Greg Anderson
@WalkableAustin
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work in Affordable housing, teach Urban Studies, and resist anti-housing NIMBY games. let’s build! 🔨
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Exclusionary zoning, bad for affordability and for sustainability
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When your city has FAR limits but fails to include parking in the ratio
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Austin Planning Commission votes 9-0-1 to eliminate parking mandates 🌎🕊️
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HOME 2 passes 9-2, reducing Austin’s minimum lot size from 5,750 sqft (set in 1946) to 1,800!
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the Austin Planning Commission just voted to decrease minimum lot sizes to 1,500 sqft!
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If Austin was allowed to vote on building a 20 lane through the heart of the city how do you think it would go?
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What if we zoned properties adjacent to downtown as though they were adjacent to downtown?
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Austin’s election results show hope for the long term. Transit, walkability and housing matter more than NIMBYism
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City Council votes 9-2 to pass HOME Phase 1, a crucial step for making housing easier and less expensive to build in Austin. Grateful for their dedication to our community. Huge shout out to them, especially CM Pool, city staff, and passionate housing advocates! 🙏 ❤️
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After spending a yr working make ADUs easier to build across Texas my rep
@GinaForAustin
voted against giving us a 68-70 loss (Speaker could have been affirmative tie breaker). Thank you Reps
@SherylCole1
@jamestalarico
and
@BucyForTexas
for your pro-housing votes.
Sorry, Texas
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@FOS
@DeionSanders
“Every truck comes with a ‘I hate 🌎’ sticker (while supplies, and the planet, last)”
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Housing proposed on this surface parking lot needs a zoning change. What will be the excuses against it?
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Friend shares they are buying car bc they’re moving away from walkable grocery options. Thinking out loud here, what if we allowed for more walkable dense areas that foster community?
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¡BIG NEWS!
@chitovela3
has nominated me to serve on Planning Commission! ❤️ I remain unapologeticly pro housing. This has been me since before PC, during PC, and still today. We face lots of issues and I will remain passionate about housing reform. I know this surprises no one😊
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Project Connect can't lose the DT tunnels. To go to a temporary knowingly inadequate system would be such a waste. What if we just do Blue and Orange North for now and get to Orange South next? Let’s do it right
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Legal to build one $2M home, illegal to build five $500k homes bc cHarAcTer!
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round 3 is the worst yet
The transformation of I-35 in Austin from a tree-lined boulevard to an 8-lane grade-separated highway is an example of why Texas roads contribute to 0.48% of TOTAL worldwide CO2 emissions. Oh, and they're working on expanding it further.
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“Existing housing is our most affordable housing, protect status quo!”
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Brodie Oaks redevelopment passes Planning Commission 8-1!
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Austin &
@UTAustin
deserve a CAR-FREE Drag (Guadalupe St from 22nd-29th) with light rail, buses, bike lanes & pedestrian space. Sign here:
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Passes City Council unanimously on final reading. Appreciate this new world
Brodie Oaks redevelopment passes Planning Commission 8-1!
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How it started How it’s going
TxDOT's I-35 rendering versus something closer to reality.
This is the reality of how many lanes full of cars and 18-wheelers we're about to induce if we don't stop this madness.
It's not far fetched. It's the Katy Freeway all over again.
@ZoForAustin
@chitovela3
@KirkPWatson
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What if Austin was zoned 85% multi-family instead of 85% single-family?
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“Austin set 3,000 square foot minimum lot sizes in 1931 then upped it to 5,750 sqft [intending to make housing cost more] in 1946 the same yr racial deed restrictions were made illegal—this is not a legacy I want to be a part of” -Austinite
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Neighbors of proposed 7113 Burnet (330 homes including 33 Affordable—first in the neighborhood!) want Juliette balconies, “It’s a way to limit their use of balconies, by not having balconies they can sit out on.” 🤦♀️ 🤦🏾♂️
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.
