VERY URGENT **FORMULA 1 AUSTIN ZONING AND PLATING CITY COUNCIL MEETING** 11/16/2010!!

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Done.

 

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Done!

 

Done! Best wishes

 

Sent just now. Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

You may uncross your fingers.

Austin Statesman:

U.S. Grand Prix clears another hurdle

By John Maher | Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 07:11 PM

Promoters of the proposed Formula One U.S. Grand Prix in Austin cleared another hurdle Tuesday evening.

The city’s Zoning and Platting Commission approved environmental variances to allow cutting and filling on the site, which will allow the circuit designers,Tilke GmbH, to grade the land to construct the course, stands and other features. There was only one dissenting vote from the board.

Promoters of the event, Full Throttle Productions, have been told by F1 officials to have the circuit ready by June 2012, although the race will not be assigned a date until late 2011.

The promoters’ attorney, Richard Suttle, also said that, after analyzing new flood plain data, it was determined neither the track nor any of the parking would fall in the 100-year flood plain at the site southeast of Austin.

Next up for the project is the City Council. Promoters are still hoping to break ground in December.

 

Done again to the new People.

 

Done. I really, really hope that it comes to Austin...

 

Done. I added to my letter that IMO, none of the USGP race sites since Watkins Glen in 1980 have been totally acceptable in my book, but that I would come to Austin if this all comes off. (Provided, of course, that they do not hold the race in the heat of the summer! Remember Dallas?)

 

sent my support letter in.

 

How did the meeting go?

 

7 to 0 in favor

 

Below is from the Austin Statesman today:
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/cityhall/entries/2010/11/18/council_oks_water_sewer_line_a.html

The Austin City Council cast its first vote today related to Formula One, unanimously agreeing to reimburse developers of the race track $13.5 million to install large water and sewer lines in and near the site.
F1 plans to build the track on about 900 acres near Elroy in southeastern Travis County. They intend to hold Grand Prix races from 2012 through at least 2021, making Austin the first U.S. city to stage such races since Indianapolis in 2007.
F1 organizers asked the city to provide water and sewer service to a site. The city routinely gets such requests, and routinely asks the developers to install oversize water and sewer lines to anticipate and serve future growth in an area, Austin Water Utility Assistant Director David Juarez said. The city then reimburses part or all of the cost, he said.
The city recoups the money over time as residents and businesses in the area pay water and sewer charges, Juarez said. Formula One promoters are not receiving special treatment, he said.
A company associated with the F1 organizers, Land Accelerator LLC, is trying to get all of the city and county approvals needed by the end of the year to start the first phase of construction, which will be to grade and slope the land.
The developers recently got environmental variances from the city and have only a few more hurdles to clear, said Richard Suttle, an attorney representing the project. They must get site plans approved by the city and county, and a flood-plain variance OKed by the county, he said.
Developers will pay to install the 24- to 36-inch water and sewer lines up front, then will reimburse them 100 percent of the cost three months after the work is completed, Juarez said.
Such agreements are common, he said; in the past five years, the city has agreed to reimburse part or all of the cost of installing water and sewer lines for 27 projects.

 

And there was another Statesman article on Tuesday:

U.S. Grand Prix clears another hurdle
By John Maher | Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 07:11 PM

Promoters of the proposed Formula One U.S. Grand Prix in Austin cleared another hurdle Tuesday evening.
The city’s Zoning and Platting Commission approved environmental variances to allow cutting and filling on the site, which will allow the circuit designers,Tilke GmbH, to grade the land to construct the course, stands and other features. There was only one dissenting vote from the board.
Promoters of the event, Full Throttle Productions, have been told by F1 officials to have the circuit ready by June 2012, although the race will not be assigned a date until late 2011.
The promoters’ attorney, Richard Suttle, also said that, after analyzing new flood plain data, it was determined neither the track nor any of the parking would fall in the 100-year flood plain at the site southeast of Austin.
Next up for the project is the City Council. Promoters are still hoping to break ground in December.

 

Great news! Moving forward...

 

I will be there!!!!!!!!

Cheers!