Antone's Nightclub
Very Upset About East Avenue IG Development
RECEIVED Sun., April 1, 2007
Dear Editor,
When the neighborhood now called Cherrywood, or French Place, was first built, there was a broad avenue called East Avenue. Then I-35 replaced it and added an upper deck. When I bought my house in 1990, it was loud-ish. Now it is hellishly loud, as well as more poisonous from low-speed congestion, when the wind blows from certain directions, carrying even more noise to our side of the highway. God only knows how demonic it will be when 85-foot-tall buildings are insensitively built right up next to the west side of the highway on the Concordia University site ["Developing Stories," News, March 30]! I am so upset about this East Avenue IG development I could spit. Did the city even think about what it would do as it permits the creation of a permanent 85- to 135-foot-tall wall against which 18-wheeler and other vehicle sound waves will perpetually bounce off of and back into my neighborhood? This is again infill without caring about the common people surrounding it. Is there any precedent for this in Austin? Of course, did I go down to speak at council? No, and maybe I could have changed their minds. Yeah.
When the neighborhood now called Cherrywood, or French Place, was first built, there was a broad avenue called East Avenue. Then I-35 replaced it and added an upper deck. When I bought my house in 1990, it was loud-ish. Now it is hellishly loud, as well as more poisonous from low-speed congestion, when the wind blows from certain directions, carrying even more noise to our side of the highway. God only knows how demonic it will be when 85-foot-tall buildings are insensitively built right up next to the west side of the highway on the Concordia University site ["Developing Stories," News, March 30]! I am so upset about this East Avenue IG development I could spit. Did the city even think about what it would do as it permits the creation of a permanent 85- to 135-foot-tall wall against which 18-wheeler and other vehicle sound waves will perpetually bounce off of and back into my neighborhood? This is again infill without caring about the common people surrounding it. Is there any precedent for this in Austin? Of course, did I go down to speak at council? No, and maybe I could have changed their minds. Yeah.
Sincerely,
Felicia Kongable
Felicia Kongable