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Economic Development without Tax Breaks

February 18, 2019January 29, 2021 ~ dankeshet

Economic development incentive deals — tax breaks to companies for bringing jobs to a city — have had a pretty bad run of news in Austin and beyond. Amazon’s HQ2 headquarters search earned a mile of negative attention for every inch of excitement even before they gave up on a deal with New York.

In Austin, economic development deals have been controversial for a while.

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What principle is behind the VMU2 compromise? Isn't it implicitly an admission that yes, parking requirements and height restrictions help drive our housing crisis? Given the scale of the crisis, why muck around with only partially removing them? #atxcouncil

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17 May

Houston vs Austin density:

5000 SF lot in Houston will yield 4 units.

In Austin, 1 unit.

10,000 SF lot in Houston might yield an “8 pack” or 8 units.

In Austin, 2 units.

ATX is missing the boat on providing more housing.

#housingcrisis

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16 May

As cities are no longer willing / capable of investing in the public sphere, it encourages a single developer to buy up tons of properties in places that have particularly poor public amenities relative to demand, then propose their own public amenities. https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2022/05/developer-releases-proposal-to-clean-up-east-sixth-street/

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16 May

Why is nobody talking about Bruno? https://austin.urbanize.city/post/micro-apartments-south-austin-storybuilt?utm_source=Urbanize+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d3d2777949-news-austin-weekly-2022-05-16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f2c8779a36-d3d2777949-199458650

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15 May

On behalf of Central Texas parents everywhere, petition for @Google Assistant to learn what sound a grackle makes.

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