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@cost_of_bums @AustinJustice I was going to say something similar. Especially Mt. Bonnell, but also the 360/Mopac trail access, and parking under mopac at Town Lake..yeah, I said it. Town lake. LOL

@AustinJustice You aren't including the cost of a new car window if you walk up Mount Bonnell.

Things you can do in Austin for $1 or less: • Climb the steps to the top of Mount Bonnell at sunset • Skip a rock across the lake • Sell cocaine, plead it down to a misdemeanor • Beat up a family member multiple times, plead the felony down to a misdemeanor, then have prosecutors dismiss • Help rob someone at gunpoint and have prosecutors dismiss it • Get caught with drugs and have prosecutors decline • Steal from a store and have prosecutors decline • Resist arrest and have prosecutors decline • Lie about your name to a cop repeatedly and have prosecutors decline each time • Try to solicit a child under 14 online and have a Travis County judge set your bond at one dollar • Toss a frisbee at Zilker • Skip court, get caught with a meth pipe, slip out of your cuffs and try to bite a cop’s face on the way to jail

@Digitoken23 @kaylaguo_ @jamestalarico @GinaHinojosaTX What is this glorious neighborhood that you speak of and are there any homes for sale?

@kaylaguo_ @jamestalarico @GinaHinojosaTX This is typical of Austin, Texas…. A bunch of progressive democrats. It’s not like that everywhere. I live in San Antonio, TX. And in my neighborhood we are Trump Supporters

President Obama just appeared at a taco restaurant in Austin with @jamestalarico and @GinaHinojosaTX. They chatted with restaurant goers and as he left, Obama said, “remember to vote!” to big cheers:

@ATXVideos Sit or sh!t?

West Campus: homeless gentlemen sit in both the 1st and 2nd stairwells of St Austin's.

@elmachuca Those are all COA IT employees headed to the coffee shop to “telework”

No one works in Austin

Jewish families in Brooklyn last night were forced to watch from their homes as a mob of Muslims chanted to globalize the Intifada. Never Again is now.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Texas AG Ken Paxton has just filed suit against the Chinese national I busted in my latest H-1B exposé. According to our whistleblower, Yuan Yao “runs” an inoperable daycare and sells H-1B visas for $20,000 each. His father also allegedly works for the CCP. THANK YOU, @KenPaxtonTX for taking action!

@JackCraver The pay doesn’t justify the sh1t and abuse they have to take from their leaders and citizens.

City Council approved unprecedented pay raises for police officers believing it would boost recruitment & retention. In the first year following the contract, ATX actually hired fewer cops than the year before. From today's newsletter:

@missmayn LA can’t build or buy a homeless housing unit for less than 750k

spencer pratt wants to throw LA's homeless into prisons at a cost of $105,000 per year per person when a studio apartment runs about $22,000.

@data_atx @AusTexican What percentage of citizens have even seen a broadcast from the city?

We need to listen to the experts like my friend here on what an absolute pro-level city broadcasting set-up would cost $36 million is not a believable number Also I LOVE how posters from around the State help each other out! We have a great community of posters in TX 💪

Before 2021, ATXN would create 1-off contracts for video equipment upgrades that city council could see and have oversight on , For example this one for 100k in 2013. In 2021, they switched to huge lump 20+ million dollar contracts that have ZERO transparency or oversight!

@data_atx @saveaustintx Can a local tv station with a pair, walk down to their production department and get a cost breakdown and opinion on if this is overkill?

We need a detailed cost breakdown! It sounds like they are replacing a ton of equipment that works fine now but is old, adding broadcasting capabilities to new rooms , adding ‘remote’ broadcasting capabilities . And probably upgrading mics, lighting, video to 8k or whatever to look better

There’s a lot of government waste I could post about , but for the next 9 days I will be entirely focused on the $36 million dollar tv equipment deal The goal is to get this pulled from the consent agenda and pared down by city council I’m studying this guide on who to contact at city hall by @mkelly007 and contacting the departments, council people, and boards and commissions. Let’s go! frommackenzie.substack.com/p/who-to-call-…

🚨 NOW: Calls are ramping up nationwide to INVESTIGATE, EXPEL and DEPORT Indian Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D) after she worked with foreign nations to *send oil to Communist CUBA* SEND HER BACK! She said: "Only one Russian tanker of oil has made it to Cuba...I was in conversations with ambassadors from Mexico and other places, other countries [are] trying to figure out how to get oil there." REP. BRANDON GILL: "Who do we represent!? The interest of the American people or HOSTILE, FOREIGN REGIMES like CUBA?!" "She seems to believe the latter." "This is an evil communist regime that tortures its own people and operates as a hub of some of our biggest adversaries." What a TRAITOR.

