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PROJECTION: TEXAS PR PROJ PROJEC PROJECT P RO ROJECT ROJ ROJE ROJEC RO OJECT OJE JECT J JE ECT E EC C IION IO ON: TEX ON TE T TEXA EXAS CENTRAL STATE PLANE DATUM: NAD DA ATUM: NA AD 1983 198 19 1 98 9 983 83
VISION STATEMENT The Gateway Activity Center strives to be a set of complete neighborhoods that carry Austin’s spirit forward as a world-class city:
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5% Duplex
6% Townhome
34% Single Family
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0.25 0.5 0.75
Robust, economically diverse, transit-oriented communities with distinctive amenities and cultural resources.
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Providing more housing choices will increase affordability allowing families to live closer to work and home while a community to develops within a highly active area transforming a commercial business district to a mixed use urban community.
14000
Commercial & Office Industrial
Total Area (Acres)
12000
Civic
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The technology boom of the 1990s increased overall job availability for white collar workers without undermining long term blue collar employment.
Commercial & Office
1600
Industrial Civic
1400
Residential
1200 1000
Historically there has been a low mix of land uses consisting of commercial & industrial. Residential areas have remained the same while business activities have increased.
800 600 400 200 0 1990
2000
2010
FUTURE PARK PROXIMITY
Balcones Community Park
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1800
Total Area (Acres)
16000
Schroeter Park
0.50 0.45
0.47
0.44
0.40 0.35
A very diverse center should score above 0.5 in the Simpon’s Diversity Index. This index evaluates, in a 0 to 1 range, the mixture of elements within a specific area, and is often used in ecology to calculate biodiversity. 2010
0.30 0.25 0.20 0.15 0.10
0.11
0.05 0.00
1990
2000
NEARBY SERVICES
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Compared to Travis County the area’s population has a strong representation of young professionals.
DIVERSITY OF LAND USE, SCORE BELOW 0.5
RAILS TO ATTRACT ACTIVITY
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SOME BUILDINGS AT END OF USEFUL LIFE SEVERE LACK OF PARKS
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INCREASE OF COMMERCIAL AND OFFICE ACTIVITIES
LOW MIX OF LAND USES
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Population
W EAKNESSES
PEAK OF YOUNG WORKFORCE
20%
LAUREN TUTTLE TLE
2000
COLTON SANDERS
1990
JULIO CARRILLO
WELL CONNECTED
Ex xisting Rail Lines 115,010
120,000
Multi-family Commercial
ALAN BUSH
DIVERSE MIX OF INDUSTRIES
145,119 9
140,000
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Undeveloped Water
NATHAN BRIGMON
LOTS OF OPEN SPACE
Gateway Activity Center
160,000
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TRENGTHS
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