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City Hall Doesn’t Seem Eager to Share Its Latest Land-Code Proposals With the Public

Community Not CommoditySeptember 27, 2022

KEY POINTS: City Hall maintains a list of 19 amendments it plans to make to our Land Development Code in the near future Most of these initiatives haven’t been shared ...

The Austin City Council Has a Democracy Problem

Community Not CommoditySeptember 8, 2022

KEY POINTS: The Austin City Council’s process for holding public hearings is broken Hearings are held late at night, draft ordinances are released just before meetings, and residents may speak ...

Making Sense of the Austin City Council’s Chaotic and Undemocratic “VMU2” Ordinance

Community Not CommodityAugust 24, 2022

KEY POINTS: The City of Austin failed to release a copy of the city council’s “VMU2” vertical mixed-use ordinance in a timely fashion City staff worked on the ordinance behind ...

Mayor Adler Joins California Company That Buys Homes and Converts Them Into Vacation Properties

Community Not CommodityAugust 9, 2022

KEY POINTS: Austin Mayor Steve Adler has joined the advisory board of Pacaso, a controversial venture-backed tech company that acquires single-family homes and sells shares of them to vacationers and ...

How the City of Austin’s Plan to “Relax” Compatibility Impacts You

Community Not CommodityJuly 15, 2022

First came CodeNEXT, the citywide rezoning plan that Austin officials were shamed into withdrawing in 2018. Then came the infamous “transition zone” initiative, which the city council tried to pass ...

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This map does not reflect data released by the City of Austin on October 4, 2019. Community Not Commodity is incorporating that data into its map now and will release an update as soon as possible. In Community Not Commodity’s current map, transition zones extend generally 2-5 lots from Imagine Austin Corridors and Centers and from the new Transit Priority Network. The red area estimates a potential 850-foot maximum discussed by staff. Because staff has said that their map of the 850-foot distance will begin at the front property line of the corridor-facing lot, we have added 50 feet to the transition zones to account for half of estimated corridor widths. This dimension likely overestimates street width for some transition priority neighborhood streets because they are narrower than major corridors.