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  1. 1 hour ago, wood said:

    So am I safe in the assumption that these 4 are the only malcontents (or just the 4 who are selling their votes to the opposition), and we have 6-7 votes "For" item 19?

    Agreed. These four are out. Garza/Kitchen/Casar are varying levels of “maybe.” Going to be tighter than it should be.

    Flannigan spitting fire at Pool/Alter and these other proposals during work session right now.

  2. Ok, gang. This is the week. Because it’s Austin, we can fuck up any deal, no matter how good it is.

    If you want MLS in Austin to happen, there’s two things you can do.

    Email Council with your support. Be sure to list your district, so they know it’s coming from a constituent. Be specific about supporting soccer at McKalla Place. You can email them all here:

    http://www.austintexas.gov/email/all-council-members

    Show up this Thursday, August 9 at City Hall. Item 19 will probably be in the evening. Folks can stop by anytime during the day to sign up in support/speak in support of Item 19.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Lobo said:

    Same reason people drive to the Domain to eat dinner.  People will go 45 minutes to see weird shit.  There's been some great concerts out at COTA that we've passed on because it's just a bitch to get out there on a weeknight, get some dinner, park, get to your seat, and get home afterwards.  And I drove to Hebron, Ohio once in the middle of the night to see the Grateful Dead so I'm willing to travel for my music.   

    Unless Led Zeppelin were to play a reunion show out there, I can't conceive of going out to COTA for anything except the U.S. Gran Prix.  After that contract expires, I suspect COTA will become a large Mazda dealership.  

    This was great right up until the first line when you ignored the fact that Domain is in the population center the the MSA and COTA is in the middle of fucking nowehere.

  4. All of those hole-in-one things are insured. The charity/company putting on the event pay the insurance company a super low price, and the insurance companies pays out if someone hits it. Cost is low because they almost never pay out. The policy has requirements about minimum distances/witnesses/etc and has to list the specific hole.

     

    The charity must have put the sign on the wrong hole, which means they didn’t have an insurance policy to back it up and were liable out of pocket.

  5. 2 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Austin has some of the worst segregation and wealth disparancy in Texas. Also Has the highest cost of living and least amount of affordable housing in the state  Mimicking SF Seattle etc  

    what is different about our leadership vs the rest of the state?  Hmmmm. Vote for change, the status quo got us here 

    Making this about party politics is a huge mistake. This is a central Austin vs, everybody else thing, regardless of your political leaning. That’s where the current land development code and the last 80 years of politics have concentrated power. Beware of candidates getting a huge amount of $$$ from the core.

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  6. 6 hours ago, Lobo said:

    If you take out the children, there's what---7 people at that press conference?  

    Too damn far to drive out there for anything other than a race. 

    Elroy FC would be a better name.

  7. 8 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    Its not an ethnic play, and it is not totally intended, but it is in reality an SES play that pushes young families out of Austin. Doesn't really matter their race or ethnicity. 

    I’d say it’s a combination of several things:

    - Wanting to keep out the poors, who are largely brown and black based upon simple demographics

    - Implicit bias toward single family, which exacerbates the segregationist history of Austin’s land development code

    - Central Austin liberal elite who want equality as long as it doesn’t affect them and they get to call the shots

    - Fuck you, pay me

     

     

  8. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Code words to the neighborhood associations that run city government: relax, we aren't going to change a damned thing.  You can continue to "preserve the character" of your neighborhoods by not allowing anything to be altered or built within 10 miles of you.

    “We will find a way to keep out the brown people.”

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  9. 3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    The problem with this mayor, sadly, is that he’d rather be on the losing end of a 7-4 vote than prevail 6-5.

    I’m not planning to get into COA stuff on surly the way I did on shag, but we’ve got a leadership vacuum and mistakes of inaction are being made in this period that will have negative consequences that cannot be undone. There was a window for this city to adapt more or less comfortably to our own growth. It stayed open for a long time. It’s closing soon.

     

    Agree on the leadership vacuum, wholeheartedly. I know some in the business community pulled support from Adler after he rolled over on sick leave, but are grudgingly back in the game because of his opponent.

     

    The only good thing I can say about this is that the money we spent on Code NEXT was a sunk cost. We were moving very quickly toward a land development outcome that would have cost the city far more. I hold some outside hope that we can rethink the process and come up with something better. It’s also quite possible that we can come up with something better in D1 after November.

  10. 1 hour ago, wood said:

    Welp, if we wanna make sure the MLS team gets the lowest possible attendance, we could always put it way the fuck out in BFE, at COTA. I knew this shit was coming.

    Capella proposes McKalla Place partnership with PSV or putting MLS stadium at F1 track https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2018/07/31/capella-proposes-mckalla-place-partnership-with.html

    Technically MLS @ F1 is their first option. Which is the stupidest option. And, would keep the team from moving here. Also no idea why PSV would want to work with the group trying to cockblock them.

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  11. 30 minutes ago, wood said:

    Yep. A few steel bleachers and some banners = a stadium in Bobbyworld.

    Exactly. This whole thing is the bush league shit show we expected it to be.

     

    Looks like they found the key to the Aztex Twitter account.

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  12. 20 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

    Having said that I think if it ever gets put up to a vote the voters will approve it. Not sure what’s going on here but I bet it somehow involved COTA and its backers. 

    Adler v Morrison, CodeNEXT and soccer would be one hell of a trifecta election for the forces of good vs evil in November.

  13. This much is true. But, they have a super short time frame. If my math is right, they need to get 20K signatures on a petition and get it certified by the city (which takes 10 days or so) by Aug 20 to make the November ballot.

  14. Tonight’s public info session at the library featured the same people, including me, saying the same shit they’ve said at five other meetings. What a valuable use of taxpayer funds.

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