The following is an excerpt from the awesome article in the Austin Chronicle on September 25, 2009.
Plan, Be
The citizens who spent years dreaming up CreateAustin are now working to make it real
by Robert Faires
This plan was supposed to be different.
The CreateAustin Cultural Master Plan, commissioned by the city of Austin three years ago to map out where the city’s creative industries and activities should be in 10 years, was supposed to be that long-range plan that didn’t wind up ignored and gathering dust on some bureaucratic shelf.
So here we are, almost 16 months after consultant Bill Bulick and a citizen task force delivered the plan to City Council, and it has yet to be adopted by that body. Now, if the governmental entity that generated the plan in the first place hasn’t even signed off on it, is CreateAustin really so different after all?
