What happened last week at the City Council meeting and what's on this week's agenda.
Coming through loud and clear at City Council's June 9 meeting were deep anxieties about expanding thedensity bonus program, designed to create affordable housing on Austin's core transit corridors."V2" zoning district
, brought to Council in a memo last week. Allowing V2 entitlements to developers by right, without notifying neighbors and allowing them to protest, would also violate state law. Llanes Pulido told Council she'd"try to stay diplomatic," before also noting that"you give this gift to developers if you deregulate VMU. If you get rid of compatibility, if you give by-right entitlements, we lose the public process that allows us to negotiate better deals.
Meanwhile, Council also postponed final action on a case designed to align the overlapping plans controlling development on East 11th and 12th streets, which are primarily hung up on changes to 12th Street to allow cocktail lounges as a conditional use. Despite voting to approve the 12th Street provisions on second reading, CMsboth made a point to ask that the record reflect that they'd"vote no" on cocktail lounges, which was not an option before them.
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