The Planning and Development Review Department invites all residents and business owners of the Westgate, Manchaca and Garrison Park area to attend the third workshop in a year-long planning process that will culminate in the South Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan. The workshop will be held this Saturday, March 23^rd, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in the cafeteria of Crockett High School, 5601 Manchaca Road. .
The South Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan will guide the form, location, and character of future development of the 4-square mile area bounded by Ben White Boulevard to the north, William Cannon Drive to the south, West Gate Boulevard/the Sunset Valley city limits to the west, and South 1st Street to the east. The planning area includes approximately 22,000 residents.
This workshop will focus on the area surrounding the intersection of Manchaca Road and Stassney Lane, which includes Crockett High School, Austin Community College South Campus, the Manchaca Road Branch Public Library, and local businesses. During the workshop, residents, property and business owners, educators, public officials and other stakeholders will dream and draw their vision for the area. Participants will work in groups to draft principles and create maps and sketches that imagine the future of the area. Representatives from AISD, ACC, and the library, along with volunteer architects from the Austin chapter of the American Institute of Architects, will assist participants in putting a physical vision of the area on paper.
The City initiated the neighborhood planning program in 1997 in order to preserve and enhance the quality of life and character of existing neighborhoods – mostly located in Austin’s urban core. Currently, 49 neighborhood planning areas have completed the planning process and have adopted neighborhood plans.
The South Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan will be the first neighborhood plan developed since the adoption of the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan. The South Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan and all future neighborhood plans will be guided by Imagine Austin’s vision of creating a city of complete communities and the Growth Concept Map. A complete community is a neighborhood in which residents have convenient access to their daily needs, including goods, services, parks, and jobs. While Imagine Austin articulates a city-wide vision for Austin and indicates generally where Austin should grow over the next 30 years, the South Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan will provide a neighborhood-scale plan that accounts for local conditions.
For more information on the planning process and upcoming meetings, contact Francis Reilly at (512) 974-7657, or by e-mail at Frances.Reilly@austintexas.gov, or visit www.austintexas.gov/department/south-austin-combined-neighborhood-plan.