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City Increases Spending on Environmental Projects in East Austin

20th July, 2010 - Posted by carsi - No Comments

Check out this Statesman article about how East Austin is seeing an increase in environmental improvement projects like walking trails, new sewage lines, and cleaner public areas. The article states that the city will have almost doubled its expenditures on East Austin public works projects at $47.9 million annually in the 2009-11 fiscal years, up from $25.7 million annually from 1998 to 2008. The reasons for this increase include an influx of new, more affluent residents who have been communicating more with City Hall about their environmental agenda for the area. The change is not without its tensions, though, as longtime residents are hesitant about the projects, and some would prefer that money be spent elsewhere.

Wednesday night, the City will be sponsoring a meeting for people living in the Montopolis neighborhood to discuss proposed amendments to their neighborhood plan document. The meeting is at 6:30 in the auditorium of Austin Community College’s Riverside campus, 1020 Grove Blvd. For more info, call Maureen Meredith at the City of Austin at 974-2695.