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Earlier this month, we highlighted the need for community consensus as City Hall’s process for updating our land development code begins to come together. Austin’s public officials failed to involve the community in a meaningful way with CodeNEXT—the previous attempt to rewrite our land code—and the results were catastrophic. Fortunately, Mayor Steve Adler now appears ...

Consensus. Merriam-Webster defines it as “the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned” and “group solidarity in sentiment and belief.” Unfortunately, Austin City Councilmember Sabino “Pio” Renteria seems to be opposed to consensus when it comes to updating our land development code, which is one of City Hall’s priorities this year. “The push for ...

According to a report by KXAN, the “No on Prop J” political action committee running ads opposing Proposition J is now under investigation by the City of Austin’s ethics commission for illegally concealing a major donation from the Real Estate Council of Austin (RECA), an influential land-development lobby group. Thanks to this hidden contribution, RECA ...

For weeks, a political action committee known as the “No on Prop J PAC” has funded ads falsely accusing Proposition J’s supporters of using “dark money” to push for Prop J, which gives Austin residents the right to vote on big changes to our local land-development laws. What hypocrisy! According to an official complaint filed ...

Austin City Council Members Greg Casar, Jimmy Flannigan, Delia Garza, and Pio Renteria spent months trying to convince us that CodeNEXT was good for our community. Boy, were they were wrong! City Hall wasted five years and nearly $9 million on CodeNEXT, only to withdraw it when grassroots leaders discovered that land developers had hijacked ...