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More Impervious Cover in Neighborhoods at the Legislature this Wednesday

Community Not CommodityMarch 31, 2025

This Wednesday  April 2, 2025,— HB3919  (“the small lot impervious cover bill”) will be heard by the House Land & Resource Management Committee room E.2026 at 8 AM.  This bill would allow 70% impervious cover ...

Stealth City-Wide Upzonings and the Church Displacement Bill at the Legislature this Thursday

Community Not CommodityMarch 25, 2025

This Thursday,  March 27, 2025, two bills—HB 24 (the “anti-notice” bill) and (“Church Displacement” bill)—will be heard in the House Land & Resource Management Committee room E.2026 at 8 AM.  These bills would allow ...

Texas Legislature Bill Darkens Notice and Protest

Community Not CommodityMarch 18, 2025

A bill pending in the legislature contains provisions designed to reduce notice of city-wide zoning changes and to make it harder to protest. You can testify in person at 8 AM Thursday ...

If the Water Flows to the Righ-of-Way It is OK!

Community Not CommodityMarch 4, 2025

In December, we told you about a new drainage review plan that the city council will consider at Thursday’s Council meeting (Item #37) to exempt development from drainage regulations.    A planning commission version and a staff version will ...

Council Undermining Housing For Residents and Families

Community Not CommodityFebruary 9, 2025

The Austin City Council is starting 2025 where they left off in 2024 – undermining single-family neighborhoods. They are expanding the authorization for short-term rentals (STRs) to “all residential uses ...

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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.