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Hancock herald
The Newsletter Needs You
The current editor is retiring!
August 2016
Due to other obligations, the current editor is stepping down from the job. Currently, the newsletter is published quarterly. The next issue will be November. If you would like to try your hand at it, please send an email to editor@hancockna.org. I can give you all the historic files and can help you get oriented.
Recycling and ReUse Center Resources
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Hot Topics Light Rail The Talent 2 8
Forwarded email from Scott Johnson I work for Austin Resource Recovery at the city Recycling and ReUse Drop-Off Center. I have been tasked with organizing a program that collects and distributes lawn and gardening materials to local citizens. I am sending out this email to let everyone know that I have been working very hard on the Gardening ReUse program. This program collects lawn and garden supplies and makes them available to community/ home gardeners, schools, churches, and basically anyone who is involved in gardening in their community. Please send out this email and/or my contact information to anyone that you might know that could benefit from this program. I am trying and get as many people involved in the program as I can. Here is a list of some of the items that I am setting aside for people who want to take advantage of the program. It is by no means complete. Please note that not all materials will be available on all days. I am dependent on what comes into my facility.
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By Scott Morris, Central Austin CDC Cars don't fill jobs. Cars don't use our parks; cars don't attend school, or conduct business transactions. People do these things. Transportation success is measured in moving people, not in moving their cars. Light rail offers the greatest capacity for moving people, surpassing any other mode for its cost effectiveness, capacity and throughput, against any other method proven or unproven. Since 2001, the people of Hancock have participated in an extraordinary exercise in citizen planning: the creation, adoption, and implementation of the Central Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan. In that plan, the city asked a seven-neighborhood coalition around the UT Campus to determine the future land use of our area and where density and transportation infrastructure should go. Area residents came up with the solutions, negotiated with landowners and city staff, and created subdistricts of residential density like the University Neighborhood Overlay. The planning did not stop with land use. The Central Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan also provided route and station-location design of the GuadalupeNorth Lamar light rail alignment. In 2004, council adopted your neighborhood plan, and it was made a part of Imagine Austin in 2012. The people delivered residential density solutions, but the city has not delivered the transportation infrastructure they agreed was needed to support the 1st and 3rd densest planning areas in our city. We insist that covenant be kept. Our proposal for a light rail minimum operable segment is based on several decades' worth of planning and discussion, neighborhood planning ordinances, and over $20 million in federally funded transit studies. They have arrived at a singular conclusion: Guadalupe-North Lamar would be a great place for a light rail investment. It would be the next step in Austin's utilization of rail, and would cost-effectively serve a corridor with the highest transit ridership, the highest population density, and the highest employment density of any other corridor
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Guadalupe-North Lamar: A Winning Light Rail Choice on the November Ballot
Proposed route For detailed information, go to: http://centralaustincdc.org/transportation/austin_light_rail.htm
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Continued from Page 1 - Resources List of Available Supplies at the ReCycling and ReUse Dropoff Center
Blood Meal Diatomaceous Earth Insecticidal Soap Medina Spray Attachments Bone Meal Fish Fertilizer Ironite Perlite Superthrive Castile Soap Hasta Grow Ladybug Fertilizer Rooting Hormone Uncle Johns Fertilizer Compost starter Deer/Rabbit Repellant Horticultural Molasses Liquid Seaweed Organic Insecticide
Additionally, the city has Wood Mulch available every day that we are open. It is completely self-serve, so make sure to bring a truck, bags, containers, pitchforks, shovels, etc. If you have access to a commercial vehicle I can make arrangements to use our front-end loader to load your vehicle. (Personal vehicles of any kind are not eligible for loading assistance) Contact me to make an appointment to come shop at 512-974-4308 and at scott.johnson2@austintexas.gov I am available Tuesday-Friday 9:30-4:30 and Saturdays 7:30-11:30. Thank you
HNA regular meeting
September 21st 7pm 8:30pm Hancock Rec Center
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Report Environmental Violations
Phone numbers and website to report suspected environmental violation on development projects: Rosemary Vaughn Tony Beckwith Elzy Cogswell Scott Morris Mary Sanger Environmental Inspection Dispatch- 512 974-2278 Environmental.inspection@austintexas.gov Watershed 24-hour Hotline- 512 9742550
HNA Meeting Minutes
July 20,2016 Meeting Minutes
