Executive Committee Meeting 4-August-2008

The meeting will be called to order between 7:15 to 7:30pm depending upon if we have any public input. The meeting will be held at St Louis Church at 7601 Burnet Rd, Austin, 78757 in the Library.

Tentative Agenda

1) Finances [5 minutes]
2) Neighborhood Contact Team Status [10 minutes]
3) Ice Cream Followup [5 minutes]
4) General Meeting topic for 11-August-2008 will be Yard Wild Life Habitats done by Elaine Dill [5 minutes]
5) Review Responses from Opinion Requests [15 minutes]
Review the first pass of responses. Please request if you want a copy of the results.
6) VMU Consensus so far from Committee [30 minutes]
7) Justin Lane Down Grade [15 minutes]
See attached document. Who wants to lead this effort?
8) Power Lines on Grover [5 minutes]
Does anyone have interest in this issue?
9) Ryan Property that Austin Energy Owns [5 minutes]
Do we persue this now or wait until later?

Brentwood/Crestview Documentary Showing, 7/20/08 12:30pm

"A Community Mosaic," a documentary about the history and people of Brentwood and Crestview, will have another public showing on Sunday, July 20.

Faith Lutheran Church, 6600 Woodrow Avenue, is hosting this free showing at 12:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary (the door is marked "Worship Center"). The event will follow the church's praise service and potluck dinner, which begin at 10:30. Everyone is welcome to attend any or all events.

The film features history and early photographs of the area and interviews with neighborhood residents, including Jean Graham, who created the Wall of Welcome at Crestview Shopping Center. "A Community Mosaic" premiered at the dedication of the wall in March.

Crestview residents Susan and Rob Burneson produced the film for Violet Crown Community Works, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that supports community building and neighborhood enhancement projects in Brentwood and Crestview, including the Wall of Welcome and the Violet Crown Festival. Donations to VCCW are tax deductible.

We hope to see you there!

Submitted by: Susan Burneson

Ice Cream Social - July 12th, 10am-1pm

Are you ready for ice cream? Can you say Blue Bell?
It’s that time again. Time for Crestview’s annual Ice Cream Social.

When: Saturday, July 12th, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Where: Crestview Center (near the gazebo)

Drop by for ice cream and music and catch up on the news with your neighbors.
Bring a chair and baked goods if you choose.
Remember, the social takes the place of the July CNA general meeting.

See you there!

Request for Neighborhood Input Regarding Negotiations for Parkland/Trails

The president of the Crestview Neighborhood Association, Jonathan Locklin, is requesting input on the items listed below. The intention is for those residents who want to reply to e-mail him at jslpublic@gmail.com or send a letter to our post office box (CNA, P.O. Box 9595, Austin, TX 78766). The response format would be open text/paragraph. We would review the opinions in the executive committee meetings as they come in.

1) Would you consider increased density in the Crestview Station development area* in exchange for parkland and/or other neighborhood amenities? Currently the Crestview Station area is approved to have 1,400 residential Units.

2) Would you consider multifamily development on 6909 Ryan Drive in exchange for parkland and/or other neighborhood amenities? Currently the 6909 Ryan Drive property is owned by Austin Energy. The city is very adamant about developing this property, because it is adjacent to CAPMETRO's rail station platform.

3) Whether or not item 2 is supported, would you consider supporting a pedestrian and bicycle trail from Ryan Drive through the 6909 property to CAPMETRO's rail platform on the East side of the rail track and/or to a rail platform on the west side of the rail track. Currently CAPMETRO is not planning a platform on the west side of the rail track.

4) Would you consider supporting a pedestrian and bicycle trail on the Crestview Station development area* that would be adjacent to CAPMETRO's rail track on the eastern side (Crestview Station property) from Lamar Blvd to Morrow St.?

5) Would you consider new parkland for Crestview to be placed along Morrow St. between Lamar Blvd and the North Area Optimist Club. If you do not support this, where and how would you place parkland for Crestview.?

* The boundaries for the Crestview Station development area are Lamar Blvd. on the East, CAPMETRO's rail track on the West, and Morrow St. on the North.

Note that all negotiations will be made with the Crestview Executive Committee and Crestview Residents. This is just a call for opinion.

Executive Committee Meeting 7-July-2008

The meeting will be called to order between 7:15 to 7:30 depending upon if we have any public input. The meeting will be held at St Louis Church at 7601 Burnet Rd, Austin, 78757 in the Library. Please see map at bottom of the agenda for a map and red circle around where the Executive Committee will meet.

Preliminary Agenda:

1) Heidi Goebel (Land Use Committee) will present information about a variance request from a resident on Justin Lane. We will vote on the action taken. [15 minutes]

2) Who will attend the following meetings. [5 minutes]
a) VMU meetings with Brewster McCracken at the One Texas Center building on Barton Springs
b) Wednesday, July 9th at 6:30 p.m. at the Palmer Events Center, Meeting Rooms 1, 2 and 3
c) Others?
3) Eddie will present information from a affordable housing meeting he went to on Tuesday (last week). We need volunteers to follow up on this. [10 to 15 minutes]

4) Allan McMurtry, Paulette Kern, Anne Young, and Steven Zettner will discuss their experiences with Allandale's VMU application as it went through Planning Commission and City Council. [1 hour]
a) Lessons learned at the Planning Commission where the Allandale VMU application was reviewed [30 minutes].
b) What has been happening at the weekly VMU meetings hosted by Brewster McCracken [30 minutes]?
-- What is ICR? How is VMU going to be handled as is backs up to residential? What are developers saying about Austin's VMU process?
--- Time permitting ---

5) Jonathan will present information about how the meeting of all six neighborhood officers went. [10 minutes]

6) Hang Town Grill wants to give the neighborhood free food to come by their establishment that they are opening soon. What do you think about this? More information to come. [10 minutes]