Hello Mayor Watson and Council Members, Thanks so much for your consideration of Item 45, seeking to improve the climate emissions reduction and air quality improvement strategies of the plan to fix I-35 and rebuild the historic urban street grid. Farm&City is a tiny nonprofit and we don’t have funding to do this particular work, so I’m sorry to report …
Policy Hacking with Farm&City: December 2nd, 4pm CST Join us for a presentation on the growth of the Austin region, housing and transportation affordability, land development codes, and how the Austin region could instead plan for affordability, health, sustainability, and equity. Policy Hacking with Farm&City is a monthly virtual gathering designed to engage and support citizen advocacy in local communities. …
UPDATE: You can now visit the new Austin Parking Coalition website at http://www.atxparkingreform.org/ As the high affordability, environmental, and traffic costs of excessive parking has become widely apparent, the outdated practice of minimum parking requirements is being overturned across the country, with the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations publishing policy papers calling for the removal of expensive local policies like …