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@JosieBedlam @VinnyMartorano @cbsaustin Enjoy the made up scenarios and being afraid of your own shadow

@e_oreo @VinnyMartorano @cbsaustin Enjoy the fires during construction...

May people from the Circle C Ranch community in SW Austin are opposing a potential 1,000 unit housing complex as they developer looks to rezone the land. The have concerns about increased traffic, child safety, and impacts to the Edwards Aquifer. @cbsaustin

@JosieBedlam @VinnyMartorano @cbsaustin New construction apartments in Circle C aren't exactly on the top of my list for 'fent zombies'

@e_oreo @VinnyMartorano @cbsaustin To be fair, fent zombies arent exactly wonderful neighbors.

@Ragnardannyskld @JenRobichaux It's hilarious she has "advocate for radical freedom" in her bio and then expressly is opposed to changes that increase freedom for property owners

@JenRobichaux Yah! Let’s stop people from being able to build on their property like free citizens! Yay communist central planning!….

Austin needs to RISE UP. Nothing changes when we stand by the sidelines. If you have concerns about HOME and density that sacrifices single family neighborhoods, you need to speak up. NOW. This will be approved on May 7th unless WE stop it. This post includes all the ways to voice your opposition. Commit to one of these actions 👇 and repost! + Email the mayor and every council member right now austintexas.gov/email/all-coun… Use your own words, but be direct: “Vote no on Item 26" + Register to speak in person or by phone against Item 26. Deadline Wed May 6th at noon if you want to speak remote cityofaustin.formstack.com/forms/austin_c… + If you're on the fence about speaking remote - JUST SIGN UP and reach out to me. I'll walk you through the details. It's super easy and your sign up alone speaks volumes to council. + If you won't speak - VOTE against Item 26. Use the same speaker signup form, formally declare a position AGAINST Item 26 (but opt not to speak) cityofaustin.formstack.com/forms/austin_c… + Donate time to someone else to speak. You must sign up to speak and be in the chamber to donate your two minutes to someone else, but anyone can sign up. The pro-density crowd will pack the room, so your voice is needed. If you can attend, but don't know who to donate to, let me know and I'll connect you with a speaker. + Call your city council member. Then call the council members who are up for reelection and remind them that taxpayers vote, and this is the kind of fiscal irresponsibility that gets people replaced. Council members up for reelection: - Jose Velasquez (D3) 512-978-2103 - Ryan Alter (D5) 512-978-2105 - Paige Ellis (D8) 512-978-2108 - Zo Qadri (D9) 512-978-2109 The rest of council: - Mayor Kirk Watson 512-978-2100 - Natasha Harper-Madison (D1) 512-978-2101 - Vanessa Fuentes (D2) 512-978-2102 - Chito Vela (D4) 512-978-2104 - Krista Laine (D6) 512-978-2106 - Mike Siegel (D7) 512-978-2107 - Marc Duchen (D10) 512-978-2110 + Share this post with your neighbors. If you have deed restrictions or live in a protected area, start talking to neighbors now about enforcing them, because the resolution makes clear the city intends to override older rules.

@JenRobichaux That's a lot of words to say it's cutting regulation, improving property rights, and reducing administrative bloat on small projects

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 🧵

@mynext40yrs @molzer @moseskagan This is evil

@molzer @moseskagan I heard if you put Samsung fridges in your apartments you’ll never have issues with the ice makers.

Strongly recommend against doing this Given enough fridges and enough time, the water lines very likely to leak

@CopiasTaint @SperrysandNikes And then it's served in one of these that's like 30oz:

@SperrysandNikes Listen those tex mex restaurants dont play around thos margaritas are strong as fuck. Put you on your ass in 3 sips 😭 at least the ones in the south do

My gringo ass when the first spicy margarita hits my lips on Cinco de Mayo

@jaydee_12857 @methylmike @garrrish Don't bother man, his preferred statistic for proving this is Door Dash delivery rates. As if density has nothing to do with the economics of delivering food, and there's no difference in income driving who can afford delivery vs drive thru

@methylmike @e_oreo @garrrish No it doesn’t. The average urbanite consumes more home cooked food than rural Americans. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

having moved from Oklahoma to Seattle, it really does make a huge difference when you’re talking to the average person at a bar

@methylmike @garrrish Place with higher density has more nearby food delivery options 🤯 Nevermind I'm done, youre just willfully dumb

@e_oreo @garrrish Yes Its easily proven by door dash deliveries, which happen in majority urban areas.

@methylmike @dadbodsrule1990 @garrrish You think you're so profound who talks like that bro 😂

@dadbodsrule1990 @e_oreo @garrrish That may be true in these newly recent modern times Not sure what that means for the future, or my own definitions

@methylmike @garrrish Do you have statistics showing the difference in meals at home for urban vs rural populations? Or did you just vibe this up. Typically the very poor in America are eating more fast food and prepared meals so I'm not sure that's correct

@e_oreo @garrrish Many do not That would be the reason i highlighted those differences Ask yourself, why is history replete with urban folk who die because they forgot how to live?

@methylmike @HeartlessRavenx @garrrish Yes, and since at least the 70s all the upwardly mobile (generally ambitious and intelligent) people have moved to urban areas. This trend has only increased as time goes on.

@HeartlessRavenx @e_oreo @garrrish Intelligence is s game of comparison There is always someone smarter, however, cleverness and intelligence are not the defining characteristics of greatness We have a large history book to inform us of this, and also to define what greatness is.

@methylmike @garrrish Do you think cooking your own food and having to secure your own shelter is something only rural people do? Do urbanites and suburbanites just not cook? Does the government provide everyone's housing?

@e_oreo @garrrish Hence "agrarian" descriptor Most people who live in rural areas have to cook their own food, and secure their own shelter

@JamesDo88039200 @PoojaforTexas I wonder what happened in 2008 that could have influenced the economy starting in 2009. The world may never know

@PoojaforTexas Did you forget all of 2009-2015 with bambie as potus

Are we great yet?

@swamp_ist @JonklerThe80746 Yes black people in the south are also poor. Seems like the south is just a shithole overall?

@e_oreo @JonklerThe80746 ok now do black people

Every single time

@noborutakedaDH @YoIk781215 @swamp_ist Are you arguing that the mountains are what makes them poor?

@YoIk781215 @e_oreo @swamp_ist "Appalachian" referring to what?

@JonklerThe80746 @swamp_ist It's been 50 years, time to learn to code. The whaling industry got shut down too and New England is doing pretty well. Maybe don't be retarded Republicans and they wouldn't be poor

@e_oreo @swamp_ist You closed the coal industry which was the only profitable resource there

@noborutakedaDH @swamp_ist All of these are per capita statistics so it literally doesn't matter. But yes you retards are too stupid to understand what per capita is so i guess it makes sense

@e_oreo @swamp_ist Yeah nigga those are fucking mountains.

@methylmike @garrrish Just because all farmers are rural does not mean all rural people are farmers, despite what they LARP as. Less than 2% of the workforce is employed on a farm

@garrrish Depends on the subject No one in seattle will be able to tell you about agricultural/agrarian things in any meaningful way

@jasonc_nc @LawyerGatMAREJD Subsidies / Subsidies, Rural

@LawyerGatMAREJD So yes to government subsidies that distort the market. Just when they are to the things or people you like.

Being against wasteful subsidies and inefficient welfare programs is a cornerstone of rural and conservative beliefs right up until the subsidy and inefficient welfare is for farms. If the “rural lifestyle” can only exist via subsidy let’s just do UBI payments and call it a day.