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Land Development Code
Zoning and Platting looks to pinpoint gentrification
As the only major growth city in the U.S. with a declining African-American population, Austin knows it has a gentrification problem, and the Zoning and Platting Commission took a step toward addressing it on May 2. Commissioners unanimously passed a…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • May 9, 2017
Environmental Commission gets chance with CodeNEXT updates, concerns
CodeNEXT is the talk of the town. So it’s no surprise the main topic of conversation at the Environmental Commission meeting Wednesday evening was no different. The commission heard recommendations from the Watershed Protection Department, but took no formal action…
Environment • By Sommer Brugal • May 2, 2017
CodeNEXT review process to get makeover
With only a few months left to provide its recommendations on CodeNEXT, the Planning Commission is talking about scrapping staff’s prescribed review process for one of its own making. “I don’t think we’re going to get where we want to…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • May 2, 2017
Human Rights Commission ponders CodeNEXT
The city’s Human Rights Commission is taking a look at CodeNEXT in an attempt to understand the implications of the controversial overhaul of Austin’s land development code on vulnerable populations. On Monday, the commission, which last year urged City Council…
Land Development Code • By Jack Craver • Apr 28, 2017
What does CodeNEXT mean for Austin parks?
Parks advocates hope that the ongoing effort to overhaul the city’s land development code will make it easier to develop parks of all kinds throughout Austin. On Tuesday night, the Parks and Recreation Board voted to recommend three changes to…
Land Development Code • By Jack Craver • Apr 27, 2017
CodeNEXT maps unveiled
The consultants hired to craft a new land-use code for the city of Austin have finally unveiled maps showing what their proposed new system of zoning would look like. But as City Council begins its examination of the proposed CodeNEXT…
Land Development Code • By Jack Craver • Apr 19, 2017
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CodeNEXT, as explained to a 6-year-old
Two people – one grown, the other growing – sit in a University of Texas office. The younger one, a girl of just 6 years old, wears a gray T-shirt, pink leggings and cowboy boots, which dangle from the edge of…
Land Development Code • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Apr 18, 2017
Barton Springs redevelopment changes hit a wall at the Environmental Commission
The Watershed Protection Department proposed a number of amendments to the Watershed Protection Ordinance at the Environmental Commission’s April 5 meeting. Andrea Bates, the environmental program coordinator at the Watershed Protection Department, said most of the amendments presented were cleanup…
Environment • By Sommer Brugal • Apr 17, 2017
Austin Monitor Radio: Mary Ingle and David King on CodeNEXT
Austin Neighborhoods Council president Mary Ingle and Zoning and Platting Commissioner David King join Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to chat about CodeNEXT. Audio is embedded below:
Land Development Code • By Michael Kanin • Apr 17, 2017
Creative community supporters pushing live/work CodeNEXT additions
Austin creatives are stepping up their push to amend future drafts of CodeNEXT so that the city’s future building and development road map makes specific allowances for music and artistic spaces. Dave Sullivan, a member of the CodeNEXT advisory group…
Land Development Code • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 6, 2017
CodeNEXT consultants discuss the fate of conditional overlays and PUDs
Like magicians before a skeptical audience, the CodeNEXT consultants asked the land use commissioners at their March 21 joint meeting to suspend their disbelief and envision an Austin with very few planned unit developments and zero conditional overlays. Since they…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Mar 28, 2017
CodeNEXT consultants respond to accusations of dividing city
Two weeks after the Zoning and Platting Commission passed a resolution stating that the CodeNEXT draft text “provides two very different, separate codes,” the CodeNEXT consultants reassured commissioners during the joint land use work session Tuesday night that the draft does in…
