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Tired of spam. I'll have to approve membership requests.

#201

From: Andrew Clements <andrewaia@...>
Date: Thu Aug 6, 2009 8:59 pm
Subject: RE: Meta: time to revive or disband austin_urbanists?

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I'd vote for revival.

A large concern of mine regarding the Planning Commission current make-up is: I don't believe there is a single member that has a planning background (training, employment, or education) or even a design background. I know Dave Anderson is an engineer (environmental I believe); but that is "it" (and I wouldn't consider an engineer a planning or design professional) - but at the same time, I don't know much about Jay Reddy, Gerardo Castillo, or Clint Small. Does anyone else?

If I am correct (and that there isn't anyone on the Planning Commission with a planning, or even design, background) I think it rather "ridiculous." True, there are social and policy sides of planning that are important; but the real core of urban planning is physical planning (for land use and transportation, especially) - and to not have anyone on the PC with expertise or background in these areas is appalling.

Andrew W. Clements
The 360 Condominium Tower

360 Nueces Street, #1501
Austin, Texas 78701
AndrewAIA@...

To: austin_urbanists@yahoogroups.com
From: mdahmus@...
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:51:58 -0700
Subject: Re: [austin_urbanists] Meta: time to revive or disband austin_urbanists?

I'd vote revival - but have spent most of my (much more highly limited than before) time commenting on blogs lately. I have been killing the spam when it arrives and deleting the 'members'.

But in the interest of actual content:

Just today, Wells Dunbar wrote this article about the new B&C appointments: http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A819414

I've already complained that he kind of let Laura Morrison steer the discussion (with the inaccurate implication that the 'old' makeup of the Planning Commission was 7 pro-density and 2 neighborhood-association-types). I actually was probably a bit low when I said there were only 2 reliable urbanist votes before; I forgot Jay Reddy, so you could say there were 3 urbanists, 2 nimbyists, and 4 swing votes. Still, it was never 7-2.

I would highly encourage others on this list with experience with the Planning Commission's recent make-up to speak up.

- MD

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#200

From: Mike Dahmus <mdahmus@...>
Date: Thu Aug 6, 2009 2:51 pm
Subject: Re: Meta: time to revive or disband austin_urbanists?

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#199

From: "Prentiss Riddle" <riddle@...>
Date: Thu Aug 6, 2009 2:05 pm
Subject: Meta: time to revive or disband austin_urbanists?

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I've seen nothing but spam on the austin_urbanists list since February.

Is there hope that this list will be active again?  Of course each of us has the
option of simply quitting, but I'd hate to leave and then miss out on future
useful activity.  If the consensus is that the list isn't viable, could we
perhaps agree to adjourn to some other list?

Prentiss Riddle

#186

From: Andrew Clements <andrewaia@...>
Date: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:58 pm
Subject: RE: Close Colorado Street?

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It is ridiculous; the closing of San Antonio Street (the block in front of the proposed Federal Courthouse - the former Intel building shell location) is already approved (when and if the Courthouse is funded and constructed); and now this proposed street closing.

The "restoration" of the downtown street grid is trumpeted and championed (true, by the City of Austin; not the State of Texas) on the one hand; and then important blocks of that same street grid are proposed for closure.

Andrew W. Clements
The 360 Condominium Tower

360 Nueces Street, #1501
Austin, Texas 78701
AndrewAIA@...

To: austin_urbanists@yahoogroups.com
From: roger@...
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:48:54 -0600
Subject: [austin_urbanists] Close Colorado Street?

Plans submitted for the restoration of the Governor's Mansion call for the closing of Colorado Street between 10^th and 1th Streets. What do you think of this idea?

Roger

Roger L. Cauvin

Vice President

Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association (DANA)

#185

From: "Roger L. Cauvin" <roger@...>
Date: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:48 pm
Subject: Close Colorado Street?

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Plans submitted for the restoration of the Governor's Mansion call for the closing of Colorado Street between 10^th and 1th Streets. What do you think of this idea?

Roger

Roger L. Cauvin

Vice President

Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association (DANA)

#183

From: Mike Dahmus <mdahmus@...>
Date: Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:34 pm
Subject: Re: I want to meet you. Give me a chance!

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Spam artist. Removed.

#182

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Date: Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:33 pm
Subject: Re: I want to meet you. Give me a chance!

