03 C14-2025-0064 - Circle C Tract 110; District 8 - Public Comments 2 — original pdf

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We are very disappointed in our HOA board’s lack of communication to our community and we are going to have to work on that with them separately, but we feel like we need to come forward today to ask you to reconsider this zoning effort. When Stratus first created a Master Plan for the entire Circle C community they included this Tract and there have been so many things developed since then that make the original plan of exit points in our community a really bad idea. We need major studies to address the dangers by two schools, one college, one giant community pool and a preschool nearby. It is not a good idea to add 1500 cars to our community circulating on residential streets. When asked if Stratus has similar developments to their proposed Tract 110 - the HOA Board said at last week’s meeting that Stratus referenced the Lantana Development off of Southwest Parkway as a similar quote unquote luxury development. I would like to point out that the Lantana and surrounding Stratus properties is the first major development in that area and so it has excellent roads and access points for a development of this size. Unfortunately, TRACT 110 is the LAST major development in Circle C not the first and we do not have a safe way to do what they are asking. Tract 110 is better suited for a rec center or a LEED certified museum in line with the UT Texas Wildflower Center not a huge last-ditch effort to make a lot of money – upwards of $200 MILLION destroying our community. The best location for a development of this size is actually on Slaughter Lane. There are wonderful swaths of land that have low single level retail mini malls that could easily be redeveloped with multi-level mixed use condo developments with four lane road infrastructure already in place, wonderful restaurants, doctor’s office, urgent care, a movie theatre, an HEB for easy walkable access that would love and actually need more business as well as great access to MOPAC and public transportation. We do not need to destroy this giant ecological gem of a land for something that isn’t safe and doesn’t make sense. Please ask Stratus to go back to CAD and present some new ideas with their zoning efforts factoring in our willingness for a well thought-out seamless, feasible master plan. Thank you very much. Christine Olson 11227 S Bay Lane Austin, TX 78739 03 C14-2025-0064 - Circle C Tract 110; District 8 - Public Comments Public Comment by Resident, Christine Olson Dear the Zoning and Platting Department, Thank you to the zoning and platting department for giving the residents of Circle C an opportunity to share our concerns regarding this new development by Stratus. My name is Christine and I live on South Bay Lane. 1 of 803 C14-2025-0064 - Circle C Tract 110; District 5 - Public Comments2 of 8Good evening. My name is Alicia Keswani. I live at the intersection of Dahlgreen and Galsworthy, directly adjacent to the proposed secondary access point for this development. I've lived there for over five years, and I am asking this committee to postpone this case. City Ordinance No. 020801-31, adopted August 2002, explicitly prohibits vehicular access from this property to Dahlgreen Avenue. That protection was negotiated by this neighborhood with the City of Austin and Stratus Properties over two decades ago. This application proposes the removal of that prohibition. That deserves far more scrutiny than this traffic study provides. I say this as a parent who navigates school drop off and pick up at Valor South Austin and as I understand it, an early traffic study was done for that development with plans to improve later in the future. This has resulted in myself and hundreds of parents feeling afraid for our lives just to pick up our kids. At pick up, I sit on the shoulder of Mopac and feel my car sway forward and back as cars speed by, saying a prayer asking for safety and thinking to myself, “well at least if I get hit by a car moving at 65+ MPH, my kids aren’t in the car” Please don’t make that same mistake by putting another access point on MoPac for this development and an access point on Dahlgreen. The Dalgreen access point put the hundreds of families at Kiker at risk by using the current traffic study as sufficient information to make an informed decision. To be specific, the current study for this application has three substantive gaps. First, there is no school-zone safety analysis. The ZTA projects 424 AM and 386 PM peak trips on Dahlgreen — the same hours as Kiker drop-off and pickup. The City's own TIA Guidelines require identifying all schools within a quarter mile of a development. Kiker falls within that radius. That assessment is absent. Second, Dahlgreen will be the