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Oct 30, 2019

Imagine that the zoning code gave the planning director the unfettered right to reduce the density of a project simply because he thought it was too dense. Zoning might allow, say, 300 housing units o ...

Duplexes and the new land development code

Oct 14, 2019

Once upon a time, it was pretty easy to build a duplex in Austin. Duplexes could be built in any single-family district. Duplexes could be built on any size single-family lot. Duplexes did not have to ...

Cronk asks City Council to be the decider

Mar 17, 2019

City Manager Spencer Cronk has asked City Council to decide four fundamental policy questions before staff resumes work on the land development code. Cronk did the right thing by putting these questio ...

Owning the land development code

Dec 30, 2018

In retrospect, CodeNEXT failed not because staff produced a bad land development code, but because Council did not instruct it to produce a better one. To be sure, Council did the right thing last sum ...

Capitol View Corridors, illustrated

Dec 05, 2018

The Capitol View Corridors are polarizing. Most Austinites probably believe that CVCs, at least in the abstract, are a reasonable method of preserving views of the Capitol dome while allowing most of ...

Chronicling downtown’s decline

Jan 10, 2018

CityLab had an interesting piece a few weeks ago on Sanborn fire insurance maps. These maps were created by Daniel A. Sanborn beginning in the 1800s to help insurance companies map fire risk ...

Maintaining the status quo

Apr 25, 2017

The CodeNEXT maps are out and, predictably, hand-wringing has ensued. The City released a tool allowing one to compare the old and new zoning side by side. People have begun looking up their neighborh ...

Zoning capacity vs housing supply

Mar 27, 2017

The key number housing number being bandied about these days is 135,000: this is the ten-year housing unit target recommended by Austin’s new strategic housing plan. It includes a mix of market- ...

CodeNEXT and parking

Feb 28, 2017

I’ve been critical of CodeNEXT so far, so it’s time to point out one of its positive changes: Parking. CodeNEXT offers meaningful reductions across the board. Take residential parking. T ...

A CodeNEXT Explainer, Part III: SF-3 is the same, only different.

Feb 26, 2017

Ive focused on CodeNEXTs transect zones in past posts. Its time to look at some of the non-transect i.e., Euclidian1 — zones. CodeNEXT is really two zoning codes. There is the form-based co ...

Category Archives: Other

Exploring the Pharmaceutical Market in Dubai

Pet-Friendly Policies at Neighborhood Arabian Ranches

Pet-Friendly Policies in the Neighborhood Mirdif

Pet-Friendly Spaces in the JBR Neighborhood

Pet-Friendly Areas in the Neighborhood The Greens