City Council continues to show that it is serious about opening the core transit corridors to Vertical Mixed Use development by standing up to neighborhoods trying to wriggle out of the VMU bargain . 
A couple of recent actions by Council are especially reassuring:
The neighborhoods in the East MLK Combined Planning Area asked to opt out all of their eligible tracts, most of which lie along Manor Road...
Sidewalk Master Plan
Here (5.5 MB pdf). Council likely will consider it in February. Austin has 3,500 linear miles of absent sidewalk. City staff estimates it will cost $750 million to build out the network....
A plan should set priorities
Austin is getting ready to draw up a comprehensive plan, its first since the 1979 Austin Tomorrow comprehensive plan.I'm sure debates over land-use issues will hijack the planning process....
BRT (or Rapid Bus) is NOT a stepping stone towards light rail
As part of an excellent series of takedowns of BRT, the San Francisco Bike Blog has written an excellent rebuttal to the frequent claims that BRT or Rapid Bus plans can function as stepping...
Why the new library is in the wrong place
Since this has come up again recently, I thought I'd put together a better background piece than this old one. I've co-opted an image from one of the proposals for the new central library for...
Getting to the ACM on transit
Here's some examples to back up the previous post about the ACM. I'm picking major intersections near some neighborhoods in the news the last couple of years. I am granting the Mueller Town...
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