primary entrance in practice, not on paper. South Bay Lane is right-in, right-out only. Residents heading north on Mopac cannot use it. Dahlgreen connects to La Crosse, the main feeder road to both directions of Mopac. That is where the traffic will go. The study assumes an even split. It will not be even. Third, the study provides no phased construction analysis across the 5+ years of buildout, no assessment of cumulative impacts at La Crosse and Dahlgreen, and no accounting for the Mopac South Project (the $825 million expansion with construction beginning in 2027) that will add significant additional pressure to this corridor. We are asking for postponement pending a supplemental analysis covering school-zone safety, actual directional traffic behavior at both driveways, and a real enforcement plan that keeps Dahlgreen from becoming the primary entrance it was always promised it would never be. Myself and my neighbors present tonight are not against development, we knew that this tract would be developed at some point. However, we are opposed to a development plan that 03 C14-2025-0064 - Circle C Tract 110; District 5 - Public Comments3 of 8doesn’t thoughtfully address the traffic and safety concerns it raises, as it is written today. Thank you. 03 C14-2025-0064 - Circle C Tract 110; District 5 - Public Comments4 of 803 C14-2025-0064 - Circle C Tract 110; District 5 - Public Comments5 of 803 C14-2025-0064 - Circle C Tract 110; District 5 - Public Comments6 of 8May 5, 2026 Denise Waid, Homeowner 10500 Galsworthy Lane Circle C Ranch Austin Texas, 78739 Regarding Rezoning, C14-2025-0064 - Circle C Tract 110; District 5 First, I’d like to thank for allowing me to voice my concerns tonight. My name is Denise Waid, and my family has owned our home in Circle C since 2009. We chose this particular neighborhood very intentionally. Like so many parents, we wanted a place where our children could grow up safely… where we could walk them to school… where we could be present in their everyday lives. And we got that. We walked to Kiker. We know our neighbors. We built a life here that feels connected, safe, and deeply meaningful. These aren’t small things. These are the moments that shape a childhood—and a family. And this kind of life didn’t just happen by chance. It was protected by thoughtful planning. Since 2002, there has been a Conditional Overlay in place that explicitly prohibited additional vehicle access to Dahlgreen Avenue. This protection matters. It shaped the character of this neighborhood, and it’s a big part of why we chose this home—this street—this exact location. Today, that promise is being threatened. This zoning change would remove that restriction and turn Dahlgreen into one of only two access points for a very large-scale residential community along with the agreed upon commercial space. This is not a small adjustment. It fundamentally changes the conditions under which families like mine made one of the biggest decisions of our lives. And for us, this isn’t abstract. Our home sits at the intersection of Galsworthy and Dahlgreen. This change would place us at ground zero—where a safe neighborhood street becomes a primary access route for thousands of people, bringing that dramatic increase in traffic right to our front door. During commute times, this area – which already has a great deal of traffic – will become a very serious safety concern. Not theoretical, but real. Especially for Kiker children and their families who live along these streets and walk, bike, stroll and scooter along them every single day. This additional traffic won’t stay contained. It will spill through Gorham Glen, onto La Crosse, and into surrounding neighborhoods as people try to bypass MoPac—which is already overwhelmed. Why do I think this is inevitable? Because it happens already. These access points and commute routes struggle with the travel volume we have today, much less what is being proposed. 03 C14-2025-0064 - Circle C Tract 110; District 5 - Public Comments7 of 8 I invite any of you—sincerely—to come sit with me on my front porch during peak hours during the school year. Or ride take a ride with me. See what this looks like in real life. I’ll even make you a cup of coffee. This is not just about traffic patterns. It’s about safety. It’s about trust. It’s about the kind of environment we are creating for our children. In closing, I want to be very clear—this is not about opposing the development that was outlined in the 2002 contract. It’s about adding 1,000 residential units’ worth of traffic flowing in and out of an area that was never planned to handle it. And as someone who lives right at the center of this impact, this does not feel like a safe plan for those living in this community or the one that would be built. 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