Sheri Florizone's List: Austin TX Comprehensive Plan

• She said the city's Plan Cheyenne project is a valuable tool for building  community. But she added that one concern she has is the preservation of the  historical nature of the area while it undergoes the process of growth.

• the truly wonderful places are hard to find if you are looking for them in and  around neighborhoods constructed outside the city’s core.
• But if you are only able to access the good stuff by car, is this the best way  to experience it?
• Since then, some central neighborhoods have created a patchwork quilt of  “Neighborhood Plans” that have been approved by Council as partial updates to  the 1979 Austin Tomorrow Plan.
• While the City of Austin’s new design standards aim to foster the creation of  dense, affordable and walkable transportation corridors, the reality is that our  city code creates inherent conflicts as shown
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• direct growth away from environmentally sensitive areas in the southwest and  some areas of the northwest and to create a more linear city along IH 35

• According to the Scope  of Services for the consultant

• Comparison  of other cities' comprehensive planning efforts.
• Staff prepared a comparison of public participation methods for large-scale  planning processes in other communities and created the following two documents:   
   
  • Detailed comparison  chart of these methods
• Overview  presentation to Planning Commission on these methods (NPZD Principal Planner  Mark Walters, to Planning Commission Comprehensive Plan committee on October 7,  2008

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