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Affordability Unlocked Fails East Austin

Community Not CommodityOctober 13, 2020

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 ...

Will Our City Council Allow the East Austin Gold Rush to Continue?

Community Not CommoditySeptember 29, 2020

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 ...

One of America’s Leading Experts on Zoning Lives in Austin. Why Won’t City Hall Listen to Him?

Community Not CommoditySeptember 24, 2020

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, ...

Stop City Hall From Making Another Affordable-Housing Blunder

Community Not CommoditySeptember 15, 2020

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 ...

City Hall’s Shortsighted and Dangerous Attack on Due Process and Property Rights

Community Not CommoditySeptember 11, 2020

Buried on the Austin City Council’s September 17th agenda is a pair of easily overlooked items that will set a disastrous precedent if passed. They are Trojan horses, part of ...

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This map does not reflect data released by the City of Austin on October 4, 2019. Community Not Commodity is incorporating that data into its map now and will release an update as soon as possible. In Community Not Commodity’s current map, transition zones extend generally 2-5 lots from Imagine Austin Corridors and Centers and from the new Transit Priority Network. The red area estimates a potential 850-foot maximum discussed by staff. Because staff has said that their map of the 850-foot distance will begin at the front property line of the corridor-facing lot, we have added 50 feet to the transition zones to account for half of estimated corridor widths. This dimension likely overestimates street width for some transition priority neighborhood streets because they are narrower than major corridors.