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Mark your calendar: District 7 Town Hall Meeting Tuesday, June 11, 6:30-8pm, Northwest Recreation Center, 2913 Northland Dr.
The town hall will focus on the city’s 2020 budget, with Budget Director Ed Van Eenoo presenting and taking questions from the audience. Council Member Pool will also introduce our new Fire Chief, Joel Baker, and our new District 7 Austin Police Department representatives.
The Town Hall will also feature an Open House format before and after the budget presentation, with representatives from our Austin Transportation and Corridor Mobility Program, and Parks & Recreation departments, as well as Capital Metro with information on Project Connect. Join us!
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Enter through Pillow’s front door; the library is the first door to your left
Agenda includes a report on and discussion of recent City Council guidance provided to city staff regarding the rewrite of the Land Development Code.
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The second quarterly meeting of the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan Contact Team will be held on Thursday, May 9, 6:30-7:55 p.m., in the First Texas Honda Conference Room. The agenda includes a discussion of how our neighborhood plan may be affected by the guidance the Austin City Council is providing regarding the City’s Land Development Code rewrite.
All contact team meetings are free to attend and are open to the public.
A complete agenda for the meeting is posted below.
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The Austin Transportation Department (ATD) is proposing changes to Shoal Creek Boulevard from 38th St. to Highway183. The changes are intended to increase the safety and mobility of everyone using the street. In December 2018, ATD staff held open houses to gather input; in March, staff held open houses to publicize the options they developed. These options, along with a survey, are now online at the project’s webpage, www.AustinTexas.gov/ShoalCreekBlvd.
Three options are presented for North Shoal Creek’s section of the street:
1) Option X: a no build or no change option
2) Option Y: adds a one-way bikeway
3) Option Z: adds a two-way bikeway.Options Y and Z come with pedestrian improvements at the Steck and Anderson Lane intersections along with the following new sidewalks:
1) a new sidewalk from Mossrock to 183
2) 55’ of new sidewalk south of Steck
3) new sidewalk from Anderson to Foster.ATD staff say these options will “result in comparable motor vehicle levels of service and provide space for an additional protected bikeway.” Studies show protected bikeways increase safety for bicyclists more than do painted line bikeways.
Diagrams of the proposed changes are posted below. You can view slides showing all the proposed changes from 38th to 183 at www.AustinTexas.gov/ShoalCreekBlvd. You can give ATD your input about the proposed changes using the survey available at http://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ShoalCreekBlvd.
