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NWACA Annual Neighborhood Meeting – May 12, 2022



NWACA Annual Neighborhood Meeting – May 12, 2022 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church – Huffman Hall Please join us at our annual neighborhood meeting to learn what’s happening in NWACA and around Austin. During the first hour of the meeting, you’ll hear from :
  • Robert Nash, NWACA President – NWACA Events and Focus
  • Alison Alter, Mayor...
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    Quarterly NWACA Road Construction Report – Spring 2022

    There are three major road construction projects scheduled for our area. Preliminary work has already started on two of them with heavier work scheduled for the last half of this year. 1. As was mentioned in a recent NWACA Notes posting, the actual construction on widening Spicewood Springs Road is forecast to start this fall and...
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    Solidarity Statement from the NWACA Board



    In light of recent antisemitic events across our community, the NWACA Board has issued the following statement repudiating such actions and expressing our full support of the Jewish community: The Northwest Austin Civic Association (NWACA) stands with the Jewish community. Hate and anti-Semitism have no place in our community, no place in our city. The display...
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    Detailed FAQ on Public Safety



    In early September, questions that were commonly heard in our neighborhood regarding policing and public safety were collected and sent to Councilmember Alter's office for answers. A brief version of the response by her office is published in the October issue of the NWACA Newsletter. The full response from April Brown, an aide to Councilmember Alter,...
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    LDC (CodeNEXT) Updates Published 1/31/20

    Late Friday evening January 31, 2020, new maps were released which involve new areas of “up-zoning”- allowing greater density, deeper into some of the neighborhoods in NWACA, for the creation of “Missing Middle” residential housing, coded as R-4. Our neighborhood could be zoned for far more density than the original map called for. It is important...
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    Latest Updates on LDC (CodeNEXT) Revision

    As we have updates for the NWACA Community regarding the revision of Austin's Land Development Code, we will be putting them here. Items will appear in the order of latest information first. Posted 4/6/20 - from the LDC Revision Team working on the LDC: On March 18, a Travis County District Court Judge ruled that...
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    NWACA Community Meeting July 25, 2019

    NWACA Community Meeting - Understanding Changes to City of Austin Ordinances and Help for the Homeless On July 25, 2019 NWACA held a community meeting to hear about changes to City of Austin ordinances as they relate to no sit/no lie/public camping and to discuss productive solutions about how to help the homeless in our area,...
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    Fun at First Annual NWACA National Night Out!

    Hundreds of neighbors joined together for the First Annual NWACA National Night Out on Saturday evening, September 29, 2018. Even the weather cooperated! Neighbors enjoyed meeting each other and having a bite to eat - hot dogs from the Randall's grill, tacos and the fixings from Torchy's, and snowballs from Sweet Caroline's. There was an opportunity...
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    2018 Annual Meeting Files Available

    We were pleased to see more than 130 neighbors at the May 8, 2018 Annual Neighborhood Meeting. If you were unable to attend, or if you would like to review the presentations again, the slides can be found here. In addition, this handout was provided for each attendee. You can review a subset...
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    NWACA Boundary Extended to US 183

    NWACA has extended its boundaries to include the neighbors in Westover Hills, the area north of Spicewood Springs Road. The boundaries now are Loop 360 to the west, U.S. Highway 183 to the north, MoPac to the east, and RM 2222 to the south. This postcard was sent to all of our new neighbors....
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    3/5/2018 ATD Presentation on Speed Mitigation

    The Austin Transportation Department (ATD) held an informational meeting on March 5th to present plans for three new speed mitigation installations in our neighborhood: 1. Mesa Drive from First View Drive to Cross Valley Run 2. Hart Lane from Greystone Drive to Executive Center Drive 3. Mountainclimb Drive from Highland Hills Drive to Dry Creek Drive Mesa Drive and...
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    Wildfire Maps Now Online

    There were several GIS maps on display at the NWACA Annual meeting in May, which showed risk factors to our homes in times of wildfire (or house fire next door). Those have now been uploaded to the Wildfire Prevention Library. Go to the Resource tab, then select Library, then Wildfire Prevention to see a description...
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    Austin Oaks PUD Approved on April 13, 2017

    At its meeting last week, the Austin City Council passed a PUD ordinance for the Austin Oaks site. After making several amendments, Council voted 8-2 in favor of the PUD. (Councilmember Pool was out of town.) For more detail about this rezoning case, how the NWACA Board dealt with the case, and how things changed during...
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