The Austin City Council may be headed for another costly lawsuit over our community’s zoning code and state-mandated notice and protest rights. On Thursday, June 9, council members will vote on Chito Vela’s amendments to a Vertical Mixed Use (VMU) ordinance introduced by Ann Kitchen. Strongly supported by Mayor Steve Adler, Vela’s amendments propose to ...
If you think your home is safe from Mayor Adler and his allies, think again. Local residents may have beaten City Hall’s controversial CodeNEXT rezoning plan in court, but the mayor and his cohorts are already starting to push for radical new changes to our local zoning code—changes that could reshape Austin’s neighborhoods forever. It ...
We have a major victory to announce! Earlier today, the state’s 14th Court of Appeals ruled against the City of Austin in a landmark case over its rewrite of our community’s land development code. The 14th Court unanimously affirmed Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer’s 2020 ruling, which upheld protests filed by thousands of Austinites ...
The City of Austin seems to never learn. It repeats the same racial injustices year after year despite all its claims of equity and diversity. The latest example is the proposed Bergstrom Jet Tank Storage Proposal next to neighborhoods of color. In 1993, the City Council finally shut down a 52-acre fuel tank farm at ...
KEY POINTS: The City of Austin plans to expand its right-of-way (ROW) on many neighborhood streets to an astonishing 84 feet, claiming the space is necessary for new bicycle lanes We believe the plan lays the groundwork for an initiative similar to CodeNEXT, with properties along the new ROWs upzoned to allow more units per ...