Austin Neighborhoods Council   -   Resolution No. 1
April 27, 2005

Advanced Micro Devices Proposed Construction on the Lantana Site

Whereas,     The Austin Neighborhoods Council works to preserve and enhance the quality of life for all neighborhoods and residents of Austin, and

Whereas     Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is supporting the construction of 800,000 square feet of office space on the Lantana site on Southwest Parkway, to serve as AMD's new Austin offices, and

Whereas     AMD's move to the sensitive Barton Springs watershed would reverse more than 30 years of city policy directing major employers away from that area and toward downtown, the Desired Development Zone, and population centers to the north and east that are in need of jobs and economic revitalization, and

Whereas     The move would add more than 2,000 commuters to the traffic and pollution problems already facing Southwest Parkway and South MoPac, simultaneously undermining the existing and future public transit system serving AMD's current locations and increasing the pressure to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on road expansion in the watershed, and

Whereas     Austin's neighborhoods and citizens have repeatedly voiced their strong support for the principles of the SOS ordinance and sound urban planning that would be violated by AMD's proposal;

Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the Austin Neighborhoods Council hereby requests that the management of AMD and the City of Austin work together to find a more appropriate site (away from the Aquifer) for AMD's offices.




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Susan M. Pascoe, President
Austin Neighborhoods Council