This Thursday, May 20, our city council will consider the latest East Side scheme: a proposed pair of 93-foot towers near the intersection of Airport and Springdale that together would total more than 800,000 square feet of office space. According to the Austin Business Journal, the California-based Jay Paul Company “plans to build two mid-rise ...
Tomorrow morning, the Texas House’s Land and Resource Management Committee will hold a public hearing on HB 2989, otherwise known as the CodeNEXT Bailout Bill. Click here to send lawmakers your comments opposing HB 2989. Please make sure to do so before by 8:00 AM tomorrow, when the hearing begins. You can also visit the ...
On Tuesday, April 13, the Texas House’s Land and Resource Management Committee will hear HB 2989, otherwise known as the CodeNEXT bailout bill. We need you to call or sign up against this bill! HB 2989 would allow the City of Austin to overturn last year’s court decision and decimate your property rights. City Hall ...
This Thursday, with a still-broken municipal-hearing process that’s biased against ordinary citizens, our city council will consider an over-the-top, weather-postponed request to radically rezone a single-family lot and bring downtown-style buildings to Austin’s historic Montopolis neighborhood. It’s the latest in a long series of rezoning requests targeting Montopolis, and together they threaten to displace numerous families ...
Last year, Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer ruled that City of Austin officials broke the law when they attempted to rezone our community without recognizing thousands of protests filed by local property owners. Now City Hall is asking the Texas Legislature to pass a pair of bills to bail it out. Filed earlier this ...