Austin planners say Great Streets update will be folded into Transportation Criteria Manual
City planners told the Design Commission they intend to include the Great Streets update in the Transportation Criteria Manual to create consistent but flexible standards; they also announced the next Community Advisory Group meeting on Sept. 9 and a final open house before drafting the performance criteria and standards.
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Jill Amezquah, principal planner in Austin Planning's urban design division, told the Design Commission that the Great Streets update will move from plan language into implementation documents to standardize downtown streetscape rules. "So with the update, as I mentioned, it will be included in the transportation criteria manual with built in flexibility to allow for I'm gonna use this word again, flexibility and consistency so that all reviewers and all departments and all developers and all internal and external individuals are all on the same page with the update," she said.
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