Please join us for the BrykerWoods Annual 4th of July “parade”. Meet at the BrykerWoods Elementary school at 9:15 AM for the annual event. Decorate your bicycle, skateboard, or wagon and walk, ride, or skate in the parade as we wind through the streets of BrykerWoods. Bagels, drinks, and other treats after the parade. As last year, organizers have asked for parade monitors to 'guard' the intersections of Kerbey and 33rd, 32nd, 31st, and Glenview at 31st, 32nd, and 33rd as the procession approaches to help the children pass safely. Cord Dover Social Committee BrykerWoods Neighborhood Association 512-542-9063
If anyone would like to volunteer to help, please contact Cord Dover - cord.dover@sbcglobal.net
We hope to see you there!
The next Central West Austin Land Use workshop will discuss core residential areas.
My understanding of this is that having discussed and decided the commercial portions of the planning area, this meeting will address the residential areas, i.e. everyone’s home. While we all hope that this will be non-controversial -- since the overwhelming sentiment has been to protect and preserve our single family homes – the subject matter could not be more important. While I personally have no reason to believe that the staff or anyone will be pushing more intense development, e.g. higher density residential, it would be ill-advised to assume this since the decisions that will be made have the potential of affecting many more residents than any of our prior decisions so far.
The meeting details:
Date: Wednesday, June 17th
Time: 6:30PM-9:00PM
Location: Austin State School NEOS Bldg (2203 W 35th Street)
Please remember to abide by the strict 10MPH speed limit when on the Austin State School Campus. Follow the white arrows along the internal road to the NEOS Facility!
Hope to see you there.
Twenty-Second Land Use Meeting: Continued discussion and decision for the future land uses on West 35th Street from Mills Avenue to Glenview in addition to discussion of the northern side of West 34th Street from Mills Avenue to Kerbey Lane, May 11th, MONDAY, 2009, 6:30pm to 8:30pm, BRYKER WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAFETERIA, 3309 Kerbey Lane.
Discussion regarding the future land use of properties on the north side of West 34th Street between Mills and Kerbey Lane took place. It was decided by meeting attendees that the future land use categories of Office and Single Family will best serve this area in the future as it is close to Bryker Woods Elementary School and Single Family homes on the south side of 34th Street. In addition, future land use discussion continued for properties on the south side of West 35th from Mills to Glenview. Discussion was focused on the opportunity to allow residential in this area or to keep the area strictly for retail and office uses only. Consensus determined that the future land use of this particular area remain for office and retail uses only and therefore will designate these properties as Neighborhood Commercial on the Future Land Use Map of the Central West Austin Neighborhood Plan. Staff presented draft text for these two areas and encouraged stakeholders to submit comments about the language through email or phone.
Twenty-First Land Use Meeting: Continued discussion and decision for the future land uses on West 35th Street from Jefferson to Mills Avenue in addition to discussion of the northern side of West 34th Street from Jefferson to Mills Avenue, April 21st, TUESDAY, 2009, 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Bryker Woods Elementary School Cafeteria,3309 Kerbey Lane.
With and increase in new meeting attendees, Staff gave a brief summary of the Central West Austin Neighborhood Planning Process. Future land use discussions started with the remaining properties between West 34th Street and West 35th Street from Kerbey Lane to Jefferson Street. A majority of the stakeholders attending the meeting decided that maintaining the current office uses would best serve the neighborhood’s needs in the future. As such, this area will be designated as Office on the Future Land Use Map. With insufficient time remaining during the meeting, properties along the south side of 35th Street from Glenview to Mills Ave and properties on the north side of 34th Street from Kerbey Lane to Mills Ave were not discussed. Discussion of these remaining areas will continue during the next workshop.
Twentieth Land Use Meeting: Continued discussion and decision for the future land uses on West 35th Street from Jefferson to Mills Avenue in addition to discussion of the northern side of West 34th Street from Jefferson to Mills Avenue, April 8, 2009, 6:30pm to 9:00pm, LCRA Red Bud Facility (3601 Lake Austin Blvd).
Discussion regarding how to use the land along the southern portion of West 35th Street from Jefferson to Mills avenue and 34th Street from Jefferson Street to Kerbey Lane took place. Future land use decision for this portion of West 35th was postponed after stakeholders present at the meeting were not able to come to consensus on applying either Neighborhood Mixed Use or Neighborhood Commercial as the future land use for this area. Some but not all future land use decisions were made for West 34th Street properties from Jefferson Street to Kerbey Lane. Stakeholders discussed how best to allow opportunities for small scale retail in this area while also trying to protect the single family and school uses in close proximity. Properties lining the north side of West 34th were designated as Office for future land use. The remaining properties were discussed for Neighborhood Commercial, Neighborhood Mixed Use, or Office future land use categories. However, decision for all other properties was postponed for further discussion. The parcel at the north-west corner of Jefferson and 34th was designated for Single Family future land use.