https://www.hancockna.org/www/content/hna-meeting-minutes-july-20-2016
Agenda The Hancock Neighborhood Association met on Wednesday, July 20. Mobility was the topic. Jim Rankin, HNA's transportation chair and roadway tracker, explained that this fall TXDOT will begin construction on major changes to parts of IH 35 which stretch through central Austin. The work is expected to take two years, but we could place bets on this! (Jim Rankin will start the countdown). Jim listed these major projects: a roundabout at 51st street, a "diverging diamond" at airport and 45th street, an additional lane on the upper deck going each way, one additional inside lane each way on the lower deck from Round Rock to Buda will be variable toll lanes. The 32nd Street street on ramp north bound lower deck will change to 38th street off-ramp. IH-35 will be under MLK, 15th Street, 12th Street, 11th street. On September 20, TXDOT will have a IH-35 open house at Memorial United Methodist Church. For more information contact Kelli Reyna (512) 832-7060. Check out my35.org Scott Morris of the Central Austin Community Development Corporation and a NUNA resident spoke about a proposed 5.3 mile Lamar-Guadalupe light rail project which rail advocates want the City Council to place on the November, 2016 ballot alongside the Corridor bond proposal. As explained, the Northern terminus will be Crestview Station,North Lamar and Airport Blvd. The Southern terminus is Republic Square, Guadalupe and 4th Streets. The cost is estimated to be $397.5 million. The weekday ridership is estimated at 34,000.This would be the first phase of a multi phase light rail system. Contact: centralaustincdc@gmail.com
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Thank you HNA Officers:
President: Mark Harkrider Vice President: Kelly Ramsey Treasurer: Bruce Fairchild Secretary: Mary Sanger Historian: Tiffany Scolnic
Webmaster: George Wilson webmaster@hancockna.org Newsletter Editor: Carleen Edgar editor@hancockna.org Newsletter Ads: Kathleen Strong & Jen Leader ads@hancockna.org
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THE talent
All submissions from neighbors welcome! Please send to editor@hancockna.org
Freight Train Overhead
Sometimes the boy stood between converging steel lines. He would look both ways, full of hope. Once in a while, he could see a train far away, approaching. Then he hurried to his personal passageway under the tracks, built by the freight company to rob the rainy season of its anger. Squatting under the tracks, he waited, impatient for the sound of the train. When it engulfed him, the roar was always so massive that it would squeeze him into himself. Elzy Cogswell, June 6, 2016
My Wildest Dreams
What does it mean when I dream that I'm flying over the rooftops and over the trees? Look Ma no hands! and I'm not even trying flying along with the greatest of ease Maybe I'm off in a different dimension one that has none of the usual rules Something inspired by my power of invention fashioned and crafted with magical tools Which one's imagined and which one is real? so many options to take or to leave Maybe reality's just how I feel? everything's possible when we believe Seldom is anything quite as it seems And rarely at all in my wildest of dreams tony beckwith 2012
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in the city. Our system concept extends light rail to destinations like East Riverside, South Lamar, North Lamar, and to the Airport. It delivers social equity by providing areas of high transit dependency like Rundberg and Dove Springs with access to jobs. It builds and operates extensions in SE Austin toward the Airport with the hotel occupancy tax. This proposal returns a very high return on investment and connects people to economic opportunity. A light rail starter line on Guadalupe and North Lamar Streets would be 5.3 miles long, is estimated to cost $400 million, and carry 34,000 riders every weekday. This plan would provide direct service to the jobs and communities around Crestview Station, DPS Headquarters, State Health Department complex, University of Texas, State Capitol Complex, Travis County Courthouse and Central Campus, and downtown's Republic Square, the city's busiest bus stop and transfer station. It would also connect to East Austin, North Austin and Northwest Austin by a transfer from the existing 32mile long Red Line commuter rail line at Crestview Station. With the increased ridership this would cause on the connecting Red Line, a new station at Hancock Center could provide a two-seat ride to anywhere in the Guadalupe-North Lamar corridor. There is strong citywide support for moving forward with rail. Zandan polling in 2015 showed 66% support rail mass transit, as well as the taxes to pay for those projects. That is a 23-point swing from the defeat of Project Connect. We only need a 7-point change to pass a bond measure, and we have the plan to do it. On August 4th, Austin City Council will reconvene to begin discussing the November bonds. We feel that the people of Austin are ready to take this step. We encourage all Hancock residents to ask your elected representatives to include a rail option on the ballot. Austin voters deserve that choice in November. Density along the proposed route For detailed information, go to: http://centralaustincdc.org/transportation/austin_light_rail.htm
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Hancock herald
The Newsletter Needs You
The current editor is retiring!
