July 8th Wooten NA Minutes

Committee Check Ins

Park Team

• Working on pets project to memorialize those who have passed away. Little memorial stones.

Contact Team

• Meet With Adam Greenfield to discuss restrictive covenants
• Going to have a follow up meeting July 16^th at 8 pm. Nosh and Bevvy.
• Chito chimed in about Dale Connection.
• He wants to Preserve access for rail.
• Suggested adding funding for Improvements to Wooten Park
  • Shade structures
    • trees
  • Splash pad
  • Grills
• Mentioned Emerald Tavern rezoning
• Polaris tract by middle school
• Community Police Rep Officer Coleman gave an update on Polaris tract
  • Holes in fence and has had trespassing
  • Deceased person found on site.
  • Police an provide property manager contact.
  • Mentioned abandoned building near preschool on Ohlen
  • Also mentioned abandoned vehicles.
  • Chito mentions they want to double the vehicle abatement police officer from 2 to 4.
  • Also issues with van campers. Can’t do anything about them unless they start spilling over into the street or adding shade structures.
  • Fire in abandoned buildings nearly always connected to homeless squatters.
  • 1000 permanent supportive housing units coming up in the year should help with homelessness
  • Police liaison suggests not using 311 and using ireportaustin.com and emailing or calling her directly
    • Angela.Coleman@austintexas.gov
    • 737-228-6514
  • Her supervisor is Sgt. Huskins.  

Land line Phone Issues

• AT&T landline down.
  • Chito volunteered to help. They are on city right of way.
  • District4@austinteas.gov
• Rezoning Case Again
  • Park Requests
  • Flood control as walkable amenity
    • Like triangle or Mueller
  • Dog Park
  • grills
  • Splash pad
  • Seju and Joanne have a list but where not present at the meeting.
  • Concerns about causing extra noise. Try to orient new amenities along Dale.
  • Chito will look at what the Improvement Plan is for Wooten
  • Further parks could come from Climate Bond land acquisition
    • Chito wants to focus on mode shift, getting people to use cars less and use other carbon efficient modes of transportation.

Future ideas

• Acquire easement at Polaris property for Redline trail.
• More biking infrastructure
  • Get it into the ASMP
• Question about triangle lot near middle school. Whats the plan? Looks like it’s owned by AISD.

Kathie Tovo speaks about her Mayoral Campaign.