WAYNE REBEL.
WE'RE TWO DOORS DOWN FROM THE POOL AND ALL THE ACTIVITY AND THE WONDERFUL NEIGHBORS.
UH, SO I'M VERY, VERY CONCERNED ABOUT OUR PROPERTY VALUES GOING DOWN, WHICH IS REALLY TIED TO MY RETIREMENT PLAN.
AND IN LARGE PART, UM, I THOUGHT IT WAS VERY TELLING AND THAT THE WOMAN FROM THE MEADOWBROOK, UH, SUBDIVISION WANTS IS FOR THIS BECAUSE I WOULD BE TO BLESS HER HEART BECAUSE MY, MY HEART GOES OUT TO THEM.
THEY INADVERTENTLY GOT TO BE THE, THE GO THROUGH.
I GO TO WHEN NON-COVERED TIMES I WOULD GO TO WORK OUT IN THE MORNING AND, UM, VERSE 20 PEOPLE IN A 10 MINUTE TIME PERIOD ARE DARTING THROUGH THEIR SUBDIVISION AND THAT'S NOT EVEN A DIRECT LINE TO AIKEN.
SO I CANNOT IMAGINE THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT WOULD COME THROUGH US.
UM, IT MAKES ME FEEL, IT MAKES ME AFRAID THAT PEOPLE WILL DRIVE THROUGH MY BACK.
IT MAKES ME AFRAID TO WALK MY DOG.
IT MAKES ME AFRAID TO WALK THE STREET AND DEFINITELY ALL THE KIDS THAT THERE'S SO FEW PLACES NOW THAT PEOPLE, KIDS CAN GO ON THEIR OWN, UM, IN SHORT JAUNT TO THE PARK.
UM, WE HAVE THE CHANCE HERE TO BE PROACTIVE IS WHAT I'M SAYING.
AND I REALLY HOPE THAT WE CAN HEAD OFF THESE ISSUES BEFORE WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME MAGIC NUMBER OF DEATHS AND ACCIDENTS TO CLOSE IT OR TO MAKE A CHANGE IN SAFETY.
UM, BUILD A SUBSTATION HERE, WHICH THEY PROBABLY MIGHT AS WELL IF, IF WE DO THIS AGAIN, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.
UM, I, I REALLY, UM, ONE MORE THING I WANTED TO SAY.
I MEAN IF WE, IF WE PLAN PEOPLE TO COME THROUGH HERE AND IT'S ALREADY CRAZY AND THE OTHER SUBDIVISION, WE'RE REALLY, WE'RE REALLY JUST SETTING OURSELVES UP FOR FAILURE.
I LOVE THE IDEA OF WHOEVER CAME UP WAS MAKING IT A THOROUGHFARE.
LIKE IF, IF WE WERE TO EXTEND WAYNE WARDELL LOOP AND MAKE IT BE FOR PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLE, THAT'S BRILLIANT BECAUSE THAT WOULD GET PEDESTRIANS.
IT GOES OFF FIRST STREET AND IT WOULD HAVE NOT, NOT THAT GOING ON.
MS MS. HUNT, MRS. HAHN, ERIC AND MASON.
AND THEN MATTHEW SAW THEN MOUNT WOODS AND THEN MARYANNE LAGUNA.
AND YOU WERE, YOU EACH HAVE THREE MINUTES.
ERICA AND MASON, ARE YOU THERE? NO, ERIC AND MASON.
THEN MATTHEW SAW S A L ARE YOU THERE? YEP, I'M HERE.
OKAY TO GO AHEAD AND YOU'LL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
THANK THE COMMITTEE FOR A HEARING US TONIGHT.
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I'D LIKE YOU TO NOTE THE, UH, THE AMOUNT OF TURNOUT IN OPPOSITION TO THIS VERSUS THE AMOUNT THAT WAS CAME OUT IN FOR IT.WE HAVE THE PERSON WHO WANTS TO DEVELOP THE LAND, A PAID CONTRACTOR TALKING ABOUT TRAFFIC AND THE WOMAN WHO'S DOING WHAT'S BEST FOR HER NEIGHBORHOOD, NOT WHAT NECESSARILY IS THE BEST PLAN OVERALL, THE POLICE, NOT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON HERE IN OPPOSITION.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK CRAIG, THE BOARD AND MY NEIGHBORS FOR COMING OUT AND TALKING ABOUT REALLY GREAT AND IMPORTANT IDEAS.
UM, AND I AGREE AND I'M AN OPPOSITION OF THIS FOR ALL THE REASONS THAT MY NEIGHBORS HAVE SAID.
UH, YEAH, MY NAME IS MATTHEW SAW MY WIFE JAMIE AND I LIVE HERE.
WE HAVE THREE CHILDREN ALL BORN HERE WITH A THREE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, TWIN ONE YEAR OLD BOYS.
UH, I WORKED FOR DELL TECHNOLOGIES AND THE ONLY REASON I MENTIONED THIS IS WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE SOUTH TO GET AWAY FROM NORTH AUSTIN WHERE THERE IS JUST UNRESTRICTED GROWTH.
WHEN I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME SOUTH, WE DID.
HE SPECIFICALLY CHOSE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE THAT SPECIALIST AS A NEIGHBORHOOD.
THE BOARD'S IN A UNIQUE POSITION.
YOU GUYS ARE IN A UNIQUE POSITION TO STOP THIS, TO STOP THE TRAFFIC FROM COMING THROUGH.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE A, WE ACTUALLY LIVE IN THE TERMINUS OF WAYNE RIDDLE.
PEOPLE ALREADY THINK IT'S A LOOP.
PEOPLE COME DOWN AND THEY WOULD TURN AROUND.
IT'S THE TRAFFIC IS ALREADY THERE.
YOU GUYS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO STOP THIS.
AND THEN MATT WOODS, ARE YOU THERE? AND AFTER MATT WOODS IS MARYANNE LAGUNA, THEN DR. JOSEPH L RACHEL JR.
SO MATT WOODS, ARE YOU THERE? OKAY.
IF NOT MATT WOODS, THEN MARYANNE LAGUNA.
RACHEL, ARE YOU THERE? DR. JOSEPH.
RACHEL THEN, UH, RICK ANDERSON, ARE YOU THERE? RICK ANDERSON AFTER RICK ANDERSON.
MATT
IF NOT, THEN BRIAN BACKED OFF.
BRIAN BECHTLE ARE YOU THERE? HELLO? HELLO? YES.
WHO ARE YOU OUT OF ALL THE NAMES I'VE BEEN CALLING OUT? YEAH, A LOT OF, NO, IT SAYS MATT LASHLEY HERE TO SPEAK, UM, IN OPPOSITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT.
AND DON'T NEED TO REPEAT EVERYTHING THAT WAS SHARED BY NEIGHBORS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
I APPRECIATE OUR NEIGHBORS FAMILY IN IT AND ALSO OPPOSING THIS AS WELL TOO.
ONE, THE DENSITY IS TOO HIGH AND IT'S NOT CONSISTENT WITH OTHER AREAS AND TO, UM, TO NOT HAVE IT CAUSE IT LEADS INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD REALIZING SOUTH VERSUS A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE.
THIS IS JUST GOING TO DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM THAT WAS ALREADY STATED FROM OUR NEIGHBORS IN THE MEADOWS.
UM, AND LEAD TO ISSUES FOR SAN LEANNA.
UM, EVERY DAY YOU TRY TO ENTER 16, 26 THEY'RE POTENTIAL ACCIDENTS, INJURIES AND DEATHS.
JUST WAITING, WHETHER IT'S PEDESTRIANS, CARS, OR CYCLIST.
UH, THE REAL IMPROVEMENTS NEED TO BE MORE SCHOOLS AND MORE SPACE AND THE ROAD IMPROVEMENTS FOR SOMETHING OF THIS DENSITY YOU'VE EVER CONSIDERED.
YOU AND I HAVE BEEN KEEPING TRACK OF PEOPLE WHO WE'VE MISSED.
I'VE CALLED OUT THEIR NAMES CAUSE I KNOW THIS IS A LONG TIME TO SIT THROUGH.
SO I'VE BEEN COLOR-CODING MY SPREADSHEET OF SPEAKERS.
UM, SO IF MATT WOODS OR MARIANNE LAGUNA OR DR. JOSEPH RACHEL OR RICK ANDERSON HAD TRIED TO SPEAK, UM, I JUST WENT OVER YOUR NAMES, BUT YOU'RE WELCOME TO SPEAK IF YOU WANT.
UH, UH, I THINK WE GOT AN ERROR HERE.
I WAS GOING TO SPEAK CONCERNING THE CASE.
UH, C 14 2020 ZERO, ZERO FOUR SIX.
OKAY, WELL THANK YOU KNOW THAT.
AND THAT CASE WAS, UM, THAT WAS ON, UH, LATER ON, I BELIEVE THIS EVENING.
THAT WAS ALREADY ON THE CONSENT AGENDA AND I DIDN'T, AND IT WAS, YOU WERE ACTUALLY
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ON THE SIGN UP FOR B ONE, UM, ON MY SPREADSHEET, SO I DID NOT.AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DISCUSS THAT ON OFF.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DISCUSS THAT LATER.
UH, WHICH ITEM WAS IT? IT WAS 14 DASH 2020 DASH ZERO ZERO FOUR SIX.
WE, THAT WAS ALREADY ON THAT ACTUALLY HAS ALREADY UH, PASSED AND WE WILL, UH, WE UNFORTUNATELY HAVE ALREADY PASSED THAT AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH DOING THIS ON TECHNOLOGY LIKE THIS.
I APOLOGIZE CAUSE YOU WERE NOT, YOU WERE ON MY B ONE LIST AND UM, AND I DO NOT SEE ANYBODY SIGNED UP.
I DID NOT SEE YOU SIGNED UP FOR THAT AT ALL.
I ONLY SAW THE APPLICANT SIGNED UP, SO I'M SORRY YOU WERE PUT ON THE WRONG LIST AND SO MAYBE FIND OUT WHEN IT GOES TO COUNCIL.
YES, I'M ACTUALLY, THAT IS A GOOD, THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
SO, UM, I WILL GET IN CONTACT WITH, UH, MR. ANDERSON AND MS. ANDERSON AND INFORMED THEM OF THE COMMISSION DATE.
WELL TO THIS SINCE YOU STARTED AT SIX O'CLOCK AND AT NO TIME HAVE YOU DISCUSSED THAT PARTICULAR CASE.
SO, I MEAN, WHEN WAS IT PASSED OR CONSENT GIVEN, I APOLOGIZE.
THAT WAS ON OUR, THAT WAS AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE MEETING ON OUR CONSENT AGENDA WHERE I LISTED ALL OF THOSE ITEMS. AND ALSO I DID NOT SEE YOU.
THERE WAS NOBODY EXCEPT FOR THE LISTED FOR THAT ITEM.
SO I DID NOT KNOW THAT THERE WAS ANYBODY WISHING TO SPEAK IN OPPOSITION.
SO THEN, UM, ANDREW WILL CONTACT YOU.
HE'S OUR STAFF LIAISON AND HE WILL GET BACK TO YOU ABOUT WHEN IT IS GOING TO GO TO COUNCIL AND YOU CAN SPEAK AT COUNCIL AND HE WILL BE ABLE TO HELP YOU WITH THAT.
AND I REALLY APOLOGIZE, I DID NOT REALIZE, UM, I DID NOT REALIZE THAT SOMEBODY SIGNED UP FOR B ONE WAS ACTUALLY NOT SIGNED UP FOR B ONE.
WELL, I WAS GOING BASED ON YOUR AGENDA AND THERE WAS A LINE ITEM, YOU KNOW, WAY DOWN AFTER THE
LET'S SEE, YOU HAD B ONE B TWO B THREE B FOUR THE FIVE AND THEN WE WENT TO B SIX WHICH INCLUDED, UH, THE PROPERTY ISSUE AND ZONING THAT I HAVE.
AND IT, YEAH, IT, IT, IT, IT PASSED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.
AND IF I HAD REALIZED THAT SOMEBODY WAS HERE TO SPEAK ON IT, I WOULD HAVE ASKED ABOUT THAT.
BUT BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE SIGNUP IS, AND I WAS GIVEN A LIST AND YOUR NAME WAS ON THE
WELL IT'S A LITTLE DISCOURAGING TO ME THAT, YOU KNOW, I HAD SIGNED UP TO VOICE MY OPPOSITION TO THIS REGION AND NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS IT.
I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND AND I AGREE WITH YOU AND I'M GOING TO TALK WITH OUR STAFF LIAISON AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED WITH THE SIGN UP AND MAKE SURE THAT IT'S CLEAR THAT PEOPLE, BECAUSE I WAS JUST RELYING ON A SHEET THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME FOR UM, PEOPLE WHO HAD SIGNED UP AND THE ONES THAT YOU WERE NOT SIGNED UP ON THE APPROPRIATE ITEM.
AND I FOR THAT AND AGAIN, YES, I'M GOING TO ASK IN REGARDS TO THIS SIMILAR, IT SHOULD COME STEP AGAIN.
I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT MAYBE WE AS A COMMISSION SHOULD CONSIDER FOR FUTURE THAT WE KNOW NOT POSITION ARISES THAT WE DID NOT KNOW ABOUT.
IT NEEDS TO BE REFLECTED IN WHATEVER GOD'S INVITATION IS SENT ON TO CITY COUNCIL.
THEY ARE MADE AWARE OF THE DISCREPANCY IN THAT IT WAS NOT, YOU KNOW, IT WAS NOT SOMETHING
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THAT WE DID PURPOSEFULLY AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC IS SUPPORTED THE RIGHT TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE AS THEY WOULD LIKE.I THINK THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S A VERY GOOD SUGGESTION.
SO YOU COMMISSIONER GEARY AND I THINK UM, WE COULD AND WE'VE LEARNED WE, THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE AND WE JUST CANNOT HAVE SOME, UM, THE APPLICANT IS NO LONGER ON THE UM, IS NO LONGER ON THE PHONE LINE CAUSE THERE IS THEIR ITEM PASSED AND I SEE WHO THE APPLICANT WAS AND WHO HAD SIGNED UP AND WHO WAS LISTED AS HAVING SIGNED UP.
AND HE HAS, AND I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.
THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE SIGNING UP AND I AND WHOEVER'S RUNNING THE MEETING GETS THE LIST OF THE, OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE, WHO ARE AT THE CORRECT LIST AND THAT IT'S CLEAR WHEN YOU SIGN UP WHAT YOU'RE SIGNING UP FOR.
AND I THINK, UM, I THINK OUR STAFF LIAISON WILL HELP YOU WITH IN DEALING WITH COUNCIL AND ALSO, UM, I THINK MAYBE I SHOULD MAYBE EVEN WRITE A NOTE MAYBE.
UM, I KNOW WHERE WE'VE GOT OTHER PEOPLE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD AND WE'RE UNDER THIS AGENDA ITEM, BUT MAYBE AT THE END OF OUR MEETING WE SHOULD JUST HAVE, OR UNDER NEW BUSINESS WE SHOULD HAVE SOMETHING WHERE WE MAYBE JUST SEND A, UM, WHERE WE CAN VOTE ON THIS.
ACTUALLY WE'RE NOT POSTED FOR THIS, BUT FOR OUR NEXT MEETING TO, IF SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS THAT WE CAN SEND A, THAT WE CAN SEND A NOTE TO COUNCIL AS COMMISSIONER GARY'S RECOMMENDED.
PLEASE STATE THE NAME OF THE SPEAKER FOR THE RECORD.
THE PERSON THAT WAS LISTED IN THE WRONG ITEM.
SO IT WAS RICK ANDERSON AND THE SPREADSHEET THAT I WAS GIVEN, THE ONLY PERSON LISTED FOR AESICS WAS THE APPLICANT.
AND SO I HAD, I MEAN I LOOKED IT OVER AND I DIDN'T KNOW THE IDEA THAT SOMEBODY HAD SPOKEN UP ON ANOTHER THING.
UM, YEAH, I NOTICED MR. ANDERSON HAD WRITTEN A LETTER OF PROTEST AND IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IF WE, WHEN FOLKS ARE SUBMITTING MATERIALS THAT WE UH, BECAUSE HE IS LISTED AND SO POSTING THAT ZONING AND OUR BACKUP AND I ASSUMED THAT HE WAS SIMPLY SUBMITTING HIS BACKUP BUT IT LOOKS LIKE HE WANTED TO SPEAK AS WELL.
SO WE'RE FOLKS ARE SUBMITTING MATERIALS FOR US.
THEY PROBABLY SHOULD BE ASKED TO BE AGENDAS SPEAK AND IT MIGHT BE ONE WAY TO HELP AVOID THIS.
AND THEN WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT ANNOUNCED AT THE BEGINNING HOW THE CONSENT PROCESS WORKS BECAUSE IT'S SNOUTS AND SECOND TIME THE COMMISSIONER.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A QUICK NOTE HERE THAT UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GET TO FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS, I DO PLAN TO ASK THAT WE HAVE ASKED FOR STAFF TO GIVE US AN UPDATE ON THESE ONLINE MEETING PROCESSES.
