Allow me to present the SNAustin.org mayoral forum , with these humdingers:
1. This video shows you successful VMU projects and how nice their open spaces are and then says we need rules to make sure VMU developments provide enough open space.
Wouldn't it be smarter to show some that didn't provide enough open space, if any such existed? Maybe they couldn't find any, because I can't think of any that do that bad a job. ...
Fixing Mueller's Town Center
There is a lot to like about Mueller. The streets are laid out in a grid with short, walkable blocks. Homes address the street. Garages are relegated to rear alleys. Row houses frame...
Proposition 2 would not prevent future Domain-like deals
Katherine Gregor makes several good points, but this one deserves emphasizing: Of course, exempting TIFs from Prop. 2 doesn't make much sense. Tax increment financing allows the city to...
Apartment complex mentality
I've written about Zilker's Vertical Mixed Use opt-out application before, mainly to illustrate why Council made a mistake by amending the ordinanceto let neighborhoods gerrymander the VMU...
New Urbanist NIMBYism
A reminder that NIMBYism really has nothing to do with homeowners' preferences for one kind of development over another. It's all about managing threats to property values: Remember...
New Urbanist NIMBYism
A reminder that NIMBYism really has nothing to do with homeowners' preferences for one kind of development over another. It's all about managing threats to property values: ...
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