KEY POINTS: The Austin City Council plans to allow six units on a 5,000 square-foot lot and nine units on a 7,500 square-foot lot The proposal won’t deliver middle-income housing in the Austin market, as promised Concerned residents should file formal protests to protect their homes I believe this resolution is much more drastic and ...
KEY POINTS: The Austin City Council will soon vote on a proposal to allow three housing units on every Austin lot That number is sure to grow next year, because City Hall plans to allow the subdivision of all lots into 2,500-square-foot parcels Council Member Alison Alter has demanded to know why the public isn’t ...
KEY POINT: Contact council members and tell them you want “robust, direct, and clear public notice” of any land-use changes The Austin City Council has indicated that at its September 21 meeting it will invoke a Texas Local Government Code provision that allows it to modify the notice property owners will receive about proposed Land ...
KEY POINTS: Austin will become the only large city in Texas to broadly eliminate existing single-family neighborhood zoning if the City Council’s multi-lot, multi-family resolution becomes law[i]. We previously reported the details of Council Member Pool’s extreme proposal, adopted by the City Council on July 20, 2023, that directs city staff to draft code amendments ...
KEY POINTS: On July 20, the Austin City Council voted for a controversial resolution to convert single-family zoning into multi-family zoning all over Austin Last week the Austin City Council approved Leslie Pool’s resolution laying out her “HOME Initiative”. The photo above is her example of the new look of neighborhood housing in Austin. This ...