Central West Austin Neighborhood Plan Meeting Tonight

The Neighborhood Plan Kickoff Meeting for the Central West Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan is tonight, Thursday, June 21 from 6:30-8:30pm at the Lions Club House @ Lions Municipal Golf Course, 2901 Enfield Road. The First Workshop will be Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 6:30-8:30pm also at the Lions Club House @ Lions Municipal Golf Course, 2901 Enfield Road.

Central West Austin has been largely left behind by the city's VMU ordinance and commercial design regs. This neighborhood plan is Central West Austin's chance to join the 21st century and get some sustainable development instead of the densification without integration that is going on there now.

If you are a Central West Austinite, go by the Club House tonight and let them know that it is important to you to add more neighborhood retail and office space and to improve the neighborhood's walkability. Make it clear that not everyone in Central West Austin is primarily concerned with traffic calming and not allowing parking in front of houses. If you aren't into the whole "showing up" thing, at least take the survey.

Image from the West Austin Neighborhood Group

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By Shawn Shillington in News on June 21, 2007 12:09 PM 0 Comments

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Wes

"(the posts) could all be replaced with blah blah VMU blah blah CONDOS blah blah SETBACKS ZONING blah blah"

Don't forget to add some 'burb-hating to that rant.

It is okay for shilli to live in a single family home in 78703 because he can afford it, but God forbid that someone of more modest means seek out the same thing in a place like Round Rock or Kyle.

M1EK

truecraig,

Those of us who grew up in Boca Raton beg to differ. You schmuck!

truecraig

Unless the term "shmuck" is being used with more than a hair of sarcasm or irony, then the statement it is designed to prop up should be disregarded entirely.

I don't make up these rules. They simply are.

dan

Shilli, I don't always agree with your opinions, but I appreciate these posts. There have been a few in the past that were relevant for my neighborhood, and I didn't even know about the meeting. These are the types of meetings that greatly benefit from higher attendance from the people living there - keep up these posts - thanks!

dan

Shawn Shillington

Dear hm,

I actually live there.

Thanks for judging my opinion as "biased and somewhat out of touch." It is my opinion - how is it any more biased than any other opinion? I spend a lot of time in MY NEIGHBORHOOD and honestly think it is important to add more retail and office space and to improve walkability. How does that make me out of touch?

Why are you so bothered that I, the urban development editor of this blog, would post about urban development in Austin or urban development in my neighborhood (or urban development in any other neighborhood in Austin)?

I think it would benefit Austin for readers of this blog to be more involved in the neighborhood planning process in their assorted neighborhoods, so I post information about when and where these meetings are happening. I don't do this as a community service - I want to move development in Austin forward in what I see as a positive way, so I include my opinion on what that way is.

Grape Ape

If you don't think what happens in other neighborhoods effects you and your neighborhood you are sadly misinformed.

hm

am i the only one who is annoyed at these posts? maybe the people who actually live there should decide what happens in their neighborhood instead of having some schmuck on a blog extol to its readers his biased and somewhat out of touch opinion.

i know the austinist isnt real journalism, but these posts are the most grating of them all. they could all be replaced with blah blah VMU blah blah CONDOS blah blah SETBACKS ZONING blah blah

M1EK

Dude. Good luck with that one. All you have to do is start taking the survey and it's clear they want you to decide whether VMU is a threat or a menace.