Robert Mueller Municipal Airport Plan Implementation Advisory Commission - Nov. 12, 2025
Robert Mueller Municipal Airport Plan Implementation Advisory Commission Regular Meeting of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport Plan Implementation Advisory Commission
REGULAR MEETING OF THE ROBERT MUELLER MUNICIPAL AIRPORT PLAN IMPLEMENTATION ADVISORY COMMISSION [RMMA PIAC] WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2025, AT 6:00 P.M. AUSTIN ENERGY HEADQUARTERS ASSEMBLY ROOM 1111 4815 MUELLER BOULEVARD AUSTIN, TEXAS Some members of the RMMA PIAC may be participating by videoconference. Public comment will be allowed in-person or remotely via telephone. Speakers may only register to speak on an item once either in-person or remotely and will be allowed up to three minutes to provide their comments. Registration no later than noon the day before the meeting is required for remote participation by telephone. To register to speak remotely, contact Marrilee Archer, 512-974-7842, marrilee.archer@austintexas.gov. CURRENT COMMISSIONERS: Michael Jones, Chair Andrew Clements Christopher Jackson Kathleen Malcom Kathy Sokolic DRAFT AGENDA CALL TO ORDER PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL Rick Krivoniak, Vice Chair Corky Hilliard Martin Luecke David Neider The first ten speakers signed up prior to the meeting being called to order will each be allowed a three-minute allotment to address their concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Approve the minutes of the RMMA PIAC Regular Meeting on October 14, 2025. STAFF BRIEFINGS 2. Staff briefing regarding the East 51st Street Mobility Project. Presentation by Austin Financial Services staff. DISCUSSION ITEMS 3. 4. Presentation by Banbury Development on the renaming of Mueller Lake Park to honor Girard Kinney for his significant contributions to the Mueller Redevelopment Project. Presentation by Banbury Development and the Mueller Foundation on Mueller Affordable Housing updates. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS ADJOURNMENT The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable modifications and equal access to communications will be provided upon request. For assistance, please contact the Liaison or TTY users’ route through 711. A person may request language access accommodations no later than 48 hours before the scheduled meeting. Please call or email Marrilee Archer at Austin Financial Services, at 512-974-7842 and marrilee.archer@austintexas.gov, to request service or for additional information. For more information on the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport Plan Implementation Advisory Commission, please contact Marrilee Archer at 512-974-7842, marrilee.archer@austintexas.gov.
Affordable Housing Update Affordable Housing Update Mueller Redevelopment Robert Mueller Municipal Airport Plan Implementation Advisory Commission November 12, 2025 Agenda Mueller Redevelopment Background • Vision and Goal • Designing the Program Affordable Rental Update • Affordable Rental Options • • Exceeding MDA Requirements By the Numbers Affordable Ownership Update • Affordable Ownership Options Exceeding MDA Requirements • By the Numbers • Purpose and Leadership Program Partners Program Implementation About the Mueller Foundation • • • • Milestones • • Outreach & Marketing Financial Stability Transition Retention • • Accountability 2 | RMMA PIAC 11/12/25 Background: Vision, Goal & Requirements Vision Mueller will be an interactive, mixed-use, mixed- income community that will be a model for responsible urban development, offering a compact, pedestrian-oriented alternative to the land- consumptive and automobile-dependent development patterns that could influence the form and pattern of growth within Austin. Goal Redevelopment must offer a wide range of housing choices to create a new community of socially and economically diverse residents. MDA Requirements MDA requires 25% of all housing to be affordable For ownership requirement = affordable homes must be available at 80% MFI for at least 1 year For rental requirement = affordable apartments much be available 60% MFI for at least 5 years MDA incorporates Affordable Housing Resolution confirming Catellus (now Banbury) commitment to use good-faith efforts to provide longer and deeper affordability 3 | RMMA PIAC 11/12/25 Background: Designing the Program – 2004-2007 • Development with intermixed affordability was a very new concept; it had not been done in Texas before; 25% affordability an ambitious goal nationally. • One-year affordability was the MDA requirement for homeownership and 5- year affordability requirement for rental; the City and the surrounding community wanted Mueller to go farther. • • The land trust statute did not yet exist when the Mueller Affordable Homes Program was forming. $165,000 homes were available in the marketplace. • Central Park (formerly Stapleton): 10% affordability; fewer resale protections; less interspersed. • The team worked with City of Austin and PeopleFund/PeopleTrust to design the affordability preservation program. • Creation of a nonprofit (Mueller Foundation) to steward the housing program and other public goals. 4 | RMMA PIAC 11/12/25 Background: HomeBase Collaboration • HomeBase is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit sister organization to Austin Habitat for Humanity, providing affordable housing consulting services. • • In March 2023, the Mueller Foundation hired HomeBase to manage Mueller’s affordable resale …
Girard Kinney Park at Mueller About Girard Kinney Girard Arnold William Kinney, Jr. was born on March 4, 1943 at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC to parents Girard Senior and Cleora Deitz Kinney. In 1946, Girard and his parents moved to the Zilker neighborhood near Kinney and Virginia avenues, streets named aMer his grandparents. He was soon joined by his brothers George and Eugene, and his sister Virginia. The family home was built in 1873 by his grandfather’s great uncle, Coronel Griffin. He aVended Zilker Elementary, Fulmore Middle, and Travis High schools. During his teen years, he was interested in herpetology, a branch of zoology that focuses on repXles and amphibians. He collected, sold, and even milked snakes before selling the poison to the U.S. Navy for the producXon of anX-venom. However, aMer being asked by a teacher about what careers he and his classmates would want, he consulted with his father who asked him to name his skills. When Girard listed math and arts among his talents, his father suggested architecture, and so he began to learn more about the discipline during his high school years. Consequently, to pursue his interests in building design, in 1961 he enrolled at the University of Texas at AusXn in the School of Architecture where he was taught by many disXnguished professors, including Alan Taniguchi, whose father is the namesake of Mueller’s Isamu Taniguchi Park. Girard paid his way through school by ulXmately working three jobs simultaneously that also expressed his personal interests: fishing as a license clerk at the Texas Game & Fish Commission (now Texas Parks & Wildlife), architecture as a draMsman at the Calcasieu Lumber Company, and model cars as a manager of a model car racing track. Although he was set to graduate aMer compleXng all of his required hours, Girard quit school in protest to UT’s plans to demolish a collecXon of mature live oak trees and the university’s stance on the Vietnam War; however, he returned to UT in 1978 to take a final course and graduate. Girard has been married to Leyla Cohlmia for 40 years. They have a son, and Girard has a daughter from a previous marriage. Early in his long and remarkable career, Girard and his fellow architects developed the idea of building an auditorium/amphitheater along Waller Creek that he then pitched to the AusXn Symphony Orchestra, which resulXng in Symphony Square. …
