PARD:
Long Range Plan Planning & Design Division The W/SW portion of Austin's Plan
PARD at 512.974.6760.
See just how much Fed $$$Oak Hill receives ???
Answer. $0.00 ??? (click on
hyperlink below)
Check out the Waller Creek
Tunnel project......$127,500,000
Recent Developments
June's OHNPCT
meeting continued to expose
fissures of community dysfunctionality, and
disunity. The simple task of distribution of Contact
Team monthly 'Minutes' evolved into an encrypted process; which
denied Board members access to 'Minutes'; prior to
adoption. The previous system designed by OHNPCT
Secretary
(2008)
Dick Armitage was
open-access, and the accepted board standard. A new
system, self imposed by incoming
Jackie Water, OHNPCT
Secretary
(2009), and supported by Board members David Hasan, and
Bill Schultz V.P.; created
an exclusionary proprietary system. Subsequent, to
access denial, board member Charles
Draper, submitted his resignation. He was
reluctant to chronicle monthly 'Minutes'; without prior review,
and discussion. His
Motion failed to gain a second, and discussion was
terminated.
The fissures
only re-enforce the inability of the OHPCT to resolve
personal agenda's; while reconciling community
leadership. Landowner, stakeholder, business interest,
and neighborhood groups are under represented within
OHNPCT "taskforce". Once again OHAN becomes the beacon
of light for Oak Hill community.
While the
"taskforce" Team
still wrestles with their taskforce/stakeholder
initiative; they remained uncertain how to approach the
City of Austin's Capitol Improvement Project (CIP)
priorities. Further meeting are scheduled by a select
group of operatives later this month.
Oak
Hill's 'Town Center' is defined in "white". At Austin
City Council's December 11th, 2008, meeting; while
addressing Oak Hill's Neighborhood Plan, Council did not
include Oak Hill's 'Town Center' as part the FLUM.
Council left the 'Town Center' region 'undefined', and
exempt from the restrictions applicable to
Oak Hill's Neighborhood Plan.
At May's 2009 NPCT meeting, the contact team heard from
William "Bill" Mullane, Executive Director of Facilities &
Construction for Austin Community
College (ACC). They were excited to learn;
Steve Scott's
36.5 acre tract, east of ACC Pinnacle Campus, had been
purchased by ACC for the construction of a parking
facility, and future buildings in order to accommodate ACC
continued growth. Overall, ACC currently has 37,000
students; however, ACC's Governors Board anticipates
between 49-56,000 students district wide by 2025. A
growth rate which will exceed 30% of current capacity.
According to Chairperson, Beki Halpin,
following list of attributes reflects a 'starting point' for defining the
Oak Hill's Town Center. For a partial copy of
Town Center attributes; please click on the highlighted
text below:
(Completed
Town Center Attributes)
West Park PUD
Plan
It had all the markings of a wild west-shoot out.
Hired gunslingers from both sides of the environmental
community traded a barrage of salvos. When the smoke
cleared; Steve Drenner, attorney for the Wildflower Commons
was still standing. But, the same was said for S.O.S.
professional wrangler's; Dr. Lauren Ross, and local activist
Bruce Melton.
Attorney Drenner articulated; the Wildflower Commons is
'environmentally
superior' to the original Bradley Agreement';
because, it will cluster development, set aside
approximately two 50 acre tracts for environmental
consideration, while only developing 164 out of 265 acres,
and generating less than 45,000 trip per day. Equally, the
plan has received unanimous consent from Austin's
Environmental Review Board.
At the other end of the ally stood, Dr. Lauren Ross, and
Bruce Melton both professional engineers hired by S.O.S.
Their arguments challenged the wisdom of developing over of the
Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, a critical feature; protecting
Austin's underground pools. Dr. Ross convey S.O.S. position;
"...a deal's, a deal". Changing the zoning on the tract would
change the Bradley Agreement, and would allow for
development; '...which was never intended in the original
agreement'. Bruce Melton suggested; there were over 300
environmental features in proximity to the proposed project,
and the aquifer would be compromised as a consequence of
development.
