AUSTIN -- City officials in Austin have launched an internal investigation, and placed one staffer on leave, after a satirical map was used as part of a formal presentation.
The map labels Austin neighborhoods, describing East Austin, for instance, as "Blacks Resisting Gentrification" and gays who live in North Austin as "boring."
City transportation officials used the map as part of a presentation Tuesday to the zoning and platting commission. City Manager Marc Ott learned about it afterward and took immediate action.
He said using the map was "completely inappropriate."
"I took immediate action to identify the employee who used extremely poor judgment," he wrote in a memo the the mayor and city council. "That employee has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation into this matter."
