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July 27, 2021 Planning Commission Meeting Speaker Registration: Zenobia C. Joseph Mailing Address: PO Box 143832 Austin TX 78714-3832 Phone: I anticipate calling from an unpublished San Antonio, Texas number. Area code (210). • Citizen’s Communication (Non-Agenda Item): Capital Metro Title VI Policy adoption history (2013-2021). Against Agenda Item: 7. Rezoning: C14-2021-0017 - 5708 Springdale Rd; District 1. “The Staff recommendation is to grant community commercial – mixed use – neighborhood plan (GR- MU-NP) combining district zoning.” Marcia Bruscato Poss' Letter to Council notes, in part, The Reserve at Springdale, 292 units (pp. 13, 25)—a "$43M investment," David Knoll noted November 1, 2017 (below). • Context: November 1, 2017 Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority ("Capital Metro") Connections 2025 Public Hearings (Noon, 5:30PM). David Knoll, represented Ryan Companies and the Housing Authority of the City of Austin, testifying twice to save Route 300-Rogge and "retail, activating the street." • Nov 01, 2017 Capital Metro Board of Directors Public Hearing - Austin, TX • • • (swagit.com) Item I: Part 2 of 3. First speaker: Knoll worked with Pecan Springs Neighborhood Association one year. Video: https://austintx.new.swagit.com/videos/45318 Item I: Part 3 of 3 (1:00:15): Knoll followed Patricia Crowe, then-Reserve resident. "On the mixed-use and encouraging mixed-use (uhm) along the corridor (I guess the 51st Street corridor), uh-well, we've made with the Housing Authority, a $43 million investment in this community based on the bus route and to, hopefully, activate for the neighborhood and for (uh), in coordination with City Council. . . . So we're right here at Rogge Lane and Springdale. (uh) I would say that the investment we've made there is greater than any investment of the residential-owning developers along this whole 2-mile course from Berkman all the way down to 51st. And I would say we're a start; we're not all of it, a spark for more but certainly removing the bus will kill any multi-use there or mixed-use there (uh) that we start to encourage with the live-work units at Springdale, the café and then also orienting the development to the street." (Crowe also spoke during Part 1 of 3: 55:07). June 3, 2018 Capital Metro Short-Range Planning Manager Roberto Gonzalez unilaterally eliminated 300-Rogge, anyway. After Cap Remap 52 route changes, planners (Lawrence Deeter and Gonzalez) met with Reserve residents but refused to restore fixed- route service. • Pecan Springs - Springdale Hills (p. 20): I support the Pecan Springs-Springdale Hills Neighborhood Association's opposition to B-7. Thanks.~zcj