Neighborhood Planning Update: The City Council will hear the first reading for the Central West Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan on July 29th at 6:00PM, but there is a possibility the hearing will be re-scheduled due to budget issues that are also scheduled for that day.
Bylaws Meeting: The bylaws for the Central West Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan Contact Team will be discussed on Tuesday, February 16th 6:30 – 7:50pm at Bryker Woods Elementary School. Set forth below are the proposed bylaws for the Central West Austin Combined Neighborhood Planning Team (NPT). These bylaws have been prepared based on your template, with […]
The Austin-American Statesman reports that the recommendations from Cooper, Robertson & Partners LLP (CR&P) for the redevelopment of the Brackenridge tract call for denser construction than City of Austin rules would generally allow. Resolution of the conflict between the City's rules and the development proposals will have a significant impact on the character and quality of West Austin as efforts are made to encourage growth without destroying the established West Austin neighborhood.
A UT panel of faculty members is recommending transforming the University of Texas’ Brackenridge tract into an environmental science campus which would enhance an existing biological field laboratory by housing the university’s extensive plant and natural history collections, currently stored on the main campus, in a new science center that would serve as a museum, a research center and a public outreach site. Additional space on the 350-acre tract would be set aside for a technology transfer center, where researchers could work on biofuels, biotech, clean energy, environmentally friendly architecture and other initiatives with a goal of moving breakthroughs at the lab bench into the marketplace.
July 1, 2009 Statement by August W. Harris III, President, West Austin Neighborhood Group (WANG): West Austin Neighborhood Group Deplores Brackenridge Tract Planners’ Suggestions and Continues to Seek Best Use for Core Suburban Spaces
The next Central West Austin Land Use workshop will occur on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009, and will the discuss some previously discussed areas where we were not able to reach consensus and agreed to take them back to a future meeting.
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2008 Annual Meeting: The West Austin Neighborhood Group held its Annual Meeting on Saturday, October 4, 2008 (10:00 am to noon) at the new LCRA Redbud Facility (3601 Lake Austin Blvd). In addition to electing the Board of Directors for the coming year, the items listed below on the agenda were discussed. 2008 West Austin […]
Please see the websites below for the schools in our neighborhood Stephen F. Austin High School O.Henry Middle School Bryker Woods Elementary School Casis Elementary School
West Austin Neighborhood Group