A Fellow Neighbor shared this with me earlier this week. It’s a pretty solid, and informative read. It does a great job of highlighting the gaps in CodeNext that could have a significant impact on our 'hood. Interested to know what you all think!
Brent, FOH Secretary
Austin Chronical Article about Heritage and CodeNext
JohnBoardman
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Good summary. Thanks for sharing Brent. Heritage was given more permissive zoning (T4) than most other central neighborhoods, e.g. “medium multiplexes” (which I believe is a fourplex that has the form of a house, not an apartment building) are allowed in Heritage but not NUNA, Hyde Park, or almost any other central neighborhood. As far as I can see only Clarksville was made T4. I support additional density in Austin to help keep us affordable and support mass transit, but it needs to be applied to all central neighborhoods equally, not just to a couple of areas.
The Austin Business Journal created an interactive map that I found more useful than the city’s: https://goo.gl/jbDUPC
The city’s CodeNext page has links to PDFs that give more details: http://www.austintexas.gov/department/codenext
A high level description of the different transects (e.g. T4N): http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Planning/CodeNEXT/2017_0417_ALDC_ZoningMapHandout_Pages.pdf
A detailed table showing exactly what is allowed: http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/default/files/files/Planning/CodeNEXT/ALDC_TransectMatrix_PUBLIC_REVIEW_DRAFT_021617.pdf