bird lane

Although I've been paying a lot of attention to the Red Bird Lane case lately, there is nothing unusual about it.

 Austin homeowners are always up in arms over proposed zoning changes.   And who can blame them?  Our land-use regulations have conditioned homeowners to expect "protection" from every piddling change in use.

 

Although I've been paying a lot of attention to the Red Bird Lane case lately, there is nothing unusual about it.

 Austin homeowners are always up in arms over proposed zoning changes.   And who can blame them?  Our land-use regulations have conditioned homeowners to expect "protection" from every piddling change in use.

 

I'm surprised by the reaction sparked by my Red Bird Lane entry.

  I continue to believe this one is not a close call; I provide additional details below to show why.  I need to do this, too, because I made an error in my original entry which a commenter pointed out.

  I corrected the error in that entry, but I don't think the correction is getting through to readers.

This isn't CWS versus Save Town Lake, but it does exemplify what is wrong with  Austin's zoning process.

Developers Leslie Moore and Magdalena Rood want the city to rezone a one-half acre lot near Stassney and South Congress from SF-2 to SF-3.

 (Moore and Rood redeveloped the small cottages across from the Texas School for the Deaf into the eclectic shopping area there now.)

This isn't CWS versus Save Town Lake, but it does exemplify what is wrong with  Austin's zoning process.

Developers Leslie Moore and Magdalena Rood want the city to rezone a one-half acre lot near Stassney and South Congress from SF-2 to SF-3.

 (Moore and Rood redeveloped the small cottages across from the Texas School for the Deaf into the eclectic shopping area there now.)