Austin has put five years and eight million dollars into CodeNEXT, the land development code (LDC) that is supposed to shape Austin’s future in a manageable way. All we have to show for it is 1566 pages of contradictions and loopholes that prove CodeNEXT fails to deliver. Originally, I was hopeful that CodeNEXT would be the answer to our current housing …

Government should be transparent and responsible to its citizens, and our current level of municipal bureaucracy is neither. Last year, during the process of hiring a new City Manager, our city council seemingly attempted to keep the average Austinite out of the informational loop through intentionally hampering measures, such as instructing potential candidates to hide their identities and concealing the …