AND PROCEDURES AND PLANS AND, AND ISSUES THAT HAVE COME UP JUST IN, NOT NECESSARILY OUR NEXT MEETING, BUT, AND THEN WE CAN DISCUSS THIS LATER ON, BUT IT KINDA TIES INTO WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW.
NO, NO, THIS WAS RICK ANDREWS.
WELL, I HAD ALSO A FORWARDED A COPY OF THE OUTLINE.
I WAS GONNA USE MY OBJECTION AND THAT WAS SENT TO ANDREW.
APPROXIMATELY ONE 10 THIS AFTERNOON.
AND AS I HANDOUT FOR THE COUNCIL OR FOR THE COMMISSION.
YEAH, NO, THAT HAS NEVER GONE ANYWHERE.
YEAH, I'M CHECKING MY, I'VE GOT TWO COMPUTERS GOING AND ONE FOR THE, THE CAMERA AND I DO NOT SEE IT IN MY EMAILS AND VICE CHAIR DUNCAN AND I APOLOGIZE.
AND I, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL TREADING NEW GROUND AND FRANKLY, ACTUALLY IF YOU GUYS ARE DOING A GOOD JOB TONIGHT AND GOING THROUGH THIS, BUT I WAS AWARE OF THIS PROJECT.
THIS WAS A SMALL PROPERTY ACROSS, UH, ROVERS.
UH, LIKE I SAID, I DON'T LIVE VERY FAR FROM HERE.
UH, AND IT, IT IS, UH, FROM A SINGLE FAMILY TO MUSLIM.
I THINK THE MAIN THING IF WE SLIPPED UP, WE FEEL A LIFT IS STILL ON THE TOP.
I WAS NOT AWARE OF WHAT HE TRANSMITTED THIS AFTERNOON.
WELL, I THINK RIGHT NOW IT STILL
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HAS TO GO TO COUNCIL.I THINK THAT A COUNCIL MEMBER ALTER IS IN HER DISTRICT NEEDS TO BE MADE AND WE JUST NEED TO APOLOGIZE BUT WE'RE JUST TRYING TO, WORKING NOT TO TEACH AND I HOPE EVERYBODY WILL BEAR WITH US AS WELL WHILE WE DO IT.
VICE CHAIR DOWN, UH, DUNCAN AND AGAIN, UM, AND BECAUSE WE S UM, I APOLOGIZE YOU MR. ANDERSON AND IF YOU COULD GIVE ANDREW YOUR PHONE NUMBER, EMAIL YOUR PHONE NUMBER AND HE'LL FORWARD IT TO ME AND I CAN TALK TO YOU FURTHER.
AND POSSIBLY VICE DUNCAN TOO BECAUSE HE IS UM, COUNCIL MEMBER TOURIST APPOINTEE AND SO WE CAN HELP YOU AFTER, UM, TOMORROW AFTER THE MEETING.
AND AGAIN, OUR DEEP APOLOGIES AND WE ARE DEFINITELY STILL LEARNING HOW TO DO THIS, UM, WITH THE SIGNUPS WHERE WE JUST GET A SPREADSHEET WHERE IT'S, UH, AND UM, GOING OVER THE AGENDA.
IT'S ON, UH, ON, ON, ON, UH, IT'S NOT ZOOM ON WEBEX.
SO AGAIN, APOLOGIES AND HOPE THAT, UM, THAT, UM, WE CAN HELP AND I KNOW WE CAN HELP YOU TOMORROW.
I WILL EMAIL HIM CONTACT INFORMATION TOMORROW MORNING.
THAT'S WHY I WASN'T THERE WHEN YOU CALLED ON ME.
SO, UM, MR. ANDERSON, WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU TOMORROW AND THEN ALL THE REST OF YOU SPEAKERS.
I WILL, WE'LL GET BACK TO HEARING
THIS IS DEFINITELY A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR US AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE FORMAT THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH.
AND, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, I'M JUST USING TWO COMPUTERS TO KEEP TRACK OF SPEAKERS AND SPEAKERS THAT WE'VE MISSED.
AND UH, UM, AND I HAVE TO LAUGH BECAUSE I'M USING MY HUSBAND'S AREA AND HE JUST HAD TO GET SOME STUFF.
SO, UM, SO NOW WE'LL GO BACK TO THE SPEAKERS AND I UNDERSTAND, AND MR AND DR RACHEL, UM, YOU SAID THAT YOUR PHONE BATTERY WENT DEAD AND I KEPT TRACK ON MY LIST.
SO WHY DON'T WE START THE SPEAKERS AGAIN? UM, FOR
AND IF MATT WOODS OR MA MARIANNE LAGUNA ARE STILL ON, UM, THEY'RE, UH, THEY CAN GO ON TO.
BUT THEN NEXT IS BRIAN BECHTLE, KRISTIN HUNZIKER, UH, SUSAN MISER AND KATE MINES ARE.
SO DR RACHEL, YOU WILL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR WHAT IS TURNING OUT TO BE A FAIRLY LONG AND COMPLICATED NIGHT.
EVERY ONE OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPOKEN ON THIS HIT ALL OF THE POINTS I, I WOULD HAVE BEEN HITTING ANYWAY.
SO I WOULD SAY I AGREE WITH ALL OF THEM.
UH, IN FACT, AND LISTENING TO THE PRESENTATION BY THE ADVOCATE, I, THEY DID NOT PRESENT A SINGLE POINT THAN IN ANY WAY BENEFITED THE NOSE OF SLAUGHTER CREEK.
THEY JUST DID NOT PRESENT ANY POINT THAT BENEFITED US, IN FACT, ON MULTIPLE POINTS, WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT HARMS THIS COMMUNITY.
AND IT'S NOT JUST A NEIGHBORHOOD, IT IS A COMMUNITY.
IT HARMS THE ENVIRONMENT, IT HARMS THE WATER FLOW, IT, IT RAISES ISSUES ABOUT THE SCHOOLS AND IT RAISES THE SAFETY ISSUE OF THE COMMUNITY, THE HEART OF THIS COMMUNITY, WAYNE RIDELL.
SO WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST IS PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW WAYNE REBEL TO BE OPENED ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO REZONING, REZONING SINGLE FAMILY, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
AND I REALIZE, AND THEN I HAD SAID THAT BRIAN BECHTLE COULD BE NEXT, BUT AFTER BRIAN BECHTLE, UM, IS ISABELLA SANTIAGO STILL HERE? UM, THEN AFTER BRIAN BECHTLE, ISABELLA SANTIAGO, UM, BRIAN BECHTLE, ARE YOU HERE? UM, IF NOT, IS ISABELLA SANTIAGO HERE? YEAH, SHE'S COMING RIGHT NOW.
AND SHE WILL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES AND THEN AFTER HER IS KRISTIN
I DON'T AGREE WITH THE EXTENSION OF THE ROAD THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS DUE TO THE PROXIMITY OF THE SCHOOL HAS HAZARDOUS, JUST CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC CONDITIONS WILL INCREASE INCLUDING STUDENT ACCIDENTS ON
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CHILDBIRTH AND POSSIBLE ACCIDENTS ON WAYNE RIDELL LOOP DUE TO THE MANY YOUNG DRIVERS THAT WILL BE COMING OUT OF AIKEN HIGH SCHOOL, THE CITY CAN TRY TO PUT IN TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES, BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THEY CAN CONTROL THE DRIVING SKILLS OF HUNDREDS, POSSIBLY THOUSANDS OF TEENAGE DRIVERS THAT WILL BE CUTTING THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY.UM, IF UM, UH, BRIAN BECHTLE OR KRISTIN HUNTSIGER, UM, KRISTEN HUNTSIGER, ARE YOU THERE? IF NOT, THEN SUSAN MISER OR KATE MISER? YES.
ALSO, I'M A 17 YEAR RESIDENT OF THE NOSE AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I AGREE WITH ALL THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED BY MY FELLOW NOSE NEIGHBORS AND THAT I ALSO OPPOSE THE BUILDING OF THE APARTMENT COMPLEX AND ESPECIALLY OPPOSE THE EXTENSION OF WAYNE RODALE LOOP DUE TO ALL THE PREVIOUS STATED REASONS.
UM, THIS KATE MINES ARE THERE AND IF NOT, WE'LL GO ONTO THE BARBARA LEFT.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I AGREE WITH ALL OF THE PREVIOUS SPEAKERS AND THE VARIOUS ISSUES AND REASONS THAT HAVE BEEN, UH, STATED, UH, TO, UH, IN REGARDS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF, OF THIS, UM, PROJECT.
UM, I OPPOSE THAT AND I TOO, ESPECIALLY OPPOSE THE EXTENSION OF LANE RIDELL LOOP, UM, AS, AS MANY OF MY NEIGHBORS HAVE SAID, UM, THAT AREA IS, UH, VERY, UM, BEAUTIFUL AND UM, HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE, UH, PLACE FOR, UM, THE KIDS TO PLAY AT THE PARK.
ALL OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT HAPPEN WITH THE KIDS.
UM, WE HAVE LIVED HERE FOR 17 YEARS.
WE'VE SEEN NEIGHBORS' KIDS GROW UP, WE'VE SEEN NEIGHBORS, KIDS HAVE THEIR OWN KIDS, WE'VE SEEN THEM ALL PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT'S, AND IT'S OUR PEACEFUL, BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITY.
WHEN YOU TURN OFF OF 16, 26 ON DWAYNE RIDELL, IT'S LIKE YOU'VE TURNED, TURNED INTO YOUR SANCTUARY AND THAT'S WHAT YOUR HOME SHOULD BE.
AND THAT'S WHAT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS.
AND SO I SUPPORT EVERYTHING THAT MY NEIGHBORS HAVE SAID AND I THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
UM, IS BARBARA LUFFING LAW THERE AND AFTER BARBARA LEFFINGWELL WOULD BE DA DAVID CHAN, GAY FAULKNER AND MARLA KOREAN AND HILLARY.
OH, KOREAN CARRION BUT BARBARA LEFFINGWELL, ARE YOU THERE? YES, THIS IS BARBARA LEFFINGWELL.
AND YOU WILL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO STAND WITH MY NEIGHBORS AND TELL YOU MY FEELINGS ABOUT THE NOLS.
I MOVED HERE IN 2005 AS UM, AS A AN AND BOUGHT A HOME THAT WAS A RESALE THAT BACKS UP TO WAYNE RYEDALE LOOP.
MY BACKYARD IS CANOPIED WITH TREES.
IT IS A FABULOUSLY SECLUDED PLACE FOR ME TO BE WITH MY FAMILY, WITH MY DOGS, EVEN THOUGH I'M ON WAYNE RYEDALE LOOP, IF THAT IS OPENED UP TO BE A THROUGH FARE, THIS NEIGHBORHOOD WILL TRULY BE FRACTURED.
UM, THE CHARACTER WILL COMPLETELY BE CHANGED BECAUSE THERE WILL BE THIS SIDE OF WAYNE RYEDALE AND THAT SIDE OF WAYNE RYEDALE AS AS IT STANDS NOW, I CAN WALK FIVE DAYS ACTUALLY IN EXCESS OF FIVE MILES IN MY OWN NEIGHBORHOOD, IN THE LITTLE VILLAGES OF THE NOSE OF SLAUGHTER CREEK.
SEE MY NEIGHBORS, SEE WILDLIFE, ENJOY PEOPLE'S LAWNS, ENJOY THE GREENBELT AND I AM COMPLETELY, TOTALLY SAFE.
UM, IF, IF THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS FRACTURED, IF WAYNE RYEDALE LOOP GOES THROUGH TO SOUTH FIRST STREET, THAT WILL NO LONGER BE.
SO I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO WALK MY DOG OR
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WALK FOR HEALTH ON WAYNE RYEDALE.IT WOULD BE THE SAME REALLY AS TRYING TO WALK ON 16, 26 NOT POSSIBLE.
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS COHESIVE, WARM, FRIENDLY, FAMILY ORIENTED, FUN ORIENTED, WELL LED AND WE HAVE WONDERFUL CELEBRATIONS.
PROBABLY, OH PROBABLY AT LEAST THERE ARE 10 A YEAR AND THEY ARE UM, GATHERED AT THE SWIMMING POOL AREA AND THAT'S SWIMMING POOL AREA IS RIGHT ON WAYNE RYEDALE LOOP THERE.
THERE WILL BE NO WAY THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO GATHER THERE AND HAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD PARTIES HAVE THE ACTIVITIES FOR THE CHILDREN AND FOR FAMILIES TO COME TOGETHER THAT WE HAVE NOW.
IT JUST PHYSICALLY WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE.
UM, TRAFFIC IS GOING TO GO UP.
I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE BEING ON WAYNE RYEDALE LOOP.
EVEN WITH MY PROBABLY AIR CONDITIONING ON THE SUMMER, I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO HEAR TRAFFIC.
PROPERTY VALUES ARE GOING TO DECREASE THE NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, OFFER, WILDLIFE, WATER ISSUES.
UM, SLAUGHTER CREEK AND ONION CREEK, BEAUTIFUL AREAS.
UM, THEY WILL BE CHANGED FOREVER.
I, I IMPLORE YOU TO TAKE TO HEART WHAT MY NEIGHBORS, MY WONDERFUL NEIGHBORS HAVE SHARED AS THEY HAVE HIT ALL THE BULLET POINTS.
THE CONCERNS FOR US HERE ARE THE KNOWLES TO KEEP OUR NEIGHBORHOOD INTACT.
I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LISTENING.
UM, DAVID SHAN AND THEN GAY FAULKNER AND THEN MARLA, KOREAN, KOREAN AND THEN HILLARY, KOREAN.
YOU WILL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
UH, I WANTED TO THANK THE COMMISSION FOR, UM, PROVIDING THIS, UH, VENUE FOR ME AND MY NEIGHBORS TO OUR OPPOSITION TO THIS, UH, THIS PROPOSAL.
UM, I THINK THE MAIN THINGS, YOU KNOW, I AGREE WITH EVERY, EVERY POINT THAT WAS HIGHLIGHTED BEFORE ME.
I THINK, UH, THE ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT WAS AGAIN, THAT, UH, THE HOA PRESIDENT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS CUT THROUGH, UM, I THINK IT'S MEADOWS AT DOUBLE CREEK.
UM, THEY WANT, UM, THIS PROPOSAL TO GO THROUGH JUST TO TRY TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF CUPS TRAFFIC, BUT PRETTY TELLING ON, UM, THE REASONING FOR WHY THEY, THEY WANT TO PROVE IT TO MAYBE HALF HAVE THEIR TRUCK TRAFFIC THAT'S COMING TO.
SO, UM, ONCE AGAIN, UM, THANK YOU FOR BEARING WITH US.
I KNOW THIS MEETING HAS GONE ON FOR A LONG TIME AND I THINK WE HAVE SEVERAL, SEVERAL MORE SPEAKERS AFTER ME, SO I'LL KEEP IT BRIEF AND, UH, THANK YOU AGAIN.
AND THEN, UH, GAY FAULKNER OR ANNE, ARE YOU THERE? THEN MARLA, CAREER AND ARION AND THEN HILARIA KAREN, BUT GAY FAULKNER FIRST.
YOU'LL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
MY NAME IS GAI FAULKNER AND MY FAMILY HAS LIVED IN THE NOLS FOR 18 YEARS, SINCE 2002, WE HAVE TWIN 19 YEAR OLD BOYS THAT HAVE HAD A GREAT AND SAFE TIME GROWING UP HERE.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH ALL THE CONCERNS THAT HAD BEEN PRESENTED BY THE PREVIOUS SPEAKERS AND I AM STRONGLY AGAINST THE BUILDING OF THE APARTMENT COMPLEX AND EXTENSION OF THE WAYNE RIDELL LOOP TO SOUTH FIRST DUE TO ALL PREVIOUSLY STATED REASONS.
PLEASE, PLEASE HELP US PRESERVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS INTEGRITY AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME THIS EVENING.
AND THEN MARLA, UH, KAREN, I'M BUTCHERING YOUR NAME.
ARE YOU THERE OR HILLARY? OH, AND IF YOU'RE NOT THEN WE'LL GO ON FURTHER DOWN THE, UM, ACTUALLY I MISSED, UM, I THINK THERE WAS A LITTLE PROBLEM WITH ARNOLD, UH, RODRIGUEZ.
UM, ARE YOU STILL THERE, ARNOLD RODRIGUEZ? AND IF NOT, THEN, UM, WE'LL GO TO KATHY P, HER TURKA AND JULIE PHILLIPS, STEVEN MENDEZ, MENDOZA AND GEORGE GHERKIN.
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AND I'M BUTCHERING THAT NAME TOO, BUT, UM, ARE YOU THERE? AND IF NOT, THEN JULIE PHILLIPS, ARE YOU THERE? JULIE PHILLIPS? IF NOT, THEN STEPHEN MENDOZA.AND YOU'LL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES? YES, MA'AM.
I REALIZE EVERYBODY'S BEEN HERE A LONG TIME THIS EVENING.
UM, I AGREE WITH, UM, EVERYONE IN THE NOSE OF SLAUGHTER CREEK.
