Austin Needs More Neighborhoods like North Campus
North Campus's density makes it a wonderful place to live for students, seniors, and everything in between.
Life in Mueller’s Mixed-Use Neighborhood
Mixed-use development in Mueller makes for a great life. The rest of Austin should follow suite.
Micromobility Fees Open Letter to Council
The AURA Board urges council to adjust the proposed per-ride fee for micromobility vehicles down considerably from the $0.40 proposed by staff to somewhere in the range of $0.10 to $0.15.
West Campus Best Campus
West Campus. Wampus. Hell on Earth. Heaven on Earth. Whatever you choose to call it, West Campus is a predominant feature of the University of Texas. On any given day, one can see an abundance of students bustling around the area; walking…
Electrical Cars Won’t Save Our Environment – Density Can
Electric cars alone will not save us. Yes, they are much better than regular, fossil fuel-burning cars, but even if we replaced every single car in the world with an electric car, it wouldn’t save us. We must drastically reduce…
How many affordable old houses are there in Central Austin?
As of June 20th, 2019, the Austin Board of Realtors (ABoR) reports that the median price for single-family homes in Austin has hit an all time high of $400,000. We often hear from City Council that we need to save the…
How Multiple Business Districts Can Hurt Dual-income Families
Activity Centers as described in Imagine Austin are akin to the Multiple Nuclei Model for a city layout created by Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman in the 1945 article The Nature of Cities. Harris and Ullman argued that cities do not grow a…
Homes not Handcuffs
AURA continues to call for the decriminalization of homelessness and supports the efforts of the Homes not Handcuffs coalition. In light of the newly released 2019 Point in Time count, it’s more important than ever that Austin provide housing for…
Rewriting The Land Development Code
As we write a new land development code we are not merely choosing which buildings we’re allowed to build and where we’re allowed to build them. We are making a choice about what kind of city we want Austin to…
AURA Board Elections
AURA will be holding board elections at the end of February to fill five of our eleven board seats. Board members are elected by a membership vote, and any member of AURA may run for the board. To be considered for…