Austin at Large on unforced errors, ugly legacies, double standards, and loving thy neighbor.
Right now we have in the headlines two different long-planned city projects, from different departments and in different parts of town, that have gone at least temporarily FUBAR as angry and frightened neighbors have raised alarms about these LULUs. If we really were hitting our intended marks as a city and community for equity and justice, these two scenarios would be a lot more similar than they actually are.
The 1.5 million-gallon fuel tanks are not very floof-y, but when AUS runs low on fuel it screws up travel for miles around and at other airports, and people in suits get very cross. When the depot got its required environmental clearance from the feds in 2020 – a"finding of no significant impact," universally pronounced,"Fonzie!" – its construction was supposed to be nearly a decade away, plenty of time to check in with those neighbors across U.S.
But things got accelerated, and here we are. Perhaps the relevant city and AUS topsiders and their consultants can identify, in hindsight, the point in the process when they should have figured out that moving giant tanks of explosive chemicals to a highly visible location on the western edge of the airport property would attract problematic attention, no matter how safe the tanks truly are or how easily addressable the neighbors' concerns seem to be in their professional opinion.
A key role is being played here by the Downtown Austin Alliance, which is not really NIMBY by nature and has been at the table throughout most of the long slog of crafting a workable Austin homelessness policy, while other local real estate interests were writing checks to Save Austin Now.
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