August 2016
Due to other obligations, the current editor is stepping down from the job. Currently, the newsletter is published quarterly. The next issue will be November. If you would like to try your hand at it, please send an email to editor@hancockna.org. I can give you all the historic files and can help you get oriented.
Recycling and ReUse Center Resources
INSIDE
Hot Topics Light Rail The Talent 2 8
Forwarded email from Scott Johnson I work for Austin Resource Recovery at the city Recycling and ReUse Drop-Off Center. I have been tasked with organizing a program that collects and distributes lawn and gardening materials to local citizens. I am sending out this email to let everyone know that I have been working very hard on the Gardening ReUse program. This program collects lawn and garden supplies and makes them available to community/ home gardeners, schools, churches, and basically anyone who is involved in gardening in their community. Please send out this email and/or my contact information to anyone that you might know that could benefit from this program. I am trying and get as many people involved in the program as I can. Here is a list of some of the items that I am setting aside for people who want to take advantage of the program. It is by no means complete. Please note that not all materials will be available on all days. I am dependent on what comes into my facility.
Continued on page 3 - Resources
HOT
By Scott Morris, Central Austin CDC Cars don't fill jobs. Cars don't use our parks; cars don't attend school, or conduct business transactions. People do these things. Transportation success is measured in moving people, not in moving their cars. Light rail offers the greatest capacity for moving people, surpassing any other mode for its cost effectiveness, capacity and throughput, against any other method proven or unproven. Since 2001, the people of Hancock have participated in an extraordinary exercise in citizen planning: the creation, adoption, and implementation of the Central Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan. In that plan, the city asked a seven-neighborhood coalition around the UT Campus to determine the future land use of our area and where density and transportation infrastructure should go. Area residents came up with the solutions, negotiated with landowners and city staff, and created subdistricts of residential density like the University Neighborhood Overlay. The planning did not stop with land use. The Central Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan also provided route and station-location design of the GuadalupeNorth Lamar light rail alignment. In 2004, council adopted your neighborhood plan, and it was made a part of Imagine Austin in 2012. The people delivered residential density solutions, but the city has not delivered the transportation infrastructure they agreed was needed to support the 1st and 3rd densest planning areas in our city. We insist that covenant be kept. Our proposal for a light rail minimum operable segment is based on several decades' worth of planning and discussion, neighborhood planning ordinances, and over $20 million in federally funded transit studies. They have arrived at a singular conclusion: Guadalupe-North Lamar would be a great place for a light rail investment. It would be the next step in Austin's utilization of rail, and would cost-effectively serve a corridor with the highest transit ridership, the highest population density, and the highest employment density of any other corridor
TOPICS
Guadalupe-North Lamar: A Winning Light Rail Choice on the November Ballot
Proposed route For detailed information, go to: http://centralaustincdc.org/transportation/austin_light_rail.htm
Continued on page 8 Light Rail
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Continued from Page 1 - Resources List of Available Supplies at the ReCycling and ReUse Dropoff Center
Blood Meal Diatomaceous Earth Insecticidal Soap Medina Spray Attachments Bone Meal Fish Fertilizer Ironite Perlite Superthrive Castile Soap Hasta Grow Ladybug Fertilizer Rooting Hormone Uncle Johns Fertilizer Compost starter Deer/Rabbit Repellant Horticultural Molasses Liquid Seaweed Organic Insecticide
Additionally, the city has Wood Mulch available every day that we are open. It is completely self-serve, so make sure to bring a truck, bags, containers, pitchforks, shovels, etc. If you have access to a commercial vehicle I can make arrangements to use our front-end loader to load your vehicle. (Personal vehicles of any kind are not eligible for loading assistance) Contact me to make an appointment to come shop at 512-974-4308 and at scott.johnson2@austintexas.gov I am available Tuesday-Friday 9:30-4:30 and Saturdays 7:30-11:30. Thank you
HNA regular meeting
September 21st 7pm 8:30pm Hancock Rec Center
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Report Environmental Violations
Phone numbers and website to report suspected environmental violation on development projects: Rosemary Vaughn Tony Beckwith Elzy Cogswell Scott Morris Mary Sanger Environmental Inspection Dispatch- 512 974-2278 Environmental.inspection@austintexas.gov Watershed 24-hour Hotline- 512 9742550
HNA Meeting Minutes
July 20,2016 Meeting Minutes
https://www.hancockna.org/www/content/hna-meeting-minutes-july-20-2016
