Happy Holidays! Before 2020 is out, we would like to thank all of the donors, volunteers, and other supporters who aided our organization’s work through one of the most difficult years Austin has faced. You are making a difference! With your support, we won the trial over City Hall’s controversial rezoning plan, forcing Austin officials ...
Over the last few months, many of our readers have contacted the Austin City Council to push back against a long list of East Austin rezoning requests made by profit-driven developers during this year’s tragic COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly all of the sites are located within areas identified as vulnerable to displacement by Uprooted: Residential Displacement ...
The COVID-19 pandemic may have slowed things down for many of us, but our developer-friendly Planning Commission has been anything but idle. It spent the last few months working its way through a list of rezoning requests by land speculators eager to redevelop areas of East and Southeast Austin that haven’t already been gentrified. The ...
Now that Project Connect has been approved at the polls, Austinites must hold Mayor Steve Adler and the rest of our city council to their self-labeled “Proposition A Contract With Voters.” They unanimously passed the contract as Resolution No. 20200807-003 before putting Project Connect on the ballot. With this resolution, the council committed that Project ...
Success! After community members voiced strong opposition and filed a valid protest-rights petition, the real estate developer that was seeking a drastic zoning change in Austin’s historic Montopolis neighborhood has withdrawn its request. The proposed rezoning would have changed the designation of a single-family lot located 508 Kemp Street from SF-3 to SF-6, allowing the ...