On Wednesday night the pews at St. Luke United Methodist Church in Clarksville were packed with nearby residents who had come to hear about how their surroundings would be impacted by CodeNEXT, the proposed rewrite of the city’s Land Development Code.
The meeting, which had been advertised for weeks by signs throughout the area alerting residents that “CodeNEXT is rezoning our neighborhood,” displayed the hostility that talk of zoning changes, particularly those that increase density, sometimes provokes in Austin’s central neighborhoods.