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. ...
It looks like the City of Austin may be ready to restart its revision of our community’s land development code—a process that started with the doomed CodeNEXT initiative and continued with the city’s controversial “transition zone” plan, which was put on hold by a local court. In an exclusive interview in early June, Mayor Steve ...
The city and its developer allies were defeated in the just-ended Texas legislative session. With your generous support for CNC’s professional lobbying and advocacy campaign, legislative bills to strip away property owners’ notice and protest rights failed miserably—not even garnering enough support for a vote in committee. The city has lost now in both the ...