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ACTION ALERT: Contact the Austin City Council Today and Tell Them Not to Increase the CodeNEXT Budget

Community Not CommodityOctober 11, 2017

  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 ...

CodeNEXT Consultants Agree to Hire Minorities, Fail Miserably, Ask Taxpayers for $2 Million More

Community Not CommodityOctober 10, 2017

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 ...

Community Not Commodity’s Response to CodeNEXT’s Revamped Code and Map

Community Not CommodityOctober 5, 2017

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 ...

Dr. Fred L. McGhee: Austin Needs to Fix Its Historic Preservation Problem

Fred McGheeSeptember 24, 2017

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 ...

CodeNEXT Worries Ora Houston—and It Should Worry You, Too

Community Not CommoditySeptember 22, 2017

Ora Houston grew up in East Austin. She attended historic Blackshear Elementary and the original L.C. Anderson High School, then went on to graduate from Huston-Tillotson University—all in the newly ...

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This map does not reflect data released by the City of Austin on October 4, 2019. Community Not Commodity is incorporating that data into its map now and will release an update as soon as possible. In Community Not Commodity’s current map, transition zones extend generally 2-5 lots from Imagine Austin Corridors and Centers and from the new Transit Priority Network. The red area estimates a potential 850-foot maximum discussed by staff. Because staff has said that their map of the 850-foot distance will begin at the front property line of the corridor-facing lot, we have added 50 feet to the transition zones to account for half of estimated corridor widths. This dimension likely overestimates street width for some transition priority neighborhood streets because they are narrower than major corridors.