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The Planning and Zoning Department is hosting two key meetings on community character and land use coming up on December 3rd and January 21st. The North Shoal Creek neighborhood planning area includes everything surrounded by US 183, Burnet Road, Anderson Lane, and Mopac. We invite every resident, business, and property owner in the neighborhood to join us to discuss the future shape of North Shoal Creek’s community character. The next meeting will be on Saturday, December 3rd, 2016, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Pillow Elementary School cafeteria.
Please join us for refreshments and a conversation with your fellow residents about your neighborhood. A limited amount of child care will be available at the meeting; please call Debora Gonzalez at 512 974-7973 to see reserve space in advance. The discussion on community character will continue on January 21st, 2017.
In addition to the upcoming meetings, please visit the North Shoal Creek Plan web page for more information about the neighborhood and the planning process. Presentations and results from our first two meetings can be found here. Please take a look through what you have told us is important in making North Shoal Creek a more complete, more connected community. If you were unable to attend the meetings and have comments, please send them to me at the email address below.
We look forward to helping you chart the course for North Shoal Creek!
Sincerely,
Jeff Engstrom, AICP
Senior Planner
City of Austin Planning and Zoning Department
jeffrey.engstrom@austintexas.gov
(512) 974-1621
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Planning and Zoning Department staff have created a one-page summary showing the results of the Kickoff Survey for the North Shoal Creek Planning Process (that survey closed on October 7th). The summary page contains the following charts:
- How complete is your community? (North Shoal Creek scored 6.9 on a 10 point scale).
- What would make your neighborhood more complex?
- How often do you travel by car, bus, bicycle, or by foot?
- What would encourage you to walk, bike, or use transit?
- What are your top priorities for the neighborhood?
- What do you like best about the neighborhood?
- Who participated in the survey? (107 responses, broken down by age group)
You can view the survey summary page at this link: NSC Planning Process: Kickoff Survey Results
Five slides providing more detailed information on the survey results have been posted at NSCNA’s Facebook page: facebook.com/nscna
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Planning and Zoning Department staff have created a handy one-page summary of our first planning meeting, held October 1st. It’s titled “What You Told Us,” and it summarizes participants’ responses to these questions:
- What makes a complete Community?
- What did you learn today?
- What is your group’s most important issue?
- What do you hope to get from the plan?
If you didn’t attend that meeting, please take a few minutes to read through it so you’ll know what happened in Meeting 1.
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Slides from our Saturday, Nov. 5th Neighborhood Planning Process have been posted at http://austintexas.gov/page/north-shoal-creek-meeting-and-survey-results.
The topic of Meeting 2 was The Mobility and Land Use Connection.
If you were unable to attend the meeting, please send your comments on the exercises to Jeffrey Engstrom at jeffrey.engstrom@austintexas.gov.
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Thank you to the Austin Parks Foundation for their support of our North Shoal Creek Community Garden Project at Pillow Elementary School.
This year the Austin Parks Foundation gave nearly $200,000 to nine park improvement projects throughout Austin. Our North Shoal Creek Community Garden Project received $10,000. The funds come from the Foundation’s Austin City Limits Music Festival Grants Program.
For more information on the Austin Parks Foundation, go to austinparks.org.
For more information on our North Shoal Creek Community Garden Project, please view our Facebook page photo album titled “North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Partnering Program Proposal.”
To the Austin Parks Foundation, we say “THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!”
