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July 2025 ECC Neighborhood Meeting
Agenda & Announcements
Eric Pace
July 23, 2025
Hello Neighbors,
Our July neighborhood meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday, July 23 and will take place at a new venue hosted by ARUP (1800 E. 4th St, Suite 133). This month, we’ll focus on the ECC Vision Plan and proposed updates to our bylaws. See below for the full agenda and updates.
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Table of Contents
Texas Floods
The catastrophic flooding across the Texas Hill Country has impacted folks across the state and beyond. If you or a neighbor has been impacted directly or indirectly, please reply and let us know if there's any way that the community can help with recovery.
Neighbors across Austin have been volunteering to help and finding creative ways to help raise money. Below are few highlighted nearby events and ways to contribute.
Announcements
New Meeting Locations for the Summer
To connect with more people and places in our neighborhood, ECC is periodically meeting at different locations in the neighborhood. July’s meeting will be hosted by ARUP, located at 1800 E. 4th St, Suite 133. ARUP's office entrance is located on the corner of 5th and Chicon. The main door is off the small courtyard at ground level, and there is free parking on 4th street and some on 5th. (See image below.)
ARUP's office entrance is located on the corner of 5th and Chicon. The main door is off the small courtyard at ground level, and there is free parking on 4th and 5th Streets.
In August, we’ll be hosted by the RBJ Center, and in September we’re tentatively planning to make our first return to the Terrazas Branch Library since C19.
Do you know a great location to host a neighborhood meeting? Please reply to this email and let us know!
The Trail Conservancy: Call for Artists to support the Eastside Family Garden Project
The Trail Conservancy is currently looking for an artist to join our design team for the Eastside Family Garden (next to the baseball fields), located in the Holly Shores area along the Butler Hike-and-Bike Trail.
This is not a call for a standalone public art piece. TTC is seeking a creative collaborator who will work closely with landscape architects and project team to weave artistic expression into all aspects of the space—from shade structures and nature play features to storytelling elements.
Deadline to apply: Friday, July 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM CDT
ADA Transition Plans for Pedestrian Crossings and Urban Trails
The City of Austin wants to hear from you on its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Transition Plans for Pedestrian Crossings and Urban Trails. Do you encounter accessibility barriers on the Red Line Parkway or other urban trails and sidewalks? Take the survey by Thursday 7/31.
Updates from the Redline Parkway Initiative
East 5th St. / Plaza Saltillo Area
CapMetro and the City of Austin shared their updated 60% design for their Rail and Trail Improvements in East Austin. The project will add double-tracking and new station platforms for the Red Line MetroRail and improve Red Line Parkway connectivity in the area. Our biggest requests for the project have been incorporated, including providing a trail connection to Plaza Saltillo and the MetroRail Station—not just the alleyway—and adding an ped/bike crossing of the railroad at Chalmers Avenue. We thank you and our friends in East Cesar Chavez for speaking up for these additions.
The project design is expected to be finalized by the end of this year, and construction is to start next year. Learn more at the project website.
Our local, docked bike share system, CapMetro Bikeshare, is expanding in 2025, including two new stations along the Red Line Parkway and several more nearby! Look for new stations at Northwestern Ave. at Webberville Rd. and Rosewood Ave. at Chestnut Ave. You can view the stations locations map in this recent public presentation.
Bike share systems help remove the barrier of owning a bike, and makes bikes available to a broader range of the public. Combining bike share with regional trails and transit creates world-class access to mobility and recreation.
Community Vision Plan Update
We've been busy putting together proposals for federal and local government funding for the Community Vision Plan. If successful, we'll be convening a public process beginning next year to develop a Community Vision Plan & Implementation Strategy. The plan will identify a 36-mile, end-to-end trail and linear park alignment, extending the joy manifested in the Boggy Creek Greenbelt to a vast stretch of Central Texas.
This behind-the-scenes work prior to public engagement doesn't always result in immediate, month-to-month news to share, but the results are transformative once realized. For example, our 7-year effort with CapMetro to unlock their railroad corridor for the Red Line Parkway culminated in last year's pivotal CapMetro Red Line Trail Study. We are aiming for initial results of the Community Vision Plan to be available by early 2027 with the final plan adopted in mid-2028, if we are awarded federal funding this year and reach our 2025 Red Line Parkway Initiative $500,000 fundraising goal.
Neighborhood Initiatives
Angel House / Homeless Neighborhood Initiative
Update: No substantive updates from City Staff to report.
Background: Our community collectively sent a detailed letter to Mayor Watson, City Manager Broadnax, and City Council outlining shared concerns and requesting immediate support for the ECC neighborhood. The letter was endorsed by a broad cross-section of our community, including members from 25 small business and non-profit organizations, and included 50 impact statements. Our team is now meeting monthly with David Gray, Homeless Strategy Office, to discuss progress and share feedback.
Hybrid Parking Initiative Update
Update: No substantive updates from City Staff to report.
Background: The ECC Team is working with the City to develop a “hybrid” parking zone to help alleviate parking challenges across the ECC neighborhood. For more details on the initiative, please see the presentation here.
Thanks for participating in our community! -ep
Eric Pace, Chair
ECCNA/NPCT
Upcoming 2025 ECC Neighborhood General Meeting Dates
August 20
September 17
October 15
November 19
December 17