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Who We Are
The West Austin Neighborhood Group (WANG) is a non-profit organization of residents with the shared goal of preserving West Austin and protecting it from deterioration. WANG is concerned with community development, ecology, safety, and any other matters that indirectly and directly affect the quality and character of the neighborhood and the City of Austin.
Comments? Complaints? Input?
Please send us an email with any comments, complaints, or concerns about neighborhood matters by clicking here.
Next WANG Board Meeting:
The next meeting of the WANG Board of Directors will occur on Monday, April 5, 2010 (the first Monday of the month), beginning at 7:00 pm, at a location-to-be-determined. Anyone is welcome to attend, and if you have an issue to discuss with the board, please contact our President, August Harris, at 320-8808 or via email by clicking here.
Next Neighborhood Planning Meeting:
Final Open House Meeting: We have concluded the zoning portion of Neighborhood Planning and await the scheduling of the Open House for the purposes of reviewing the plan prior to submission to the City’s Planning Commission. The date and location of the Final Open House for the Central West Austin neighborhood plan will be on Thursday, March 4 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the LCRA Red Bud Center (3601 Lake Austin Blvd). Please note that a postcard will be mailed out to the neighborhood by the end of this week, so look for it in your mailbox. The meeting will be an open house format where you can go to tables and provide feedback on the draft plan. As no formal presentation will occur, please feel free to come at a time that is best for you. Staff will be available to help you.
At this stage of the process, City Staff has prepared and posted drafts of the “Transportation,” “Land Use,” “Neighborhood in Context” and “Parks, Open Space & the Environment” chapters for the plan at http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/planning/neighborhood/cw_austin.htm#Draft%20Plan. Please review these drafts to make sure there are no errors, and attend the Open House to provide feedback and make corrections.
In general, we believe that the draft chapters reflect a lot of work and captures many of the points the community made during the process. However, there are two very significant omissions because the planning process failed to meaningfully address the Brackenridge and Austin State School tracts in terms of how they fit within our vision for the future of our neighborhood. Therefore, the draft chapters must be improved if this plan is to help us preserve our neighborhood. Those of us in the neighborhoods on both sides of MoPac who have been working on the Plan for the last several years have submitted detailed comments and have proposed changes to the draft plan during the process. For example, our revisions to the “Transportation” chapter are posted at Neighborhood Stakeholder Revisions to Draft Transportation Chapter _March, 2010_, and our revisions to the “Land Use” chapter are posted at Neighborhood Stakeholder Revisions to Draft Land Use Chapter.
For more information , please see our Final Open House post. Also, please visit the Central West Austin Neighborhood Planning website at http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/planning/neighborhood/cw_austin.htm (a new website which does not have all of the information posted that was previously available), or contact City Staff by calling Paul DiGiuseppe at 512-974-2865 (paul.digiuseppe@ci.austin.tx.us) or Carol Haywood at 512-974-7685 with any questions (Carol.Haywood@ci.austin.tx.us).
Howson Library Update:
The Howson Library has been undergoing major renovations throughout most of 2009. Prior to completing the project, there were some unforseen complications that have now pushed the reopening to no later than April of 2010. The City is well aware of our community’s desire to see Howson reopened as soon as possible. Please monitor our site for any updates. Further information on the project can be found in a post on this website.
