Highland Sustainability Committee

Meetings: We hold meetings once a month the third Thursday unless otherwise needed. If you’d like to join email Alyson Beaton, committee chair.

Highland Neighborhood Sustainability Committee - 01/22/20

The Highland neighborhood Sustainability was established in June 2019 with the goal of supporting neighborhood initiatives around urban sustainability. Our goal is to foster community engagement, as essential to creating environmental resiliency, by bringing educational/community events and design interventions to our neighborhood. We strive to help make our neighborhood an example of sustainability as an established neighborhood in Austin.

Current projects:

  • Reilly Park SEL Garden, funded by a generous grant from the St. Davids Foundation, in collaboration with AISD, PARD, Watershed, and University of Texas department of design, and PT2050.

  • Denson Drive beautification: collaboration with the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Committee Goals: Identify opportunities in our neighborhood for small projects and events that will raise awareness of sustainability in our neighborhood and as it relates to our city. 

Natural Assets in our neighborhood:

  • Reilly Park

  • Highland Park

  • Waller Creek

Projects:

  • Street Trees

  • Community Gardens

  • Parklets

  • Design interventions (this is an idea where there can be a small one time project that is small in scale and brings awareness to an issue) + pop up markets

  • RainCatcher pilot program (Watershed Dept.) http://www.austintexas.gov/RainCatcherPilot

Issues/ Education: Bringing in speakers to our neighborhood, either independently from or at our HNA meetings

  • Biking as an alternative to driving (making our neighborhood as bike friendly as possible.)

  • 10 Minute walks 

  • Promote transit 

  • Sustainability in our parks

  • Waller Creek

  • Supporting Urban Meadows & landscaping 

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