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drt

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  1. drt

    USMNT 2019

    Well that was a better free kick than I was expecting
  2. Shouldn’t be a pk.
  3. Any recs on what part of town to stay in?
  4. I'd prefer state or federal. CoA is planning on 9mil initial site investment + 2mil yearly operating costs for 100 beds. Estimated chronically homeless in Austin is 2k, with another ~8k on any given night. Multiply that out and that's a ton of freaking money for municipalities to spend to make any sort of reasonable dent in housing/treating a number of people that is growing in every major city in Texas. This is a big enough problem state/nation wide that a few million here or there isn't going to cut it.
  5. You ever help with the clean up? You might be more likely to see needles at that point. I notice you didn't say you hadn't seen feces. There have been 15 assaults or robbery by assault in the last year within 2000 feet of sunrise church. That is from the CoA crime map. It does not take into account the beating that resulted in the guy being murdered at the bus stop last year. It also doesn't include the woman that was sexually assaulted walking home from Camino south side. It was a homeless guy that was arrested for exposing himself to kids leaving Joslin. I may be overreacting. But I'm just tired of this shit, and don't trust the city to manage this with any reasonable duty of care towards the rest of us.
  6. This is my first significant interaction with the neighborhood associations that I’ve always heard such terrible things about. Holy shit it’s absurdity in human form.
  7. Well, sometimes its the little things in life.
  8. I assume you hit him in the face?
  9. Wait, have you not been there before?
  10. https://www.mountainproject.com/v/110367242
  11. Honduras are a very distasteful team, so this halftime score pleases me.
  12. Ya since our first was born we've stopped walking to Radio because that area is now dangerous. Besides the feces, needles, intoxicated people there, there has also been a few sexual assualts, 1 stabbing, and at least one case of indecent exposure towards the elementary school that I can think off offhand. Our kiddo just turned 2, so it's been a pretty steep nosedive and we've been in the neighborhood around 5 years. We were so pumped when Radio and El Chilito went in for the walkablity factor, but we just don't go to either unless driving. Shit like this is why people leave for the burbs.
  13. You're giving CoA a lot of credit for foresight and working hand in hand with other gov't agencies, namely AISD. Glad to see you're an optimist. On a serious note, the only of the 4 that might be on the chopping block is St. Elmo per the NA chat; but that got pretty significant pushback from the over-involved in our neck of the woods for the reason Lobo mentioned.
  14. Galindo, Dawson, St. Elmo, and Joslin are all pretty close elementary schools. Not to mention the Ann Richards School, which already has issues with the crowd around Ben White.
  15. You lucky sob. Been too long since I’ve made it down. Id be interested in hearing how the temps are and how much shade chasing you have to do this time of year
  16. https://www.change.org/p/city-of-austin-opposition-to-homeless-shelter-center-proposed-location-1112-w-ben-white-blvd? has started making the rounds. Whee!
  17. Also a nice little note: CoA is planning on buying it for 8-9 million, currently it is assessed at ~2 mil by TCAD. Either the city is way overpaying or commercial property is criminally undervalued, but seems like residents get screwed either way.
  18. When we went we did hikes to Observation Peak as well as Specimen Ridge. Neither were very difficult, Specimen ridge was definitely less crowded. We were told that Electric Peak was a good challenging hike, but ran out of time to even give it a try. We camped in the park itself and had issues getting into the campgrounds we wanted, it gets really f'ing crowded in the summer. It took getting up balls early and hustling ass to get one of the first come, first served sites in a decent campground. Honestly I enjoyed the Tetons more, but both they and Yellowstone should be required visits if you're in that part of the country.
  19. Regression to the mean?
  20. Spain sure is nice most of the year.
  21. It's funny because the Community First Village that everyone touts as such a success and blueprint to follow is actually out in the country.
  22. So I was talking to an architect buddy this morning. Apparently he went to some seminar on affordable housing or some such recently and heard some stats from whatever body was doing the presentation. 2000ish chronically homeless in Austin, another 7-9000 temp homeless out on the streets on any given night was the number thrown around. For each one COA spends $220,000/year on police, ems, outreach, etc. If you put them in some sort of housing that drops to $90,000. Hence the current push to put them in beds by city council. What he (and I) don't get is how you just put it one neighborhood. There is no way this will ever be equitable, but to just dump this one facility in South Austin is not only unfair, but a drop in the bucket to the scope of the problem. This facility is slated for 100 beds. ARCH is losing 60. Kitchen's response to this issue in our neighborhood has always been reactionary and minimalistic. This just continues the trend. Meanwhile my neighborhood is getting less safe. It was actually promising how many new young families have moved in in the last 4 years. I expect them to migrate out if this moves in. We probably will too.
  23. It's another site for housing, services, etc. Basically an ARCH, but in a somewhat affordable neighborhood. Lord knows this shit wouldn't be in Tarrytown.
  24. I think it's the ISA building right there on the NE corner.
  25. I just tried to turn on the game via the Fox app again. Doesn't work, again. This is pathetic.
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