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Revitalizing Ridgetop: A Community Driven Renaissance

Explore how Ridgetop in Austin aims to strengthen itself amid urban changes, focusing on safety, traffic issues, and urban design failures to benefit the neighborhood and boost the local economy.

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Revitalizing Ridgetop: A Community Driven Renaissance

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  1. Ridgetop Renaissance:A Community’s Plan to Strengthen Itself & Austin Where:Ridgetop at the heart of urban change in Central Austin Mueller Redev't

  2. How It Started:51st Street Zoning Change Request to upzone 910 E. 51st SF-3 to GR. • Changes in character: tough place for single family homes. • Willingness to consider upzoning entire corridor. • Fatal flaw: infrastructure not yet in place for expansion.

  3. The Problems • Unsafe • Gridlock • Urban Design Failure • Harms Mueller redevelopment

  4. Unsafe Airport Blvd. at 51st Street: 3 Ridgetop Elementary Children hit in 4 years

  5. Unsafe 51st at IH-35: Austin’s No.1 Pedestrian Fatality Location

  6. Unsafe Legal Fence blocks view 53rd at IH-35: Blind Curve

  7. Gridlock 52nd at IH-35

  8. Gridlock Airport Blvd. at 51st Street:

  9. Urban Design Failure Cloverleaf at 51st & IH-35

  10. Urban Design Failure 51st Street Corridor

  11. Solving the Problem • 51st Street / IH-35 interchange redesign. • Close residential streets to IH-35 access. • Reconfigure 51st Street Lanes (Striping).

  12. How Austin Benefits • Higher Tax Base • Residential & commercial property. • Better use of land: 51st and IH-35 access rd. • Offset costs to implement overall plan. • Make Mueller Work • Spread Success

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