The Mayor’s Race Offers Clear Choices on How Austin Should Grow

Election marks a critical juncture on the way to Austin's future

"...the LDC citywide in one vote to allow greater density by right in more places, it would require property..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

City Council to Tweak Compatibility Rules Amid Housing Crisis

Can a change help stem rising housing and rent costs?

"...category as a modest update of an already successful density bonus program that's brought affordable units to places like..."

June 10, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin at Large: The Road Goes on Forever …

After 30 years of effort, East 12th Street is still a long way from its envisioned future

"...approve changes to vertical mixed-use zoning and its attendant density bonus, and initiate a pilot guaranteed-income program. I get..."

April 29, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Proposed Development Would Revive Austin Opera House but Faces Neighbor Opposition

200 Academy Drive: Big hit or last call?

"...not requesting upzoning the property, increasing height through a density bonus, or seeking any variances from code. This project..."

Jan. 21, 2022 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Council: A Rezoning Case at Historic Delta Kappa Gamma House

On the agenda: A contract with the SAFE Alliance to run a new family violence shelter and Stratus eyes the sky

"...The organization is seeking to rezone the property to downtown mixed use, a zoning category created for transitional areas..."

May 21, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council Recap: Hey, Remember That Thing We Asked You to Do?

City Council revisits resilience hubs and Rainey Street density

"...a superficial study in contrasts – more than 1,000 Downtown apartments reaching ever closer to the sky on Rainey..."

April 16, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: On the Ground, in the Sky

Council tackles Austin’s intractable housing crisis in several dimensions

"...local real estate markets. This helped beget the existing Downtown Density Bonus Program, adopted in 2014 along with the..."

April 9, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Council: Too Little Affordable Housing, or Too Much?

Two southeast projects divide dais; APD's state grants OK'd

"...funding for victims services, the mental health first responders program, and processing evidence for sexual assault cases...."

Sept. 4, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council Recap: Too Little Affordable Housing, or Too Much?

Two Southeast projects divide dais; APD’s state grants OK’d

"...funding for victims services, the mental health first responders program, and processing evidence for sexual assault cases...."

Aug. 28, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

City Hall Ready for Liftoff on New Land Use Rules

It's as easy as flood protection, affordability, parking, transition zones ...

"...in place, one will see over time more "gentle density" and "missing middle" housing – multifamily residential, and perhaps..."

Dec. 13, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

A Guide to Austin's Land Development Code Lingo

Know your zones

"...or in R4, by participating in the affordable housing bonus program. Aside from Rural Residential and Lake Austin (carried..."

Dec. 13, 2019 News Feature

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes

"...For density advocates, the most pressing problem a new LDC can..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Land Development Code Zone Summary

Don't know your R1s from your MS2Bs? We break it down for you.

"...or in R4, through participation in the affordable housing bonus program. Aside from Rural Residential and Lake Austin (carried..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature

Public Notice: Mapping Our Transitions

Staff briefing starts to put corridor rezoning in focus

"...staff presentation, with a focus on transition areas, the Downtown plan, and parking...."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

City Council Moves Gently on Riverside Redevelopment, Less So on Hotel Occupancy Tax

First meeting after summer break features plenty of theatrics

"...the site, should they opt to forgo the city’s density bonus program. He asked his colleagues for more time..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Public Notice: Slouching Toward CodeCRONK

City manager gives Council a multiple-choice quiz for the land development code redo

"...it, Option B "relies primarily on ... an expanded density bonus program that increases allowable densities for developments with..."

March 22, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

On the Edges of Gentrification, Planning a Different East Riverside Drive

City’s declared goals for the corridor and those of private developers do not necessarily coincide

"...the corridor to be less of a highway from Downtown to Austin-Berg­strom International Airport, and more of a welcoming..."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

With Little Enthusiasm, City OKs Opting Into Oak Hill Parkway Project

Plus more items from City Council's first substantive meeting of the year

"...expand its supply of emergency shelter beds – both Downtown and throughout Austin – and elsewhere on the agenda,..."

Feb. 8, 2019 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Whose Affordability Crisis?

Looking through the prism's lens

"...East River­side, where city plans spurred development and increased density, but also excluded poorer residents from the area. Represent­a­tives..."

Feb. 2, 2018 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Council: Everything Is in the Open

"...enough, there's a resolution on housing vouchers for the Downtown Density Bonus Program, an ordinance to waive the street..."

Nov. 10, 2017 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Council: Another Quiet Dais?

Agenda features the CURE and a list of proposed audits

"...small exceptions), a category that allows additional height or density – the resolution argues – without commensurate community benefits...."

Oct. 20, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Tovo and Casar Unfiltered on CodeNEXT

The Council members' full conversation with the Chronicle

"...are too restrictive … causing sprawl instead of the density that most people agree that we need, and reducing..."

Sept. 14, 2017 News Post by Nick Barbaro

Which Way to CodeNEXT?

A conversation with Mayor Pro Tem Kathie Tovo and Council Member Greg Casar

"...are too restrictive … causing sprawl instead of the density that most people agree that we need, and reducing..."

Sept. 15, 2017 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

Plaza Saltillo’s Affordable Habitat

Habitat for Humanity in line for new density bonuses at two Fourth Street addresses

"...amended the development's existing regulating plan to include additional density bonuses. Habitat recently acquired 1409 and 1411 E. Fourth..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Density? Bonus! (Programs.)

Planning Commission briefed on CodeNEXT affordability incentives

"...meeting to receive a briefing on a newly proposed density bonus program...."

July 24, 2017 News Post by Sarah Marloff

CodeNEXT Gets Affordable

Learn what, how, and where affordability incentives will apply

"...were released Friday, June 16. The "Citywide Afford­able Housing Density Bonus Program," the newest chapter (23-3E-1) in the land..."

June 23, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Shooting Blind

City needs more economic analysis of density bonus programs

"...a first look at a review of the city's density bonus programs, which together form one of the city's..."

June 3, 2016 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Council: ADUs Coming to Your Neighborhood?

Land-use advocates at AURA are calling on Council to approve the ADU ordinance

"...a public hearing considering an ordinance to revise the density bonus program for planned unit developments – in theory..."

Nov. 20, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Where There’s a Roof There’s a Way

City Council agenda heavy with housing matters

"...a public hearing considering an ordinance to revise the “density bonus program” for “planned unit developments” – in theory..."

Nov. 17, 2015 News Post by Michael King

News Roundup: Planned Parenthood, Piñatas, & Pink Bikinis

City Council goes long

"...flats”), and began the process of revising the development “density bonus program,” intending to require more “on-site” affordable housing..."

Oct. 19, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

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