Nineteenth Land Use Meeting: Deciding on future land use options for 35th Street, west of Shoal Creek Greenbelt, March 25, 2009, 6:30pm to 9:00pm, LCRA Red Bud Facility (3601 Lake Austin Blvd).
Discussion regarding how to use the land along the southern portion of West 35th Street from Oakmont to the intersection of Jefferson Street and West 35th took place. A majority of the stakeholders in attendance decided to apply the Neighborhood Commercial land use category to properties on this block up to but not including the property on the south west corner of the intersection of Jefferson and West 35th Street. However, Staff cannot support a Neighborhood Commercial designation for all of these properties on the Future Land Use Map because of the residential uses that exist on a few parcels. Alternatively, Staff recommends the Neighborhood Mixed Use designation for the properties that currently have a residential use on them. It was understood by meeting attendees that both the neighborhood recommendation as well as a staff recommendation for these particular properties will move forward and be presented side by side in the plan. The properties on the south west and south east corner of the Jefferson and West 35th intersection were decided for Commercial land use on the Future Land Use Map.
Eighteenth Land Use Meeting: Deciding on options for 34th Street from Lamar to Shoal Creek, March 11, 2009, 6:30pm to 9:00pm, LCRA Red Bud Facility (3601 Lake Austin Blvd).
After a quick review of the comments received during the October 22nd brainstorming exercise for 34th street, Staff led a discussion of what land use options would best fit the desires of the stakeholders for 34th Street, east of Shoal Creek Greenbelt. Stakeholders completed discussion for the area that resulted in a recommendation of mostly Office and Commercial for the Future Land Use Map. The only exception was the application of Mixed Use on the small parcel, north side of 34th Street, owned by Seton Hospital. Draft language for St. Andrews and W 34th Street was presented with stakeholder comments recorded. Staff gave a presentation about the applicability of the Core Transit Corridor designation for 34th Street. The discussion concluded with the decision to maintain W 34th Street as an Urban Roadway rather than requesting a change in the roadway designation to Core Transit Corridor. In an effort to prepare for the next area of land use discussion, a quick review of West 35th and portions of W 34th, west of Shoal Creek, drew the meeting to a close.
See details on prior meetings at http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/zoning/central_west_austin.htm
MONDAY, May 11th, 2009
Location - BRYKER WOODS ELEMENTARY, cafeteria
3309 Kerbey Lane
TOPIC: Land use discussions for north of 34th Street - land directly across from the Elementary School - this is another extremely important meeting.
Please note, this meeting will start promptly at 6:30pm since we must leave the school by 8:30pm.
Summary of last meeting:
April 21, 2009—Land Use Workshop 21
Bryker Woods Elementary School
Attendance: 47
With and increase in new meeting attendees, Staff gave a brief summary of the Central West Austin Neighborhood Planning Process. Future land use discussions started with the remaining properties between West 34th Street and West 35th Street from Kerbey Lane to Jefferson Street. A majority of the stakeholders attending the meeting decided that maintaining the current office uses would best serve the neighborhood’s needs in the future. As such, this area will be designated as Office on the Future Land Use Map. With insufficient time remaining during the meeting, properties along the south side of 35th Street from Glenview to Mills Ave and properties on the north side of 34th Street from Kerbey Lane to Mills Ave were not discussed. Discussion of these remaining areas will continue at the next workshop, Monday, May 11th.
An updated Future Land Use map reflecting decisions from March 11th as well as the power point presentation can be found at the Central West Austin Neighborhood Planning
website: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/zoning/central_west_austin.htm
Austin Neighborhoods Council Central Sector's next meeting is Tuesday morning, May 3rd. APD Officer Dana Munguia, Central West District Representative, will join us for a jolt of java.
Texas French Bread
29th and Rio Grande
7:30 AM
Agenda
1. Individual neighborhood issues and concerns
2. Officer Dana Munguia to give an overview of crime in our area and to discuss sharing crime information
3. Crime forum
4. Follow-up on last month’s items (i.e. car wash)
5. Future invitees
Thanks,
Jolene Kiolbassa
Central Sector Rep