City of Austin Council Message Board

Colleagues, The 2016 Tenant Relocation Ordinance is one of the best renter protections Austin has and I’m so grateful to all its original supporters – Mayor Adler; Council Members Tovo, Renteria, Kitchen, and Pool; and former Council Members Casar, Garza and Houston – for passing the ordinance. I es...

Colleagues, Last week, the citizens of Austin were startled by the frightening news that the median home appraisal in Travis County jumped over $200,000 to $632,000. We have been talking about rewriting our land development code for a full decade. Since the Code Next process started in 2012, housing...

Colleagues, Our VMU-zoned sites are all on major transit corridors, places where everyone agrees we need to focus development. Getting development on our corridors right is critical to the success of Project Connect, to our efforts to address our housing crises, and to reach our climate change goals...

Colleagues,

After today's work session discussion on the Statesman PUD, I posted a list of questions on a new message board thread. Just wanted to let you know.

Chito

Colleagues, I appreciate the conversation at today’s work session and look forward to discussing this further on Thursday. In the meantime, I have the following questions for our Housing and Planning Department and the Homeless Strategy Office that I wanted to share with you: 1. Approximately how mu...

Colleagues, Over the last few weeks, I have worked with the Homeless Services Division on the closure and rehousing of about 30 individuals who were camping in the St. John’s neighborhood. While we were able to ultimately secure housing for all the individuals at the campsite targeted for closure, I...

Council Member Fuentes, I appreciate your comments and understand your concerns. Environmental racism has a long history in Austin and there is lingering trauma and resentment from the many fights to right those wrongs. As you note, the cleanup of the East Austin oil tank farm was completed in just ...

Colleagues, Given the exciting progress Austin and Travis County have made in lowering our COVID-19 risk level to Stage 4, I would like to discuss potential changes to our city’s guidance on homeless shelter capacity. Our city’s homeless residents need respite from the cold and other dangers of slee...