Questions and notes regarding AMD's potential traffic and sprawl impacts

AMD says that they will save 10,000 vehicle miles per day from Austin roads by moving to the Lantana site. They base this on the fact that 58% of their employees live within 10 miles of the proposed location. But, they havenít provided any data to back this up.

• The yellow circle illustrates a 10 mile radius around their current location on Oltorf.
  
  
• The pink shows a 10 mile radius around the new proposed location on the Lantana tract.
  
  
• 10 miles covers a wide area of the city - no matter where you place the center.
  
  
• How many employees live within a 10 miles of their existing location?
  
  
• How many employees live within a 10 miles of the alternate sites that were evaluated?
  
  
• Using standard traffic trip generation tables, AMD's facilities alone would increase traffic
  on Southwest Parkway by about 40 percent. How does AMD come up with a 10,000 vehicle mile per day reduction?
  
  
• The April 13 edition of In Fact Daily reported that 36% of AMD employees live in Oak Hill. That leaves 64% to commute from outside the area, resulting in 100% of their employees commuting into the Barton Springs watershed.
  
  
• Why has AMD refused to release its traffic study?
  
  
• Does AMD consider their company a major employer in Austin?
  
  
• Is it likely that relocating AMD to this location will spur growth in the area for employee
  services such as restaurants, gasoline stations, drug stores, and other services?
  
  
• Is it likely that relocating AMD to this location will spur more commercial growth in the area for company services?
  
  
• How does AMD justify to the community moving over the most fragile aquifer in Texas?