At the end of OHAN's June 10th meeting a
'Resolution for Support' for the Wildflower Commons was passed
by OHAN in a 9 to 1 vote. The Motion was in
'Favor' of Steve Drenner ,and Scooter Walters'
Wildflower Commons project.
The Austin City Council has postponed a
decision on a zoning change for a mixed-use development in
the Barton Springs recharge zone, the Wildflower Commons,
until Aug. 20 2009.
Project name: Wildflower Commons Project location: SH-45 at MoPac south Project description: The applicant is
proposing to construct residential/retail/office and associated improvements
under compliance of the '2000 Bradley Agreement' (550
residential units and 600,000 square feet of office and
retail). Applicant: Drenner & Golden Stuart Wolff LLP, Inc.
Steve Drenner 512.404.2201 Owner: Walters Southwest, Bill "Scooter" Walters
The new faces of
Austin's
City Council:
Mayor Lee Luffingwell
Council Members
Sheryl Cole & Mike Martinez
Bill Spelman & Chris Riley
Community Works
The City of Austin will take up top ten
priorities from your neighborhood plan during the months of
the June and July. Oak Hill must submit to the City their
priorities; before the August's meeting.
As representatives, your contact team will be receiving a
letter in the mail from the Neighborhood Planning & Zoning
Department requesting your neighborhoods top ten priorities
from your neighborhood plan.
The process of producing a new Comprehensive Plan for
Austin is moving one step closer to beginning, and you’re
invited to help shape it! The new plan is needed to chart Austin’s near-,
intermediate- and long-term future so as to preserve and
enhance the community’s quality of life. Public
participation in the process will be vital to creating the
best possible future for Austin.
"Thanks to everyone who came out to Tuesday's Comprehensive
Plan Committee meeting. We had a strong turnout--enough that
we're looking for a larger home--and a great discussion. If
you weren't able to make it, all of the meeting materials
are available at the Committee's webpage, and we can still
take comments and questions on the Scoping Framework for a
few more days:
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/compplan/comp_plan_committee.htm
In preparation for Tuesday's meeting, we mapped out the
number of people on this email list by zip code. There's a
heavy central concentration, but even at the fringe there's
a western tilt. While we're not yet into our heavy public
outreach phase (that should start later this summer once WRT
is under contract), we do want to make sure that we're in
touch with at least someone from all parts of Austin. This
will be especially important when we start looking for
public input on the Participation Plan--we need to know how
to get to everybody.
Take a look at the map, and if you know of someone in one of
the lightly colored or not colored areas, please forward
this to them and invite them to join this interest list:
Thanks for your time,"
Greg Claxton
Associate Planner
City of Austin
Neighborhood Planning & Zoning Department
E:
gregory.claxton@ci.austin.tx.us
T: 512-974-7630
Check future issues of Austin City News for updates,
including how to participate in the Comprehensive Plan
opinion survey and announcement of the public kickoff, or
visit
www.cityofaustin.org/zoning/com_plan.htm for more
information.
Williamson
Creek
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CLEAN SWEEP 2009
On April 4th 2009, Sandy
Baldridge lead a community 'get together' for a good old
"barn raise'n". With the help of United Methodist Church,
Boy & Girls Club, Wyatt's Nursery, Austin Pizza Garden, Rose Hart Trail Foundation,
and OHAN, Williamson Creek hike and bike trail received a
face lift. The community cleared a the section of Williamson
Creek between William Cannon and Patton Ranch Road.
Click on the images on the left for more updates...
April 15th 2009 'Texas Tea
Party' on the steps of Austin City Hall
Oak Hill's eMail Component
You can contact the Oak
Hill Neighborhood Team by emailing us your comments. If you request to be added to the community
email list; please request, your desire within your correspondence.
With your input, we look forward to building
a better community for Oak Hill.
