I've tried to wade through a lot of emails & the ilovenorthloop website to understand all the viewpoints with this development & I still haven't heard a valid reason for granting this variance- I'm sure the developers are decent people; clearly, they've been willing to meet & communicate with folks I trust and who are appreciative & impressed with these developers - yet from where I'm sitting (about 2 blocks from the proposed development & on Avenue F) it sounds like a "feel good, mixed-use" carrot being tossed our way with a significant number of apartments to go with it, and frankly, that isn't worth it to our household- if I'm reading this right, it boils down to: 1. someone will build something worse and 2. if we let them build higher (ie
more apartments) then they'll give us mixed-use is there another reason out there I haven't picked up on? so that means some options are: 1. variance given: lots of aparments with some mixed use 2. no variance: they go away & someone builds something else 3. no variance: they build the smaller scale apartment complex but don't add mixed-use & a fourth floor of apartments to justify it then I vote for door number 3- and since they are decent people, I know that they'll keep working with our neighbors to make sure it's a development that hurts as little as possible... Kate
jody horton < [at] > wrote:
making this effort because they want something from us Mary. Not because they are nice people. Not because they want to spread good will and joy in the world. Not because they care anything about our neighborhood or what happens with this project once they have flipped the land or sold a final project a few years from now.
best.
www.ilovenorthloop.com
wildly misleading.
single year, assuming 100% occupancy, this would bring in $1,123,200.
On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:46 PM, Mary Patrick wrote:
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Give Jamil and Endeavor a huge hand.Good grief, what more could we ask of them? A commercial property developer who is spendingtime and energy working with the neighbors. Somewhat rare.
We need to realize that Howard's Nursery property is a commercial property. Someone is going to develop it. The fact that a private, commercial developer/investoris soliciting our input is a good thing. There are investors/developers in Austin who can get any variance they want from the BOA without neighborhood sanctions. Be real - we know that is true.
Let's be open-minded and realistic about all this.
And also, just a question for the people who emailed about the historical value of the hangar at Howard's Nursery and the demolition permit, which resulted in a meeting
on the 24th that went on from 6ish pm until after midnight.That person/those peopledid not even bother to show up at the meeting.Good grief -what in the world was the purpose of that? If there were real historical value there - it seems that someone - waaaay beforenow would have realized it, applied for it (would have save a ton in property taxes).
So why - if there were interest in acquiring the hangar - wait until the 11th
hour to say so?
My two cents.
Mary Quoting Sebastian Wren < [at] >:
Jamil (with Endeavor) wants to give Northfield (and, I would assume, Skyview)
neighbors every opportunity to discuss their concerns about the requested variance.
He has reserved the meeting room at the Yarborough Public Library (2200 Hancock Dr.) tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. and he will be available to meet with any neighbors who still have questions or concerns they wish to discuss with him.
Cheers.
____________________________________________ Sebastian Wren, Ph.D. Director http://BalancedReading.com
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