News and Events
Next General Meeting (11/20)
Wednesday, November 20 @ 6:30pm in-person at Cherrywood Center aka Servant Church!
General Meeting Agenda
TxDot Q&A
Rezoning Cases
Planning Efforts
Park Name
· Steering Committee ElectionWe have been hearing your concerns about frontage road properties being secured and monitored, when actual construction will start, noise and dust. For the quarterly meeting we have invited Nicholas Barbera, TxDOT Public Involvement Task Lead for this project for a presentation and Q&A with residents. Please attend and/or email any questions you have ahead of time to steering@cherrywood. org. We will compile these ahead of the meeting. We’ll also have representatives from Rethink35, some of whom are Cherrywooders, to share updates on their lawsuit and other organizing activities.
Your Invitation to Get Involved!
Are you interested in shaping the future of Cherrywood? Serving on the Steering Committee is an excellent way to foster community, form friendship with your neighbors, and to play a role in shaping critical issues that impact our wonderful neighborhood. “Steers” serve as the principal representative, governing, and policy-recommending body of the CNA. We meet once a month and are responsible for the Flea, the neighborhood website and listserv, as well as hosting quarterly meetings and neighborhood events. Recent and ongoing issues tackled by the Committee include land development policy related to numerous zoning applications, neighborhood mobility projects, and, of course, the I-35 project and its proposed north-central deck. The CNA Nominating Committee is always looking for interested candidates. Elections are held at the November General Meeting. Every resident is welcome and encouraged to apply for nomination. We attempt to balance the membership of the Steering Committee with respect to geographic residence, age, gender, occupation, and areas of expertise. To apply for a current vacancy or to express your interest in running for a position in the next general election, please contact Sean Griffin, Nominating Committee Chair, at seangrffn@gmail. com. The listserv also will announce application periods and instructions in the runup to the elections in November. To sign up for the listserve, please click here! We look forward to hearing from you!
E. 38 1/2 St. Rezoning
The week of Oct 14, thanks in great part to a sudden outreach campaign of emails and calls from Cherrywooders to City Council, this case was postponed by the applicant (on the assumption they did not want to have a losing vote). So now a final decision by Austin City Council will be voted on at the Thursday, Nov 21 meeting! Neighborhood dialogue on this case began in September 2023 and is described in past Flea newsletters.
For more information, please click here.
The CNA is actively involved in the I-35 Capital Express Central project!
The TxDOT Capital Express project is starting to become more visible as buildings are quickly demolished along the frontage road on both the east and west side. This massive, multi-generational project is impacting Cherrywood in multiple ways so there are multiple ways to get engaged. We are doing our best to keep you informed of what’s happening and encourage you to seek out whatever path of engagement calls to you!
Over the last several months, this City of Austin led effort has solicited lots of public input on the design and amenities that could be built on the proposed future caps over I-35. The “Northern Caps” between the E. 38 1⁄2 St. bridge and Airport Blvd. are the caps closest to Cherrywood. These caps are currently not fully funded by the City of Austin and are at risk of not being included by TxDOT. The City Council will be taking action on this funding in mid-December. There are ongoing, fluid discussions between neighborhood leaders, City staff and advocates.
For the history of Cherrywood Neighborhood Association formal letters about the I-35 Capital Express project, please navigate to the I-35 Project page for more information.