Agenda The Hancock Neighborhood Association met on Wednesday, July 20. Mobility was the topic. Jim Rankin, HNA's transportation chair and roadway tracker, explained that this fall TXDOT will begin construction on major changes to parts of IH 35 which stretch through central Austin. The work is expected to take two years, but we could place bets on this! (Jim Rankin will start the countdown). Jim listed these major projects: a roundabout at 51st street, a "diverging diamond" at airport and 45th street, an additional lane on the upper deck going each way, one additional inside lane each way on the lower deck from Round Rock to Buda will be variable toll lanes. The 32nd Street street on ramp north bound lower deck will change to 38th street off-ramp. IH-35 will be under MLK, 15th Street, 12th Street, 11th street. On September 20, TXDOT will have a IH-35 open house at Memorial United Methodist Church. For more information contact Kelli Reyna (512) 832-7060. Check out my35.org Scott Morris of the Central Austin Community Development Corporation and a NUNA resident spoke about a proposed 5.3 mile Lamar-Guadalupe light rail project which rail advocates want the City Council to place on the November, 2016 ballot alongside the Corridor bond proposal. As explained, the Northern terminus will be Crestview Station,North Lamar and Airport Blvd. The Southern terminus is Republic Square, Guadalupe and 4th Streets. The cost is estimated to be $397.5 million. The weekday ridership is estimated at 34,000.This would be the first phase of a multi phase light rail system. Contact: centralaustincdc@gmail.com
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Thank you HNA Officers:
President: Mark Harkrider Vice President: Kelly Ramsey Treasurer: Bruce Fairchild Secretary: Mary Sanger Historian: Tiffany Scolnic
Webmaster: George Wilson webmaster@hancockna.org Newsletter Editor: Carleen Edgar editor@hancockna.org Newsletter Ads: Kathleen Strong & Jen Leader ads@hancockna.org
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THE talent
All submissions from neighbors welcome! Please send to editor@hancockna.org
Freight Train Overhead
Sometimes the boy stood between converging steel lines. He would look both ways, full of hope. Once in a while, he could see a train far away, approaching. Then he hurried to his personal passageway under the tracks, built by the freight company to rob the rainy season of its anger. Squatting under the tracks, he waited, impatient for the sound of the train. When it engulfed him, the roar was always so massive that it would squeeze him into himself. Elzy Cogswell, June 6, 2016
My Wildest Dreams
What does it mean when I dream that I'm flying over the rooftops and over the trees? Look Ma no hands! and I'm not even trying flying along with the greatest of ease Maybe I'm off in a different dimension one that has none of the usual rules Something inspired by my power of invention fashioned and crafted with magical tools Which one's imagined and which one is real? so many options to take or to leave Maybe reality's just how I feel? everything's possible when we believe Seldom is anything quite as it seems And rarely at all in my wildest of dreams tony beckwith 2012
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in the city. Our system concept extends light rail to destinations like East Riverside, South Lamar, North Lamar, and to the Airport. It delivers social equity by providing areas of high transit dependency like Rundberg and Dove Springs with access to jobs. It builds and operates extensions in SE Austin toward the Airport with the hotel occupancy tax. This proposal returns a very high return on investment and connects people to economic opportunity. A light rail starter line on Guadalupe and North Lamar Streets would be 5.3 miles long, is estimated to cost $400 million, and carry 34,000 riders every weekday. This plan would provide direct service to the jobs and communities around Crestview Station, DPS Headquarters, State Health Department complex, University of Texas, State Capitol Complex, Travis County Courthouse and Central Campus, and downtown's Republic Square, the city's busiest bus stop and transfer station. It would also connect to East Austin, North Austin and Northwest Austin by a transfer from the existing 32mile long Red Line commuter rail line at Crestview Station. With the increased ridership this would cause on the connecting Red Line, a new station at Hancock Center could provide a two-seat ride to anywhere in the Guadalupe-North Lamar corridor. There is strong citywide support for moving forward with rail. Zandan polling in 2015 showed 66% support rail mass transit, as well as the taxes to pay for those projects. That is a 23-point swing from the defeat of Project Connect. We only need a 7-point change to pass a bond measure, and we have the plan to do it. On August 4th, Austin City Council will reconvene to begin discussing the November bonds. We feel that the people of Austin are ready to take this step. We encourage all Hancock residents to ask your elected representatives to include a rail option on the ballot. Austin voters deserve that choice in November. Density along the proposed route For detailed information, go to: http://centralaustincdc.org/transportation/austin_light_rail.htm
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