Household Affordability CodeNEXT Prescription Released, Community Input Sought

The City of Austin has released its second of four CodeNEXT “Prescriptions,” recommendations created to stimulate discussion on quality of life issues for Austinites and how those issues relate to rewriting the Land Development Code.

The topic of this Prescription is Household Affordability, and is intended to start a discussion on how the City can better address affordability issues in the Land Development Code rewrite. You can view the Prescription here.

These papers and the feedback they generate will directly affect what is written into the new Land Development Code and is meant to be a platform to discuss tradeoffs.

The Prescriptions are released every other month. The Natural and Built Environment Prescription Paper was released in March 2016. A Mobility Prescription Paper will be released in July 2016, and a Fiscal Health paper will be released in September 2016.

CodeNEXT Advisory Group volunteers and the Austin community are invited to read and reflect on each topic in person and online. Engagement opportunities for the second prescription include:

• SpeakUp Austin! online discussion and comments forum
• May 14 at 9 a.m. CodeNEXT Community Walk, meet at Zilker Elementary School
• May 23 at 6 p.m. Public Input Session with CodeNEXT Advisory Group
• June 20 at 6 p.m. CodeNEXT Advisory Group Meeting
• Reddit AMA with CodeNEXT, date to be announced
• CodeNEXT Road Show: Request a presentation for your group or organization

CodeNEXT is an Imagine Austin initiative to modernize Austin’s outdated Land Development Code with a simpler, user-friendly code that creates and preserves people-friendly places. For more information about CodeNEXT, visitwww.austintexas.gov/codenext.