Welcome to the Mueller Neighborhood Association.

 

The Mueller Neighborhood Association (MNA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization for residents to promote the quality of life, safety, residential characteristics, and property values of their neighborhood. The MNA meets on the 3rd Saturday of each month at 10 am within the neighborhood.

 

The MNA Steering Committee (MNA SC) consists of residents who are annually elected to help their fellow members and to represent the neighborhood to outside entities such as the Austin Neighborhood Council, Travis County, the City of Austin, etc. In addition the MNA SC is tasked to pursue the 6 principles on which the neighborhood was founded.

 

In Establishing the Mueller development, the Austin City Council set six principles of the community:

 

1. Fiscal Responsibility: Redevelopment must create a positive revenue stream that will fund on-site infrastructure and increase the City’s tax base for the benefit of all citizens.

 

2. Economic Development: The project should serve to reinforce Austin’s role in an increasingly global marketplace and create a wide range of employment opportunities for a diversity of the community’s citizens.

 

3. East Austin Revitalization: The project must promote economic development opportunities within East Austin, giving local residents a direct stake in redevelopment.

 

4. Compatibility with Surrounding Neighborhoods: Development must maintain and enhance the quality of life in adjacent neighborhoods, providing complementary linkages, land uses and transportation patterns.

 

5. Diversity & Affordability: Redevelopment must offer a wide range of housing choices in order to create a new community of socially and economically diverse residents.

 

6. Sustainability: Development should be planned in a way that promotes energy and water efficiency, resource protection, reduced auto dependency, watershed protection and green space preservation.

 

Current issues being addressed by the MNA SC include: the redesign of Highway I-35, bringing urban rail to the neighborhood, participating in the new 10-1 city council district, and addressing the need to build a school in Mueller.