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Land Development Code
CodeNEXT density increase could mean parking requirement decrease
The spirit of road rage sometimes goes beyond Austin’s congested highways and injects itself into debates revolving around the city’s transit problems. That angst could be felt at the Oct. 10 Planning Commission meeting, when staff presented how parking requirements…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 17, 2017
Council pushes ahead with CodeNEXT contract
City Council has voted to authorize spending what is supposed to be the final chunk of money allocated for the consultants hired to craft CodeNEXT, the rewrite of the city’s Land Development Code. The $2.27 million will go to Opticos…
Land Development Code • By Jack Craver • Oct 13, 2017
We collected your CodeNEXT fears. And then tried to fact-check them.
Nearly 100 people crammed into a back room of a South Austin lodge to hear Mayor Steve Adler tackle some boring stuff. Made up mostly of members of the Bouldin Creek Neighborhood Association, the audience sat in cushioned beige chairs…
Land Development Code • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Oct 12, 2017
Commission casts aside CodeNEXT timeline
A code rewrite is by nature a precarious undertaking, where even an informal conversation can trigger a tectonic shift in the entire process. At its Oct. 10 meeting, the Planning Commission played around with the idea of shifting gears to…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 12, 2017
Misgivings clear the way for an East Austin ADU
Doubts about CodeNEXT and a belief in the capricious nature of city staff added up to a win for the future of an East Austin accessory dwelling unit at the most recent meeting of the Board of Adjustment. Jim Wittliff…
Land Development Code • By Elizabeth Pagano • Oct 12, 2017
Push on at Council to delay CodeNEXT vote
Council Member Leslie Pool is pushing to further delay a vote on CodeNEXT, the controversial rewrite of Austin’s Land Development Code that is already years behind schedule. In a message to fellow City Council members Monday evening, Pool suggested rethinking…
Land Development Code • By Jack Craver • Oct 11, 2017
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Mapping CodeNEXT: Units and Height
Austin’s proposed land use code rewrite would line major city corridors with narrow strips of dense, mixed-use development zoning. But just behind those ribbons of mixed-use street design, vast swaths of Central Austin neighborhoods would remain much less dense. These…
Land Development Code • By Michael Theis • Oct 10, 2017
The new 'old code' zoning category makes waves at commission
If adopted, CodeNEXT will be a total rewrite of the Land Development Code, but as comprehensive as the revisions will be, remnants of the old code will remain. At their Oct. 3 joint meeting, the land use commissions learned about…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 9, 2017
CodeNEXT 2.0 facilitates affordable housing, but where?
The Halloween deadline for CodeNEXT’s third draft recommendations is closing in for the land use commissions, and the sense of urgency that has driven the review process thus far teetered on full-blown panic at Tuesday’s joint meeting. The new land…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 6, 2017
Will CodeNEXT help protect against the next big flood?
When Hurricane Harvey inundated Houston last month, the city’s flood mitigation deficiencies came under fire. In Austin, the Halloween Floods of 2013 and 2015 raised similar questions about Austin’s infrastructure, so commissioners at the Sept. 19 joint land use meeting…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Sep 26, 2017
Commissioners poke holes in consultant's housing capacity predictions
Austinites would like CodeNEXT to solve a lot of the city’s problems, and the housing crisis is chief among those problems. At the Sept. 19 meeting of the joint land use commissions, John Fregonese of Fregonese Associates claimed that the…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Sep 25, 2017
CodeNEXT 2.0 is here, but supplemental materials are missing
At the Sept. 19 joint land use commissions meeting, the dazzling presentations detailing the new aspects of the second CodeNEXT draft could not overshadow supplemental information that was missing. Commissioners expressed frustration with city staff and consultants who they said…