I'M WAYNE RIDELL AND AT THIS TIME THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT SPEED THROUGH AND I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THAT IT'LL PROBABLY GET WORSE IF EVERYTHING IS OPENED UP.
SO I OPPOSE, UH, THE EXTENSION AND THE DEVELOPMENT.
AND THEN NEXT IS STEPHEN AND GEORGE GHERKIN.
ARE YOU THERE? UH, GEORGE GHERKIN.
ARE YOU THERE? OH, LORRAINA ACOSTA.
ARE YOU THERE? AND THEN AFTER LORRAINA ACOSTA IS MICHAEL CUMMINGS, JOSH SIMONS AND MONA KNUDSEN.
UM, SO GEORGE GHERKIN, ARE YOU THERE? AND IF NOT, UH, LORENA ACOSTA AND MICHAEL CUMMINGS, UH, JOSH SIMONS, UH, MONA KNUDSEN, EMMA
CHECON ARE YOU THERE? IMMEDIATE CHECON JASON MURPHY.
AND YOU WILL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
THIS HAS BEEN A VERY LONG EXPERIENCE.
THANK YOU COMMISSIONER VERY MUCH.
I MAY HAVE BEEN TEXTING AND YOU GUYS AS WELL.
I JUST WANT TO SPEAK FROM THE HEART.
MY FAMILY AND I HAVE LIVED HERE FOR 12 YEARS AND UM, IT'S OUR HOME.
MY KIDS ARE MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS RIGHT NOW BUT THEY ARE GOING TO BE IN HIGH SCHOOL SOLELY AND RUNS DIRECTLY THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT'S LITERALLY OVER 400 HOMES.
UM, AND YOU'VE HEARD OF LEO'S TESTIMONY OF HOW MUCH OF A SANCTUARY IT IS FOR EVERYBODY, BUT OPENING THAT UP AND MY KIDS, MY KIDS WOULD PROBABLY GO TO AKINS AND THEY'LL HAVE TO WALK TO SCHOOL BECAUSE THEIR MOTHER AND I WORK.
AND THE TIMING IS NOT GOING TO BE THERE FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO BE IN SCHOOL.
THERE'S NO BUS CAUSE WHAT YOU CLOSE TO THE SCHOOL TO OPEN THAT UP AND HAVE PEOPLE RUNNING LATE FOR WORK AND SPEEDING THROUGH THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS TO TRY TO GET HOME LATE.
WHEN WOMEN GET TO THEIR FAMILIES, IT'S JUST FIVE MINUTES.
UM, THE DANGER THAT IT WOULD BRING TO OUR CHILDREN AND THEN ALSO THEY MAY START DRIVING, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, ALL THE KIDS RIDING AROUND THE AREA ALSO OKAY WHEN THEY'RE SPEEDING DOWN LANE.
UM, SO THAT'S MY BIGGEST CONCERN, UH, ALL ENABLERS AND BEEN A GREAT JOB OF REPRESENTING OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, AND I, AND I APPRECIATE THAT.
I'LL PROBABLY KEEP THIS BRIEF HERE, BUT PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP OUR KIDS SAFE AND DON'T PUT THIS ROAD THROUGH.
AND UM, I REALIZED HILDA ARREST, UM, I BELIEVE THAT I, WHEN I CALLED YOUR NAME OUT, THERE WAS A GLITCH.
ARE YOU THERE NOW HILDA RAYEZ UM, I SPOKE.
THEN I'LL GO OVER THE REST OF THE LIST.
YOU'LL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
WELL THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR THIS TIME TO SPEAK.
UM, I HAVE LIVED HERE SINCE TWO, UH, 2008, UH, WITH MY WIFE AND FOUR KIDS.
AND JUST WANT TO ECHO A LOT OF THE SENTIMENT THAT YOU'VE HEARD ALREADY.
UM, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STANDS OUT TO ME IS, UM, YOU
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KNOW, THE, THE, THE INADEQUATE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THIS AREA REALLY, UM, RESULTS AND YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU'VE HEARD TONIGHT WHERE YOU'RE KIND OF PITTING NEIGHBORHOODS AGAINST NEIGHBORHOODS.UM, YOU KNOW, YOU HEARD FROM THE MEADOWS HOA THAT HAS LEGITIMATE CONCERNS ABOUT CUT THROUGHS AND THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOU KNOW, THE CITY COUNTY SOLUTIONS ARE REALLY NOT SOLUTIONS BECAUSE THEIR ONLY VIABLE OPTION WOULD BE TO SAY, HEY, WE'RE IN SUPPORT OF THIS DEVELOPMENT.
IT'S THE ONLY WAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET RELIEF.
UM, THAT PUTS US IN A SITUATION AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IF IT DOES GO THROUGH AND THEN, YOU KNOW, SUBSEQUENT TO THAT YOU HEARD THAT THE SAN LEANNA NEIGHBORHOOD HAS TO REACT IN KIND AND MAKE THEIR OWN, UM, PERHAPS CLOSING OFF ROADS.
SO, UM, I WOULD JUST STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M VERY MUCH AGAINST THE CUTTHROAT, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, VIA MAIL AND AGAINST IT AND, AND, AND GENERALLY OVERALL AGAINST THE DEVELOPMENT, BUT THAT YOU CONSIDER THAT, I THINK THE IDEA OF THE CITY'S GOALS OF DENSITY AND CONNECTIVITY REALLY CREATE DISCONNECTIVITY, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT THE PROPER INTERPRET STRUCTURE.
AND I WOULD JUST REALLY ENCOURAGE THE COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER THAT, UM, GIVE INFRASTRUCTURE A CHANCE TO CATCH UP BEFORE WE CONTINUE TO PUT DEVELOPMENT ON TOP OF DEVELOPMENT AND FURTHER STRESS THE STREETS AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND CREATE SAFETY ISSUES AND CREATE REALLY DISCORD BETWEEN NEIGHBORS OR NEIGHBORHOODS.
I THINK THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES, UM, WOULD W DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE A PROBLEM, BUT, BUT AS YOU'VE HEARD NEIGHBORS, NEIGHBORHOODS ARE HAVING TO WORK AGAINST EACH OTHER AND IT'S, IT'S NOT A GOOD FEELING.
IT'S NOT A GOOD, UM, SENSE OF COMMUNITY WHEN THESE KINDS OF DEVELOPMENTS, UM, CREATE THOSE KIND OF RISKS BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS AS YOU'VE, AS YOU'VE HEARD TONIGHT.
UM, UM, SO A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT SPIN ON THINGS, BUT UM, APPRECIATE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT MY NEIGHBORS HAVE STATED AND VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY, UM, THAT YOU'VE PROVIDED TO US TONIGHT TO, TO SPEAK AND THAT OUR CONCERNS.
AND IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE THAT I'VE MISSED? I CALLED OUT NAMES AND I KNOW SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO UNMUTE AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND IF NOT, I'LL CIRCLE BACK WITH PEOPLE THAT I'VE MISSED.
I'VE HIGHLIGHTED THEM ON MY SPREADSHEET.
AND WHO'S THIS? THIS IS DR SARAH MANIR.
UM, OH, YOU'RE, YOU'RE A LITTLE LOWER ON THE LIST, BUT I THINK I'M GOING TO GET TO YOU REALLY SOON.
UM, FIRST DAY OF OMAR SOUL, IF NOT ALL MORE SO LISA WILLIAMS. MATT.
AND THEN AFTER MATT FOOD CHECK IS PHIL RILEY.
THEN LAURA RILEY AND I WILL ALSO CIRCLE BACK TO PEOPLE MATT AND FOOD CHECK.
SO IS IT OMAR SOLAR? MATT FIRST, I'M SORRY, I'M CONFUSED.
OMAR, ARE YOU THERE? YEAH, YEAH, I'M HERE.
SO YOU'RE OMAR, CAN YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF PLEASE? YES.
AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
SORRY, AGAIN, MY NAME IS OMAR SOUL.
UH, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME AND MY FELLOW NEIGHBORS TO VOICE OUR CONCERNS.
UH, I'M A RESIDENT OF, UH, THE NOLDUS FLUTTER CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, MY WIFE AND I MOVED HERE AND NOT 2015.
THE REASON WE CHOSE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS MAINLY, YOU KNOW, FIRST LOCATION, SAFETY, SECURITY, AND OBVIOUSLY THE LOVING NEIGHBORS WE HAVE.
AND THEY, I MEAN, YOU CAN OBVIOUSLY HOW LOVING THEY ARE BY SHOWING THEIR CONCERNS.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE, UH, ACCESS TO GREENBELT FROM OUR BACKYARD, WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL, UH, IN WHICH THE SLAUGHTER CREEK IS LOCATED.
WE GET TO HIKE THERE, SWIM, YOU KNOW, SEE ANIMALS AND BE PRETTY CLOSE TO NATURE.
UM, I STRONGLY OPPOSE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AND EXTENSION OF WINDWARD.
THEY'LL LOOP, UH, IT'LL CAUSE RUNOFFS THE RUNOFF TO, UH, ADD WATER TO THE CREEK, WHICH COULD POSSIBLY CAUSE FLOODING.
AND I, I'D BE PRETTY CONCERNED TO KNOW THAT THERE'S DANGER RIGHT IN OUR BACKYARD.
UH, AS FAR AS TRAFFIC GOES, IT'S ALREADY BAD AT THIS.
SO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WILL MAKE IT A LIVING NIGHTMARE.
UH, THE EXTENSION OF WINDWARD, THEY'LL LOOP, WILL MAKE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD UNSAFE FOR US, OUR CHILDREN, AND EVEN OUR PARENTS.
UH, WE LOVE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD SO MUCH THAT WE EVEN CONVINCED MY PARENTS AND MY SISTER ALONG WITH HER FAMILY TO MOVE INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
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SO LAST YEAR WE PURCHASED TWO MORE PROPERTIES.UM, MY FATHER ENJOYS, UH, DAILY WALKS AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND MY SISTER LOVES TAKING HER TWO YEAR OLD DAUGHTER ON STORES AND PLAYING THE PARK.
UM, YOU KNOW, ALL OF US BEING UNSAFE WITH HUNDREDS OR EVEN THOUSANDS OF CARS FLOWING THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD DURING THE RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC OR ANY OTHER HOUR, UH, AND CAUSING ALSO LIKE ALL KINDS OF NOISE POLLUTION.
AND SO THEY ESSENTIALLY HAVE, WINTER DOES ALSO GET ACCESS TO CRIME, WHICH IS ANOTHER REASON I STRONGLY OPPOSE THIS.
UH, WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE INVESTED A LOT OF MONEY INTO THIS WONDERFUL NEIGHBORHOOD, THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AND THE EXTENSION OF WINTER.
THAT LOOP, WELL OBVIOUSLY DECREASED THE VALUES OF OUR HOMES AS WELL, WHICH WOULD BE VERY CONCERNING FOR US HOMEOWNERS.
ONCE AGAIN, UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I HOPE YOU TAKE ALL OF OUR VOICES INTO CONSIDERATION AND KEEPING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD MOVING HAS INTEGRITY, QUALITY, AND SAFETY OF EVERYONE.
AND ACTUALLY I MADE A LISA WILLIAMS THEN MATT, FEW CHECK BILL RILEY.
SO LISA WILLIAMS, ARE YOU THERE? IF NOT, MATT CHECK.
ARE YOU THERE MATT? WE CHECKED IN PHIL RILEY AND LAURA RILEY.
ARE YOU THERE? HELLO? THIS IS ON THE LEFT DRINKERS.
YOU WERE THE PERSON WHO HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A PROBLEM EARLIER.
UH, ARNOLD RODRIGUEZ AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
I'VE LIVED ON THE NOSE OF SLAUGHTER CREEK SINCE 2003 AND I'M AGAINST THE, I AGREE WITH ALL MY NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE SPOKEN AHEAD OF ME IN, UH, INVESTMENTS TO THE REZONING OF THIS DEVELOPMENT OF THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX AND OPENING WAYNE RYEDALE IN 2003 I'VE SEEN THE INCREASE OF TRAFFIC, YOU KNOW, UH, COMING INTO WAYNE RYEDALE EVEN WHEN IT BACKS UP AT THE CORNER OF 16, 26 IN SOUTH FIRST, UH, THE LIGHT, YOU KNOW, IT BACKS UP ALL THE WAY TO WAYNE RYEDALE.
AND WHAT I SEE IS MORE PEOPLE COMING IN KNOWING THAT IT'S NOT, THEY DO NOT KNOW IT'S A DEAD END.
THEY'LL GO ALL THE WAY SPEEDING ALL THE WAY DOWN AND THEY WILL SPEED BACK UP, TURN AROUND AND TRY TO GET BACK INTO, UH, 16, 26.
THE OTHER ISSUE THAT I FEEL ALSO IS THAT WE HAVE, THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS REAL TIGHT AND WE USUALLY HAVE ACTIVITIES AT THE POOL AND I FEEL THAT IF WAYNE RADIO IS OPEN, THOSE ACTIVITIES WILL BE GONE JUST THROUGH THE IMMENSE TRAFFIC THAT WILL, UH, WILL COME THROUGH.
UH, WAYNE RYEDALE EVADE HAS OPENED THE OTHER ONE.
ALSO, THE IMPACT OF THE ENVIRONMENT ALSO OF THE WILDLIFE WILL BE DESTROYED BECAUSE YOU SEE A LOT OF DEER ON HERE.
YOU HEAR THE OWLS AND THEN YOU ALSO HEAR THE CODE CODY'S AT NIGHT, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, SINGING OUT THERE.
BUT, UM, BUT, UH, AGAIN I AGREE WITH ALL MY NEIGHBORS.
UH, I'M NOT FOR THE OPENING OF WAYNE RYEDALE AND ALSO, UH, THE REZONE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT FOR THE APARTMENT COMPLEX.
THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SPEAK.
AND THEN, UH, PHIL RILEY OR LAURA RILEY, UM, AND THEN, YES, THIS IS PHIL RILEY.
YOU'LL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
UH, WELL, JUST WANT TO THANK THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION FOR GUINNESS TIMES TALK TONIGHT AND FOR DONATING YOUR TUESDAY NIGHTS.
THIS HAS PROBABLY GONE LONGER THAN YOU HAD PLANNED, UH, BUT WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.
AND I WANT TO REITERATE MY THANKS FOR EVERYTHING THAT, UH, OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE BROUGHT FORWARD AND WE AGREE WITH THEM ON ALL POINTS.
UM, JUST WANT TO SPEAK TO SPECIFICALLY, WE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THAT THE SAFETY ON THE STREETS SPECIFICALLY, UM, WITH UH, THE BUS STOPS IS THERE AND UH, JUST WHAT, WHAT THE TRAFFIC WOULD BRING TO THE CHILDREN WHO ARE COMMUTING TO THE POOL OR THE PARK.
UH, WE THINK THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE.
UH, WE HAVE CHILDREN THAT UH, WILL LIKELY BE ATTENDING AKINS ALSO IN THE FALL AND WITH, WITH THE SCHOOL ALREADY FROZEN AND OVER CAPACITY.
UH, WE KNOW THAT WITH THE APARTMENT COMPLEX AND DEVELOPMENT TO THE EAST OF THAT HIGH SCHOOL THAT'S GOING TO ADD ADDITIONAL STRAIN ON THOSE RESOURCES AT THE SCHOOL AND THEN ADDING ANOTHER 750 UNITS AS PROPOSED, UM, WOULD JUST REALLY ANY FUEL TO THE FIRE.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS A STRONG CONSIDERATION SO THAT THE SCHOOL CAN ADEQUATELY ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS WHO ARE GOING TO BE GOING THERE.
UM, AND THEN LASTLY, I WANT TO TOUCH BACK ON THE POINT THAT I THINK MIGHT COME INTO WAS MAKING IT ABOUT THE TRAFFIC GOING THROUGH THE MEADOWS DEVIL CREEK.
UH, THEY, THEY ARE RIGHTFULLY PROTECTIVE OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THEY DON'T WANT CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC.
UH, JUST LIKE WE DON'T, JUST LIKE REALLY ANY COMMUNITY WOULDN'T WANT THAT TRAFFIC COMING THROUGH.
UM, HAVING THE ROAD CUT THROUGH DOESN'T SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF TRAFFIC.
IT JUST, IT JUST MOVES THE PROBLEM.
UH, THAT THE REAL PROBLEM IS, IS FIRST AND 16, 26
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AND GETTING A LONG VIEW, SUBSTANTIAL DESIGN AND PLAN FOR THE TRAFFIC PATTERNS THERE TO, TO SUSTAIN THE TRAFFIC THAT'S HERE, THE TRAFFIC THAT'S GOING TO BE HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE AND TRAFFIC IN, IN LONGTERM FUTURE.AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE BEST FOR, UH, FOR ALL OF US IN, IN THIS AREA.
AND WE NEED NEEDED LOOK AT THAT AND REALLY MAKE THE PLANS TOWARDS THAT VIEW.
OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS GOING TO TAKE THE PRESSURE OFF OF THE MEADOWS AT DOUBLE CREEK, BUT PEOPLE GOING NORTH ON THE FIRST FROM 1626 ARE GOING WEST ON 1626.
