If you follow Community Not Commodity, you’ve heard how CodeNEXT would be bad for Austin’s middle-class families, bad for our local schools, and bad for the city’s already-congested traffic. It could also hurt Austin’s natural environment in irreversible ways. That’s why Save Our Springs Alliance (SOS) has joined Community Not Commodity in demanding that the ...
The California-based consultants in charge of the controversial CodeNEXT project have busted their budget, and now they’re begging taxpayers for millions more. Tomorrow, the Austin City Council could vote to approve another $2 million for Opticos Design, inflating CodeNEXT’s original cost estimate by more than 400 percent. The company has failed to meet the ...
This Thursday, the Austin City Council will discuss whether to award the California-based consultants working on the controversial CodeNEXT process $2.3 million more in taxpayer funds that the group has requested “for additional architectural, urban design, planning, and engineering services.” That would bring their total contract for revamping Austin’s municipal code to nearly $8.5 million, ...
Last week, Community Not Commodity released its response to the revised text and the new map that CodeNEXT’s consultants plan to use to redevelop huge swaths of Central Austin, East Austin, and other areas throughout the city. Here’s a video from a September 28th press conference we held on the subject: As our expert reviewers ...
The following is reprinted from an article of the same name, with permission of the author. Austin last took a hard look at its historic preservation program in the early 2000’s, where a joint task force made up of Planning, Zoning and Platting, and Historic Landmark Commissioners made some recommendations to upgrade but not fundamentally ...