@austinmobility
tried to redesign this stretch of South Lamar and
@TxDOT
prevented them from doing so 💔
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college student in city with a housing crisis asks to replace land use code that is ~3X her age
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24th and Guad may see more pedestrians than any intersection in TX yet ~85% of it is dedicated to autos ❌
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in many ways Austin’s environmental movement has stalled out and faded into an anti-development sentiment cloaked in environmentalism. This is beginning to change. Codes and Ords passed eliminating parking mandates on a 5-2 vote tonight. TY,
@CMZoQadri
& ATXcouncil
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@jamesrambin
My first zoning battle at City Hall had someone sharing, “This building will prevent me from growing tomatoes in west Austin.” Thankfully
#ATXcouncil
saw through the NIMBYism and allowed our first point tower
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@CityLab
a handful of my pro-housing friends and I were interviewed for this piece. all of us ltr discussed just how much it felt like they had predetermined outcome to the pt where I sent him the below on 3/2
Hey Prashant,
Good talking. Reflecting on our conversation I seem to
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Worst policy idea of the yr: “Adopt zoning code for each council district, let neighborhoods choose how much racism/ NIMBYism they get to have.”
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“Let the ppl in those apartments know that their balconies were robbed by their neighbors in single-family homes” -Commissioner
@ConnollyJoao
👏🏽 ⭐️
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Mueller replacing auto storage with dog-friendly patio, with flowers, artwork and bike racks, that fits 20 people. Love it!
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I-35 heading into SA is a mess (and Austin’s future). Community outreach showed how much ppl hate the upper-decks which is why they are coming down. Odd that so many new ones are going up in HOU, DFW, SA & AUS.
TXDOT ruins cities
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thousands of bedrooms for ppl wo cars going up in West Campus. time to dust off the idea of building more protected bike/scooter lanes
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Step 1: Build Protected Bike Lanes
Step 2: Protect Protected Bike Lanes
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The 2023
#ATXcouncil
may be the most pro-housing council in over a decade. Lots of amazing candidates ran and Austin is better for it.
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Why don’t more ppl use our amazing bike lanes?! 🚴🏾 ☠️ 🚗 💨 🌍
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—> big news at
#ATXcouncil
: item 28 eliminates parking mandates! significant step toward a greener, more affordable city
let’s stay vigilant and ensure it’s not watered down & remains strong!
Austin Planning Commission votes 9-0-1 to eliminate parking mandates 🌎🕊️
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Concluding a 12 hour meeting, HOME Initiative passes Austin Planning Commission 11-2 💥 👏
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meanwhile at city hall: “the city should not allow smaller homes to be mixed with larger homes” followed by applause…
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Amazing—550 homes (12% Aff) and a Whole Foods planned at 51st and Cameron via VMU2 zoning!
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Said g’bye to my dad, the bass-playing snake charmer, who left us at St David’s last night. Even on a shoestring budget, he rocked harder than any NIMBY mayor wannabe 🎶 🌆
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Amazing day for parking reform! Cheers to the future 🫡 🌎 🌲 planet > parking
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🚀 momentum alert 🚀 HOME Initiative gaining support from fantastic orgs! please share!
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new section open btw manor and MLK. cheers to prioritizing more sustainable transportation options!
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“Hate the idea of ppl able to afford living in our city?! Have we got a court case for you! ATXcouncil keeps trying to make it easier for ppl to afford Austin and we proclaim ‘Never!’” Paid for by boomers against housing
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All vehicles removed from one of Austin’s saddest blocks. Can’t wait for this one! The Republic—46-story, 710’
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Austin, TX, avoided burying its most beautiful assets but never truly celebrated/invested in them—until now.
#WaterlooGreenway
👏🏽
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awful 10 lane drive-thru bank to be replaced w 305 homes passes PC. Backup shares some thoughts…
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You can see downtown, UT, Mueller, a giant west austin golf course subsidized by UT students, the lake, and more!
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in a room w ~200 high school students one boldly declared, “I doubt I’ll ever own a home”. I ask for a show of hands who feels similarly and a majority of hands go up 💔
on the flip side, a few homeowners are vehemently opposing policies to legalize less expensive housing types
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six auto lanes but let’s drop this sign in the flimsy bike lane 👍 💀
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Allandale: where my friend can build a 4,000 sqft single family home on her 10,000 sqft lot but not an ADU for her daughter’s fam to live in. This is called exclusionary zoning, and it is bad.
@RyanPuzycki
@GinaForAustin
@DonnaHowardTX
@lulufloresatx
@johnbryantfortx
How about we work together on a solution that works for local communities. There are a lot of ADUs in my neighborhood, but it is different than Allendale, for example, where considerations around parking, sewer capacity, flooding/impervious cover, might be needed. Local control.
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Rumor floating around Kathie Tovo, unable to buy Mayors race, considering breaking term limits again—SECOND TIME! If true & successful this would have her serving 2011-2027 (or break a third time?)–nobody needs to be on
#ATXcouncil
that long. It’s time for new ideas.
