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

 

• 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.

 

• 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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

• 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.