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City Council Member Lee Leffingwell and the City of Austin seek resident and visitor input alike for a major City of Austin website redesign via the Austin Go survey. Up until January 4th, you can tell the gub'ment just how you'd like their new-fangled webhighwaytubes to assist you by filling out the online survey on such topics as how you use the City of Austin site, how you'd like to see it improved, and how you rate redesign areas such as navigation, timeliness and accuracy of the online information the city provides, and security of personal information.

Image from Austin City Connection.According to the Statesman, our beloved mayor nearly pulled a Chuck Norris when a Monarch construction truck blocked traffic on West Fifth Street. Story is he got out of his car, walked to the construction site and ripped into the project superintendent. He later indicated that he was sorry if his vulgarity offended any construction workers. Many Statesman commenters noted that if the mayor thinks it is bad to get stuck...

Image from Austin City Connection. Waller Creek Design Workshop9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007Austin City Hall (301 W. 2nd St.)[info] City Council Member Sheryl Cole and the Waller Creek Citizen Advisory Committee are asking the public for input regarding the Waller Creek corridor at a design workshop 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007, at Austin City Hall. Displays from the joint venture engineering team will be, uh, displayed. Silly ideas like...

On Saturday, the City presented a preliminary draft of the North Burnet Gateway Re-Development plan, which includes the Domain. We skipped the presentation and went shopping. The shopping is awesome (got some hot Pumas), but we're not sure what to make of the development. It is VMU (at least the part that has been built), appears reasonably dense, and may someday have rail. It is also a freaky, disneyfied version of "downtown." One goal...

The North Village Branch Library will be moving from its current strip mall location (shown left) to the fancy new digs shown above (to be located at 2505 Steck Avenue). The new design, by Limbacher & Godfrey, features a rainwater collection system and solar panels. The walls will be built from recycled wood chips and modular concrete blocks. The designers focused on using natural light as much as possible, which is good because fluorescents make those pasty north Austin kids look like they have green skin. The building has a rainwater collection system, the xeriscape uses native plants and the pavement is porous to allow water to reach the earth (the earth loves that). Expected to open in October of 2008.

City Council Members Leffingwell, Martinez and McCracken have written a letter to J. Willard Marriott, Jr. stating that "Las Manitas, Escuelita del Alma, and Tesoros are revered local institutions which have significant cultural and historic value to our community ... [l]osing them is simply a losing proposition for everyone involved." They note that the development as it is now envisioned would appear to require several approvals by the Austin City Council and ask Marriott...