You did it! The petition requiring a public vote on CodeNEXT has been filed! This petition includes the signatures of 32,000 registered Austin voters who demand to be heard. Some are homeowners. Some are renters. Some are business owners, and some are students. They range in age from 18 to 118. Here’s what they all ...
The controversial rezoning plan known as CodeNEXT is now being studied by the City of Austin’s powerful Planning Commission, which reviews matters related to land use and development. There’s only one problem: The Planning Commission is itself illegal. According to our voter-approved city charter, no more than one-third of the commission’s members may be connected to ...
Though it’s funded largely by realtors, the pro-CodeNEXT group “Evolve Austin” has always touted itself as a grassroots organization that has our community’s best interests in mind. “There has never been a coalition as broad and diverse, working towards the same goal, as the one you see here today,” the group’s director announced at a ...
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 ...