Paige Ellis

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944 appearances 16 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Austin City Council · City Council Meetings · 23 Apr 2026 meeting

I just wanted to flag, I'm starting to lean on the denial of the service extension request simply because the environmental commission had denied it and the watershed protection staff had denied it. podcast-host

But I would like to flag for us as colleagues podcast-host

um that this conversation around the service extension request in the drinking water protection zone continues to get stickier and stickier as the years go by and i know that former council member and mayor pro tem leslie poole had started to open up this conversation around when and how do these come to council and when do they get administratively approved and so right now it is split kind of west austin versus central and east austin it's the drinking water protection zone and then the other side is podcast-host

The desired development zone that was set a number of years ago, and I'm finding that these are getting more complicated as they come to us and not every council office has to deal with them. podcast-host

But I did want to just flag for staff that I think we need to open that conversation back up and figure out a smoother way to. podcast-host

uh better right size our utilities and make sure that we're getting as as many environmental protections as we possibly can out of these service extension requests so i know this had already been postponed once or twice but i'm having a hard time continuing to extend wastewater service into an area that is getting less environmental protection as the years go by podcast-host

and also has more demand on our wastewater utilities. podcast-host

So I've struggled with this. podcast-host

I'm sorry for keeping folks here all day to be able to talk about this one particular item, but I'm going to move denial of the service extension request. podcast-host

to this is a motion sheet that's in your backup for reference. podcast-host

The city manager is directed to collaborate with the property owner, Cap Metro, and Travis County on the podcast-host

I started looking at it, I said, you know, really, what is CODA? podcast-host

What are we looking at here? podcast-host

And so I thought I'd point some of these things out to you. podcast-host

During the COVID crisis, podcast-host

they were shut down you said the council shut them down like podcast-host

an active participant of the Central Labor Council through my day job, and I'm generally a massive supporter of unions and union jobs. podcast-host

What really keeps me up at night is that capitalism, billionaires, and lawmakers have created a false dichotomy, making us feel like we either prioritize union jobs or prioritize our collective future by protecting podcast-host

protect the nearby community from the additional racetrack. podcast-host

There are at least six other golf courses within 10 miles of this project. podcast-host

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