Decisions about the Rosedale site will be made by AISD and City of Austin officials. Community input matters. You can help by contacting decision-makers directly. If the email buttons below don’t open your email app, click the “Copy Email Addresses” button and paste them into your email.
Contact AISD Leadership
Ask AISD trustees to drop their lawsuit against Rosedale neighbors, cancel the contract with OHT Partners, and pursue a redevelopment solution that is compatible with surrounding infrastructure and neighborhood safety.
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Contact Austin City Council
Urge Mayor Watson and the City Council to put the Rosedale School rezoning application on hold until the lawsuit is resolved. AISD does not have clear title on a third of the lots it’s seeking to rezone and sell. The heirs of the original sellers can make claims on these properties. Share your perspective that the development is dangerous to Rosedale residents and would do nothing to address affordable housing.
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Contact Zoning and Platting
Ask the Zoning and Platting Commission to recommend against the rezoning application, or include strong conditions such as setbacks, limited access points, stormwater management, and heritage tree preservation.
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Recruit for Play Fair with Rosedale
The more people who get involved, the greater our influence with public officials who can tap the brakes on OHT’s infrastructure busting, high-density apartment project at the campus of the original Rosedale Elementary School.
You can help by sharing information with your neighbors about Play Fair with Rosedale and this proposed development. Use this handout when you educate your neighbors and urge them to get involved in a way that suits them. Not everyone can do everything, but everyone can do something!
The scale and density of the proposal would reduce safety by:
- Adding over 500 vehicles to two-lane neighborhood streets, increasing congestion and cut-through traffic.
- Routing all resident, visitor, delivery, and service traffic onto interior neighborhood streets that are narrow, lined with parked cars, and lack sidewalks. Residents — including children, dog walkers, runners, and families with strollers — walk in the street itself.
- Increasing flood risk by adding substantial impervious cover, which can accelerate stormwater runoff into nearby streets and the creek.
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Stay Engaged
- Follow updates, attend hearings when you can, and help ensure that redevelopment decisions are thoughtful, fair, and infrastructure-appropriate.