Council Recap: Once-Sacred Neighborhood Protections Battered by Austin's Affordability Crisis

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City Council didn’t take any action on a proposal to expand entitlements to build housing on major commercial corridors. But its public discussion of the issue predictably highlighted divisions over how Austin should grow.

points out that relaxing compatibility would not change the 60- and 90-foot height limits in the LDC for most corridor properties. It proposes raising allowable heights for any multi-family or mixed-use property on a corridor by 5 feet across the board; properties currently capped at 30 feet would be able to build to 35 feet, and so on up to 60 or 90 feet. The proposal compresses the impact zone around triggering homes from 540 to 300 feet.

As so many of the specifics remain to be determined, Adler urged patience. Others, including Kitchen, called for urgency to make new rules a reality: “This is just to initiate changes. It still has to go through the vetting process with lots of opportunity for conversation before it even gets back to us.” That’s unlikely to happen until the fall.

 

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