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@DonnaHowardTX
@GinaForAustin
@SherylCole1
@jamestalarico
@BucyForTexas
Thx for taking the time to reply. As you know, the CoA has been trying to rewrite its land use/zoning code for yrs and a small group of homeowners have killed it citing poorly written state law. We don’t have local control today! This could have been a small victory 😞
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The next NIMBY lawsuit against housing in Austin has dropped. Unbelievable.
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Austin's first supertall, 98 Waller Creek. Will contain 240-unit 1Hotel, 700,000 square feet of office, and 352 homes
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Agreed,
@SecretaryPete
! Could you please share this perspective with
@TxDOT
as they propose this 20 lane disaster ripping through the heart of our city?
Acting on climate change isn’t just necessary to preserve our future, it’s an extraordinary opportunity to lead the world in clean, job-creating infrastructure. That's why we need the transit and EV investments included in
@POTUS
’ plan.
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Restoration of the old Texaco bldg on e 4th into Cosmic Coffee 👏🏽 💥
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anyone who doesn’t look like my dad tell me what good comes from ⬇️?
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Austin City Council looks to make it easier to build more affordable/sustainable housing types which by default breeds misinformation
What was your favorite excuse against these common sense items?
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PC approved 1,400 homes (10% Affordable) on industrial Borden Milk site
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local judges give Housing Opposition Groups win after win. thousands of homes caught up/dead as a result NIMBYs winning = Austin losing
INBOX: A judge voids three Austin ordinances aimed at letting developers build more housing, some of it for people earning low incomes.
Lawyer for homeowners who brought the suit motions to potential legal action over recent vote to let people build up to three homes on lots.
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Slip lanes are used when the focus is on moving vehicles at the expense of pedestrian safety.
@UTAustin
has to push back on this! A pedestrian is to cross NINE LANES!? Do better,
@TxDOT
Here are two renderings of caps near UT.
The first is TxDOT's illustration of Dean Keeton at I-35.
The second is by
@ReconnectAustin
as part of a pitch package for caps they put together for UT officials. Check out their full presentation here:
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“Doing nothing is the worst thing you can do” —UT Austin student calling into ATXcouncil for HOME
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disappointing to see former environmentalists abandon their principles and embrace NIMBYism. Putting personal interests above the greater good is not environmentalism—it's hypocrisy
NEW: Groups have sued Austin officials over a plan to redevelop a dairy plant into homes, offices and restaurants:
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@the_transit_guy
@rethink35
Despite
@TxDOT
only controlling ~10% of Austin area roads they account for 74% of our traffic related fatalities. They then wonder why we don’t want or need their out of touch I-35 expansion
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Instead of endless new $1-2M SF homes flooding Travis, Zilker, Tarrytown, Holly, Hyde Park, Bouldin, East Cesar Chavez, I wish we were wise enough to legalize townhomes, row homes, missing middle.
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All policy makers should spend a wknd with a school teacher trying to find affordable (non-subsidized) housing
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Haircut strike is ovr 😔 (3 yrs is enough) the fight to end exclusionary zoning continues. Let’s build! 🔨 🏗 🌆 🚆
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Guadalupe is the war zone between an amazingly walkable
@UTAustin
and tens of thousands of student bedrooms (West Campus). East west bike/ped crossings far outnumber north south auto trips. Hope
#ProjectConnect
reimagines this space and allocates 100% of it to people & transit!
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Join the NIMBYs: Keeping Austin Unaffordable, One Sign at a Time. Because who needs less expensive/more sustainable housing when you can have more lawn to mow, right?
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Planning Commission just spent north of an hour debating whether or not to allow a triplex in Central Austin for a blended family with a special needs child. Our land use (zoning) code trolls us more by the day.
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Simply standing up in a city and saying no to development does not make one an environmentalist.
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Tell me you don’t understand zoning w/o saying you don’t understand zoning
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Nice to see Waller Creek’s surface improvements making progress
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feel for all the young ppl who have near zero chance of buying their own home until we pass zoning reform
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Big
#ATXcouncil
wk. Item 168: Sale of the defunct DT HealthSouth site.
921 homes!! 116 income restricted at 50 & 60 MFI with no subsidies plus $21M covering our debt and then some.
Warning: NIMBYs will look to kill/delay/rebid, “Can’t let this many homes get built!” 🤦🏾♂️ 🤦♀️
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5th and 6th want to be safe for active transportation, not dated four-lane, one-way, highway-light designs
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