THEY'RE GOING TO ZIP THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD TO LITTLE CARE OTHER THAN THEY SAY IT A COUPLE OF MINUTES AT THE LIGHT.
UH, SO LET'S LOOK AT A LONGER TERM PLAN THAT'S NOT GOING TO FRACTURE A COMMUNITY, A VERY WELL ESTABLISHED, TIGHT KNIT SPECIAL COMMUNITY.
AND LET'S LOOK AT A REAL, THAT WOULD REALLY HELP ALL OF US AND NOT JUST GET THIS ONE DEVELOPMENT APPROVED AND WE ALL HIGH FIVE AND GO HOME.
BUT I DO WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR YOUR TIME.
UM, I'M GONNA HAND OVER TO MY WIFE NOW FOR THE, FOR HER TERM.
HI, THIS IS LAURA RILEY AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR STAYING ON SO LONG.
THANK YOU TO THE COMMISSION AND THANK YOU TO MY NEIGHBORS FOR THE EXCELLENT POINTS THAT YOU'VE MADE.
UM, SO JUST REITERATING THAT FOR THE, FOR THE REASONS THAT HAVE BEEN MENTIONED, THAT I AM ALSO IN OPPOSITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND OF CUTTING THROUGH WAYNE RIDDLE.
AND THEN NEXT, UH, WESLEY STACK AND AFTER WESLEY STACK IS DR SARAH MANIR AND THEN SHANNON STECK AND DANIELLE KIRKBY AND THEN RHONDA KELLY.
SO AS WESLEY STICK THERE, WESLEY STACK, IF NOT, UM, DR SARAH MANIR DOCTORS.
AND YOU'LL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU AROUND FOR SO LONG TO LISTEN TO US.
I KNOW IT WAS THE ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION.
YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO TREAD THAT LINE BETWEEN GROWTH IN AUSTIN AND MAKING AREAS EQUITABLE TO EVERYBODY.
AND I THINK WHAT WE TRIED TO DO THIS EVENING AND TO SIT THERE SAY THIS PLAN IS NOT EQUITABLE TO US.
IT IS NOT EQUITABLE TO STANLEY ANA.
IT IS NOT EQUITABLE TO AIKEN SCHOOL.
AND IT CERTAINLY IS NOT EQUITABLE TO EVERYBODY ON ONION CREEK DOWN BELOW US.
WE HAVE GRAVE CONCERNS, CONCERNS ABOUT FLOODING AS EVERYBODY IN AUSTIN DOES.
WE HAVE CONCERNS THAT THE SCHOOLS ARE OVERCROWDED.
I CAN'T IMAGINE A REALTOR SHOWING THE NEWS SAYING, OH, BY THE WAY, THERE'S NO SCHOOLS FOR YOUR KIDS, BUT YOU WANT LIVE HERE.
UM, I HAVE A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT DROUGHT.
WHAT HAPPENS IN DROUGHT? AND YOU KNOW, EVERY SUMMER WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE VERY CAREFUL AND CONSERVE WATER, BUT 750 FAMILIES ARE GOING TO USE SO MUCH MORE WATER IN THEIR DAILY LIFE THAT IT WON'T MATTER IF I WASH MY CAR EVERY DAY.
SO I THINK WHAT WE'RE ASKING IS THAT ABSOLUTELY WAYNE LITTLE LOOP NOT BE EXTENDED THAT WILL DESTROY THIS COMMUNITY AND PROBABLY END UP WITH PEOPLE BEING HURT AND THAT DAY WHATEVER IS DEVELOPED OVER THERE BE MORE LIKE SINGLE FAMILY DWELLINGS SIMILAR TO OURS PERHAPS.
YOU KNOW, WE PAY A LOT OF PROPERTY TAXES HERE A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN PEOPLE RUNNING AN APARTMENT ARE GOING TO BE PAYING.
AND WHAT WE WILL SEE IS THAT OUR LIFE IS DEGRADED FOR A DEVELOPER TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THIS PROJECT, GET HIS MONEY AND MOVE ON.
THAT IS NOT THE WAY TO A COMMUNITY.
I REALLY BELIEVE THAT AS A PSYCHOLOGIST AND WHO WORKS WITH PEOPLE AND THE SPACES AROUND THEM, IT IS EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT THAT WE BE ABLE TO HAVE COMMUNITIES WITH ACCESS TO THE OUTSIDE AND SAFETY.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
AND THEN WE HAVE SHANNON STECK, DANIELLE KIRKBY AND RHONDA KELLY.
ARE YOU THERE? AND IF NOT, I'LL GO TO DANIELLE.
UM, OR IS THAT THE UM, AND HI.
AND YOU'LL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES AND THEN AFTER, AND I'LL JUST SAY AFTER YOU AS RHONDA KELLY AND THEN AFTER THAT I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH THE PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN DROPPED FROM UH, OR NOT KNOWN HOW TO BEEN DROPPED FROM THE PHONE, UM, THING.
SO YEAH, YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
GOOD EVENING NEIGHBORS AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
UM, AS MENTIONED, MY NAME IS DANIELLE KIRKBY.
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UM, I LIVE ON COLONEL WIND LOOP IN THE KNOWLES WITH MY HUSBAND.UM, WE BOUGHT OUR HOME IN JANUARY OF 2015.
UM, WE FELL IN LOVE WITH THE NOLS BECAUSE OF THE SAFETY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY THAT IT HAS.
UM, I AM OPPOSED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LARGE APARTMENT COMPLEX AND ESPECIALLY THE OPENING OF WAYNE RIDELL LOOP TO SOUTH FIRST.
UM, THIS PROJECT WILL CAUSE AN EXTREME INFLUX IN TRAFFIC TO UM, TO THIS ROAD AND WILL SEVERELY TEAMS THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL OF OUR, FOR OUR ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, ESPECIALLY IN ME AND MY HUSBAND AND OUR FELLOW NEIGHBORS THAT CURRENTLY BACK UP QUEEN RIDDLE.
UM, AS MANY HAVE MENTIONED, WE'VE BUILT A BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL COMMUNITY HERE IN THE KNOWLES AND WITH THIS ROAD BEING OPENED UP, WE WILL BECOME A NEIGHBORHOOD DIVIDED.
UM, WE WILL HAVE PEOPLE CUTTING THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WILL NOT HAVE ANY CONCERN FOR THEN.
WE'LL SIMPLY BE A CONVENIENCE COPIER FOR THAT.
IF YOU GUYS COULD MUTE THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
UM, THERE WILL BE AN INCREASE IN OVERALL CONGESTION AND AN INCREASED CONCERN FOR SAFETY, A HIGHER RISK OF A CRIME RATE AND ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION.
I AGREE WITH ALL OF MY NEIGHBORS THAT HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED THEIR CONCERNS AND I ASK THAT YOU PUT YOURSELF IN OUR SHOES, PLEASE VOTE AGAINST THESE PROCEEDS, THESE PROPOSED CHANGES THAT ARE GOING TO NEGATIVELY IMPACT EACH OF OUR LIVES.
I RECOMMEND REZONING B TO A SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AND NOT THE ABSURD 750 APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED.
I ESPECIALLY ASK THAT YOU HELP US KEEP WAYNE RIDELL CLOSE TO OUR NOSE NEIGHBORHOOD.
THIS WILL HELP PRESERVE OUR COMMUNITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE OVERALL SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES WILL BE PROTECTED WHILE KEEPING CRIME LOW.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME THIS EVENING.
AND THEN RHONDA, KELLY, RHONDA, KELLY, ARE YOU STILL THERE? OKAY, THEN I'M GOING TO CIRCLE THROUGH PEOPLE AND THEN I KNOW THAT, UM, SMITTY HAS ASKED TO BE THE LAST SPEAKER.
SO THE PEOPLE THAT I'VE MISSED, UH, JUDITH GONZALES, ERIC AND MASON, MATT WOODS, MARIANNE, MARIANNE LAGUNA, BRIAN BECHTLE.
KRISTEN WOULDN'T SAY GIRL MARLA CAREER AND I'M BUTCHERING THAT HILARIO CAREER.
AND UH, KATHY PIER, PETRARCHA, STEPHEN MENDOZA, GEORGE GHERKIN, LOREENA, ACOSTA.
ANY OF YOU PEOPLE ARE STILL ON? JUST SPEAK UP AND WE'LL GIVE YOU YOUR THREE MINUTES.
JOSH SIMON'S MON MONA KNUTSON AND MAKE THE CHICKEN OKAY.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? THIS IS MONA.
AND YOU'LL HAVE UP WITH, UH, YOU'LL HAVE UP TO THREE MINUTES.
UM, SO I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THE COMMISSION ALLOWING, UM, TO, YOU KNOW, LISTENING TO ALL OF ALL OF US HERE AND I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH ALL OF MY NEIGHBORS.
I HAVE LIVED IN THE NOLS FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS WITH MY HUSBAND AND WE'VE RAISED OUR THREE KIDS HERE.
UM, SO OBVIOUSLY WE VERY MUCH LOVE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND I, UM, BELIEVED THAT ALL OF MY NEIGHBORS THAT MADE SOME REALLY GOOD POINTS.
UM, I COMPLETELY AM OPPOSED TO THE APARTMENT DEVELOPMENT AND THE EXTENSION OF WAYNE RIDDLE.
UM, I THINK IT WOULD COMPLETELY CHANGE THE DYNAMIC, UM, OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
YOU KNOW, WE LOVE THIS COMMUNITY SO MUCH.
AND MIKE, THERE'S A LOT OF RUNNERS.
THERE'S A LOT OF BIKERS IN THE SUMMERTIME.
IT'S FULL OF KIDS GOING TO THE POOL.
UM, MY KIDS NOW RIDE THEIR BIKES, THEY GO RUNNING, THEY GO WALKING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND I COMPLETELY FEEL SAFE.
I THINK IF THIS WERE TO HAPPEN, THAT WOULD CHANGE ALL OF THAT.
AND I WOULD BE COMPLETELY CONCERNED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN JUST WANDERING AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIKE THEY DO TODAY.
SO, UM, THAT'S BASICALLY THE ONLY THING THAT I, I WANTED TO ADD, BUT, UM, THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY.
SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR LISTENING TO US AND I REALLY DO HOPE THAT YOU TAKE THIS INTO SERIOUS CONSIDERATION.
AND MAY IMAGE VIDEO CHECON LISA WILLIAMS, MATT FOOD CHECK.
MMM, WESLEY STACK, SHANNON STACK AND RHONDA KELLY.
UM, IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE, UM, THAT I'VE MISSED WHO WOULD BE ON THE LINE AND IF NOT, WE'RE GOING TO OUR FINAL SPEAKER, PUBLIC SPEAKER, TOM SMITTY SMITH.
SO MR. SMITH, YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME AND PATIENCE TONIGHT.
ANDREW, COULD YOU BRING UP THE POWERPOINT FORMAT FOR US PLEASE? I'M HERE TONIGHT TO TRY AND WRAP UP AND TO SAY
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THAT THERE ARE THREE BIG REASONS THAT WE'RE OPPOSED TO THIS.FIRST, YOU HEARD A LOT ABOUT THE FEAR THAT PEOPLE HAVE ABOUT SHORT-CUTTING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
THE ANALYSIS WE'VE DONE INDICATES THAT THERE ARE ABOUT 715 CARS A DAY OR ONE OR BE 15 SECONDS.
IT WOULD BE COMING THROUGH THE KNOWLES DURING THE FOUR RUSH HOUR, DAY TIMES A DAY.
SO THE RED STEPH SAYS IT'S FROM THE UH, TEXAS TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE BASICALLY SAYING DIVERTED MOTORISTS ARE MORE LIKELY WRECK AND GHOST TASKED TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE'RE ALSO VERY CONCERNED ABOUT FLOODING AND THE IMPACT DOWNSTREAM ON ONION CREEK TODAY.
THE PLAN DOES NOT INCLUDE THE EXPECTED FLOODING DUE TO ALL THE ADDITIONAL APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND WE PROMISE THOSE WILL WORK ALL THAT THAT RETENTION STUFF WILL WORK BUT IT SELDOM DOES AND WE'RE SEEING BIGGER AND BIGGER FLOODS ALL THE TIME BUT IT ISN'T LOOKING AT CLIMATE CHANGE AND WE WOULD ASK YOU TO CONSIDER THAT IN THIS PERMIT AND IN ALL FUTURE SLIDE.
WE THINK THERE'S SOME SOLUTIONS TO THIS.
WE WOULD SUGGEST IT ON THIS PARTICULAR PROBLEM THAT THERE ARE WAYS YOU COULD DO.
YOU COULD RE REDUCE THE ZONING TO MF TWO OR THREE AND REDUCE THE DENSITY BELOW 50% IMPERVIOUS COVER IS PERVIOUS PAVERS ARE BRICKS WITH HOLES AND COLLECT THE RAINFALL FROM THE ROOF, BUILD MORE SWALES AND BERMS TO RE TO RETARD THE RUNOFF AND ACCOUNT FOR INCREASED FLOODING FROM CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE PLANT.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE PROBLEM OF CUT THROUGHS, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS YOU CAN DO.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE STATUTE OR THE CODE SAYS IS THAT THE CITY HAS TO EXTEND THIS ON LESS THE COMMISSION THAT YOU DETERMINED THAT THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND THE REQUIREMENTS OF TRAFFIC CIRCULATE OR OTHER CONSIDERATIONS MAKE IT DESIRABLE AND APART FROM THE ALIGNMENT OR THE CONNECTION, THAT'S AN OPTION.
AN ACTION YOU CAN TAKE TONIGHT IS TO SAY WE ALL THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA.
THERE'S A SECOND OPTION AND THAT'S TO ASK THE DEVELOPER TO EXCLUDE THE 1.6 ACRE PORTION OF THE PROPERTY AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE WAYNE RODALE ESTATE FROM THE APPLICATION.
IT'S THE OLD HOME PLACE AND THAT IS A SEPARATE PIECE OF PROPERTY.
BUT IF YOU EXCLUDE THAT WOULD KEEP THE INTERCONNECTION FROM OCCURRING BECAUSE IT WOULD REMAIN ZONED AT THE EXISTING LEVEL.
THAT'S A SOLUTION WE CAN ALL LIVE WITH.
IT ENABLES THEM TO BUILD WHAT THEY WANT TO AT BIG DENSITIES AND WITH APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS IN PLACE.
THAT WOULD BE A GOOD DEAL FOR ALL OF US.
THE PICTURE ON THE LEFT SHOWS WHAT IS CURRENTLY PROPOSED.
THE PICTURE IN THE RIGHT SHOWS THAT IN THE CENTER SHOWS THE PROPOSED CUT OUT PICTURE ON THE LEFT ON THE FARM.
SORRY, I GOT THAT BACKWARDS PICTURE ON THE FAR RIGHT HAS GOT THE GREEN THING IN THE MIDDLE IS THE UH, WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IF THAT WERE REMOVED.
THE DEVELOPER HAS SAID SO ON THAT AND SO THEY, WE THINK THIS IS A DEAL THAT COULD BE DONE, BUT YOUR DECISION ON THE TOP THING WOULD ENABLE THAT TO NOT THE INTERCONNECTION NOT TO OCCUR.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE TO THIS COMMUNITY AND THE LONG HOURS YOU SPEND HEARING FROM PEOPLE LIKE US AND WE'RE MORE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
AND THAT IS IT WITH THE PUBLIC HEARING.
AND, UM, DO YOU, WHAT WOULD THE COMMISSION MEMBERS LIKE TO DO? TAKE A SHORT BREAK OR WHAT, WHAT'S THE ALL I SEE ZOMBIE FACES.
I SAY WE, WE JUST, WE KEEP MOVING.
IT'S ALREADY CLOSE TO 10 O'CLOCK, YOU KNOW, I AGREE.
YEAH, I KNOW, I COMPLETELY AGREE.
AND THEN I WILL ACTUALLY ASK VICE CHAIR DUNCAN TO, UM, TO JUST START SO I CAN TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK AND DO A LITTLE BIT OF PARENTING TOO.
AND, UM, AND I WILL, AND I PROMISE I'M NOT LEAVING YOU AND, UM, IT'S GOING TO BE FIVE MINUTES IF YOU JUST WANT TO START WITH, UM, UH, QUESTIONS AND, UM, OKAY.
AND I THINK A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING IS IN ORDER AND I WILL BE BACK, I PROMISE.
IS THERE A STAFF PRESENTATION ON THIS? WHERE DOES THAT HAPPEN? AND WHEN DO YOU, WHEN DO YOU
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CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING? WHERE I MOVED TO CLOSE THE HEARING.WE'VE HAD A MOTION PUBLIC HEARING.
UM, NO, BUT HE'S REBUTTAL AND I WITHDRAW THE MOTION.
AND I'M SO APPLICANT YOU ARE ENTITLED TO A REBUTTAL AND I AM, I DESPERATELY HAVE TO HAND OFF TO VICE-CHAIR DUNKIN, BUT I CAN, I CAN LISTEN TO IT.
