City of Austin Council Message Board

Colleagues, Please see the attached amendment for Item 64. I hope these additional provisions for staff's consideration will be seen as friendly. 1. A property with an existing non-paved driveway or without off-street parking should not be required to alter those parking conditions for the primary r...

Thank you, Mayor. The list of topics posted is comprehensive and captures many of the items I was hoping we would take up tomorrow. I have two items, previously approved by Council during the 2nd reading of the Revised LDC, I would like to add to the mix: 1. Amend or remove the Capitol Dominance Ove...

Good morning colleagues and thanks all for weighing in on this critical subject matter. Mayor, I support your recommendation to have a work session on the concepts listed as well as a special called meeting if needed.  land development code changes to allow residential uses in commercial zones  co...

Council Member Alter,

East Austin joins West Austin and the whole of the city in standing against racism, bigotry, and antisemitism. I would be more than proud to cosponsor your resolution.

Kind Regards,
Natasha

Steve, I wanted to say as much in this morning's portion of the meeting but had an unavoidable conflict. Thanks for your leadership on this critical item, it's been one of the silver linings to emerge during the pandemic and subsequent crisis having more residents have access to council proceedings....

Thank you, CM Alter. I would also like to be added as a co-sponsor.

Kind Regards,
Natasha

Colleagues,

Due to concerns expressed by stakeholders, signaling a need for more engagement, as well as concerns about in-person public testimony during the pandemic, I plan on requesting to postpone Items 54, 60 & 61 to our Oct. 14 agenda.

Kind Regards,
Natasha

Thank you, Council Member Ellis, for skillfully capturing the many concerns swirling around this project. Like Project Connect, the Capital Express Central vision is a multi-billion-dollar investment that we will leave to our kids and grandkids. We get one shot at getting it right, which is why it i...

Colleagues,

Please see the attached updated budget amendment with revised direction language.

HARPER-MADISON 1 - revised: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 140324.pdf

Kind Regards,
Natasha

Colleagues, I look forward to our continued budget discussions. Please see the attached amendment I intend to offer this week: HARPER-MADISON 1: Allocate an additional $480,000 in one-time funds to Housing and Planning to develop the Northeast Austin District Plan (NEADP) as an attachment to Imagine...

CM Tovo, Thank you for your efforts to make Sixth Street a safer place. I am offering the attached amendments to Item 175. I hope these additions and the intent behind them will be accepted as friendly. Amendment 1: clarifies the geographic location by defining "Sixth Street" as the distri...

Council Member Tovo, Please see the attached updated minor changes I have made to your proposed amendments. I believe they may be more inline with your intent. If these are accepted as friendly, I will include them in my updated draft. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincouncilforum/AE-202106101629...

Council Member Tovo,

Please see the attached, which details minor changes I have made to your proposed amendments. If these are accepted as friendly, I will include them in my updated draft.

http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 143848.pdf

Kind regards,
Natasha

CM Alter,

Thanks to you and CM Tovo for bringing this additional option forward. I would like to express my support and look forward to the additional direction.

Best,
NHM

I appreciate your extensive collaboration on this resolution thus far, Council Member Kitchen. However, I worry that the proposed amendment is too limiting. I would be willing to replace "and high-capacity transit areas" in my original language with "and along Project Connect’s Metror...

Transit Oriented Development simply refers to development patterns around transit. The inclusion of bus lines is key to the equitable component of this resolution. It would be my hope that this council would be supportive of development patterns to equitably serve our low-income residents and commun...

Colleagues, I appreciated the dialogue regarding the eTOD resolution during yesterday’s work session. After hearing out the various concerns, I would like to offer additional clarity. One of my biggest takeaways was the need to establish definitions, which I believe will provide a better understandi...

Thank you, CM Kitchen. I believe we were able to incorporate the majority of your proposed amendments. Attached is a document reflecting the amendment language that has been incorporated, including rationale behind any tweaks that was made to proposed language. I've also included an updated draft th...

Colleagues,

To ensure enough time for robust discussion, I have asked to postpone Item 29 on our May 20 agenda and to reschedule it for our June 3 meeting.

Sincerely,
Natasha

Thank you, Council Member Kitchen, for your thoughtful and thorough contributions. I believe the attached draft captures many of your suggested changes while remaining in line with the original intent of directing city staff to coordinate with Capital Metro on updating our existing transit-oriented ...

Thank you, CM Kitchen. I happily welcome your co-sponsorship of this IFC. I also deeply appreciate the years of experience and expertise you’ve acquired as a leader on all things mobility that inform the amendments you’ve offered. I absolutely agree that we need to move as quickly as possible to get...

Colleagues, The last 14 months have been a series of challenges, to say the least, but the one undeniable bright spot was the overwhelming determination by the voters last November to fund a long overdue transit system in Austin. Project Connect’s broad catalogue of programmatic investments in all p...

Thank you Mayor for sharing my request and to my colleagues who've expressed the desire to convene for a special called meeting Friday evening. I am looking forward to the opportunity to deliberate the matter with the council and hope to see you all Friday. I'm seeing some concerning reports about r...

Thank you for this CM Casar. These are in line with some of the changes I was working on, I fully support these additions.

Best,
NHM

Good evening colleagues. I want to thank those of you who are able to offer financial assistance to the menstrual equity item my staff and I are bringing forward with my Health and Human Services Committee colleagues, the Commission for Women and a myriad of other partners. I know that some of you a...