Comments from Easels 4

- As a city we need to re-evaluate our goals for open space acquisition -- connectivity, trails, and community benefits through the use of the land should be a primary priority.

- General Question: I don't quite understand why I see no minority faces in this crowd. I have already heard criticism of the city's plans for downtown and we should be trying harder to involve the whole community in these discussions.

- Also, I was glad there was discussion of streets and historic streetscapes as important public spaces. Most great public spaces are a combo public private which was sort of not said out loud, but Austin is retrogressive not progressive in saving its historic streetscapes but allowing private activity behind the frontages. Other communities have had regulated historic districts for 50 years (not by owner petition necessarily)