Someone in our local government is trying to silence internal criticism about the City of Austin’s controversial rezoning plan. It started last week, when a new report by City of Austin Demographer Ryan Robinson was shared by Austin UpZoned, a local blog. (Community Not Commodity published a blog post about the report as well.) It’s Robinson’s duty to […]

  As the City of Austin’s official demographer, it’s Ryan Robinson’s job to provide local officials with accurate information about the growth of our community—and he just blew the whistle on phony data being used to justify City Hall’s controversial rezoning plan. Mayor Steve Adler and his allies have long argued that the plan must […]

  If it wasn’t clear before last week’s round of council meetings, it should be now: The City of Austin’s controversial rezoning plan threatens all of the homes in our community, regardless of their location. By Friday, Mayor Steve Adler and his allies had pushed the latest draft of the 1,382-page plan through City Hall […]

    When it came time to release the latest draft of their controversial rezoning plan, the folks down at City Hall pulled the oldest trick in the book: They did it after business hours on a Friday. That was 11 days ago. The draft weighed in at 1,382 pages, with roughly 200 amendments to the […]

This is a recipe for disaster. Last Friday, after business hours, City Hall released a new, 1,382-page revision of its controversial rezoning plan. It includes hundreds of amendments to the plan’s previous draft and a reworked map showing the changes proposed for neighborhoods across Austin. Unfortunately, none of the edits are marked or highlighted in […]