Our buddy Shawn Shillington over at Austinist talks about the implications of Perry Lorenz, Robert Knight, and Knight Real Estate Corp.‘s decision to sell off more than a dozen acres of land near Downtown, on Rainey Street. Don’t miss the Flickr slide show he links.

It will be a travesty if City Council, in the throes of public hand-wringing over ad hoc zoning decisions, allows Rainey to be developed without a fair, equitable, and established formula for building affordability into the area. Get cracking!

This article appears in March 30 • 2007.

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