Housing Affordability and Housing Supply
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2021 1:53 pm
Colleagues,
From our discussions as a Council and among our community, it’s clear that housing affordability and housing supply are among our city’s greatest present challenges.
We look forward to our work session on these two related issues on November 30, 2021. Among the many ideas that will be part of the discussion that day, we would propose consideration of a code amendment that would allow more residential in more places. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 134847.pdf
This amendment reflects a concept that we have all discussed. Importantly, we think it represents a chance to facilitate a material number of additional housing units while achieving broad agreement. This reflects the capacity increase numbers we saw during our prior work on the LDC. We hope the discussion at the work session focuses on ideas that meet these considerations.
This proposed code amendment would allow residential uses in our commercial zones associated with corresponding affordability requirements. This would allow residential uses In zoning districts CS, CS-1, GR, LR, GO, and LO, that currently only allow commercial uses.
We hope that our colleagues will also post ideas on the message board for consideration at the November 30, 2021, work session so that community stakeholders, council members and staff can help make the work session as constructive as possible. If this proposal has broad support, we would consider bringing it forward at our council meeting on December 9, 2021 (we’ll need co-sponsors).
Mayor Adler and Council Member Alter
From our discussions as a Council and among our community, it’s clear that housing affordability and housing supply are among our city’s greatest present challenges.
We look forward to our work session on these two related issues on November 30, 2021. Among the many ideas that will be part of the discussion that day, we would propose consideration of a code amendment that would allow more residential in more places. http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 134847.pdf
This amendment reflects a concept that we have all discussed. Importantly, we think it represents a chance to facilitate a material number of additional housing units while achieving broad agreement. This reflects the capacity increase numbers we saw during our prior work on the LDC. We hope the discussion at the work session focuses on ideas that meet these considerations.
This proposed code amendment would allow residential uses in our commercial zones associated with corresponding affordability requirements. This would allow residential uses In zoning districts CS, CS-1, GR, LR, GO, and LO, that currently only allow commercial uses.
We hope that our colleagues will also post ideas on the message board for consideration at the November 30, 2021, work session so that community stakeholders, council members and staff can help make the work session as constructive as possible. If this proposal has broad support, we would consider bringing it forward at our council meeting on December 9, 2021 (we’ll need co-sponsors).
Mayor Adler and Council Member Alter