Approved Minutes — original pdf
EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL MINUTES REGULAR MEETING Wednesday, January 8, 2020 The Early Childhood Council (ECC) convened in a regular meeting on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, at City Hall. Board Members in Attendance: Chair Alvarez; Vice Chair McHorse; Members Burson, Conlin, Cortés-Castillo, Huston, Paver Staff in attendance: Rachel Farley, Estella Kirscht, Donna Sundstrom Chair Alvarez called the meeting to order at 8:39 a.m. 1. INTRODUCTIONS - ECC members and guests introduced themselves 2. DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST- None 3. CITIZEN COMMUNICATION: GENERAL Paola Ferate-Soto with Austin Public Library had questions for Annick Beaudet about the Land Development Code (LDC) rewrite regarding green space and Dove Springs Laura Olsen with Go Austin! Vamos Austin! (GAVA) is concerned about limited opportunities for community input on the LDC rewrite, is asking for opportunities to have community engagement, requested impact analysis for displacement 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Member Huston moved to approve the November 13, 2019 Regular Meeting Minutes with no changes and Member Conlin seconded the motion. Minutes were approved unanimously by a vote of 7-0 5. PRESENTATION Annick Beaudet Assistant Director for Long Range Planning and Traffic Management with the Austin Transportation Department presented on the LDC; Donna Galati, Program Manager from Development Services Department called in to help present – Ms. Beaudet is the co-lead of the LDC Revision, along with Brent Lloyd, working within the City Manager’s Office and the office of Assistant City Manager Rodney Gonzalez, with multi-disciplinary and multi-departmental team, staff/team members from various departments who have specific expertise. There is a focus on historically underrepresented communities. Revision is guided by UT Austin’s Uprooted report on gentrification and displacement and LDC team is considering how zoning can be a tool to slow these processes. October 2019 - released a new draft text and map as a new growth concept; after the first reading in December 2019, Council approved a third concept, transition areas, mixed use corridors with multi-unit housing to absorb most of the growth as transitions into single family neighborhoods, requested significant map changes; map will be out in 12 days and will reflect Council Member Garza’s motions to make owning and operating child care easier in more parts of the City: • • Allow “large childcare” as a permitted use by right in R3 and R4 zones (two types of residential zones) • Allow minor use permit for “childcare commercial use” under residential RM1 zones Increase …