NSCNA Blog Archive

  • Take the North Shoal Creek Draft Plan Survey

    Administrator

    Don’t forget to take the Draft Plan Survey for the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan! This is your last chance to comment on the draft plan before it heads to Planning Commission and City Council in February and March of 2018. The survey will close after this Friday, December 22nd.
    • Check out the Draft North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan on the plan web page:  www.austintexas.gov/northshoalcreek
    • Then take the Final Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NorthShoalCreekFinalSurvey

    The survey will be open through this Friday, December 22nd. After that, staff will collect and analyze the results, along with comments collected at the Draft Plan Open House. (If you submitted a paper survey at the Open House or at the North Village Branch Library you don’t need to submit the survey again.) Comments will be posted online and addressed prior to the public review process. Stay tuned for an announcement of public review dates!

    Thanks for all of your help throughout the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan! Please take this last chance to let us know what we got right, what you thought of the planning process, and how we can make the Draft Plan perfect before heading for official review.

    Happy Holidays!

    Jeff Engstrom, AICP
    Senior Planner
    City of Austin Planning and Zoning Department
    jeffrey.engstrom@austintexas.gov
    (512) 974-1621

  • Join Us For Our Annual Luminaria Walk December 18, 6-8PM, Pillow School Track

    Administrator

  • North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan Open House on December 9th

    Administrator

    The Planning & Zoning Department is pleased to announce the release of the draft North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Plan. At this point the draft is 90% complete. The draft plan is available for review in PDF format on the Plan web page, http://www.austintexas.gov/department/north-shoal-creek. The draft plan will also be available for review at the North Village Branch Library.

    Come see the draft plan and give us your comments at the Draft Plan Open House:
    Saturday, December 9, 2017
    10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Drop in any time!)
    Pillow Elementary School
    3025 Crosscreek Drive

    At the Open House you can:
    Find out more about the draft plan
    Vote on top action priorities
    Learn how to get involved in the Neighborhood Plan Contact Team formation
    Take the North Shoal Creek Plan Final Survey (Open until 12/22/2017)
    Enjoy breakfast tacos and coffee!

    For more information about the Open House, Contact: Jeff Engstrom (512-974-1621). For more information forming the Neighborhood Plan Contact Team, contact Margaret Valenti (512-974-2648).

    Sincerely,
    Jeff Engstrom, AICP
    Senior Planner
    City of Austin Planning and Zoning Department
    jeffrey.engstrom@austintexas.gov
    (512) 974-1621

  • Board Approves Development Committee Letter and Comments on CodeNEXT

    Administrator

    At its October 26 meeting, the NSCNA Board approved sending a letter and list of comments regarding CodeNEXT Draft 2 to the Mayor and City Council. The letter can be viewed here Board Letter CodeNEXT 102717 and the list of comments here CodeNEXT Draft 2 Comments Final

  • What’s Happening With CodeNEXT?

    Administrator

    Public input on CodeNEXT Draft 2 ended Oct. 31, and city staff are working now to get Draft 3 ready for its release date (November 28th).

    On December 12th and December 19th, Draft 3 is scheduled to go before Austin’s two land use commissions for review. Both commissions are scheduled to vote on it Jan. 11th.

    Next, Draft 3– annotated to reflect changes recommended by the two commissions– will be posted for action by the City Council on Jan. 26th. This prepares the stage for the City Council to review and debate preparatory to voting on it in April 2018.

    In the meantime, the controversy over CodeNEXT continues:

    • Anti-CodeNEXT groups have a petition drive going to require voter approval of CodeNEXT. If you want to sign the petition or just want more info on it, go to www.letusvoteaustin.org
    • The highest profile pro-CodeNEXT group is Evolve Austin, whose web page you can find at http://www.evolveaustin.org

    The official City of Austin CodeNEXT site is http://www.austintexas.gov/codenext, but it’s easy to get bogged down in the huge amounts of data and detail it contains. For a more general overview, try the CodeNEXT Hub, a site created by several local news organizations to pull together articles about CodeNEXT. Contributors to the site include the Austin American-Statesman, the Austin Monitor, Austin Chronicle, Community Impact Newspaper, and KUT; it’s at http://www.codenexthub.org