Rules That Block Apartments Near Single-Family Homes Should Change, City Staff Says

Compatibility restricts homes near amenities

"...Austin’s rules limiting dense housing near single-family homes are among the most restrictive in the nation,..."

Sept. 18, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

When Did the Single-Family Home Go From Being the American Dream to an Urbanist Nightmare?

One policy wonk's view of how we got here

"...Austin's urbanist community – and that community's collision with single-family neighborhoods and homeowners in Austin's central city...."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

After Long Day of Testimony, Council Votes to End Single-Family Zoning

New rules will allow three homes on every lot

"...owners will be able to build up to three homes on lots that previously only allowed one or two..."

Dec. 8, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Family Flight

Will AISD abandon its shrinking schools?

"...city stops is a subdivision called McKinney Heights, where homes of up to 2,000 square feet remain available "from..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Fostering Family Values

The Legislature engages in its biennial exercises in gay-bashing -- families be damned.

"...displacement of at least 2,252 children in 1,560 single-parent homes and group homes), the new version of the bill..."

May 2, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Zero-Energy Homes and Hope Break Ground in Montopolis

The city shoots for energy efficiency and affordability in low-income neighborhood

"...building technology – such that within a year, the homes are expected to produce more energy than they consume...."

Feb. 4, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Affordable Homes for Sale Through Austin Community Land Trust

The city-run program is accepting applications now

"...buy a roughly $200,000 house, a batch of affordable homes are up for grabs through the city’s community land..."

Jan. 4, 2024 News Post by Austin Sanders

Public Notice: Homes for the Holidays?

Housing Blueprint Gets an Implementation Plan

"...Units, including Code changes to permit ADUs throughout traditional single-family and urban core neighborhoods...."

Nov. 23, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Dream Homes in East Austin?

"...the project will include the construction of 48 rental homes. Despite seven years of delay and political resistance, the..."

Aug. 15, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Michael Angelo's Feeds Folks Family Style

Local family-run company has nationwide distribution

"...First, they started simply delivering the packaged meals to homes in the area, but Renna began thinking bigger. He..."

June 3, 2014 Food Post by Amira Jensen

One Family Won't Abandon Ship: The Last Holdout

"...tell me." Riojas says that most of the small homes along Henderson Street sold for around $18,000, which was..."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Council Poised to Pass Three Housing Supply-Friendly Items

The most controversial would allow larger apartment complexes near single-family homes

"...rules that limit building height in housing developments near single-family homes. [inset-1-right]..."

June 9, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

How Could Zoning Change in Your Neighborhood?

From single-family homes to 40-foot townhomes, mapping the transition areas and zones

"...density (along what urbanists call a "transect") between existing single-family homes and these target areas. Code skeptics have worried..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature

Council Attitudes on Land-Use Change as Limits on Building Near Houses Are Eased

Council cuts compatibility with little opposition

"...would allow tall apartment buildings to develop closer to single-family homes than ever before...."

June 9, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

New Lot Size Would Allow Middle-Class Homeowners to Sell Their Backyards

Smaller lots, smaller homes, cheaper prices

"...account for more than half of development costs for single-family homes in Austin. One way to reduce those costs..."

April 19, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

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

"...zoning code and map that prioritizes "all types of homes for all kinds of people in all parts of..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

As Council Works to Improve Affordability With HOME, How Will Displacement Factor In?

Research shows small lots boost affordability though concerns linger

"...is to facilitate the building of smaller, less expensive homes by loosening development restrictions...."

Dec. 6, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Who Will Be the New Council Voice for District 9?

Eight candidates vie for Austin's most powerful YIMBYs and NIMBYs

"...preservationist constituencies. It contains such neighborhoods, mostly consisting of single-family homes, as Hyde Park, Travis Heights, and Bouldin, but..."

Oct. 28, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Rental Health Worries

Pecan Springs Gives Apartments Thumbs Down

"...wants to build a big apartment complex near existing single-family homes. The neighbors don't like it, at least not..."

Dec. 26, 1997 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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

Are taller buildings with less parking the answer?

"...much-needed housing: loosening compatibility standards for commercial projects near single-family neighborhoods, and reducing minimum parking requirements to allow for..."

May 21, 2022 News Post by Maggie Q. Thompson

A Change of Scenery

What It Looks Like

"...or just off Rainey Street itself, are the 49 single-family homes that have so complicated this issue...."

July 16, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A Church and Its People on Austin's Eastside

The living history of David Chapel

"...is zoned for both P-NP and SF-3, the predominant single-family zoning category in the older parts of East Austin...."

Dec. 25, 2020 News Feature by Lina Fisher

What Land Use Code Do We Need to Build the City We Want?

Planning a way forward after CodeNEXT

"...and diversity, relaxed "compatibility" standards that limit heights around single-family homes, and reduced on-site parking requirements – and to..."

April 12, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

The Rent Rub

Working Poor Getting Stiffed on Housing Costs

"...sheet of paper listing qualifying incomes for the new homes, noted that they were similar to what area residents..."

Aug. 21, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

A Budding Hamlet

Georgetown Village: Smart Growth Without Trying

"...illustration courtesy David Weekley Homes..."

July 31, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Tovo and Casar Unfiltered on CodeNEXT

The Council members' full conversation with the Chronicle

"...you look at those initial maps, they’re proposing up-zoning single-family housing to what would likely be smaller units at..."

Sept. 14, 2017 News Post by Nick Barbaro

Austin’s Exclusionary Housing Policies Are Getting Revolutionary Rewrites

After decades of resistance doors open for less-wealthy Austinites

"...housing units on much smaller lot sizes in most single-family zones, and have no rules requiring at least 1½..."

July 28, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Public Notice: Opening Up Pandora’s Box

A look inside the Land Development Code revision progress

"...on the latter is titled, "What happens to existing single-family homes in a new transition area?" and it addresses..."

Aug. 16, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Point Austin: Dear Occupant

Austin welcomes all newcomers – but we don't know where to put them

"...(four "unrelated" residents vs. the current six) in certain single-family-zoned residential neighborhoods ... for the next two years. It's..."

Feb. 21, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Whose Affordability Crisis?

Looking through the prism's lens

"...housing can be flipped for their own profit. A single-family home in an underserved part of East Austin can..."

Feb. 2, 2018 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

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