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4. APPENDIX
NO WIDER, NO HIGHER:
THE I-35 SECTION
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CRITERIA TXDOT’S PLAN
Impacted Property
Legal Costs of Condemnations Condemns 32 acres and 142 properties of productive land including businesses, daycare facilities, and residences to convert it to highway ROW.
142 Properties Lost.
Unknown
COMMUNITY-CREATED ALTERNATIVE
NO WIDER, NO HIGHER
Takes NO additional land AND restores 30 acres of highway ROW to productive taxable land.
Additional 40 acres of land to the University of Texas linking UT across the freeway corridor. Including some private development to pay taxes.
$0 (no condemnations).
Costs of Impacted Property Between $132M and $455M (estimated).
Post-project Property Value $0
Post-project Taxable Value $0
Post-project Land-Use Opportunities Limited Purpose Freeway which negatively impacts surrounding land uses. N/A
Approximately $1 – 3 Billion Dollars within 20 years.
Billions of dollars of new, taxable value that will contribute to the tax base in perpetuity.
Market and Affordable Housing, Hotels, Office Building, Park Space, Tree Lined City Streets and Boulevard median.
Main Lanes Trenched – ROW widened in most constrained sections. Capped – surface restored to an at-grade city boulevard.
Frontage Lanes Adjacent to highway. Frontage Roads reconfigured as a boulevard on top of a continuous cap.
City Street Grid Fewer east/west connections. Complete restoration of the grid maximizing east/west connectivity opportunities for all modes.
“No Wider, No Higher” promise Fail – wider and introduces new flyovers in the urban core. Lowered, capped and it fits within existing 204’ of ROW.
Poster created for the I-35 press conference, held September 1, 2021 along the I-35 northbound frontage road at 31st St. Speakers at the press conference included: business owners whose businesses will be bulldozed, four City of Austin Council members, leaders of community and neighborhood groups, including the NAACP and People United for Mobility Action (PUMA), who are very concerned about TxDOT’s current proposals.