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#168

From: "Roger L. Cauvin" <roger@...>
Date: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:14 am
Subject: DANA City Council Candidate Forum Wednesday 4/23 at 6:30 pm

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Fellow Urbanists,

About a month ago, we in this group tossed around the idea of putting together a city council candidate forum and making endorsements.

I wanted to let you know that the Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association (DANA) is hosting a City Council candidate forum Wednesday, April 23, 2008.

WHAT: City Council Candidate Forum

WHEN: Wednesday, April 23rd, from 6:30 and 9 pm

WHERE: Austin Club @ 110 E. 9th Street (between Congress and Brazos)

Please join us as the candidates listen and respond to the voice of our downtown neighborhood.

Everyone is invited, and those of you who are DANA members will have a chance to make endorsements after the candidates finish answering questions.

DANA will provide complimentary food and refreshments.

Roger L. Cauvin

Communications Chair

Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association (DANA)

#165

From: "Dee Copeland" <dee@...>
Date: Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:01 pm
Subject: Latest Austin market updates February 2008

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For those of you interested, the Austin Board of REALTORS released
their statistics last week for February 2008.

My monthly market analysis revealed that homes or condos priced above
$400k are suffering because there's less buyers in that price range.
At the same time, if you're in the market for a home priced below
$250k, you may have to compete since there's high demand for $150-250k
homes. http://tinyurl.com/yow2g4.

Steve Crossland (investors) also does update that you may want to
read. http://crosslandteam.com/blog.

--
Dee Copeland

#164

From: Andrew Clements <andrewaia@...>
Date: Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:50 pm
Subject: RE: Anybody interested in making endorsements?

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I'd be open to the idea, but getting a Forum together at this point in time (7 weeks from today until the Municipal Election) and getting the candidates committed to attending a Forum (they already are likely quite time constrained) would be a 'stretch' in my opinion. And I couldn't support making endorsements without getting to ask the candidates questions directly tied to the group's interests (and I guess the Austin Urbanists' interests are 'People interested in promoting urban development in Austin. If you like suburban parking codes and single-family-only development, this is probably not the place for you. If you like to see sustainable infill which increases residential density (the good way) and encourages pedestrian and other non-automobile travel, on the other hand, please come on in and participate.').

A possibility in my mind is for members of this group to attend a Forum already set to occur, and perhaps make endorsements from that. A City Council Candidate Forum will be hosted by the Austin Alliance for Public Transit (APT) and Austin Area Regional Transit (AART) on Thursday, April 3rd, in the Austin City Hall Council Chambers starting at 6:30 p.m. The 'focus' of the Forum will be on public and mass transit, and supporting land use. All 12 of the candidates that have filed have committed to attending this Forum; and there will be ample time for questions from the audience (although submitted to the Forum moderator on index cards, not directly asked of the candidates).

I attach the Flyer for this Forum.

Andrew Clements
Board Member and Secretary
Alliance for Public Transit and
Austin Area Regional Transit

To: austin_urbanists@yahoogroups.com
From: mdahmus@...
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:17:33 +0000
Subject: [austin_urbanists] Anybody interested in making endorsements?

Hey guys, is anybody interested in making endorsements for city
council races, either as a group (named) or just as a list of names?

#163

From: Mike Dahmus <mdahmus@...>
Date: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:11 pm
Subject: RE: Anybody interested in making endorsements?

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--- "Roger L. Cauvin" <roger@...> wrote:

> > Hey guys, is anybody interested in making
> endorsements for city
> > council races, either as a group (named) or just
> as a list of names?
>
> Yes.  How do you envision publicizing the
> endorsements?

Up to the group. If we got a substantial number of
participants, I'd envision we could send a statement
to the Chronicle, Statesman, and a few TV outlets, and
publicize on the Burnt Orange Report and other
portals.

- MD

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#162

From: "Roger L. Cauvin" <roger@...>
Date: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:25 pm
Subject: RE: Anybody interested in making endorsements?

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> Hey guys, is anybody interested in making endorsements for city
> council races, either as a group (named) or just as a list of names?

Yes.  How do you envision publicizing the endorsements?

#161

From: "Mike Dahmus" <mdahmus@...>
Date: Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:17 pm
Subject: Anybody interested in making endorsements?

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Hey guys, is anybody interested in making endorsements for city
council races, either as a group (named) or just as a list of names?

#160

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#157

From: "Dee Copeland" <dee@...>
Date: Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:29 pm
Subject: Know any writers passionate about sustainable living?

