It’s been two years since the reviled CodeNEXT rezoning plan was withdrawn by the mayor and his allies on the Austin City Council, in the weeks leading up to the November 2018 election. Had CodeNEXT been implemented, it would have eliminated single-family zoning in many parts of the city, increased taxes, worsened our affordability crisis, ...
Another telling East Austin displacement rezoning is coming before the city council for final reading this Thursday, October 15. 508 Kemp Street is currently zoned for single-family housing (SF-3), and land developers are seeking to rezone for condos (SF-6). In addition, the developers are seeking large bonus entitlements through the City of Austin’s “Affordability Unlocked” ...
On Thursday, October 1, our city council will make a final decision on the latest East Austin gold rush. Will they side with land developers or support the community’s protest rights? In August, at the first reading of the Montopolis zoning change, the council majority voted with developers and did not honor the neighborhoods’ valid ...
No Austinite knows more about city planning and municipal zoning than Jim Duncan. Duncan is the former president of the American Planning Association and former head of Austin’s planning department, and as a private consultant he has helped more than 200 cities across the nation successfully rewrite their land codes. During Austin’s last major land-code ...
This Thursday, our city council members are poised to do something unbelievable. If they accept the municipal staff’s recommendations, they will award two affordable-housing projects to a pair of arts groups that have no experience in the field. If they do so, they will be passing over East Austin’s Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation (GNDC), which ...