City of Austin Council Message Board

Dear colleagues, Here is an amendment I have drafted regarding the mapping of missing middle housing in high-opportunity areas. I'm interested in your thoughts and welcome your feedback as together we pursue a more equitable, sustainable future for our city. The goal of this amendment is to ensure w...

Posted on behalf of Council Member Ellis: Dear Colleagues, Thank you all for the great discussion at today's work session. I look forward to continuing it tomorrow! Since the topic of a Heritage Tree Preservation Bonus Program came up today (thank you, Council Member Harper-Madison!), I want to shar...

Posted on behalf of Council Member Ellis: Thank you, Mayor, for your suggestions regarding the scope and schedule for Council’s first reading of the draft LDC revisions. I concur with this plan, especially with regards to keeping our discussion high-level and policy-focused for this initial action. ...

On behalf of Council Member Ellis, please find the attached budget amendment and associated budget direction for your consideration: Summary: Maintain the Clean Community Fee at its current FY 2018-2019 level, pending a report back from the City Manager with additional information no later than Nove...

On behalf of Council Member Ellis: Thank you, Council Member Flannigan, for proposing this amendment to the Faulk renovation resolution. Like you, I would like to see this beautiful, historic City asset used to its highest purpose and enjoyed by as many residents as possible, especially given its lo...

Council Member Ellis intends to bring the following motion sheet for discussion this afternoon, which amends CM Pool’s proposed amendment to Question 1, Section 4, letters a-d, and incorporates CM Harper-Madison’s proposed amendment into letter a: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/BE-...

On behalf of Council Member Ellis: Dear colleagues, Thank you all for your thoughtful posts on how we can best shape the land development code revisions to achieve our community's goals! I look forward to discussing them at our meeting. In addition to "Amendment A" posted earlier by the Mayor to ref...

On behalf of CM Ellis: Dear colleagues, I intend to bring one amendment tomorrow regarding the Transit Enhancement Program (formerly Transit Priority Policy), following our discussion with staff at work session. This amendment aligns with existing staff plans, and they are comfortable with the langu...

On behalf of Council Member Ellis: Dear colleagues, Since receiving the latest draft of the SD23 Mobility Outcome document last week, my office has developed some amendments to the strategies and metrics that I plan to offer for Council's consideration. We have been working with the Office of Perfor...

On behalf of Council Member Ellis:

Dear colleagues:

I just wanted to let you know the reason I have pulled Item #40 for discussion at work session tomorrow is to offer a friendly amendment to make the resolution language match the posting language with respect to the word "transit."

Thanks!
Paige