Why?

Why has the BOD buried the date and time of the HEB meeting in the online and paper newsletter? Hhhmmm

Note that the January 6th, 7:00 pm at Kiker meeting is also NOT on the CCHOA calendar of events: http://www.localendar.com/public/CCHOA

How much did O'Reilly pay for the land on Mopac?
How much did Stratus pay him in October 2003 for that land?

To dear Sal...........


Dear Sal,

You are a good man (with a hot temper) and you have the desire to help the community. I respect you for that. However, sometimes you just seem lack of logical sense.

7/24 STORES:

When I went shopping around 1-3 a.m., I noticed that most of the time I was the only customer in the store. Do you think a 7/24 store could cause a lot of traffic and noise in the middle of the night and thus cause residents a good night sleep?

Do you think Circle C residents would change their working schedule so that they can all go shopping in the middle of the night just because there is a 7/24 store available in the subdivision?

I love 7/24 stores because they give me the freedom to go shopping whenever I want. I can?’t control the traffic jam and the crowd, but I can avoid them.


TRAFFIC CONGESTION:

A smaller grocery store would not reduce the traffic congestion. If the parking lot is running out of the parking space, people would park their cars on the side street. That would be even worse!

There is one way you can reduce the traffic around Escarptment/Slaughter ONLY IF YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DO IT ?– How about assign the residents to do the grocery shopping on certain days and time? For example: Homeowners with last name A ?– F can only shop on Monday and Wednesday from noon through 6:00 p.m?…?…?…?…?…..Hahahaha!!!

Big Stores

No, Lisa, big stores do not necessarily mean bigger crowds. The ability to *park* and *get* to the store has more impact. And parking is usually scaled to the size of the store. In addition, the bigger the store, the more variety they *can* carry and/or the greater quantity of any given item they can stock -- meaning people will go there knowing they can find what they want.

Grocery stores are very hard on neighbourhoods because their peak hours are precisely the times that homeowners are trying to relax after getting home from work; trying to get kids' homework done; having kids out playing or walking to/from friends' houses; getting to sleep; and so forth. Remember, for you to go to the store at 1 am means having lights on round the clock, which means light pollution that will prevent us from being able to see the stars.

If you don't work 9 to 5, then go to the store then -- it's far less crowded. I LOVE going to the small Randalls or FreshPlus because I know there will not be a crowd and I can park close to the door simply because the parking lot is small. (Exposition, 35th St., Balcones) I would dearly love a neighbourhood-scaled store -- somewhere to go for the basics, and then I'd go to Central Market if I needed more speciality things. I don't NEED yet another supermarket.

I am a nightowl to the core, but I also believe that there simply *has* to be *some* down time or employees do not get to rest and the store doesn't run as efficiently. *EVEN* McDonald's is not 24/7. I worked there, and the early shift begins at 5 am; they close at midnight or 1 am at latest and then
the folks who clean up and go home are usually out by 2 am at the worst. At least there is calm three hours of the 24.

Not even Brodie-sized!

The congestion at Brodie and William Cannon is horrible. Who'd wish that upon the smaller intersection of Escarpment and Slaughter?

There is absolutely NO NEED for a Brodie-sized store in this location. HEB *must* be made to understand this. They have plans for other bigger stores in the area that are more readily accessible by major highways (eg 290 and 1826). Part of why the Brodie store was somewhat acceptable was that HEB was willing to follow SOS *to the letter* on that tract. This will not be the case on tract 103, and it makes a huge difference because of the proximity to the neighbours even if one does not care about damage to the environment. There was already substantial traffic, noise, and light pollution at Brodie & William Cannon -- there is currently not this problem at Escarpment & Slaughter.

Is the neighbourhood grocery DEAD?! Are we somehow so much poorer than folks who live in other parts of West Austin that we need a MegaMart to drive prices to their lowest, and are not willing to pay for the convenience and ease of a smaller store?