This past Sunday, Zilker neighborhood resident David King sent out an email to his neighbors calling on them to petition members of City Council and various city and county boards and committees to reappoint Jeff Jack and Jim Duncan to the city’s Code Advisory Group, which was established by Council in 2013 to “facilitate public outreach and make recommendations regarding the rewrite of the land development code (LDC),” according to King. The new 10-1 Council is currently in the process of appointing new members and reappointing new members to the CAG, which it recently expanded, and King is concerned that without Jack and Duncan, the group will be less vigilant about ensuring that “neighborhood interests” are taken into consideration in the LDC. “Their detailed knowledge of the current land development code is essential to ensuring that neighborhood plans, compatibility standards and hard-fought protections for the waterfront, environment, trees and watersheds are accurately reflected in the new land development code,” King wrote.
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