MADAM CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR, THIS IS DAVID HARTMAN.
IF ANDREW, IF FOLKS COULD BRING UP SLIDE 23 OF THE APPLICANT'S PRESENTATION, I'LL PROCEED AND START BY SAYING THAT DESPITE ALL THE TESTIMONY IS NOT, I DO WANT TO THANK, UM, POINT OUT THAT, UH, COLLABORATE.
THE APPROACH AND DISCUSSIONS WITH THE NOS HOA HAS BEEN A COLLABORATIVE ONE AND I'M GRATEFUL TO THEM FOR, UH, THE ISSUES THAT WE'VE ADDRESSED THAT THEY'VE RAISED.
BRINGING UP VOLUNTARY TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES, UH, SIDEWALKS, PROVIDING SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS, FENCING, GATING ALONG THE PRIVATE GREEN BELT, SECURITY ALONG THE RECREATIONAL TRAILS HAVE ALL MADE THE PROJECT BETTER AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD ADVOCATES FOR THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, I WOULD SAY THAT FROM A MENTION WAS MADE ABOUT DELAY OF THIS, UH, ZONING CASE FROM ZAP.
AND I WOULD SAY THAT WE WERE SUBMITTED IT IN SEPTEMBER OF 2019.
WE WERE RAISED TO GO MARCH 3RD AND THEN, UM, AGREED TO A ONE MONTH POSTPONEMENT.
WE'VE USED THE TIME THAT'S RESULTED, UH, WISELY AND HAD A COUPLE OF MEETINGS.
WE HAD OVER A DOZEN MEETINGS ALL TOGETHER FROM A DENSITY STANDPOINT.
I WOULD SAY, AGAIN REFER TO THE SLIDE THAT I SHOWED YOU THAT OF THE ADJACENT 10 PROJECTS THAT WERE RIGHT IN LINE WITH THE, WITH THE ADJACENT PROJECTS.
UM, IN THAT THREE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS IS BASICALLY CALLED MEET MEDIUM DENSITY.
AND OUR PROPOSAL ALLOWS US TO COLLECT HER DEVELOPMENT AND PRESERVE MORE HERITAGE TREES.
I WOULD REMIND EVERYONE THAT COMPATIBILITY IS GOING TO BE, UH, UH, IN THE CODE IS GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTED.
AND BASICALLY THERE'S A NO BILL 25 FEET.
THERE'S NO PARKING LOT, THERE'S NO PARK LANES.
UM, DRIVEWAY, EXCUSE ME, AND THE FIRST THREE STORIES AT, AT AS LONG AS 70 FEET FROM THE SOUTH AND 50 FEET FROM THE WEST.
AND THEN, UH, I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF SITE PLAN ISSUES, QUESTIONS I WOULD REFER FOLKS TO SOME OF THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM STAFF ON, UH, VARIOUS TOPICS THAT HAD TO DO AS SITE PLANS.
AGAIN, WE'RE AT THE ZONING STAGE FOR EXAMPLE, DARK SKIES HAS BEEN MENTIONED AND THERE'S A LOT IN THE BACKUP AND WHEN IT COMES TO SITE PLAN, THERE'S A PROVISION IN THE CODE THAT'LL KICK IN AND UH, UH, REQUIRE, UH, COMPLIANCE WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S DARK SKIES PROPOSAL.
AND, UM, THERE WAS AGAIN, DISCUSSION ABOUT, UH, CARVING OUT THE HOMESTEAD.
AND AS MY SLIDE MENTIONED, THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK OR I KNOW THE SUBDIVISION CODE REQUIRES CONNECTING UNLESS THE ZAP RECOMMENDS, UM, RECOMMENDS THAT.
AND I THINK IT'S BASICALLY THE QUESTION I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO EXPLORE A STAFF AND I UNDERSTAND FROM PREVIOUS COMMENTS THERE ON THE LINE AND UM, THAT'S THE END OF MY PRESENTATION.
IS THERE ANYTHING BEFORE WE POST THE PUBLIC HEARING AND HAVE DISCUSSION? ALRIGHT, I HEAR A MOTION MOVED BY MR MCCAIN.
SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DECLARES ALL IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND I'M BACK AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S UNANIMOUS TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND I'M HAPPY.
I GOT MY, ANOTHER GLASS OF WATER.
SO WHERE TO BEGIN ON THIS AND UM, QUESTIONS THAT COMMISSIONERS MAY HAVE FOR PEOPLE OR OBSERVATIONS.
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I CAN START.UM, SO I, I'VE KIND OF BEEN JUST TAKING A TALLY AND SEEING, YOU KNOW, THE ISSUES PRESENTED AS WELL AS SOME OF THE BENEFITS THAT I THOUGHT THAT THE DEVELOPMENT IS BRINGING TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND YOU KNOW, NOTING THAT, YOU KNOW, I HEARD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY AND CHILDREN RIDING BICYCLES.
AND SO I THINK THAT AN IMPROVED, UM, CROSS SECTION FROM WHAT, UM, IS CURRENTLY IN THE DEVELOPMENT.
WE CAN, I THINK IT CAN BE BETTER.
I THINK A NARROWER, UM, CROSS SECTION.
SO FROM CURB TO CURB SOMETHING TODAY, IT'S UH, WHAT THEY HAVE PROPOSED HAS THE BIKE LANE AND A BUFFER IN THE STREET.
AND I THINK A BETTER, UM, AN IMPROVEMENT TO THAT WOULD BE MOVING THAT BIKE FACILITY OFF OF THE STREET AND HAVING IT BE BEHIND THE CURB.
AND THAT WAY IT'S, AND IT'S CALLED A SHARED USE PATH, RIGHT? SO THOSE PATHS WOULD BE BASICALLY WIDE SIDEWALKS THAT ARE BEHIND THE CURB AND SO YOU HAVE LESS, UM, IMPERVIOUS SURFACE IN THE ROADWAY AND THE, THE SHARED USE PATHS COULD BE PERVIOUS.
SO GETTING AT KIND OF THAT SAFETY CONCERN AND THEN NARROWING THE ROAD SO THAT UM, IDEALLY PEOPLE WOULD DRIVE SLOWER.
SO, UM, THE WIDTH OF THE ROADWAY COULD BE AS NARROW AS 20 TO 23 FEET AND YOU'D HAVE THOSE WIDE SIDEWALKS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE CURB, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
THAT'S JUST SOMETHING I WAS THINKING ABOUT.
AND UM, I BRIEFLY SPOKE, I WAS TEXTING WITH DAVID AND AMBER MITCHELL FROM THE CITY AND A COUPLE OTHER FOLKS IN THERE SEEMS TO BE KIND OF A, AN AGREEMENT THAT THAT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL.
BUT I'M NOT SURE HOW THE NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD REACT TO THAT.
I JUST, I WAS TRYING TO GET AT A WAY TO DISCOURAGE THE CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC AND THE SPEEDING.
AND SO THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT I THOUGHT WOULD BE A BENEFIT.
COMMISSIONER DANCLER AND THEN COMMISSIONER BRAY.
COMMISSIONER DANCLER, YOU'RE STILL ON MUTE.
AND YOU'RE STILL ON MUTE THERE.
I AM, UM, KIND OF, UM, WAS FORTUNATE, LIKE NOT THERE LIKE TO GET A COPYING OF THE TIA SUMMARY.
SO I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE APPLICANT.
UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU EXPLORED TWO SCENARIOS A AND A, B AND THAT YOU THOUGHT BETWEEN ALTERNATIVE WOULD ACTUALLY IMPROVE CONNECTIVITY AND ESSENTIALLY HAD THE CONNECTION FROM WADE, UH, WAYNE WYDELL TO SOUTH FIRST THAT ALSO HAD A SOUTHERN DRIVEWAY THAT ALIGNED WITH, UH, BACON'S DRIVEWAY AND YOU THOUGHT THAT THAT, UH, WOULD, UH, BENEFIT THE PROJECT CONNECTIVITY MORE AND REDUCE THE RELIANCE ON, UM, THE CUT.
UH, CAN YOU EXPAND ON THAT? WHY WAS THE PROJECT ENDED UP WITH, IS THAT MORE FROM, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU EXPAND ON IT? IS THIS MORE THE CITY PUSHING FOR THE FIRST ALTERNATIVE VERSUS YOURS? I MEAN, YOU ARE TELLING THE READER IN HERE THAT THE B PLAN IS MUCH BETTER FOR CONNECTIVITY.
UM, BUT WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED IS THE FIRST PROPOSAL.
YEAH, I'M HAPPY TO EXPAND ON THAT.
AND JUST SLIGHT CORRECTION AND APOLOGIES IF IT WASN'T CLEAR WITHIN THE TIA, BUT THE TWO ACCESS SCENARIOS THAT YOU'RE REFERENCING, AN A AND B ONLY REFER TO THE DRIVEWAY CONNECTIONS TO SOUTH FIRST STREET SCENARIOS.
BOTH SCENARIOS INCLUDED ANALYSIS OF THREE DRIVEWAYS ON SOUTH FIRST STREET, THE MIDDLE OF WHICH WOULD BE THE RIDELL LOOP EXTENSION.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO WAS THAT ONE OF THE SCENARIOS, UH, ALLOWED FOR LEFT TURNS INTO AND OUT OF DRIVEWAYS ALONG RIDELL LOOP AND ONE OF THEM DID NOT.
AND THE ONE THAT DID, UH, PUT LESS PRESSURE ON RIDELL LOOP AND LESS INCENTIVE FOR THE PROJECT TRAFFIC TO BE ON THAT STREET.
SO THAT IS WHY WE WERE GIVEN THE SIZE OF THE MEDIAN AND THE EXISTING ROOM FOR LEFT TURN LANES ALONG, UH, SOUTH FIRST STREET.
WE WERE ADVOCATING FOR THE GREATER ACCESS TO AND FROM SOUTH FIRST STREET JUST TO KIND OF RESPOND TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS ABOUT INCENTIVIZING TRAFFIC TO BE ON RIDELL LOOP.
UM, BUT IT DIDN'T REALLY MATERIALLY AFFECT THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC.
UH, NON-PROJECT TRAFFIC ON THE RIDELL LOOP EXTENSION.
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OKAY.AND ONE MORE QUESTION AND THEN I'LL, I'LL PASS.
UM, HOW LIKELY IS IT THAT A, UH, A LAW WAS SOME OF YOUR ANALYSIS SHOWING THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING SOUTH ON WADDELL LOOP TURNING RIGHT ON FM SIX, 13, 26 AND THEN LOOPING AROUND SO THEY COULD GO NORTH ON, UM, SOUTH FIRST.
ARE THEY NOT TRIED TAKING THE LEFT TURNS ONTO SOUTH FIRST FROM PRIMROSE OR IS THERE JUST NO GAP AND TRAFFIC? OKAY.
SO WHAT WE FOUND WAS THAT THERE WAS MOSTLY, UH, THE, THE PRIMROSE, UH, LOOP TRAFFIC VOLUMES THAT WE ANALYZED SHOWED ABOUT THEY WERE ABOUT 5% HIGHER THAN WE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED BASED ON THE NUMBER OF HOMES IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND SO WE ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT ROUGHLY 5% OF THE TRAFFIC, UH, WAS CUT THROUGH.
BUT THAT'S THE ESTIMATE AS WE COULD DO.
AND I DO WANT TO ALSO, UH, CAVEAT THAT, BUT THAT WAS BASED ON ONE DAY OF TRAFFIC DATA.
SO THERE'S CERTAINLY SOME VARIABILITY THERE, BUT IT WASN'T, UM, IT WASN'T SO OUT OF LINE THAT WE THOUGHT THAT IT WAS SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE DOING, BUT IT CERTAINLY WAS, UM, THERE'S A CASE TO BE MADE THAT IT IS OCCURRING RIGHT NOW.
THEN COMMISSIONER BRAY, THERE'S A BUTTON.
UH, SO I, UH, LIKE THERE'S A PERMISSION RAMIREZ HAD TO SAY, AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS IN TERMS OF WHEN I WAS LOOKING AT THE STREET AS IT EXISTS NOW, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S A STREET WITH LIKE NO TRAFFIC LANES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
AND THAT KIND OF ENCOURAGED US TO SPEEDING AND JUST TALK ABOUT THE EXISTING STREET.
AND I THINK CHRISTINA MARIA SAYS A TRICK ON THE DEVELOPMENT.
UH, BUT, AND I DEFINITELY THINK THAT THE STOP SIGNS ADDING STOP SIGNS WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL, UM, TO CUT AND CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC.
UH, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH THE FACT THAT IT'S MORE OF A CURVE WITH THE STOP SIGNS.
I DON'T SEE SOMEONE WHEN WE USE IT TO CUT THROUGH ON BUS SELF VERSUS JUST EXTREMELY BACKED UP.
UM, WELL I THINK ONE THING THAT I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN, LIKE WHAT COULD THEY POTENTIALLY PUT IN BIKE LANES ON THE REST OF WADE AND WE TELL A LOOP AS A WAY AND THEN HAVE, YOU KNOW, WAYNE, SO IT'S LIKE NARROW ONE LANE EACH WAY WITH BIKE LANES.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A STAFF QUESTION, IF THEY'RE AVAILABLE.
IS SOMEBODY FROM CITY STAFF HERE TO ANSWER THAT? YEAH.
THIS IS AMBER MITCHELL WITH AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT AND WE THINK THAT BIKE LANES ON THE EXISTING, HE'S LOSING THAT IDEA.
CAN SOMEBODY MUTE PLEASE? YEAH.
AMBER, COULD YOU BEGIN AGAIN AND EVERYBODY ELSE KNEW, INCLUDING ME.
HI, THIS IS AMBER MITCHELL WITH THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
UH, BIKE LANES ALONG THE EXISTING SEGMENT OF WAYNE RIDELL WOULD BE A GOOD TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICE.
UM, WITH THIS PROJECT SPECIFICALLY, THE SITE IS ALREADY AT A ROUGH PROPORTIONALITY LIMIT, SO WE CAN'T REALLY ASK FOR ANY FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
WHAT WE COULD DO IS IF, UM, WHEN THE ROAD IS EXTENDED, IF THERE IS SPEEDING AND THERE'S ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC, OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DIVISION CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT FROM A TRAFFIC CALMING STANDPOINT.
UM, THAT'S A, THAT'S A POTENTIAL OPTION LATER.
I ALSO THINK THAT IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE DEVELOPER WANTED TO COME TO AN AGREEMENT THEMSELVES.
THEY COULD DO THAT, BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT THE CITY COULD REQUEST AT THIS TIME.
COMMISSIONER BRAY, DID THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION OR WHOEVER HAD THAT QUESTION THAT ANSWERED IT.
I ALSO HAD ONE OR TWO OTHER COMMENTS.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS REALLY THINKING ABOUT TOO IS THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU, I DID LIKE THE GOOGLE MAPPING OF, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING ON TO WIN RIDELL THE CONNECTION.
IT'S ALSO HELPING PEOPLE GET INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POLLUTION, I'M, YOU KNOW, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT LIKE THE DISCONNECTION.
UM, I DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND WHY I APPRECIATE ALL THE COMMENTS FROM THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WHY THEY WOULD NOT WANT,
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UH, THE EXTRA TRAFFIC ON THE STREET.BUT I ALSO SEE THIS, AS, YOU KNOW, OUR JOB IS TO, AND WE GET A KIND OF TRAGEDY THAT COMMS EFFECT WHERE NO ONE WANTS TRAFFIC ON THEIR STREETS.
SO WE PUSH ALL THE TRAFFIC ONTO A FEW STREETS.
THEY GET COMPLETELY CLOGGED BECAUSE ALL THE TRAFFIC'S ON THOSE STREETS.
UM, AND SO THAT'S, AND I'M ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE THAT CONNECTION THERE WHERE SOMEONE HAS TO GO LITERALLY AN EXTRA MILE TO GO ALL THE WAY AROUND THROUGH THE INTERSECTION, THE INTERSECTION WHEN THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO, TO GET TO WHEN RIDDLED LOOP, IF THEY'RE, IF THEY'RE COMING, SORRY, JUST BACKTRACK.
THEY'RE COMING SOUTH ON SOUTH FIRST STREET AND THEY'RE TRYING TO GET TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
DUDE, YOU KNOW, IT'D BE A THOUSAND FEET, BUT THEY REALLY HAVE TO GO OVER A MILE TO ACTUALLY GET THERE.
UM, SO I PERSONALLY AM VERY, UH, WOULD NOW WANT TO SEE A CAKE THERE BECAUSE OF THAT.
UM, I'VE DEFINITELY WOULD WANT TO SEE TRAFFIC CALMING.
I DEFINITELY WOULD NOT WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE STREETS SAFE.
UM, AND I THINK I WOULD HOPE THAT BETTER TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES WOULD THINGS UP FOR IN TERMS OF SAFETY.
YOU EXTRA TRAFFIC CUT THROUGH DURING PEAK HOURS.
SO WE NEED A MOTION COMMISSIONERS TO 10 15.
IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND IMPLANT COMMISSIONER KING? UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF EXTENDING THE MEETING UNTIL 10, 15, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS.
THAT LOOKS LIKE AND, AND MISSING.
COMMISSIONER BRAY AND MISS AND COMMISSIONER EVANS ARE OFF THE DIETS, BUT THE REST OF US, INCLUDING ME, EIGHT BOATS.
AND ALUM WHO HAS A QUESTION NEXT TO VICE-CHAIR DUNCAN OR, OR UM, YEAH, I DON'T WANT IT TO BE LAST BUT SOME WAY TO HEAR WHAT MY COLLEAGUES SAID.
I HAVE A BIGGER ISSUE BECAUSE, LET ME JUST START OUT.
I'M TRYING TO KEEP THE BIG PICTURE.
I DON'T WANT TO GET MARRIED AND USE UC BECAUSE QUITE FRANKLY I THINK OUR DECISION NEEDS TO BE BASED MORE ON MORE THAN JUST WE WANT TO PUT A STOP SIGN OR A BIKEWAY.
UH, I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO PAGE ONE ON THE STAFF PRESENTATION.
I THINK THAT THE FIRST THING WE NEED TO LOOK AT ON PROJECTS OF THIS TYPE OF NATURE ARE THE STANDARDS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL HAS GIVEN US.
AND WE BASICALLY, WHEN I SAY THAT IT MEANS, IMAGINE AUSTIN, IT MEANS THE STRATEGIC HOUSING PLAN AND IT MAKES US
AND WHEN I FIRST LOOKED AT THIS PACKAGE, THE BACKUP, WHICH IS NOT TWO PAGES LONG, I WAS CONFUSED IF YOU HAVE A STAFF ESSENTIALLY SAID THAT WHEN TIM, IMAGINE ICELAND JUST OBJECTED, NOT NEED IT IS TALKED ABOUT THE METALS BEING A SENATOR, BUT THEN FURTHER AWAY IT TALKS ABOUT THAT HOUSING THEY GAVE HIM THE STANDARDS.
WE'RE TRYING, BUT THEN IT SAYS THIS IS REALLY NOT CONTRIBUTING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
AND THEN WHEN IT GOT TO MOBILITY AND I LOOKED AT IT, THIS PROJECT AS PROPOSED, I THINK I WOULD CHANGE IT IS MAKING A DRAMATIC IMPACT ON THE ROAD.
IT'S 750 UNITS, UH, FIVE TIMES FIVE TRIPS DAY, WHICH HAS REDUCED THE OPERATIONS IDE BECAUSE OF THE HIGH DENSITY.
THEY'RE CONSUMING IT'S PLACE, BUT A SINGLE FAMILY UNIT WOULD HAVE, BUT IT'S REALLY NOT CONTRIBUTING THEM.
BUT ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE DOING A FEW BUCKS FOR SIDEWALKS AND THE TRAFFIC SIDE, I THINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT MISLEADING BECAUSE SOME FOR MOBILITY PLAN PERSONALITY TESTS, THE EXTENSION OF A RIDELL REALLY DOESN'T COMPLY.
THAT IS, THERE'S AN INTERNAL STREET WHICH IS GENERALLY REQUIRED BY THE DEVELOPERS TO PROVIDE OUR ROUGH PROPORTIONALITY IS TALKING ABOUT EXTERNAL, THE IMPACT OF THIS PROJECT ON EXTERNAL STREET SYSTEM, YOUR ARTERIALS.
THAT'S WHAT WE, SOMETIMES WE'LL GET TO IT.
AND THAT WAS PRETTY, IT IMPACT ME IS TO PAY FOR, SO BILLY, THAT MILLION DOLLARS IS SORT OF A, IT'S REALLY NOT THERE.
SO WHEN I GO THROUGH ALL THIS, I, AND THEN I LOOKED BACK AND I UNDERSTAND THE NEIGHBORHOODS BEING UPSET ABOUT THE EXTENSION OF RIDELL.
I LOOKED AT THE, WHICH IS IN OUR BACKUP.
IF YOU LOOK AT IT, THE ORIGINAL PLAN HAD IT THERE, BUT IT HAD, IT WAS SINGLE FAMILY HOME.
UH,
THEY DON'T WANT IT TO GO THROUGH THIS.
SO I THINK THAT, I THINK MOST OF US WOULD, NO, WE'RE NOT ARGUING THAT IT SHOULD BE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, BUT IT'S THE IMPACT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SO MANY OF THEM.
AND I SEE WHAT OTHER TYPES OF MULTIFAMILY, CAUSE HE'S GOING BACK THROUGH OUR HOUSING STUDY AS IT TALKS ABOUT A VARIETY.
IT TALKS ABOUT SOME CREDIBILITY
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IS THERE, I KNOW APARTMENT BUILDINGS OVER THREE STORIES IN THAT AREA, EVEN THOUGH THE PROJECTS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ASIANS HIGH SCHOOL, UH, BETWEEN THE OUT OF THE SHOPPING AREA ARE ULTIMATELY STORIES AND THE FLOOR OF THE, WHICH IS ACROSS THE STREET STORY.I THINK WE REALLY JUST TALKING ABOUT IMPACT AND I THINK THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS RIGHT SUGGESTING THAT, UH, WE NEED TO REDUCE THAT SO THAT WE CAN PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT.
I, I WAS ALSO A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED AND MAYBE UNDERSTOOD, APOLOGIZE ABOUT IT, BUT GOING THROUGH THE SOLE BLAME ARE USUALLY VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT OUR ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION AND OUR MENTAL STAFF HAS TO SAY.
THEY DON'T SEEM TO HAVE BEEN ASKED THIS.
I SEE ANY RECORD AND FOR A PROJECT THAT IS ON ONE OF OUR MORE VULNERABLE CREEKS AND AS WAS POINTED OUT IN THE TESTIMONY, UH, THAT A SLAUGHTER, A BURDEN, THIS WAS ONION YOU SEE DOWN THE ROAD ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BYTES, 35.
UH, I THINK THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE DISCUSSION ON THAT.
UH, SO A LOT OF BIGGER THINGS.
I REALLY, I'M NOT READY TO START SAYING IT.
THE LOCATION OF THE SIDEWALK OR THE LOCATION OF A STOP SIGN IS FROM THE START OF THIS.
I THINK THERE'S A BIGGER ISSUE.
SO ANYHOW, I'LL STOP RIGHT NOW.
I PROBABLY SHOULD MORE THAN I PLANNED, BUT I AM INTERESTED IN WHAT MY COMMISSION COMMISSIONERS HAVE TO SAY, BUT I TAKE IT'S TIME.
I THINK IT'S TRYING TO PUT TOO MUCH.
THAT'S TOO MUCH INTO A SMALL PACKAGE HERE.
I THINK THE CASE WHERE MAYBE THE APPLICANTS, BUT REALLY BEFORE GOOD, WE ALL DON'T REALLY LOOK AT THAT.
NO, BUT I DO THINK THAT WE NEED TO COME UP WITH SOME TYPE OF APPROVAL.
I THINK THE ONE OR THE OTHER, WELL, THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAID MAYBE RATCHET IT DOWN TO HIM.
UH, MS, UH, I TELL YOU WHAT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO GO.
I MEAN, NOBODY SAID ANYTHING ABOUT MISSING MEN.
WE TALKED ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME, BUT THIS WAS AN IDEAL SITE FROM THIS MIDDLE ACROSS THE STREET.
SO IT'S 37 ACRES FOR MISSING MIDDLE HOUSING.
IT COULD BE PRIMARILY A FAMILY FRIENDLY AND MORE COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND REALLY COME CLOSER TO MEETING THAT BALANCE.
I DIDN'T SEE A LOT OF HOUSING IN THIS ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD.
IT'S EITHER A SINGLE FAMILY PATCH OR THREE STORY APART.
THEN, UM, I SEE COMMISSIONER, UH, GARY HAS HER HAND UP.
SO COMMISSIONER GIVE ME AND THEN COMMISSIONER KING.
SO AGAIN, WE'LL DISCLOSE YOU'RE MY KIDS I'M OPERATING FROM GRADUATED FROM AKINS HIGH SCHOOL AND BEST IN TRAFFIC THIS HORRIBLE.
IT QUICKLY GOT OVERCROWDED AND THEN NO, IT'S MUCH WORSE NOW.
UM, MY MAJOR CONCERN IS GOING TO BE THAT ADOLESCENTS, SOME OF THEM, EITHER THEY'RE NOT YET OLD ENOUGH TO DRIVE, SO BEING DROPPED OFF BY PARENTS ARE PICKED UP BY PARENTS OF SOMEBODY ELSE.
UM, OR THEY'RE JUST NOW STARTING TO DRIVE AND UM, BACK THEN, SO YEAH, MY YOUNGEST GRADUATED IN 2012 IN BACK THEN.
BEFORE THAT, THERE WERE SOME KIDDOS THAT WERE DRIVING VERY FAST AND STUFF.
UM, I KNOW IN OUR, FROM OUR COMMUNITY, WE DID A LETTER OF CONCERN TO A CONCISE SCHOOL BACK INTO AISD THIS SCHOOL OR, UM, ALERTING THEM TO THE FACT THAT SOME FITS THAT FIT, BUT I ARE SENDING HER TO INCIDENTS.
UH, LUCKILY FROM MY UNDERSTANDING THERE, NEITHER OF THEM RESULTING IN MAYBE TALITY, UH, I DON'T BELIEVE THEY'LL STEP IN ON STUFF FIRST.
BUT AGAIN, WE'RE ABOUT STUDENTS.
UH, WE NEEDED TO WATCH FOR THEIR WELFARE.
UM, AND NOT JUST, I'M VERY NERVOUS ABOUT HAVING THAT MUCH, UM, PUT INTO AN AREA THAT IS SO CALLED FOR A HIGH SCHOOL WHERE KIDS ARE LEARNING TO GRAB OR DRIVING.
I MEAN, NOT THAT I'M BEING NEGATIVE, BUT I JUST KNOW VERY IMPULSIVE AND THAT, YEAH, IT JUST COULD DRIVE MORE DEFINITELY THAN I THINK.
AND THEN COMMISSIONER KING AND THEN ANYBODY ELSE WHO HASN'T SPOKEN.
UM, AND, AND, UM, I CONCUR WITH, UH, THE COMMENTS THAT, UH, VICE CHAIR DUNKIN MADE AND THOSE THAT, UH, COMMISSIONER GARY MADE.
AND IT REALLY, THAT PRETTY MUCH EVERYBODY'S MADE HERE AT THE SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE THE OR TO ADDRESS THE TRAFFIC ISSUES AND THE CUT THROUGH ISSUES.
AND I KNOW WE'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A FAIRLY, UH, YOU KNOW, A BIG DEVELOPMENT HERE AND WE'VE GONE THROUGH A LOT OF INFORMATION.
I'VE HEARD A LOT FROM A LOT OF FOLKS TONIGHT.
SO WHAT I'M GOING TO DO TO TRY TO GET THE PROCESS MOVING HERE, I'M GOING TO OFFER A MOTION TO GET TO GET THE PROCESS GOING.
IS THAT, IS THAT, IS THAT AN APPROPRIATE AT THIS TIME CHAIR?
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I THINK IT IS.SO I REC, I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE RECOMMEND
IMPERVIOUS COVER TWO 50% OF THE GROSS SIDE AREA.
ADJUSTING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND INCLUDING METHODS SUCH AS RAINWATER HARVESTING AND RAIN GARDENS, PROHIBIT VEHICULAR ACCESS TO WAYNE RODEL LOOP REQUIRE 5% OF VEHICULAR PARKING TO BE EQUIPPED WITH ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS AND REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL 5% TO BE ELECTRIC READY.
SO, UH, THAT, THAT'S MY MOTION.
AND ALSO, INTERESTINGLY, YOU DISAPPEARED FROM VIEW, BUT THAT'S A WHOLE NOTHER ISSUE.
OH, I CAN'T, IT'S REALLY WEIRD.
AND SO, UM, CAN YOU REPEAT YOUR MOTION? EMAIL THIS TO SO WE CAN PUT IT UP ON THE SCREEN FOR EVERYBODY.
ARE YOU ABLE TO SEND THIS TO, ARE YOU ABLE TO, UH, ON THE SCREEN?
THE FIRST ONE HE SHOWED ME WAS DENSITY.
LET ME CLARIFY WHAT I SAID WAS IN MED THREE ZONING WITH A LIMIT OF 24 UNITS PER ACRE.
NOW IT'S GOING TO BE LIMITED TO IN OTHER WAYS WITH THE IMPERVIOUS COVER AND THE AREAS THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY BUILD ON.
THEY'RE ASKING FOR, LET ME JUST CLARIFY.
THEY'RE ASKING FOR THIRD, THEY'RE ASKING FOR 36 UNITS PER ACRE.
THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR.
THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING IN THE LIGHT MF FOR ZONING, THE NEIGHBORHOOD AS SUGGESTED 24 UNITS PER ACRE.
YOU MAY HAVE THREE ZONING WITH A CAP OF 24 UNITS PER ACRE.
IS THERE A SECOND FOR THAT? AGAIN TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY GET IT.
GO AHEAD AND READ THE MOTION AGAIN.
AND THEN I'M GOING TO CALL ON.
THE FIRST PEOPLE I'M GOING TO CALL ON ARE ACTUALLY COMMISSIONER SMITH AND COMMISSIONER RAY.
AND I'M GOING TO SEND THIS TO ANDREW.
HE SAID TO GO AHEAD AND SEND IT TO HIM SO HE CAN SHOW IT TO EVERYBODY.
UM, RIGHT NOW IS TO EXTEND THE MEETING.
SO WHAT TIME COMMISSIONER SMITH.
HEY, AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER GARY.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S UNANIMOUS.
AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA GO TO COMMISSIONER AND WE'RE GOING TO SEEM TO GET A SECOND.
THEN I'VE GONE TO COMMISSIONER SMITH AND COMMISSIONER GRAY.
I'M GOING TO SEND IT TO, IN FACT, I'M GOING TO SEND IT RIGHT NOW TO ANDREW AND WHILE, AND HE'S GOING TO GET IT HERE IN A SECOND, BUT I JUST SENT IT TO HIM.
SO LET ME READ THE MOTION WHILE IT'S GOING TO HIM BEING SENT TO HIM.
THE WROTE, THE MOTION IS, UH,
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LIMITS.IMPERVIOUS COVER TO 50% OF THE GROSS SIDE AREA REQUIRES A USE OF PERVIOUS PAPERS FOR ALL PARKING AREAS AND DRIVEWAYS.
IT REQUIRES ONSITE WATER RETENTION FOR ALL RAINFALL EVENTS EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN THE 95TH PERCENTILE.
ADJUSTING CLIMATE CHANGE AND INCLUDING RAINWATER HARVESTING AND RAIN GARDEN.
YES METHODS PROHIBIT VEHICULAR ACCESS TO WAYNE RIDELL LOOP REQUIRE 5% OF VEHICULAR PARKING TO BE EQUIPPED WITH ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL 5% TO BE ELECTRIC READY.
REQUEST THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ELIMINATE THE EXTENSION OF WAYNE MADELL LOOP FROM THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN OR ADD ZONING RESTRICTIONS THAT WOULD PREVENT VEHICULAR CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC.
AND THAT'S MY MOTION THAT I JUST EMAILED IT TO, TO UH, ANDREW.
IS THERE A SECOND FOR THAT MOTION? AND I'M JUST SEEING ZOMBIE PACES, WHICH IS FINE.
SO THAT MOTION DIES FOR LACK OF A SECOND.
AND I'M GOING TO GO NOW ON TO COMMISSION.
OH, CAN WE JUST SECOND FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES? BUT I REALLY DO FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD BE HEARING FROM MR WEI AND MUSHROOM HAS HAD HER HAND UP FOR QUITE A WHILE.
RIGHT, AND I HAVE, SO COMMISSIONER, UM, I'LL GO TO COMMISSIONER SMITH AND THEN COMMISSIONER RAY.
PART OF THE PROBLEM I HAVE WITH THAT NEEDS TO BE EXTENDED.
IT NEEDS TO BE DONE IN A MANNER THAT PROTECTS THE TRAFFIC.
SAFETY PRECLUDES AS MUCH AS WE CAN POSSIBLY GET WITH NOT DOING STREETS IN THE CITY.
WHAT WE'RE HERE TO LOOK AT OVERALL LEVEL STANDPOINT.
WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE WHAT'S GOOD FOR EVERYBODY.
THERE'S THREE NEIGHBORHOODS ALL THROUGH AUSTIN.
YOU HAVE A SPINE STREET IN THE MIDDLE OF CIRCLE.
SEE THOSE COMMUNITIES THRIVE AND DO JUST FINE WITH THAT.
YOU CLOSE DOWN TO HAVE YOUR PARADE UNSAFE BECAUSE YOU NEVER MADE YOUR SCREEN.
SECONDLY, YOU MENTIONED THE MOST WAS YOU WANT US TO SEE DESIGNING TO CLIMATE CHANGE.
THERE IS NO PLANET AND I KNOW WHAT.
