In early April, many neighbors along Furness received notice from the City of Austin that city staff had recommended approval of a slightly revised plan for developing the property along Furness and north of Hart Elementary School down to Hermitage. (This issue was first discussed in our October, 2006 neighborhood association meeting.) The Zoning and Platting Commission was scheduled to have the preliminary hearing about this issue on April 17. The Heritage Hills - Woodbridge Neighborhood Association (HH-W NA) requested a postponement of the hearing, and the developer agreed. So, the Commission rescheduled the hearing until their next meeting on Tuesday, May 15, starting at 6PM.
Larry Wu Furness Partners, LLP P.O. Box 180988 Austin, TX 78718 (512) 699-7964
Addresses along Furness and near the development on adjacent streets should have received "Public Hearing information forms" that included an option to express your objection to the proposed development. As of last week the city staff had received only ONE objection from anyone in our neighborhood. It only takes a minute to fill out the form, and send it in. If we don't do at least that much, the city staff and the Zoning and Platting Commission will assume that we have no objections to the development. The case number is C8-96-0159.01IF YOU DID NOT GET A PUBLIC HEARING INFORMATION FORM: You can e-mail your comments, referencing the case number, about the planned construction to David Wahlgren, the project manager at the city who's in charge of the duplexes proposal.
Quote from David Wahlgren (David.Wahlgren@ci.austin.tx.us):70-80% of the letters we get in for any given case are just normal emails or letters written to the "Zoning and Platting Commission", with the case number on them and sent or emailed to me. You dont need any special form to comment on any case.BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE CASE NUMBER, C8-96-0159.01
You may also mail your comments to the City at:David Wahlgren ( David.Wahlgren@ci.austin.tx.us ) 974-6455 Development Services Process Coordinator City of Austin Watershed Protection & Development Review Dept. P.O. Box 1088 Austin, TX 78704