Rigid bollards in Edmonton, Alberta. A simple way of keeping people on foot from getting crushed to death by errant cars on a busy road. Why exactly don't we do this in Austin?!
Jake Wegmann
@JakeWegmann
Urban planning academical egghead. Former housing developer. Husband and dad. YEG-NH-DEN-Cambridge (MA)-SF/OAK-AUS
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I spent years being frustrated at how hard it was to safely cross Lamar from the Triangle. And now it's been fixed! Dozens of small changes like this plus the explosion of e-bikes could transform how people get around Austin.
THREAD: City Council’s proposed compromise to allow more housing on the corridors makes me want to tear (what’s left of) my hair out. 1/X austinmonitor.com/stories/2022/0…
austinmonitor.com Council lays out compromise for more density along major streets - Austin Monitor As Austin’s housing crisis deepens, City Council is pushing to relax two major constraints on development – compatibility and parking requirements – for properties along busy streets, in hopes of... Best journalistic treatment of "valid petitions" in Austin I've yet seen. With some great big-picture quotes from @ConnollyJoao and @DanKeshet bloomberg.com/news/features/…
www.bloomberg.com Desperate for Housing, Austin Seeks Relief in Rezoning The booming Texas capital’s efforts to revise its land development code and build more affordable housing have been thwarted by protests from homeowners. So I just pulled ZHVI data from Zillow on home prices for 902 US metros, comparing right now to Feb 2020. Austin is the NUMBER TWO metro, with a 65% (!!) increase. #1 is tiny (Kalispell, +74%). The runnerup large metro is Phoenix (+52%). Jaw. On. Floor.