SFC a Finalist for ECT Award!

Have you heard? Envision Central Texas (ECT) has announced that SFC is a finalist in the 2009 ECT Community Stewardship Awards Program to recognize and honor visionary people, projects and processes that are helping to ensure the region’s livability in the future.

Area political jurisdictions, developers, builders, media organizations, non-profits, individuals and others based in the 5-county Central Texas Region have been encouraged to enter the prestigious competition. Award winners will be recognized at the annual ECT Community Stewardship Awards Luncheon on Friday, May 8, at 11:30 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Austin.

The ECT Community Stewardship Awards Program was created in 2006 to recognize those entities that exemplify or promote one or more of the 7 elements of the ECT Vision in their work.

Central Texas will add more than a million people over the next 20 to 40 years. Envision Central Texas, a regional non-profit planning organization, was created in 2001 to lead and implement the two-year public development of a regional vision to address this rapid growth. Envision Central Texas serves as a catalyst for change in the region’s growth management strategies so that it can advance Central Texas’ vision for the future. ECT believes that we must improve how we grow in order to sustain our region’s quality of life and competitiveness.