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For those of you interested in sustainable, green, mixed-income,
mixed-use development, we are looking for passionate writers for an
interactive site about new urbanism that will launch end of
January/Early February. We can put an ad on Craigslist, but wanted to
get input from you on better resources.

The startup is volunteer so we can populate the upcoming site by the
launch date, but we may start paying on Helium for featured articles.

http://texas.vflyer.com/1/index.html

Contact:
Elisabeth Long, Senior Editor
info@... or Elisabeth.long@...
Mobile: 646-734-0184

RESOURCES
1. Stapelon, Denver http://www.stapletondenver.com
  and Mueller Austin http://www.MuellerAustin.com
are sample communities.
2. The authority on the issue. http://www.cnu.org, whose national
conference is coming to Austin April 2008.
3. New Urban News http://www.newurbannews.com/
4. New Urbanism.org http://www.newurbanism.org

Locally, there's a discussion thread on a local blog with a critique
of Mueller. http://www.muellercommunity.com/viewtopic.php?t=220

------
Dee Copeland, Founder and Publisher
UrbanistLiving.com
Interactive Online Magazine for the Urbanist Lifestyle.

#156

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Date: Wed Dec 5, 2007 3:26 pm
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#153

From: Dee Copeland <dee@...>
Date: Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:01 pm
Subject: Fwd: National Art Project for Austin/East Austin

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Subject: Fwd: National Art Project for Austin/East Austin

All,

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Besides existing communities, Chestnut Commons and Mueller Austin were raised as viable partners. Please feel free to contact me or the artist's reps if you know of a developer, apartment community, or owner of a high-visibility home that would be interested in applying for this opportunity.

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#152

From: "Mike Dahmus" <mdahmus@...>
Date: Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:59 pm
Subject: Council announcements

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http://mdahmus.monkeysystems.com/blog/archives/000459.html

Any thoughts on whether y'all would like to get involved in
endorsements for this city council election?

- MD

#151

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#150

From: "Mike Dahmus" <mdahmus@...>
Date: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:41 pm
Subject: Anybody hear Wynn's address?

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I've posted my thoughts here:

http://mdahmus.monkeysystems.com/blog/archives/000457.html

(neither Wynn nor McCracken's aides wrote back, so I had to go with
what I know, which is nearly nothing).

- MD

#149

From: "Mike Dahmus" <mdahmus@...>
Date: Mon Oct 1, 2007 9:54 pm
Subject: Re: Another opportunity for comment

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More on that here:

http://www.austinpoliticalreport.com/2007/10/01/rg4n-2/

- MD

--- In austin_urbanists@yahoogroups.com, Chris Bradford
<chrisbradford@...> wrote:
>
> I note the guy's limiting comments to residents and the developer --
people with a "stake."
>
>   He should get some t-shirts made up already.
>
>
> Mike Dahmus <mdahmus@...> wrote:
>           Endeavor is trying to build what appears to be a fairly
responsible
> midrise VMU project on the old Howard Nursery site (on Koenig Lane).
> It's been lukewarmishly supported by the pres of the closest NA, but
> rabble are being roused against it at sites like this one:
>
> http://www.ILoveNorthLoop.com/
>
> and it would be helpful to not be the only one out there. Also
> happening on the skyview yahoo group.
>
> - MD
>

#148

From: Chris Bradford <chrisbradford@...>
Date: Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:41 am
Subject: Re: Another opportunity for comment

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I note the guy's limiting comments to residents and the developer -- people with a "stake."

He should get some t-shirts made up already.

Mike Dahmus <mdahmus@...> wrote:

Endeavor is trying to build what appears to be a fairly responsible
midrise VMU project on the old Howard Nursery site (on Koenig Lane).
It's been lukewarmishly supported by the pres of the closest NA, but
rabble are being roused against it at sites like this one:

http://www.ILoveNorthLoop.com/

and it would be helpful to not be the only one out there. Also
happening on the skyview yahoo group.

- MD

#147

From: "Mike Dahmus" <mdahmus@...>
Date: Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:47 pm
Subject: Another opportunity for comment

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Endeavor is trying to build what appears to be a fairly responsible
midrise VMU project on the old Howard Nursery site (on Koenig Lane).
It's been lukewarmishly supported by the pres of the closest NA, but
rabble are being roused against it at sites like this one:

http://www.ILoveNorthLoop.com/

and it would be helpful to not be the only one out there. Also
happening on the skyview yahoo group.

- MD