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the real estate developer that was seeking a drastic zoning change in Austin’s historic Montopolis neighborhood has withdrawn its request.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 ...
It’s been two years since the reviled CodeNEXT rezoning plan was withdrawn by the mayor and his allies on the Austin City Council, in the weeks leading up to the November 2018 election.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” ...