Austin’s City Council is currently on summer break, but when its members return next week for the meeting scheduled on July 20, they’re taking on a fairly significant land use resolutio…
It’s very different from Code Next, in that they aren’t changing anything about current zoning definitions or any assigned zoning of any properties. All that’s changing here is decreasing the minimum lot size on which housing may be built, which will open up more (smaller) properties to development or to subdivision into up to 3 units
I think it’s so quietly happening because the usual loud voices against this stuff on the Council are for this change, so it’s not registering as controversial for local media and they’re not attending to it
It’s very different from Code Next, in that they aren’t changing anything about current zoning definitions or any assigned zoning of any properties. All that’s changing here is decreasing the minimum lot size on which housing may be built, which will open up more (smaller) properties to development or to subdivision into up to 3 units
I think it’s so quietly happening because the usual loud voices against this stuff on the Council are for this change, so it’s not registering as controversial for local media and they’re not attending to it