Farm&City comments on item 45 – Calling for meaningful climate and air quality analysis of the proposal to fix I-35

TxDOT’s refusal to use an equitable scenario planning process with alternative reasonable future growth forecasts renders their “No Build” analysis meaningless in the climate emissions, air quality, and traffic modeling analysis.

Hello Mayor Watson and Council Members, Thanks so much for your consideration of Item 45, seeking to improve the climate emissions reduction and air quality improvement strategies of the plan to fix I-35 and rebuild the historic urban street grid. Farm&City is a tiny nonprofit and we don’t have funding to do this particular work, so I’m sorry to report …

Can Austin Build on Recent Land Use Wins to Be a More Affordable, Sustainable City?

The City of Austin Planning Commission is planning to form a working group to explore small-scale reforms to Austin’s outdated and overly restrictive Land Development Code. The last attempt to totally overhaul the code, named CodeNEXT, was dismantled by an unfortunate state law which gives a minority of homeowners – who are themselves a minority of the residents of the …

It is time to comment on TxDOT’s UTP

How is the Texas transportation system working out for you? If you could spend about $115 billion over the next ten years to improve safe, multimodal access for all the people of Texas, how would you divvy up the money? Don’t tell us, tell TxDOT:Find out more at Unified Transportation Program – Public InvolvementClick on the Comment Form to submit …