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Active issue
Public safety and quality of life
Lighting, crossings, sidewalks, sound, visibility, and reliable follow-through shape whether downtown feels welcoming day and night.
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Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association
Home is more than where you live. It is the people nearby, the streets you walk, and the everyday moments that make downtown feel like a neighborhood.
What DANA does
A clearer way to take part in downtown life.
DANA follows the decisions and day-to-day issues that affect downtown residents. We listen, explain what is changing, connect neighbors, and make sure residents are heard by the City and community partners.
How DANA works →Downtown is changing quickly. New homes, streets, parks, transit projects, businesses, and major developments continue to reshape the neighborhood.
DANA helps residents understand those changes, meet the people involved, and speak up before decisions are made.
Leadership
Led by people who live downtown.
DANA’s volunteer board listens to residents and helps decide what should happen next—whether that means a meeting, a letter, a committee discussion, or a conversation with a partner.
Meet the board →Current priorities
Issues shaping daily life downtown.
Six issues DANA is following for residents. We add update dates only after DANA confirms them.
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Coming up
A good reason to meet your neighbors.
DANA events are for conversation, useful updates, and spending time with the people who call downtown home.
See all events →Next DANA event
No date has been confirmed.
When the next event is set, we’ll post the date, time, place, and how to take part.
See the event recordHow DANA works
From a concern to a clear next step.
DANA listens, explains, connects people, and follows through.
Resident questions and concerns help shape what DANA follows, explains, and brings forward.
Share what matters →We turn plans, meetings, and decisions into updates residents can understand and use.
See the issues →Events and volunteer projects give downtown residents a reason to meet and work together.
Find an event →DANA keeps street-level experience present in conversations about downtown’s future.
How DANA advocates →Explore the work
See how DANA gets things done.
Choose a chapter to see how DANA listens, explains, connects neighbors, and speaks up for residents.
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Resident outreach
We listen first
Resident questions, conversations, and everyday observations help determine what DANA follows, explains, and brings forward. When several neighbors raise the same concern, DANA helps make the issue clearer and identifies the next useful step.
Share a concern →Partners
There is more than one way to support downtown.
Partners help DANA keep residents informed, hold better events, care for public spaces, and give neighbors more ways to take part.
Explore all partnerships →
Neighborhood journal
Stories from life downtown.
Read about neighborhood issues, volunteer work, and the people who help make things happen downtown.
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Featured issue
Downtown should feel alive and livable.
A strong downtown has music, work, visitors, events, public spaces, and homes. DANA works for the practical balance: safer crossings, reasonable sound, better lighting, clearer communication, and public spaces people can use.
Read the issue →02
Resident story
What happens after a neighbor reaches out?
DANA helps make the concern clear, find the right City process, and work out who to contact.
Share a concern →03
Volunteer story
Why small neighborhood projects matter.
A cleanup, welcome table, park walk, or volunteer shift may be small on its own, but together those moments help downtown feel shared rather than anonymous.
Find a way to help →04
Civic explainer
How public decisions become easier to follow
Short explainers help residents track meetings, projects, and decisions without having to dig through long agendas and technical documents.
Read civic explainers →Start here
Find your place in downtown.
Choose the path that best matches your relationship to the neighborhood today.
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Live downtown
Residents
Meet neighbors, follow local issues, and support the resident-led association.
Become a member →02
Build downtown
Organizations
Support resident communication, public spaces, events, and neighborhood work.
Explore partnership →03
Shape downtown
Community
Follow the meetings and decisions where a resident perspective can matter.
Follow the work →Take part
Help make downtown feel like a neighborhood.
Join DANA, come to an event, volunteer, follow an issue, or simply stay informed. Every useful contribution begins with showing up.
Stay connected
Stay informed
Receive useful neighborhood updates, event notes, and ways to participate.
Get DANA updates →For downtown residents
Resident membership
Support year-round resident advocacy and neighborhood work.
Become a member →
For organizations
Organizational partner
Support resident programs, public spaces, and civic initiatives.
Explore partnership →Newsletter
Stay connected without the daily noise.
Receive occasional updates about neighborhood events, active issues, volunteer opportunities, public meetings, and useful ways to participate.