KLRU
Cranky Remark
RECEIVED Wed., May 23, 2018
Dear Editor,
Michael King's cranky remark that Community Not Commodity is "a group fanatically obsessed with preventing any revision of the land use code" is ridiculous ["Point Austin: Purging the Commissioners," News, May 18]. I've been to two meetings they organized. The speakers I've heard would support a number of changes, including more liberal zoning to permit mobile homes on more lots and in mobile home parks – because these are truly affordable housing. Also, a speaker urged that affordable public housing be built on city-owned land.
And almost everyone in Austin wants some streamlining of the current process to avoid bureaucracy and confusion – I doubt they are the exception.
Community Not Commodity do NOT oppose any and all changes. They just want to see any revision make things better not worse, and they don't think CodeNEXT will do that. I don't either.
Michael King's cranky remark that Community Not Commodity is "a group fanatically obsessed with preventing any revision of the land use code" is ridiculous ["Point Austin: Purging the Commissioners," News, May 18]. I've been to two meetings they organized. The speakers I've heard would support a number of changes, including more liberal zoning to permit mobile homes on more lots and in mobile home parks – because these are truly affordable housing. Also, a speaker urged that affordable public housing be built on city-owned land.
And almost everyone in Austin wants some streamlining of the current process to avoid bureaucracy and confusion – I doubt they are the exception.
Community Not Commodity do NOT oppose any and all changes. They just want to see any revision make things better not worse, and they don't think CodeNEXT will do that. I don't either.
Regards,
Anne Peticolas
Anne Peticolas