THAT'S A LOT OF WHAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WANTS.
I NEED TO REALLY GET BACK TO WHAT ARE THE ZONING ISSUES WE WANT TO LOOK AT THE MOMENT AND REALLY TO JUST FOCUS ON THAT SIMPLE.
THERE'S YOUR MARK ON THE FAR RIGHT.
UM, SO I SHARE A LOT OF CONCERNS THAT BOTH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND COMMISSIONERS HAVE BROUGHT UP ABOUT CONNECTIVITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY.
AND I DON'T THINK OF THESE ISSUES AS BEING DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED AND REALLY THINK THAT WE CAN FIND SOME MIDDLE GROUND HERE.
UM, WHEN WE WANT TO CREATE CONNECTED STREETS, THAT'S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT TYPES OF STREETS WE'RE BUILDING, WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT THOSE TO BE HIGHER SPEED ROADS OR IF WE CAN MAKE THOSE SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD ROADS THAT ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE AS WELL AS THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO CONNECT TO THE SURROUNDING STREET NETWORK.
UM, SO WITH THOSE CONCERNS AND COMMENTS IN MIND, UM, I HAVE A SUBSTITUTE OR SECONDARY MOTION TO PROPOSE.
THE KIND OF GETS AT SOME OF THE ISSUES WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WITH WHAT, UM, THE ROAD CROSS SECTION COULD BE ON WAYNE RIDELL.
UM, AND HOW WE COULD COME UP WITH A BETTER VERSION OF WHAT THAT STREET CAN LOOK LIKE IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE SOME OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERNS WHILE STILL PROVIDING OVERALL BETTER OVERALL CONNECTIVITY WITHIN THE SURROUNDING ROAD NETWORK.
UM, SO WHAT THAT MOTION WOULD BE WOULD SAY, UM, ZAP SUPPORTS THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION REZONING THE PROPERTY FROM IRR TO EMMA FOR CONDITIONAL OVERLAY, INCLUDING THE SEVEN CONDITIONS AGREED UPON AS DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS AND THEN TO ADDRESS NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY CONCERNS TO PROVIDE SAFE BICYCLING AND PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS FOR ALL AGES AND ABILITIES AND TO DEVELOP PERVIOUS GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE OPPORTUNITIES.
ZAP ALSO RECOMMENDS STAFF CONSIDERATION OF THE FOLLOWING ALTERNATIVES PRIOR TO COUNSEL'S CONSIDERATION OF THIS CASE.
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PENDING STAFF ASSESSMENT.PROPERTY REASONING IS CONTINGENT UPON THE FOLLOWING REVISED ROADWAY DESIGN OF THE WAYNE RIDELL LOOP EXTENSION, UM, BETWEEN EXISTING WAYNE WITH DELL.
EVEN SOUTH FIRST STREET ACCESS OR REVISE CROSS SECTION WILL INCLUDE AN EASTBOUND AND WESTBOUND 11 FOR TRAVELING.
THOSE LANDS WILL BE SURROUNDED BY A 10 FOOT PERVIOUS SHARED USE PATH.
IN TOTAL COST SECTIONS WILL INCLUDE THESE TWO 10 FOOT SHARED USE PATHS AND TWO 11 FOOT TRAVELINGS.
SECONDLY, AT THE SOUTH FIRST STREET ACCESS PROSECTION, WE'LL RECRUIT AN ADDITIONAL LECTURE AND THIS CROSS SECTION WILL INCLUDE THE 11 FOOT TRAVEL LANE AND 11 FOOT LANE AND AN 11 FOOT TRAVELING.
FINALLY, VEHICLE SPEEDS ON THIS PROJECT.
REALLY DEDICATED WAYNE RIDELL LOOP RIGHT AWAY ARE RESTRICTED FOR 25 MILES PER HOUR.
ZAP ALSO SUPPORTS COORDINATION WITH AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT TO ADD NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING ALLEN ON THE EXISTING LANE OR ADULT LOOP.
UM, SO THAT'S A LOT OF WORDS AND I'VE EMAILED IT TO ANDREW, BUT BASICALLY WE'RE TRYING TO GET OUT OF BETTER NEIGHBORHOOD ROADWAY, CROSS SECTION, UM, THAT CAN SLOW PROFIT THERE AND WHILE STILL MAINTAINING ALL ROADWAY SCISSORS AND THEN CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE CAN ADD ADDITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING ELEMENTS WITHIN THE EXISTING WAYNE RIDELL LOOP RIGHT AWAY IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE CAN DO ON THE NEW RIDE AND THAT COULD BE CREATING THIS PROJECT.
IS THERE A SECOND FOR A COMMISSIONER, WHICH IS MOTION AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING IT TYPED UP LIKE THIS.
IS THERE A SECOND? AND I CANNOT SEE NOW EVERYBODY, UM, BECAUSE IT'S SHARING TIME WITH THE DOCUMENT.
SO I'M SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SMITH.
NO, COMMISSIONER COMMISSIONER, BUT MADE BY COMMISSIONER RAY, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SMITH.
THAT WAS SECONDED BY THE COMMISSIONER BRAY.
NO, I CANNOT SEE WHAT THAT DOCUMENT.
EVERYBODY'S MOVED INTO DIFFERENT PLACES.
COMMISSIONER RAY AND THEN COMMISSIONER BRAY.
UM, SO YES, COMMISSIONER EVANS, TO BE CLEAR, THAT'S NOT A SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
THAT'S THE INITIAL MOTION MOTION.
YES, I WAS GOING TO CORRECT THAT.
SO THE FIRST MOTION DIED FOR LACK OF A SECOND.
SO THAT IS THE MAIN MOTION HERE.
THE CHAIR, I JUST DID GET A MOTION BUT I I, YOU KNOW, I DID GET THE MOST, I COULD HAVE SECOND FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES.
IT WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER WAGGLER COMMISSIONERS.
YEAH, CAUSE I, I SORT OF MISSED THAT TOO CAUSE THERE WAS A TIME LAPSE, BUT WE'RE PURPOSES SINCE IT WAS DELAYED, BUT IT WAS SECONDARY.
SO THIS IS STILL THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
COMMISSIONER BURRELL RAMIREZ AND THEN COMMISSIONER SMITH.
I DO WANT TO SAY THAT I APPRECIATE IT.
A LOT OF WHAT COMMISSIONER KING HAD IN HIS MOTION.
UM, THE ITEMS, AND I WAS TRYING TO LOOK AT IT, UM, WHEN IT WAS UP ON THE SCREEN, BUT THE ITEMS ABOUT PERVIOUS PAVERS IN THE PARKING AREA AND, UM, OTHER RAINWATER COLLECTION, UM, PIECES THAT I KNOW THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, THIS IS A SITE PLAN TYPE, UM, REQUEST.
AND SO I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH OF THAT WE CAN ADD IN, BUT I THINK IT'S W I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE TRYING TO SPEAK TO THE CONCERNS THAT WE'VE HEARD TONIGHT AND YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ADD IT IN THERE, BUT I JUST, I THINK HE'S ON THE RIGHT TRACK WITH LISTENING AND TRYING TO PUT THOSE INTO WORDS.
AND THEIR MISSIONARY RESPONSE.
I'LL GO TO COMMISSIONER SMITH THEN I'LL HAVE YOU RESPOND.
THERE WAS NO CONTINGENCY ON SIR, CORRECT? YEAH, A LITTLE GARBLED AT TIMES.
UH, COMMISSIONER SMITH, SORRY, COULD YOU REPEAT THAT PLEASE? I JUST WANT TO INTERJECT HERE.
WE NEED A MOTION TO EXTEND, EXTEND THE MEETING BEYOND 10 15.
UM, THE ONLY CONCERN I HAVE WITH MR. RICE, IT'S NOT CONTINGENT
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ON ANYTHING THAT PROMOTION, WAS THAT RECOMMENDATION UPSET WITH OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS.NOW THEY CONTINGENCY ZONING GO AWAY.
DO THEY CONTINUE TO SAY IT'S GOTTA BE, THIS IS OUR RECOMMENDATION PERIOD TO MAKE SUGGESTIONS, BUT WE CAN'T MAKE SOMETHING.
THAT'S THE DEFINITIVE NOT CONTINUE ACCESS.
UM, AND ALTHOUGH I THINK AT TIMES WE, WELL THAT'S, I, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT THAT WE, UM, YEAH, WE CAN'T DO CONTINGENCIES.
THEY CAN CONSIDER IT'S NOT CONTINGENT.
SO IT'S JUST A RECOMMENDATION THAT THEY DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO DO YOU WANT TO REWORD YOUR MOTION, COMMISSIONER RAY AND, UM, TO MAKE IT MORE JUST THAT THEY CONSIDER, BUT NOTHING'S CONTINGENT ON ANYTHING.
SO THE THIRD REVISION THEN WOULD BE, I'M SORRY, NOW I DON'T HAVE IT PULLED UP ANYWHERE AND THERE IS ONE WOULD BE ENDING STAFF ASSESSMENT PROPERTY REZONING IS RECOMMENDED WITH THE FOLLOWING APPLIES ROADWAY DESIGN OF WAYNE RIDELL LOOP EXTENSION.
UM, SO EVERYTHING ELSE REMAINS CONSISTENT.
BUT STRIKE THAT IS CONTINGENT CLAUSE.
WE ARE SUPPORTING STAFF RECOMMENDATION, RIGHT.
SOME OF THE LANGUAGE REFERS TO THE SPECIFIC PROCESS BY WHICH STAFF NEEDS TO ASSESS REVISIONS TO THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN.
UM, SO THAT'S WHERE THE LANGUAGE ABOUT STAFF ASSESSMENT COMES IN.
YOU CAN'T MAKE ME, CAN'T MAKE THEMSELVES AND ALL THAT AT THE SAME ZONING.
WE'RE DIRECTING STAFF TO DO THIS.
I THINK I'D LIKE TO GET SOME CLARIFICATION FROM STAFF BECAUSE MY READ WHAT ELLEN IS SAYING IS SHE SAYS WE SHOULD APPROVE THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION, WHICH INCLUDES TRAFFIC RECOMMENDATIONS WITH A NARROWER STREAM CROSS SECTION.
SO I'M ASSUMING WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE THAT STREET MILLER AND SAFER.
AND I ALSO WANT TO BE CLEAR, WE'RE VOTING ON UH, COMMISSIONER LAY'S MOTION FIRST WITH ALL THE APP.
WELL, WHEN I SECONDED DAVID'S MOTION FOR DISCUSSION, I DID WITHDRAW.
UM, SO WE ARE ON THAT AS THE MAIN MOTION.
SO WE CAN, UM, SO THE MAIN MOTION IS, UM, WHAT COMMISSIONER RAY SUBMITTED AND DOES ANYBODY, DOES ANYBODY NEED TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN AND YES.
IF YOU COULD PUT IT UP ON THE DOCUMENT CAMERA OR WHATEVER YOU'RE USING, THAT WOULD BE GREAT AND BE VERY HELPFUL.
AND COMMISSIONER KING, YOU HAVE A QUESTION? I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF THERE'D BE ANY WILLINGNESS TO MAYBE ADD A COUPLE MORE ITEMS TO A COMMISSIONER.
RAISE A MOTION IF THAT WOULD BE OKAY.
YOU CAN OFFER AMENDMENTS AND, OKAY.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO STOP ONE SECOND.
I'LL WAIT UNTIL THE ITEM GETS UP ON THE SCREEN AT 10 40.
MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SMITH, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER EVANS AND PRACTICALLY EVERYBODY, YOU GOT A REP?
AND I'M ASSUMING THAT MOTION WAS APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.
WE'VE GOT 11 MORE MINUTES AND WASN'T THE LAST 25 MILES PER HOUR.
OKAY, SO THAT'S THE MOTION AND CONDITIONER.
WELL I WOULD LIKE TO, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THE FOLLOWING THREE ITEMS IF THAT'S ACCEPTABLE, IF THERE'S A WILLINGNESS TO DO THAT.
AND THE FIRST ONE IS REQUIRED USE OF PERVIOUS PAVERS FOR ALL PARKING AREAS AND DRIVEWAYS
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A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT? IT CAN.I DON'T KNOW THAT IT CAN BE A CONDITIONER.
HI, SO THAT'S A SITE DEVELOPMENT.
THAT COULD BE A RESTRICTIVE COVENANT.
THAT COULD NOT BE A CONDITIONER.
THAT IS NOT DIRECTLY RELATED OUT OF THE ZONING CODE.
CAN WE SAY, CAN WE USE A DIFFERENT WORD REQUIRED? I CAN RELATE IMPERVIOUS BUT I CANNOT DO THAT.
I'M ASSUMING YOU DON'T SUPPORT THAT.
OKAY, SO NUMBER NUMBER THAT THE SECOND ONE, I'LL GO TO THE SECOND ONE.
I'M JUST GOING TO GO ON DOWN THE LIST HERE.
THE SECOND, THE SECOND ONE I'D LIKE TO TRY TO ADD IS REQUIRE ONSITE WATER RETENTION FOR ALL RAINFALL EVENTS EQUAL TO OR LESS THAN A 95 PERCENTILE, 95TH PERCENTILE AND INCLUDE THE RAIN GARDENS AND THE RAINWATER HARVESTING.
IS THAT ALREADY PART? I CAN'T SEE HER MOTION ANYMORE.
WAS IT GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN PART OF IN YOURS? COMMISSIONER RAY? I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING IT.
COMMISSIONER GARY HAS HER HAND UP AND THEN COMMISSIONER DUNCAN AND WE, YEAH, THIS IS A LITTLE BIT MESSY.
SO COMMISSIONER GARY, GO AHEAD.
AS LONG AS EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT CLEANING FOR STRUCTURE WILL NOT THAT DRASTIC LETTING THAT HAPPENS.
THE BEST FLOODING THAT HAPPENED WAS WHEN THEIR SPEAKERS ARE TALKING, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LOWER AND UPPER ONION AND YOU KNOW WE'VE GOT HAVE PROPERTY LOSS, LOSS OF LIFE IN LOWER AND YOU KICK IT.
THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IS NOT ENOUGH.
I JUST WORRIED THAT AS FAR AS I KNOW.
AND COMMISSIONER SMITH, YOU MIGHT CORRECT ME ON THIS.
AS FAR AS I KNOW, THE CITY HAS, NOT EVEN US, BUT THEIR RATING CAPACITY IS FOR ALL THE WATER.
SO RIGHT NOW WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WAY TO PASS IT.
BUT I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE
AND CITY MANAGERS NEED TO LOOK AT THE BIGGER PERSPECTIVE THAT JUST THIS DEVELOPMENT, THEIR SURROUNDING DEVELOPMENTS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE FLOODING.
THERE WAS A ONSITE DETENTION, MS RODS.
DID YOU GET AN ANSWER FROM THEM? YES, YES I DID.
AND UM, THE ANSWER IS FROM A DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IS, IS THAT THEY DO NOT KNOW IF THIS SITE IS A GOOD CANDIDATE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE REGIONAL STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PROGRAM OR NOT.
AND THAT'S IS ONSITE DETENTION IS DONE AT THE TIME OF SUBDIVISION OR SITE PLANNING.
IT CANNOT BE IN A ZONING ORDINANCE BECAUSE IT IS NOT A VERY, IT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE ZONING.
SECOND, I THINK WE CAN TOUCH ELECTRIC CARS.
I'M JUST GOING TO SAY THANK YOU.
AND CHAIR, THIS IS DAVID KING AND I JUST WANTED TO, I DON'T WANT TO WASTE ANYBODY'S TIME.
I KNOW WE'RE ALL HERE TRYING TO GET THROUGH THIS PROCESS TONIGHT.
SO THE LAST ITEM WAS ABOUT THE VEHICULAR 5% OF VEHICULAR PARKING, YOUR VEHICLE, ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING STATIONS AND 5% TO BE LIKE FOR CREATIVITY.
SO THAT CAN NOT BE INCLUDED OR NOT COMMISSIONER.
I THINK THE CLEANEST THING TO DO IS OFFER IT UP AS A, AS AN AMENDMENT.
BUT, BUT IF IT CAN'T BE PART OF A RELAY, KENNY BE INCLUDING IN THE ZONE, IF YOU CAN'T BE INCLUDED IN OUR ZONING RECOMMENDATION, ONLY IF IT CAN BE INCLUDED IN A CEO OR IN THE ZONING.
AND NOW YOU'RE NOT, IS THAT, IS THAT RIGHT? WENDY CAN CONSIST INCLUDED.
IT COULD BE A PRIVATE RESTRICTIVE COVENANT, BUT THAT'S, OH, OKAY.
THESE OTHER ITEMS COULD BE IN A RESTRICTIVE COVENANT, BUT THAT'S A DIFFERENT PROCESS.
SO YEAH, AND THAT WOULD TAKE SOME TIME TO GET WITH THE NEIGHBORHOODS ON THAT, BUT I THINK THEY MIGHT BE WILLING TO DO THAT AND THAT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD SHOULD BE DOING.
