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  When it comes to the City of Austin’s controversial rezoning plan, Mayor Steve Adler is doing everything in his power to diminish this community’s voice. The 1,366-page plan will rezone every residential property, impact every neighborhood, and affect every person living in Austin—but Adler limited public input to a single hearing this past Saturday, ...

Do you live in Austin? If the answer is yes, then local officials are getting ready to rezone your home without providing you with legally adequate notice. If that sounds outrageous, just wait. The City of Austin’s controversial plan will rezone every residential property, remake every neighborhood, and impact every person living in our community—but ...

By now, you’re probably aware of the drastic changes that could be coming to neighborhoods inside Austin’s so-called “transition zones,” where City Hall’s controversial rezoning plan calls for multi-unit structures as tall as 45 feet, with up to 20 dwelling units in each. But the next CodeNEXT doesn’t stop there. It also allows land developers ...

  By now, you’ve probably heard the City of Austin is raising CodeNEXT from the dead—but did you know you have the power to fight back? Section 211.006(d) of the Texas Local Government Code gives you the right to protest zoning changes affecting your property and properties located nearby. Community Not Commodity launched FileYourProtest.com to ...

For the past several months, city officials have been working on a rewrite of Austin’s land-development code. The local media has nicknamed the project “Son of CodeNEXT” and “the next CodeNEXT,” and Community Not Commodity has long warned that City Hall may come up with something just as bad as last year’s failed effort. We ...