https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2006-12-14/429571/

Suttle Watch

By Wells Dunbar, December 14, 2006, 7:33pm, Newsdesk

To answer to our earlier question, no, it wasn't incriminating, lascivious photos attorney Richard Suttle draped across each council member's seat earlier this afternoon (so that's what council did at the Crossings); it was letters from several local musical and audio wonks begging them to let Redeemer Presbyterian Church go to 60 feet in order to build a "reverberant, modest-sized room, which has been carefully planned not only to have beautiful acoustics but to have a quiet ventilation system." (Almost as nefarious, we know.) Sweet – who needs bus stops and rail when you've got that? Council's currently trying to hack the zoning case out.

The transit oriented development controversy enveloping the project will likely continue on into next year, as Council looks likely to punt their third and final decision into their next meeting, in 2007. Suttle, of course, will return momentarily to deliver Lincoln Property's side in the Northcross Wal-Mart hearing.

Audience's first audible groan of the night: Suttle telling council a more binding agreement between Redeemer and the neighbors isn't needed, because it's "a letter from a church."

UPDATE: Vote is tabled after Redeemer threatens to pull their application and go home if they don't get all three readings tonight. WAAAAAHHHHHH!!!