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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 First Episode of the Farm&City Podcast: Population Growth

by Jay Blazek CrossleyTexurban November 1, 2018August 18, 2020No Comments

Across Texas, people are talking about the rapid growth of our cities, suburbs, and metro regions – in neighborhood meetings, council debates, TXDOT presentations, and at chamber events. In Austin, where I live, there is a general perception that we’re adding more Californians than any human civilization has ever added people, while Houston region actually …