Following an exciting night of almost all victories in the November general election for Austin’s urbanists, the city council runoff elections Tuesday have set the stage for the City of Austin to undo decades of exclusionary zoning, abandon the failures of car-dependent market perversions like minimum parking requirements, and end the ravaging effects of displacement-inducing policies like the apartment ban. …
Tomorrow is Election Day. Please Vote. If you’re in Austin: Please vote NO on Prop J. Please vote yes on Prop A and G. Austin has a dirty history of plebiscites on zoning. So please vote NO on Prop J.
Austin’s need for equitable transit-oriented development is apparent. TOD allows meaningful access to affordable, healthy lifestyles, yet our development regulations have created a perverted marketplace that does not provide these options for most people. We can give more people affordable, multi-modal access to all the necessities and amenities of metropolitan life, along with all the benefits of dense urban development. …