AND THEN THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY THEN I'M DONE FOR THIS, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW IS THE, UM,
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SO, UH, THE, UH, THE, UM, SO THE OTHER, I GUESS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS, UM, YOU KNOW, I GUESS I WANT TO MAKE ONE LITTLE COMMENT HERE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE COMMENTS WE HEARD EARLIER TONIGHT WAS THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY, UH, ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE VILLAGE OF SEN.DEANNA, UH, WAS, YOU KNOW, I, IT, IT STRUCK ME THAT THE CITY THAT THEY WERE KIND OF LEFT OUT, I DON'T WANT TO THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT MET WITH THE VILLAGE OF SAN LEONA, UH, REPRESENTATIVES ABOUT THESE ISSUES OF TRAFFIC AND EXPANDING OUR TRAFFIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND HOW IT MIGHT IMPACT THEM.
SO I WANT TO GET THAT OUT THERE.
I'D LIKE TO GET THAT DISCUSS LATER ON, NOT TONIGHT.
AND THEN ABOUT THESE, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE UPDATE THE, UH, STRATEGIC MOBILITY PLAN, I WANT, I WANT TO ASK ABOUT HOW THE PROCESS GOES.
IT SOUNDS LIKE THE NEIGHBORS HERE WERE JUST UNAWARE OR SURPRISE THAT THIS ROAD WOULD BE PROPOSED TO BE EXTENDED.
AND SO I HATE TO SORT OF CUT YOU OFF BUT WE'VE GOT FOUR MINUTES LEFT.
I WAS JUST WANTING TO GET THOSE USERS.
THEN VICE CHAIR, I'VE GOT THOSE ISSUES OUT.
I GET FRUSTRATED WHEN WE SIT HERE TALKING ABOUT STOP SIGNS.
I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT FOR WHAT IT IS.
THE BASIC DIFFERENCE OF AN MFR.
IT'S NOT THE NUMBER OF UNITS BECAUSE THEY CAN GET THIS TWO OF THEM.
IT'S WHETHER OR NOT IT'S A 60 FOOT HEIGHT, A 40 FOOT PIPE THERE.
I KNOW SIX STORY BUILDINGS, ANY HEROES IN THREE MILES OF THIS PROJECT.
WE ARE ESTABLISHING THE LAND USE PATTERN WHICH PANDA AND I KNOW THAT BOATS ARE THERE TO GIVE IT, BUT I'M JUST SAYING I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPORT IT BY FOUR.
WELL, I MEAN, WELL COMMISSIONER COMMISSIONER EVANS, DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT? WELL, I JUST WANTED TO CLEAR RESPOND TO WHAT THE VICE CHAIR DUNKIN WAS SAYING IS THE APPLICANT INDICATED THAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT A 48 FOOT MAXIMUM HEIGHT.
THEIR AVERAGE IN THAT AREA IS 43 FOOT WERE JUST, THEY DIDN'T WALK IN MY UP FOR, THEY WERE USING THAT TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOAL AND
CAN COMMISSIONER BERRERA RAMIREZ, DO YOU HAVE YOUR HAND UP AND THEN WE CAN, I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF A 48 FOOT HEIGHT IF THAT'S MORE APPROPRIATE TO AGREE ON THAT.
SO ARE YOU PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT FOUR? YES.
IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY, COMMISSIONER KING SECOND DID.
SO WE HAVE AN AMENDMENT TO HAVE A CEO OF 48 FEET.
UM, MOTION BY THE RAMIREZ, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER KING.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, UH, FOR THE CEO.
PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND AND HAVE IT IN THERE.
COMMISSIONER KING, COMMISSIONER SMITH.
COMMISSIONER RAY, UH, COMMISSIONER FOR RAMIREZ, COMMISSIONER BRAY AND COMMISSIONER EVANS.
AND ALL THOSE OPPOSED AND THAT WILL BE ME.
COMMISSIONER PRO, BASA COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER DINKLER AND COMMISSIONER GARY.
SO THE MOTION PASSES SEVEN, TWO, THREE, FOUR, THE AMENDMENT OF THE 48, BUT I THOUGHT WE WERE VOTING ON THE MAIN MOTION.
THAT WAS EIGHT TO TWO THAT PASSED.
SO THE MAIN ACTION IS, UM, WHAT THEY WAS PUT ON THE SCREEN AND I GUESS LET'S RUSH, LET'S GET THAT BACK ON THE SCREEN SO WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE VOTING.
IS THAT POSSIBLE ANDREW?
SO I'M INTERESTED, CORRECT? YES.
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LANGUAGE, REPLACE IT WITH PROPERTY? REZONING IS RECOMMENDED WITH THE FOLLOWING.OKAY, SO, SO WE HAVE THAT ON OUR SCREEN.
I TOOK A DOCUMENT, I TOOK A SCREENSHOT OF IT AND UM, SO Y'ALL ALL ARE ABLE TO READ IT.
I HOPE AND READY TO VOTE ON IT.
YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WHAT I'M LOOKING AT ON THE SCREEN IS NOT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S BEEN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A CHAIN WORDING CHANGE ON THAT, ON THE PENDING STAFF ASSESSMENT.
THAT SECOND SENTENCE, RIGHT REZONING IS IN TAKING THAT CONTINGENT PART OUT.
WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IS THE 48 FOOT HIGH, I DON'T SEE IT IN THEIR BODY THAT IT'S NOT IN THIS, IT'S ALREADY SEPARATE.
MOST, YEAH, THIS IS IN ADDITION.
SO PLUS THE AMENDMENT FOR THE 48 FOOT C.
AND SO ALL THOSE, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS AND IF NOT, UM, PLEASE, UH, LET'S GO AHEAD AND HAVE THE VOTE, BUT I'LL HAVE TO SEE EVERYBODY ON THE SCREEN SO WE HAVE TO TAKE THIS DOCUMENT OFF AGAIN.
AND UM, BUT I DO HAVE, I DO HAVE, I DID TAKE A SCREENSHOT FROM MYSELF, SO, GREAT.
AND I'M GOING TO ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
AND SO IT'S COMMISSIONER SMITH, COMMISSIONER RAY, COMMISSIONER EVANS, COMMISSIONER DUNKIN, COMMISSIONER BERRERA, RAMIREZ AND COMMISSIONER BRAY AND ALL THOSE OPPOSED, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND THAT IS COMMISSIONER KING.
COMMISSIONER DENTLER, COMMISSIONER GEARY AND COMMISSIONER MI.
SO CAN I TAKE ONE MINUTE TO EXPLAIN MY RATIONALE? CAN YOU MAKE IT THAT LONG? HEY, HEY, IT'S ACTUALLY 10 42 WE HAD EXPIRED AND WE ENDED UP AT 10 40 UNLESS SOMEBODY WANTS TO OPEN IT 15 MINUTES.
WE DON'T HAVE TO USE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER DINKLER.
SECONDED BY VICE CHAIR DUNKIN TO EXTEND THIS 15 MINUTES.
SO THAT WOULD BE THE 10 58 ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
IT'S COMMISSIONER RAY, COMMISSIONER DAN COURT, COMMISSIONER BURRELL, RAMIREZ, COMMISSIONER KING, COMMISSIONER DUNKIN, COMMISSIONER BRAY AND COMMISSIONER GARY.
ALL THOSE OPPOSED, COMMISSIONER SMITH AND COMMISSIONER EVANS.
AND ACTUALLY, I DON'T KNOW, WE, WE VOTED ON THE MOTION.
AND WHY DON'T WE DO WHAT? AND I'VE LOST IN ALL THIS PAPERWORK.
I KNOW WE HAVE, UM, ACTUALLY THERE'S ONE IMPORTANT THING, THERE'S TWO IMPORTANT THINGS.
ONE IS, UM, ALEXA, WE'VE GOT, SO NOW I HAVE THE AGENDA AGAIN AND I WOULD LIKE TO DO TWO THINGS
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AND THAT IS NEW BUSINESS NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION OFFICERS.AND IF YOU WANT TO DO IT NOW THAT'S FINE.
YOU HAVE A MOTION? YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO NOMINATE
UM, IS THERE, ARE THERE ANY OTHER MOTIONS? MOTION BY COMMISSIONER DUNCAN, BUT I THINK WE DON'T ACTUALLY, YOU CAN JUST NOMINATE A SLATE.
UH, ME, COMMISSIONER BERRERA WERE MAYOR EARNEST AS SPICE CHAIR AND NOT YOU DUNCAN.
UM, ANY OTHER UPDATES OR ANYTHING? OKAY.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THAT SLATE, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS AND OKAY.
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OTHER IMPORTANT THING.ANDREW EMAILED ME, THANK GOD FOR HAVING TWO COMPUTERS.
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WANT TO SEE IF THE COMMISSION, IF WE WILL RECONSIDER AND POSTPONE THE CASE WHERE THAT POOR GANDERSON WAS ON B6.UM, AND WAS ON THE CASE TO JUNE 2ND BECAUSE THIS CASE ISN'T SCHEDULED FOR COUNCIL UNTIL JUNE 11.
CAN WE DO THAT? I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND, I THINK WE CAN, I MEAN, I, WE CAN, WE, WE, WE CAN DO A RE RECONSIDERATION BEFORE THE MEETING.
ADJOURNS I'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS.
AS WE DID TO HAVE A SPEAKER WHO WAS SIGNED UP AND FOLLOWED THE ACTIONS TO SIGN UP, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE BEST TO RECONSIDER AND PRESS UPON THIS ITEM SO THAT THE INDIVIDUAL CAN HAVE HIS OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE HIS REMARKS.
THE ITEM IS SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 11TH AT COUNCIL, SO IT WOULD STILL BE ON TRACK TO MEET THAT COUNCIL DATE.
MOTION MADE AND SECONDED BY, UM, UH, VICE CHAIR, I GUESS UNTIL THE END OF THIS MEETING.
DUNCAN, UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR AND THE RECONSIDERATION, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND THAT IS, UM, AND IT LOOKS LIKE COMMISSIONER EVANS TOO.
COMMISSIONER DANCLER, COMMISSIONER
AND COMMISSIONER SMITH AND I WAS IN, I WAS IN FAVOR.
SO THAT MOTION PASSES NINE TWO, ONE.
AND ANYTHING ELSE? COMMISSIONER? CHAIR? I MOVED TO POSTPONE THE CASE UNTIL OUR JUNE OR OUR FIRST MEETING IN JUNE.
WAS THAT MEETING IN JUNE? WE DID THAT.
WREKIN'S WELL WE, WE MOVED TO RECONSIDER IT ON JUNE 2ND SECOND.
COMMISSION LAYS ON ANDREW THERE.
JUST TO BE CLEAR, WE MAY WANT TO NOTE THOSE AS TWO SEPARATE MOTIONS.
SO ONE IS TO RECONSIDER AND THEN THE OTHER IS TO POSTPONE TO JUNE 2ND 6:00 PM.
AND NOW TO UM, POSTPONE MOTION BY COMMISSIONER KING, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER.
UM, SOMEBODY, UH, COMMISSIONER DANCLER THIS TIME, ALL THOSE INFANTS WERE POSTPONING IT TO JUNE 2ND, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND IT'S THE SAME PEOPLE WHO THE, UM, MISSIONARIES, RAY DANCLER, BURRELL, MARIS, DUNKIN BRAY, A GEARY KING, EVANS AND AGAINST IS COMMISSIONER SMITH.
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AND I JUST WANTED TO QUICKLY ASK IF I COULD GET SOMEBODY TO SPONSOR AN UPDATE FROM STAFF ON OUR ONLINE, UH, MEETING PROCESS AND YOU KNOW, AT A FUTURE ZAP MEETING, MAYBE NOT JUNE 2ND, BUT WHENEVER THEY CAN GIVE US AN UPDATE ON THE ONLINE VIRTUAL MEETING PROCESS FOR OUR MEETINGS.I, I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE LIVING AT, BUT THAT'S JUST ME.
I FEEL LIKE LIVING THAT UPDATE.
I KNOW, BUT WHAT I WANT TO DO IS FIND OUT HOW IT'S WORKING TO GET THE FEEDBACK FROM STAFF ON HOW MANY, YOU KNOW, IS IT REALLY WORKING AND ARE PEOPLE ACTUALLY ABLE TO PARTICIPATE? WHAT ARE THE ISSUES AND WHAT IS THE, WE'VE HAD SO MANY PROBLEMS TONIGHT.
I THINK IT'S A LEARNING PROCESS.
I WOULD SAY LET'S YOU AND ME AND MAYBE, UM, TALK ABOUT IT OFFLINE BECAUSE CLEARLY I GOT US, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE, WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED AND IT IS EVERY TIME IT'S A LEARNING PROCESS.
I, UM, AND I ALSO LOOK AT HOW CUMBERSOME THESE MEETINGS ARE.
I DON'T, I ACTUALLY LET'S JUST TALK ABOUT IT AND TWO PEOPLE CAN BRING IT TO THE NEXT WEEK.
I'M HAPPY TO SERVE ON A LITTLE
OH, WHAT WAS THAT? YOU WANT TO BE ON A SUBCOMMITTEE OR, OKAY.
WE CAN POST IT FOR OUR NEXT MEETING TO FORM A SUBCOMMITTEE ON THIS.
SUGGESTED JANE DID I WERE YOU WANTING TO UM, LIKE I FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES WE HAVE ISSUES AND I AM ALSO UNCLEAR ON THESE THINGS A LOT OF THE TIMES ABOUT WHAT ARE PROPER, LIKE WHAT WERE A LOT OF RECOMMENDED NOW RECOMMEND
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AND IT WOULD BE USEFUL.IT'S LIKE I KNOW YOU NEED TO THOROUGHLY READ THE BYLAWS AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF, BUT I WOULD KIND OF RECOMMEND IF WE COULD PASS AROUND SOMETHING THAT WOULD HELP US KNOW WHAT'S APPROPRIATE OFFER AND WHAT VISIT BEFORE WE GO INTO THE MEETINGS, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL INSTEAD OF EVERYONE CORRECT EACH OTHER ON THE DICE.
AND THAT'S SEPARATE FROM THE IT ISSUE.
AND I THINK THAT'S ALSO SOMETHING THAT WE COULD PUT OUT THAT WE CAN JUST ASK FOR A SEAT FROM, FROM A CHEAT SHEET, FROM UM, STAFF AND UM, WE CAN TALK AND I CAN TALK TO ANDREW ABOUT THAT.
UM, BUT WE CAN MAKE A FORMAL REQUEST.
UM, I THINK IT'S A CHEAT SHEET CHEAT SHEET AND SEE AND TALK TO WENDY AND ANDREW AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO REALLY KNOW THEIR STUFF AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT.
I THINK THIS IS ACTUALLY BEEN DEVELOPED.
UH, YEAH, THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A CHEAT SHEET THAT SAYS THESE SORTS OF THINGS YOU CAN PUT IN A CA.
IT JUST NEEDS TO GET CIRCULATED ME CHEAT SHEET.
AND ALSO FOR THE NEXT MEETING WE WILL HAVE A SECOND COMMITTEE.
UH, WE WILL PUT TOGETHER A COMMITTEE ON, UM, THE IT PROCESS FOR OUR MEETINGS AND WE CAN WORDSMITH THAT A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
I JUST WANT MY CLOTHES FROM POSITIVE.
I WAS FRUSTRATED THE LAST COUPLE OF TIMES.
IT WAS, I COULD SEE IT, WE HAD PROBLEMS, BUT I THINK WE'RE MAKING A LOT OF PROGRESS.
I SEE PEOPLE, UH, I HAVE QUESTIONS WE DON'T NEED TO DISCUSS ON NOW.
I THOUGHT TONIGHT WE DID A MUCH BETTER JOB IN WHAT I POST SCREEN SHARING.
I'M JUST SAYING PRESENTATIONS AND BEFORE I THINK WE HAD 84 PEOPLE TONIGHT WHO WE KNOW HAVE BEEN HAPPY WITH OUR DECISION, BUT I THINK THEY WERE CERTAINLY HAPPY WITH THE PROCESS THEY GOT.
UH, I I HAVE SOME DETAIL QUESTIONS I NOTICED IN CITY COUNCIL THE DAY THAT COMMISSIONER FLANAGAN HAD A VIRTUAL BACKGROUND BEHIND HIM.
I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
WE'RE DOING A PRETTY DAMN GOOD DRAFT AND PRETTY DARN GOOD JOB.
UH, AND I THINK WE JUST NEED TO KEEP WORKING ON IT AND I WANT TO COMPLIMENT STAFF AND ANDREW AND COLBY, EVERYBODY ELSE.
THANK YOU COREY ELLIS FOR BEING OUR IT PERSON ON THIS AND AFTER THAT.
AND UM, REMIND ME, UH, ON FOLLOWUP WITH EMAIL ANYWAY.
UM, CAUSE I HAVE WRITTEN DOWN SOME NOTES BUT MAYBE I CAN'T READ THEM TOMORROW.
AND I THINK WE'RE ANY OTHER COMMENTS TO WORD JOURNEY? WE ARE ADJOURNED.
COMMISSIONER DUNKIN FOR YOUR SERVICE ON THE COMMISSION.