Austin land is under entitled. High demand of multiple uses and supply constraints in most areas means we’ll continue to lose places like these. We all have to work harder to get a new land use code! The recent extreme court ruling didn’t help, but the need for a new code grows by the day. Stay involved! Talk to friends and family, show up at neighborhood meetings (and don’t let them intimidate you with the hope of getting you not to return) and speak the good word of urbanism. Walkable, dense environments are better for myriad reasons but our POS 36 year old land use code makes them far too difficult to build.
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How long will Austinites tolerate NIMBY politicians?
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