Tag Archives: City of Austin Land Development Code
Can you protest changes to your property under the land code rewrite? City says no.
City of Austin lawyers are refuting the claims of an Austin nonprofit that has been campaigning for property owners to protest the possible rezoning of their land under the city’s land use code rewrite. “City officials plan to rezone your…
Land Development Code • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Oct 28, 2019
Commission debates neighborhood planning and housing equity under code rewrite
The Planning Commission is divided over the role existing neighborhood plans should play in the new Land Development Code. Residents who benefit from neighborhood plans defended their merits Tuesday and urged commissioners to do more to help preserve those plans…
Land Development Code • By Ryan Thornton • Oct 25, 2019
Planning Commission offers solutions to missing-middle housing problem
Transition zones continue to divide the city’s elected and appointed officials in discussions over the Land Development Code. Several City Council members have already taken issue with the way the zones – meant to promote missing-middle housing types in Imagine…
Land Development Code • By Ryan Thornton • Oct 22, 2019
Reporter's Notebook: Wide awake at the wheel
Letting go of control… Ford Motor Company has announced plans to carry people and goods around Austin in self-driving cars as early as 2021, but most people in the general public say they wouldn’t feel comfortable taking their eyes off…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Oct 21, 2019
Board of Adjustment wants to participate more fully in LDC review
The Land Development Code draft continues to make its way through the city’s boards and commissions, making its latest stop at the Board of Adjustment on Monday night. The Board of Adjustment is tasked with sending feedback to the Planning…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Oct 16, 2019
Planning Commission begins tackling the new LDC draft
Friday, Oct. 4, was a big day for the city of Austin. That afternoon ushered in the draft of the city’s most recent attempt to rewrite its Land Development Code, kicking off months of discussions about the topic. The Planning…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Oct 15, 2019
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Austin Monitor Radio: AURA on LDC
This week we talk to Kevin McLaughlin, the Land Use Committee chair of AURA, a local urbanist group focused on land use and transportation policy. McLaughlin sits down with Austin Monitor reporter Jessi Devenyns and editor Elizabeth Pagano to discuss…
Radio • By Austin Monitor • Oct 15, 2019
Council responds to code housing capacity and mapping
The city’s Land Development Code draft promises a major increase in housing capacity across the city, falling just shy of City Council’s housing capacity goals in the 2017 Austin Strategic Housing Blueprint. In its current form, the code would push…
Land Development Code • By Ryan Thornton • Oct 9, 2019
Reporter's Notebook: Read all about it
Planting the seeds… Just because water is crystal clear doesn’t mean it is clean. Craig Nazor, a citizen who sits on the Animal Advisory Commission, alerted the Environmental Commission on Oct. 2 that the discharge from the Walnut Creek Water…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Oct 7, 2019
Environmental Commission recommends Council include Atlas 14 update in code rewrite
Atlas 14 is a historical rainfall study that alters the city’s flood plains drastically, showing that Austin is projected to receive a 30 percent increase in rainfall. Nevertheless, the study is not something that can change development on its own.…
Planning • By Jessi Devenyns • Sep 10, 2019
Historic Landmark Commission discovers code interpretation error
At its April meeting, the Historic Landmark Commission postponed the case for 1400 Winsted Lane in search of more context for the property. Instead, staff returned with a new reading of the code that could change how the commission does business…
Preservation • By Jessi Devenyns • May 28, 2019
Cronk names team, spells out process for land use code rewrite
City Manager Spencer Cronk has selected the team that will handle the creation and adoption of the city’s new land use code, with the goal of completing the process by the end of 2019. In a memo issued Tuesday, Cronk…
