Crestview Neighborhood Planning Contact Team: February 2012

Friday, February 24, 2012

Hello Contact Team Representatives,

This email contains 3.5 announcements. Please read through to the end – they are all IMPORTANT. Thanks!

Announcement #1

Many thanks to the contact team members who attended the quarterly training earlier this week. Renee Orr with the Transportation Department gave a presentation and took questions on the new Local Area Traffic Management Program. You can learn more about the program and download a copy of the application here: http://austintexas.gov/department/local-area-traffic-management

Announcement #2

A copy of the latest and greatest contact team newsletter “Neighborhood-Plan-It” can be found here:http://www.austintexas.gov/department/neighborhood-planning

Announcement #3

At the February 15^th meeting of the Neighborhood Plan Subcommittee of the Planning Commission, Commissioners recommended, without objection, that Staff go ahead with the minor NPA code changes as suggested by Staff, except for the proposed change to the application window, indicating to Staff that the application window should remain as-is (one month out of the year; Feb for planning areas West of IH 35 and July for Planning areas East of IH 35).

There will be no changes to the Feb/July plan amendment application window.

Announcement #.5

The next Quarterly Contact Team Training is May 15^th, 6:00 – 7:30pm at One Texas Center 3^rd floor training room. We will discuss the fine art of “Managing Your Message before Boards, Commissions and City Council”

Thanks everybody! Have a great weekend!

Margaret

Margaret E. Valenti

Senior Neighborhood Planner

Contact Team and Education Coordinator

(512) 974-2648

City of Austin

Planning & Development Review Department

505 Barton Springs Road, Austin Texas 78704

Please note: E-mail correspondence to and from the City of Austin is subject to open records requests

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Quarterly Contact Team Training

The next Quarterly Contact Team training is in two weeks!

Tuesday, February 21

6:00 – 7:30pm

OTC 3^rd Floor training room.

505 Barton Springs (Barton Springs & South 1^st.)

The training will cover the new Local Area Traffic Management program.

The City of Austin is proposing a change to its traffic calming program. The new program is called Local Area Traffic Management (LATM). Initially this new program will provide a process for mitigating excessive speeding on neighborhood streets. Eventually the program will include methodologies for dealing with cut-through traffic and the removal of existing traffic control devices.

The guidelines and procedures for LATM were presented to the Urban Transportation Commission (UTC) on November 8th. The LATM PowerPoint presentation from that meeting as well as the proposed guidelines and procedures are available on the UTC website. The guidelines and procedures can be found at: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/edims/document.cfm?id=160679

and the PowerPoint is at: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/edims/document.cfm?id=160205

Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP not required but please arrive promptly as we will begin and end at the scheduled time.

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It's My Park Day will take place on Saturday, March 3rd 2012 from 9 am to 1 pm

“It’s My Park Day” is an annual community service day focused on improvements to Austin’s park. Individuals and community groups lead projects ranging from simple cleaning and repair to trail building and playground installation.

Meet your neighbors and help out at a park near you!

http://www.austinparks.org/itsmypark.html

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Neighborhood Parks Grant

Does your contact team want to implement a park project from your neighborhood plan? If so, an Austin Parks Foundation Neighborhood Parks Grant can help! A mandatory pre-application class will be conducted in late April, and applications are due on May 30^th. For more information see http://www.austinparks.org/npg_how.html. The grants can range from $300 to $50,000 and grantees are required to match the grant fund with volunteer labor, community fund raising, and in-kind donations.