If passed by the city council, CodeNEXT will usher in a new wave of gentrification across Austin—particularly on the city’s East Side—displacing people of color at an even faster rate than we’ve seen in the past. The longtime community leaders of East Austin have had enough. Ignored by CodeNEXT’s supporters in the real estate ...
First they publicly joked about forcing Austin’s elderly out of their homes. Now some of CodeNEXT’s real-estate-backed cheerleaders are attempting to impersonate one of the city’s oldest and most respected grassroots organizations. Supporters of the controversial rezoning-and-redevelopment plan recently launched AustinNeighborhoodsCouncil.com, a website that adopts the exact same name as the real Austin Neighborhoods Council (ANC), a ...
If there’s anything that its critics and supporters appear to agree upon, it’s that CodeNEXT has been managed very poorly. The controversial rezoning-and-redevelopment process is now two years past schedule, with costs more than four times as high as its original budget. The city’s Zoning and Platting and Environmental commissions have publicly complained about the ...
A few weeks ago, the land-developer-backed group “Evolve Austin” trumpeted a news article predicting that the Austin Independent School District (AISD) would soon endorse CodeNEXT, a controversial plan to rezone and redevelop neighborhoods across our community. The group apparently saw local educators as allies: Austin’s public schools have been losing students for years as low- ...
The City of Austin’s Environmental Commission has refused to advance CodeNEXT, the controversial land-redevelopment plan, saying its potential impact on area flooding and other environmental issues is unpredictable. Earlier this month, the commission passed a sharply worded resolution complaining that neither it nor the Austinites living in flood zones and other environmentally sensitive areas have ...