[BevoLJ]

I may get bashed for this, but some of the things they do against these developments I think are kinda good. I bet if affordable housing wasn't a condition of the Green sale we would have been able to get some much taller and better buildings. But I am glad they stuck their hands in there and got them to agree to provide more under market housing for much longer time frame. I think it will be better for the health of downtown, even if we lost out on some amazing tall buildings at that site.

I think it is things like that, which is why they may seem to go against their typical NIMBY or ANC support. They see they can do a lot of good if they are willing to just work with these developers some. Also I'm not sure that people can still get elected in Austin on a 100% ANC/NIMBY vote anymore. To be able to say they pushed for and got that affordable housing downtown is good politically. They can still be all NIMBY with regard to various neighborhoods around town to try to keep the ANC support.