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RE: Triangle Public Meeting

Sebastian Wren wrote:
> I have said many times in the past that if we want to get the attention
> of City Council members, we need to do so BEFORE they get elected.
>
> We have a few seats up for grabs this year. Betty Dunkerley's (Place 4)
> seat is available, and Cid Galindo, Robin Cravey, and Laura Morrison are
> all running for that seat.

Given the collapse of the housing market, there's a good chance that a

Laura and a couple of other people who couldn't make the Hank Dittmar
lecture last week asked me to post a copy of the lecture if it became
available. I'll go one better: here is a video of Dittmar's lecture at
the Joe C. Thompson Center on 2007-Oct-24:

http://soa.utexas.edu/crp/cityforum/dittmar2007.wmv

In retrospect, I'm really kicking myself for not questioning Dittmar
about a couple of things he said, particularly since everyone else

Greetings all,
Here is some info about a talk to be given at UT.
Regards, Olivia

Livable communities leader talks about the 'Greening of Urbanism'
Description: Longtime national leader in creating livable communities, Hank
Dittmar returns to Austin to talk about the "Greening of Urbanism" across the
international community. Dittmar is internationally recognized for a career in
urban design and transportation, including service as president and CEO of

This reveals that VMU is actually in their best financial interest if
it is 3 floors or 4.
It is VMU that gives them more density.

And requires only about 8,400 sft of commercial in return.
(75% of Koenig face assuming 450 foot length x 24ft minimum
commercial depth)

Part if this will be the leasing office (Jamil said 3,000 sft in one
meeting)

And another significant portion will be "live-work" - which will likely

Per CS-CP-MU-NP.

The site is roughly 140,000 SF divided by 800 SF under MU for an efficiency
(the LDC actually says 800 SF of site area) unit gives you a total yield of
175 units. This is how MU regulates density and VMU waives this
requirement.

Per their numbers which is 75% 1 bedroom and 25% 2 bedroom the yield would
be closer to 135 units (1000 SF for one bedroom and 1200 SF for two bedroom)

I did not catch this until talking with several people at the city.

Stefan

Correction

"CS

Per CS-CP-MU-NP.

Mary Patrick wrote:

Encourage everyone  you know to join both email lists, join the NNA ($5) to be
eligible to vote  and to come to the October 1 meeting.