Property owners who halted Austin’s rewrite of its land code have filed a motion to block more zoning changes — this time over steps Council has taken to loosen limits on how much developers can build, often in the pursuit of increasing affordable housing.
when it failed to individually notify property owners of potential zoning changes as part of the city's attempt to overhaul its 40-year-old land code — an effort commonly referred to as CodeNEXT.
Two years later, a Houston appeals court upheld the lower court's ruling, effectively ending the city’s quest to update its code. "The case is not about the wisdom or the merits of any of these measures ... or whether they're good in the end for the City of Austin," Becker told KUT."The case is about that the city has to give notice to landowners of what they're going to do and allow those landowners to protest."
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