SPECIAL CITY WIDE NOTICE
COUNCIL'S ONLY PUBLIC HEARING ON REVISED LDC THIS SATURDAY
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SHOW UP EARLY AT CITY HALL
ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7TH
10AM TO 5PM
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Special Notice
- City Council Public Hearing on Land Development Code Revision
- Please attend and sign up as OPPOSED.
- You can speak for 3 minutes or donate time.
- This will be the ONLY PUBLIC HEARING before the Council votes on the code
We need to update our Land Development Code
but the proposed new code currently
eliminates citizens rights to valid petitions
This could be your last chance to file your protest your properties zoning change before the Austin City Council votes on it.
Join us at Austin City Hall
Let City Council hear from you
and
give everyday Austinites a greater voice in the rewrite of our Land Development Code.
Show up with your neighbors
Saturday, December 7 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
at City Hall
Important Dates:
- December 7th - (Saturday) City Council Public Hearing on LDC / CodeNEXT
- December 9th - (Monday) City Council First Reading LDC / CodeNEXT
This blog has some great graphics of what can be built under the new LDC rewrite and shows 3D images of what the City of Austin has recently developed
https://austinupzoned.blogspot.com/
What can you do?
- Go to www.austintexas.gov/LDC and find your property and zone on the D10 zoning map to see what is allowed.
- Write to Council and Mayor at https://www.austintexas.gov/email/all-council-members
- File a protest at www.fileyourprotest.com
- Follow what Community not Commodity is doing.
- Support the Community not Commodity Litigation
- Talk to friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who live in other districts – show them what is happening and encourage them to write to their council member
Barbara McArthur assembled a powerful presentation about the proposed LDC rewrite and presented it at the WANG multi-neighborhood group meeting on Nov. 5th.
To view her presentation, please click here.
Check out the latest images below of what can be built in the different zoning districts. click this page to see some 3D renderings of what may be built next door to you.
Everyone City wide should file a written (or electronic) protest just to be safe.
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NEXT Neighborhood Meeting
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WANG JANUARY MEETING
TUESDAY JANUARY 7, 2020 6:30PM
HOWSON BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY
MONTHLY MEETING CHANGE FOR 2020
OUR REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS ARE NOW HELD THE SECOND TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH
Tuesday, Jan 7, 2020, 06:30 PM
Howson Branch, Austin Public Library, Exposition Boulevard, Austin, TX, USA
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WANG Board of Directors & Committee Members
Organized 1973......"To preserve our neighborhood and protect it from deterioration"
- President: Holly Reed President@westaustinng.com
- Secretary: Cathy Kyle Secretary@westaustinng.com
- Assistant Secretary: Blake Tollett AsstSecretary@westaustinng.com
- Treasurer: George Edwards Treasurer@westaustinng.com
- Past President: Cathy Kyle PastPresident@westaustinng.com
All Current Members (click on name to send email)
- Holly Reed ............................member since 2015 (President)
- Cathy Kyle ............................member since 2010 (Secretary)
- Blake Tollett .........................member since 1994 (Asst Secretary)
- George Edwards ..................member since 2004 (Treasurer)
- Mary Arnold .........................member since 2006 (Muny Tract)
- August "Happy" Harris.........member since 2005 (Transportation)
- Michael Cannatti .................member since 1999 (CWANPCT)
- Joseph M Bennett ...............member since 2001 (Membership)
- Haidar Khazen .....................member since 2004 (Web Master)
- Craig Lill ...............................member since 2017
- Joyce Basciano ...................member since 1999
- Brady Pedneau ................... member since 2019 (ANC Liason)
- Bob Hamilton........................new member
- Sarah Hawthorne Cain.........new member
- Heidi Gibbons.......................new member
Honorary Committee Members
- Honorary Mayor Steve Adler
- Honorary Alison Alter
- Honorary Kathie Tovo
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