Friday, July 7, 2017 by Joseph Caterine | Published on Austin Monitor
Longtime Austin residents and historic preservation advocates have new data to back up their defense of neighborhood character thanks to a report that has made its way into local CodeNEXT discussions.
Last week, Council Member Leslie Pool shared a link to the Atlas of ReUrbanism, published late last year, on the City Council Message Board and said that the findings of the study would “give a good perspective on the questions we have before us in the code rewrite and illuminate the value that exists in terms of affordable market housing and small business within these older neighborhoods.”
Part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s ReUrbanism initiative, the Atlas analyzes 50 different U.S.