Yes, as stated in my answer to Question 5, there are a number of ways to help achieve this. Should I be fortunate enough to represent District 8 starting in January 2019, I hope that the organizations that are sponsoring this questionnaire will make an early meeting with me so we can discuss what would need to be done. Four months is a pretty short amount of time for the changes that might need to be made, and we may need some other longer-term goals to make sure there’s longevity in maintaining the goal. One thing that would help on a longer-term timeline is addressing the complexity of the code. Complexity is a problem with the current code and complexity was one of the main problems with CodeNEXT. The general idea for a form-based code was a good one, but somehow it turned into dozens upon dozens of various housing types and forms in a multitude of variations of alphabet soup-like zoning districts. As we move forward with revisions to the land development code, we need to keep simplicity, predictability and consistency in mind.
Land Use, Open Government, Austin Chamber of Commerce
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