Dallas, Texas From The you can’t make this sh!t up files : Meet Codes Enforcement Officer for the city of Dallas Delena Howard, Delena here hit Oscar Rivera’s (no Habla🙄) auto repair shop with “codes violations” without disclosing what these so-called violations were, she then offered to “help him” by making it all go away all he had to do was pay and (don’t tell🙄)

I asked the Muslim-only waterpark event organizer about her Learing Center. She wasn’t happy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@ATXVideos Never forget

Today's Ben White suspect allegedly threw "rocks or bricks" according to APD. This is what city hall wants. Just ask former city council member Jimmy Flannigan. Only difference is most of them don't say the quiet part out loud.

@daustinsanders I bet my travel time has increased as well, you know why? Traffic. Even running with lights and sirens they are having to account for more vehicles, bad driving, distracted driving, etc…this is not the gotcha you think it is.

Austin police are taking longer to respond to 911 calls, even though they are responding to fewer of them.

@MelanieAStokes @bangoloff They will tax a Tuff shed if it has power to it. You might get away with it, but if too many people do it, they will probably come up with a special fee for that situation aka tax.

@RickyBo43219563 @bangoloff Maybe it's best to just have an ADU on a trailer to set up an STR and avoid a tax increase?

During Covid, didn't many businesses/LLCs purchase private homes? You think that may be what is driving this HOMES legislation in Austin? They didn't purchase the homes to live in, they purchased these homes to lease and make a profit. Putting 3 "houses" on one lot doesn't help the single family, or even drive prices down, the homes are all high 6 figures still. The Austin City Council isn't working for the people, it's ensuring it's donors can continue making a profit. These lots are owned by big businesses, being divided in 3rds by big businesses, and being sold/leased to the highest bidder. @austintexasgov doesn't care about the people. @ToddJeffries

@varrock So they basically listened to Adam Sandler’s Piece of sh7t car and went with it.

@MelanieAStokes @bangoloff Won’t happen. The council wants more taxes from the lot. If an older home on a bigger lot was taxed at $500K, they want 3 new homes that are 3 stories tall being bought for $600K on that lot.

@bangoloff What if we create incentives for affordable rent options with property tax exemptions. We would be helping renters and families devasted by high property taxes. Win! Win!

@JenRobichaux @AustinRealtor I think they are operating on the Field of Dreams model. build it and they will come. We’ll worry about the ill effects later or blame it on the state for not giving us funding.

@AustinRealtor This captures a lot of my concerns. I don't think there has been much thought and certainly not community input. I check Speak Up Austin weekly and haven't seen any surveys.

Austin - take notice of item 26 on the May 7th City Council agenda. This is what you need to know and how to take action against it. 🧵 What is Item 26? The resolution directs the city manager to rewrite large sections of the city land development code. It builds directly on the earlier HOME ordinances from 2023 and 2025. The stated goal is to make it easier and cheaper for developers to build 2-unit and 3-unit homes on lots that are currently zoned for single-family houses. In reality, this resolution does not fix Austin’s housing problems. It doubles down on the same ideological push from HOME Phases 1 and 2 by ordering the city manager to gut remaining rules that slow down 2-unit and 3-unit development on single-family lots. All the while, single-family lots are rapidly disappearing across the city, being sacrificed to density. The changes will override neighborhood plans, historic protections, and deed restrictions across the city. Council claims this makes housing more attainable. Taxpayers already know the real results from the first two phases, and this will make them worse. Key changes include: - Allowing smaller lot widths and reducing minimum lot sizes so 2 units can fit on parcels as small as 3600 sqft in single-family districts. - Zero side-yard setbacks on any lot, no matter when it was subdivided. - Front porches that can jut 50% into the required front yard (with a 7.5-ft minimum from the street). - Major relaxations on garage placement, width, and openness rules, including special carve-outs for narrow lots under 50 ft of frontage. - Eliminating building coverage limits for duplexes and triplexes while keeping only impervious cover rules. - Exempting 3-unit and larger duplex projects from on-site landscaping requirements. - Forcing the code to treat 2-unit and 3-unit homes the same as single-family or multifamily uses across all zoning districts and neighborhood plans. - Requiring the city manager to deliver four formal reports over the next two years flagging any remaining code conflicts, plus a full review to “correct inadvertent omissions” and make everything consistent with the earlier housing ordinances. If you already see the problems, go email city council right now 👉 tinyurl.com/emailaustincit… Read on for discussion about unintended consequences and the full resolution text 🧵