Windsor Village Redevelopment
Please support the request by Windsor Park residents to Parks and Recreation Department Director Kimberly McNeeley to submit approval for greater than 15% of the Windsor Village redevelopment site to be dedicated as parkland.
Longer version:
Dear Parks Board Members,
Please support the request by Windsor Park residents to Parks and Recreation Department Director Kimberly McNeeley to submit approval for greater than 15% of the Windsor Village redevelopment site to be dedicated as parkland.
Windsor Village is designated a "parkland deficient" area by the City of Austin, and existing open fields there have been used by the community for years as a gathering spot for block parties, pickup soccer games, and more. However, Transwestern is now redeveloping Windsor Village and currently is not providing the traditional minimum 15% of the site as parkland. The parkland dedication ordinance allows the parks director to request up to 6+ acres of parkland based on the hundreds of residential units planned for the property, but the current proposal is only for 1.25 acres, which is about 10% of the site.
Please encourage the parks director to increase the amount of parkland dedicated to this site according to the ordinance, and open up for discussion at the Parks Board and the Planning Commission a public conversation about how much parkland is appropriate for the hundreds of new neighbors this development will add, as well as the hundreds of existing neighbors within blocks of the site, many of whom live in income-restricted affordable housing.
Respectfully,
(YOUR NAME)
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Please support the request by Windsor Park residents to Parks and Recreation Department Director Kimberly McNeeley to invoke city code procedures to get an adequate amount of parkland dedicated as part of the Windsor Village redevelopment plans.
Longer version:
Please support the request by Windsor Park residents to Parks and Recreation Department Director Kimberly McNeeley to submit approval for greater than 15% of the Windsor Village redevelopment site to be dedicated as parkland.
Windsor Village is designated a "parkland deficient" area by the City of Austin, and existing open fields there have been used by the community for years as a gathering spot for block parties, pickup soccer games, and more. However, Transwestern is now redeveloping Windsor Village and currently is not providing an adequate amount of parkland in two ways. First, the parkland dedication ordinance specifies parkland based on the number of residential units that would allow the parks director to request up to 6+ acres of parkland based on the hundreds of residential units planned for the property, but the current proposal is only for 1.25 acres, which is about 10% of the site. Second, Transwestern is submitting the development in pieces so even at the traditional 15%-of-area parkland formula, the whole site is not being considered, which should result in about 2 acres of parkland being dedicated.
Please encourage the parks director to increase the amount of parkland dedicated to this site according to the ordinance, and open up for discussion at the Parks Board and the Planning Commission a public conversation about how much parkland is appropriate for the hundreds of new neighbors this development will add, as well as the hundreds of existing neighbors within blocks of the site, many of whom live in income-restricted affordable housing.
Respectfully,
(YOUR NAME)
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- Our neighborhood association meetings discuss the Windsor Village redevelopment. You can watch replays or livestream the next meeting here: https://www.facebook.com/WindsorParkAustinTX/
- Windsor Park newsgroup sign up: https://groups.io/g/windsorparkatx
- Windsor Park newsgroup messages: https://groups.io/g/windsorparkatx/topics
- Jackie Brooks, Windsor Park Neighborhood Association | President
- Website: www.windsorpark.info
- Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WindsorParkNA/