KEY POINTS: The Austin City Council continues violating its rules to marginalize public input and diminish the democratic process. At the July 18th council meeting, approximately 20 zoning cases were “taken on consent” and passed with a single vote despite the council’s rules expressly prohibiting this. The Austin City Council was recently taken to ...
KEY POINTS: On April 4, Bill Bunch confronted Austin Mayor Kirk Watson on the dais about the city council’s policy limiting citizen communication, and Bunch took the city to court and won The council passed a new public-participation ordinance in response, but it falls short of fixing City Hall’s transparency problem The final version of ...
KEY POINTS: On May 16, the Austin City Council will vote on Phase 2 of “H.O.M.E.”, Compatibility Reductions and ETOD overlays and upzonings, plans that will impact neighborhoods throughout Austin, raise taxes, and displace vulnerable residents Concerned residents should register online to attend the meeting and speak out publicly against the plan See below for ...
KEY POINTS: The Austin City Council is proposing to greatly reduce compatibility standards, which control the distance between huge buildings and single-family homes In some cases, the proposal would allow 90-foot buildings just 75 feet from existing homes To support their plan, city officials are misleading Austinites by citing inaccurate data Years ago, a community ...
KEY POINTS: The City of Austin’s new ETOD districts will rezone more than 1,000 homes and businesses in a wide swath around Project Connect’s Phase 1 transit lines The zoning changes will promote incompatible developments within neighborhoods and near schools According to a city memo, Austin’s existing ETODs have displaced people of color, increased populations ...