Circle C Neighbors

I spoke with HEB today. The following are the sizes of the two current HEB's:

Brodie/William Cannon is 78,000 sq ft
Oak Hill at the ''Y'' is 64,000 sq ft


Last I heard, the one planned for track 103 is 93,000 sq ft.

Rezoning Notification

This information below was sent from the City to your HOA. The rezoning meeting might be scheduled as soon as December 2nd. Since none of us live within 300 ft of the land, only the HOA will receive notification of the public hearing. I called the phone number at the bottom for Circle C Land (since it's the weekend an answering machine picked up) the phone number is Stratus. Should our President be making deals for Mo-Pac commercial property with Stratus right now? Do you think 93,000 sq ft is too big?
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City of Austin Neighborhood Planning & Zoning Department 505 Barton Springs Road/ P.O. Box 1088 / Austin, Texas 78767-8835

NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION FOR REZONING
Mailing Date of this Notice: October 30, 2003 File Number: C14-03-0156
The Neighborhood Planning & Zoning Department has received the following described application for rezoning within 300 feet of your property.

This request for rezoning will be reviewed and acted upon at two public hearings: First, before the appropriate land-use commission and then before the City Council. After a public hearing, the land-use commission reviews and evaluates City staff recommendation and public input and then sends its recommendation on the zoning/rezoning request to the City Council. You will receive another notice that will contain the dates and locations of these hearings. For additional information on the City of Austin's Land Development Process, visit our website, www.ci.austin.tx.us/development.

ADDRESS OF PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE: (See map) 5800 - 5948 West Slaughter Lane
PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE:
FROM: LR-MU-CO Neighborhood Commercial district is intended for neighborhood shopping facilities which provide limited business service and office facilities predominately for the convenience of residents of the neighborhood. MU--Mixed Use combining district is intended for combination with selected base districts, in order to permit any combination of office, retail, commercial, and residential uses within a single development. The MU combining district is intended for use in combination with the NO base district only when its use will further the purposes and intent of the NO base district. CO--Conditional Overlay combining district may be applied in combination with any base district. The district is intended to provide flexible and adaptable use or site development regulations by requiring standards tailored to individual properties.
TO: GR--Community Commercial district is intended for office and commercial uses serving neighborhood and community needs, including both unified shopping centers and individually developed commercial sites, and typically requiring locations accessible from major traffic ways. LR--Neighborhood Commercial district is intended for neighborhood shopping facilities which provide limited business service and office facilities predominately for the convenience of residents of the neighborhood.
OWNER: Cirlce C Land, L..P. (John E. Baker) PHONE: (512) 478-5788
AGENT: Drenner Stuart Wolff Metcalfe yon Kreisler (Michele Haussmann) PHONE: (512) 404-2233
This is the beginning of our public notice process for this application. You are encouraged to participate. If you have any questions concerning this notice, please contact Wendy Walsh at the City of Austin, Neighborhood Planning & Zoning Department, (512) 974-7719. Office hours are 7:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Please be sure to refer to the File Number at the top of the page when you call.

email from a neighbor

This email is from R.F. (a neighbor)
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I think it's an outrageous conflict of interest for Circle C Land Corp. to own that land and propose development. I believe that they will say that in that way, the old ''master plan'' can be revived,
but IMHO Steve Bartlett should definitely recuse himself from *any* HOA activities that survey the residents. The last CCHOA newsletter, delivered to my door by hand, says that *Stratus* is doing the development. Au contraire.

The folks in Legends of Western Oaks fought *hard* to keep community commercial from going in there. It will *definitely* increase traffic on the northern side of Escarpment. I do not consider tract 103 ''accessible from major roadways,'' which is part of getting the CR zoning. We went for LR -- light retail -- neighbourhood commercial.

I think it ought to be smaller than any of the other HEBs, because it simply is not accessible from major roadways. The agreement, with Stratus, which included pushing Escarpment through, DID NOT allow major commercial development on that site. Legends of Western Oaks are even opposed to a 7-11 (without a gas station!) there -- when a 7-11 is of course MUCH smaller than an HEB.

HEB *could* do an environmentally friendly job of development, which would help things, but I would bet we could run them off by insisting they develop 1826 and 290 first, and by asking for a truly neighbourhood sized HEB -- not 93,000
sq ft.