Over the last two years, AURA members have advocated a bold, visionary overhaul of Austin’s land use rules that would create a more environmentally friendly, livable, and affordable city. The release of the CodeNEXT Draft 2 last weekend made clear that…
This post is part of a series on Imagine Austin’s priority programs, in light of Austin’s current CodeNEXT rewrite process. View the entire series here. This program is focused on conserving water resources and improving watershed health. This includes issues such…
One year ago this week, AURA released its Transit Vision for the city of Austin. It recommended a set of small, incremental improvements that collectively would have a greater effect than a multibillion rail line or set of rail lines. For transit,…
AURA Board Member and Multimodal Citizen Advisory Committee member Susan Somers offers her suggestions on responding to the latest Project Connect survey. In April, Capital Metro released a survey about potential high-capacity transit corridors under study as part of their Project Connect planning…
For Immediate Release CodeNEXT Mapping Reveals Near-Fatal Flaws April 19, 2017 Austin, Texas Mayor Adler was right: the maps are wrong. “The CodeNEXT maps revealed yesterday are so deeply flawed that further tinkering block by block around the edges of…
In August 2016, AURA released its CodeNEXT Expectations. Although these expectations lay out broad policy priorities for CodeNEXT, a well-written code with a feeble on-the-ground implementation could still spell disaster. Austinites need a zoning map that’s designed to solve for Central…
March 14, 2017 Mayor Adler: AURA is an all-volunteer grassroots urbanist organization focused on building an Austin for everyone by improving land use and transportation through policy analysis, public involvement, and political engagement. While our members are still dissecting the…
For Immediate Release AURA Statement on CodeNEXT Draft January 18, 2017 Austin, TX On Tuesday AURA became aware of a leaked draft of CodeNEXT which was posted to Twitter over the holiday weekend. The document, weighing in at 327 pages,…
In June, the City of Austin Neighborhood Housing and Community Development Office (NHCD) released a draft of the Austin Strategic Housing Plan. A representative from NHCD attend AURA’s November board meeting and presented on the plan and received feedback from AURA…
INTRODUCTION Earlier this year, AURA released Transit City: A Vision for a Multimodal Austin wherein we outlined a number of critical steps for increasing ridership on public transportation. Our recommendations focused on ways to increase the usefulness of transit in…
