Austin City Council Member Kathie Tovo has floated the possibility of using city-owned facilities for the Major League Soccer team Columbus Crew SC, which is flirting with relocating to Austin.

Tovo posted a draft resolution to the City Council’s message board on Wednesday. If approved as written, it would direct staff to begin an analysis of city-owned land, including "underutilized parkland," for the possible location of a MLS soccer stadium.

You can read the proposed resolution here.

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The resolution name checks Columbus Crew SC directly, the Ohio MLS team owned by Anthony Precourt, who said last week he intends to make Austin the team’s new home in 2019 provided they can find a suitable venue for footballing.

That facility would likely need to seat north of 20,000 people. The average attendance of MLS soccer games in 2016 was 21,692 fans per game, according to Soccer Stadium Digest. Columbus Crew SC averaged 17,125 spectators per game last year.

Tovo’s resolution also would direct city staff to consider the following in their analysis:

• Traffic impact on neighborhoods and adjacent areas

• Displacement of city programs and services resulting from converting city land to a stadium

• New programs and community benefits that could result from the construction of a stadium

• Economic benefit of an MLS team

• Public engagement

The City Council in 2014 passed a resolution to study the feasibility of having an MLS team in Austin. No report was ever created from the resolution, according to a city spokesman.

Any research was done in conjunction with the ownership of the Austin Aztex and failed to identify any sites suitable for what ownership was seeking, the spokesman said.