This Thursday City Council hears items 34, 74 and 82 (82 & 84 N IH 35, 41 stories; 61 & 69 Rainey, 48 stories; 90 & 92 Rainey, 51 stories). A handful of motivated folks are doing everything they can to stop these towers from moving forward (some claiming this is more dense than Manhattan...). These are in Council Member Kathie Tovo’s district and historically she does not need much motivation to fight against development especially market-rate housing. These towers include over 1,000 homes of which more than 50 of them are income restricted (at the developer’s expense). The vote will likely come down to the two new council members, Fuentes and Kelly. Are they NIMBY-curious or do they recognize Austin’s desperate need for housing? We will likely have good insights on this later this week.
If you care about this and hope to see these towers/homes/urbanism move forward now is the time to stop being a spectator and to write your council member (
[email protected]) You can also sign up in favor for one, two or three of these cases. To speak in favor of housing that will likely not be lived in by someone is rare—to fight housing to try to protect your view or to simply stop housing is common—hence the reason we’ll likely hear from a lot of folks saying “No!”. Sign up here
https://cityofaustin.formstack.com/f...VAV9EF45tsDC3k
Could someone please share a photo of these three proposed developments? Sure would be a shame to end the years of work that have gone into these. If we can’t build housing densely downtown that sure doesn’t bode well for our future. It’s too bad that “Make housing difficult and inefficient” rings true for so many.
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