CNA Meeting Summary for 10-Sep-2007

At the last Crestview neighborhood association meeting, we heard from Sonya Lopez, pricipal planner for the Transit Oriented Development (TOD). She presented TOD information specific to the Crestview neighborhood and listened to and documented concerns from Crestview residents about TOD. The meeting started with about 68 residents (Augusts meeting was around 79 residents). Thanks to all the residents who came out to learn and talk about their concerns.

After Augusts meeting, many Crestview residents approached the Crestview steering committee members and requested that the steering committee create a resolution to reflect the opinions of many of the Crestview residents. This resolution was a compromise of various opinions collected from Crestview residents.

Thus the meeting ended with a review and vote on a resolution created by the steering committee. This resolution passed with 35 votes for the resolution, 5 votes to abstain, and 3 votes against.

Below is the final resolution sent to Sonya Lopez and the PB consultants with TOD.

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September 10, 2007

CNA Resolution on TOD Planning

Based on the results of the CNA survey conducted during the neighborhood planning process where 90% of the 400 respondents recommended no more than 700 additional residential units, based on the lack of known infrastructure such as roadways, utilities, parks, libraries and schools to meet the needs of higher density, and based on the need to evaluate the effects of currently planned projects prior to moving blindly forward, we hereby make the following recommendations to the city of Austin regarding TOD development within the Crestview neighborhood:

1. That any residential development within the TOD will be capped at 20 units per acre.
   
   
2. That building height be limited to two stories or, where appropriate, to three stories.
   
   
3. That access to the Crestview Station development be limited to Lamar Blvd. and that no roadways connect Crestview Station to Morrow Street, Justin Lane or any other neighborhood street. Any vehicular connectivity between Crestview and Crestview Station opens both areas of the neighborhood to non-residential cut-through traffic.
   
   
4. That the intersection at Justin and Lamar remain a “T” intersection, with Airport Blvd. continuing to intersect Lamar Blvd. north of Justin Lane as it does today and that no street east of Lamar be created to extend Justin Lane east of Lamar Blvd.
   
   
5. That a permanent pedestrian walkway be established along or adjacent to the Capital Metro right-of-way for use by area residents. This would improve pedestrian connectivity to the commuter rail station.
   
   
6. That publically-accessible parkland acreage be designated within the Crestview TOD boundaries to help offset the current total absence of parkland in the Crestview neighborhood, specially the entire acreage of the city-owned property on Ryan Street.