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Originally Posted by Novacek
Honestly, it would make the most sense to co-locate with Ft. Hood. Austin is literally an hour from one of the largest army bases in the country. Use that.
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I think the core functions should remain where they are. They’re a great central public facility that actually holds tons of useful civic and public functions, many of which Austin residents would then have to travel to San Antonio or Killeen to experience, and those places are too far afield to be practical. For instance, I’ve been to multiple re-enactments there. Also: they operate much of the land as a wildlife preserve, so we’d potentially be sacrificing that if we opened up the land wholesale to development.
As to what places don’t serve Camp Mabry’s core and ancillary functions and could easily be developed into something more mixed use, I can’t think of anything suitable. The whole land is so isolated from urban activity by MoPac and the surrounding single family suburban neighborhoods that it would be hard to fit an urban neighborhood here while also navigating:
Preservationists’ desires to keep undeveloped land undeveloped.
Area wealthy homeowners and ANAs opposed to anything dense west of MoPac.
Cost of relocating core functions.
Negative repercussions of losing these facilities to elsewhere.
The Austin State Supported Living Center, just south of that, on the other hand, would be much better suited to mixed use development although still hard to get past neighborhood association opposition I am sure.
MUNY and Brackenridge are also really a waste, as y’all said. I personally think the golf courses are necessary amenities for a large city, and MUNY is nice. We need at least one. Get rid of Morris Williams instead.
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