City of Austin Council Message Board

MPT Garza, thank you very much for your feedback. I see this boycott as being very similar to Austin's boycott of Arizona from 2010-2018 - a boycott that I supported and one that was in effect for four years after we started the new 10-1 council until City Manager Cronk lifted it last year. So there...

Colleagues, In response to Alabama’s newly signed anti-abortion law – the most restrictive in the country – I am drafting a resolution for the June 6 Council agenda that would prohibit the city from doing business with Alabama, including any staff travel to the state for meetings or conventions. Ala...

Colleagues, After listening to the concerns of Flood Mitigation Task Force members and residents in District 7, I am bringing amendments that include environmental protections and floodplain regulations as stated priorities in our new code. I salute my colleagues for their commitment to protecting A...

Colleagues: My amendments posted here speak to my overall desire to get back to the basics of what the City Manager and our staff are asking us to do: give broad policy direction for the land development code rewrite and mapping. Over the past several weeks, we have debated the questions posed in th...

Colleagues, here is the link to the text of an amendment I will offer tomorrow. It covers the work that CM Kitchen and I did to ensure our Land Development Code includes District-area (Small Area) Planning. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/F6-20190423152645.pdf I will have additional...

Colleagues, We have all been reading about the existential threats facing us in regards to climate change. I have drafted a resolution that seeks to build in resiliency throughout our community to help us better prepare and respond to severe climate events. I welcome your input on this resolution an...

Colleagues, as promised earlier today in our work session, here are the amendments that I will offer on Thursday. My staff worked with the ASMP team to vet the amendments. They helped craft the wording offered here and have no objections to them being adopted. Amendments: Language on Transit Priorit...

Colleagues: I appreciate all the posted comments and proposals that will prepare us for our discussions, and I am in general agreement with much of it. I would like to share this addition to our collective direction from CM Kitchen and myself. -- Leslie From Leslie & Ann: We agree with the Mayor...

Colleagues, thanks for your thoughtful comments here. I am in general agreement throughout, in particular with the Mayor's added and specific language relating to policy goals and long-range planning. I am especially supportive of putting the new measuring tool from the UT Gentrification report, &qu...

Colleagues, thanks for your thoughtful comments here. I am in general agreement throughout, in particular with the Mayor's added and specific language relating to policy goals and long-range planning. I am especially supportive of putting the new measuring tool from the UT Gentrification report, &qu...

CM Casar, thank you for laying out your resolution at work session today. I would like to add my name to the resolution as a co-sponsor, if you have a spot available. I definitely support revising our development bonus program so that we require developers to provide more affordable units when the c...

Thanks so much, CM Flannigan, for signing on. We have one more spot for a co-sponsor if anyone else would like to join, please note here or let me or Amy Smith know.

Appreciate everyone's support on this item!

Best,

Leslie

Colleagues, I am bringing forward a resolution for February 7 that calls for the City Manager and the City Clerk to explore best practices regarding municipal bodies’ voting procedures. My thanks to Mayor Adler and Council Member Kitchen for joining me in this effort and I welcome anyone else who wo...

All, thanks for posting. I would like to stay on the committees I'm currently on and would like to make a change: - Audit and Finance Committee - CHAIR (member currently and was VICE CHAIR when CM Troxclair was on leave) - Austin Energy Utility Oversight Committee - I'm chair currently and would lik...

Good morning! I support including both of your proposed amendments to the City's 2019 Legislative Agenda, CM Houston. I wanted to signal my support to you publicly as I will, regrettably, miss our Oct 18 council meeting. I will be attending the National Habitat Conservation Plan Coalition annual mee...

CM Alter, I support your request for a postponement on Sep 20 of the instant case. Travel safely!

Regards,

Leslie

Colleagues, I have been outspoken on the many parts of the Precourt proposal about which I have major concerns, such as providing tax-free property and below-market rent. I still have these concerns and plan to discuss them tomorrow. However, I wanted to take a moment to talk about another aspect of...

Colleagues, I'm attaching a red line of amendments I'll offer for consideration on the dais tomorrow. I want to be sure we have an opportunity to review our past efforts relating to the code rewrite - a "lessons learned," if you will - so I've included language directing the City Auditor t...

Colleagues, I wanted to post an update with some of the materials I promised yesterday. For several weeks, I have had my staff work on an extensive analysis of the potential costs and community benefits related to this proposal. In an effort at full transparency, I am making these worksheets fully a...

CM Alter, thank you for bringing these edits to the parks portion of item 61. I support your suggested changes as they ensure that parks bond funds could be used for strategic land acquisitions to benefit city residents.

Leslie

Colleagues, Last June, Council Members Alter, Houston, Troxclair, and I co-authored an Austin American-Statesman opinion piece on our approach to the McKalla Place conversation (here: https://tinyurl.com/McKallaOpEd). In that piece, we discussed the principles which would guide our consideration of ...

Joint Statement from Mayor Pro Tem Tovo, and Council Members Alter, Houston, and Pool: For more than a year we have joined the community in sounding the alarm that CodeNEXT was broken. Those efforts included our proposed plan for a more equitable, sustainable, accessible, vibrant, and community-driv...

All, I would have preferred for the council and the public to hear all the proposals at the same time, but unfortunately the August 1 meeting was scheduled for Precourt only. So, to ensure the public is able to weigh-in on ALL the options, I propose a special called meeting on Tuesday, August 7, at ...

CM Houston, between your proposal and CM Kitchen's I feel certain that we'll be able to craft a solid bond proposal to take to our residents in November. My sincere thanks to both of you (and your amazing staffers!) and the City Manager for all of the very hard work that's gone into this item. My th...

CM Kitchen, between your proposal and CM Houston's I feel certain that we'll be able to craft a solid bond proposal to take to our residents in November. My sincere thanks to both of you (and your amazing staffers!) and the City Manager for all of the very hard work that's gone into this item. My th...