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Is City Staff Covertly Promoting Transportation Amendments That Will Bring Back Transition Zones?

Community Not CommodityJanuary 11, 2022

Map showing Neighborhood Streets being changed to Level 2 (ROW 72’ – 84’) KEY POINTS: The city’s staff proposed changes during the winter holidays to Austin’s transportation plan that could ...

FACT: Austin Is Not “Dominated” by Single-Family Zoning—Most Lots Are Zoned for Multiple Homes

Community Not CommodityNovember 23, 2021

KEY POINTS: Land developers and their allies in City Hall claim Austin is dominated by single-family zoning In reality, a substantial majority of Austin’s residential properties are zoned for more ...

FACT: With Blanket Upzoning, We Risk Making Austin Even Less Affordable

Community Not CommodityNovember 4, 2021

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 ...

FACT: If Anything’s Holding Austin’s Housing Market Back, It’s Labor and Materials—Not Our Land Code

Community Not CommodityOctober 20, 2021

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 ...

FACT: Housing Supply Is Booming Under Austin’s Current Land Development Code

Community Not CommodityOctober 12, 2021

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 ...

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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.