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Austin has elected a strong urbanist majority to council

by Jay Blazek CrossleyGrowing Weirder December 11, 2018One Comment

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 …

Vote NO on Prop J

by Jay Blazek CrossleyGrowing Weirder November 5, 2018August 18, 2020No Comments

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.

The Case for Austin’s Transit-Oriented Development Fund

by Laura ThomasGrowing Weirder, Texurban July 16, 2018August 1, 2018Comments are Disabled

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 …