TAP | Downtown Austin Parking
This TAP report examines and advises the City of Austin to encourage a reduction in new parking construction across the downtown geography.
Technical Assistance Panels
Technical Assistance Panels
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has a long history of providing unbiased, pragmatic solutions and best practice advice on land use and sustainable development. Through ULI Austin, nonprofit and municipal leaders have access to a unique perspective and a multidisciplinary team of real estate experts whose collective advisory guidance can only be found in one organization.
ULI Austin’s Technical Assistance Panel (TAP) provides comprehensive and strategic advice in response to a specific land use or development assignment.
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Austin Convention Center Expansion Example
Why use a TAP
Using a TAP leverages the expertise of ULI Members, provides a non-partisan recommendation, and can help garner an unbiased opinion to your issue.
TAPs provide strategic advice to help communities, companies and organizations address key land use and real estate development issues. In addition, they provide a sounding board for cutting-edge issues in suburban and urban markets, such as infrastructure, water, building healthy places, workforce and affordable housing, and other policies.
ULI Austin looks forward to working together to identify challenges and provide recommended solutions for complex land use planning and development projects, programs and policies for your real estate and land use issues.
The Technical Assistance Panel Process
Pre-Panel: Information gathering in cooperation with the sponsoring organization to prepare a briefing book summarizing land use assignment.
Panel: Range from a half day to two full days on-site with ULI member experts focused on the land-use challenge. They are informed by a private sponsor briefing, confidential stakeholder interviews and feedback from the community, and concluding with private recommendations to the sponsor.
Post-Panel: Presentation highlighting the outcomes of the panel, printed report summarizing assignment and outlining practical recommendations for next steps, program follow-up on one, six, and 12-month basis.
Technical Assistance Panels Conducted by ULI Austin
TAP | Austin Historic-Age Housing Preservation
Austin Historic-Age Housing Preservation
TAP | Net Zero Imperative
The report offers guidance on how to establish an equitable net zero culture for Austin.
TAP | Activating the San Marcos River Waterfront
Panel presented options to activate the land along the San Marcos River.
TAP | Travis County Block 126
Panel looked at various options for the redevelopment of Block 126
TAP | Mosaic Sound Collective, Affordable Housing for Creatives
Panel presented options for purchasing land, with an ultimate goal to provide affordable housing to musicians and other creatives.
TAP | City of Austin, Live Music Preservation in the Red River Cultural District
Panel presented options to preserve live music in the Red River Cultural District.
TAP | AISD Affordable Housing for Teachers & Staff
Panel outlined best practices for using AISD owned land to provide affordable housing to teachers and staff.
TAP | Permanent Downtown Train Station
Panel included a review and recommendation of unintended consequences in design and scope to in the permanent Downtown Multimodal Station.
TAP | Austin Convention Center Expansion
Panel reviewed expansion plans for the Austin Convention Center, and made recommendations.
TAP | The Missing Middle: Affordable Housing for Middle Income Families
Panel provided strategies to allow more rapid expansion of production of housing to meet the needs of the middle income families.
TAP | Seaholm Intake Facility
Panel reviewed the effective utilization and funding alternatives for the Seaholm Intake Facility on Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin.
TAP | CodeNEXT Draft 2 – Developer Insight
A preliminary review of density, affordable housing and the development review and approval process was completed for City of Austin staff. The results of the…
Interested in a TAP?
Contact Paulette Gibbins to discuss TAP opportunities in your greater Austin community.
Chair: Allen Wise, IBC Bank
- Heidi Cisneros, Structures
- Monte James, Winstead
- Zach Hunter
- John Crilly, Brandywine
- Greg Kiloh, City of Austin
Staff Liaison: Paulette Gibbins