KEY POINTS: City Hall has long claimed that upzoning neighborhoods across Austin will improve affordability A growing number of researchers and urban planners now reject that theory Recent studies have shown that blanket upzoning may actually make prosperous cities like Austin more expensive The City of Austin’s failed CodeNEXT initiative and the “transition zone” plan ...
KEY POINTS: Developers and speculators argue that Austin’s land code is constraining housing supply, but the city’s former demographer calls this claim a “false narrative” He believes housing production is at or near its maximum level, a fact confirmed by local builders suffering labor and material shortages Changing the land code would make future development ...
KEY POINTS: CodeNEXT supporters claim Austin’s land development code is limiting the supply of homes, but City Hall has been approving new housing at a higher annual rate than any other community in the nation Austin issues permits for new housing units at a rate three times the national average and two-and-a-half times higher than ...
KEY POINTS: Austin Mayor Steve Adler recently called for an end to misinformation in debates over important local issues Adler also announced City Hall will restart the rewrite of Austin’s land development code To help combat misinformation, Community Not Commodity will spend the coming weeks debunking myths about the land code, some of which have ...
Did you know the City of Austin is redrawing its 10 council districts? The first draft maps will be released this week, and the entire process will be completed over the next two months. Your district’s boundaries may ultimately change, and you may even discover you’re represented by a different city council member. The U.S. ...