brianpoteet.bsky.social
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Maybe 50% of riders occasionally pay with cash?
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I regularly ride the bus in Austin and I have a very hard time believing that half of the transactions are with cash. @kutnathan.bsky.social Do you have a source for that?
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It's past time to eliminate FAR and minimum site area requirements for MF-3 and above. Single-stair buildings will enable higher density and FAR while still complying with the recent code amendment requiring bedrooms to be provided with natural light.
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Just realized staff told council this week that we need 49 more Cady Lofts over the next decade www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2025...
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I'm assuming staff will release a report on the impact of parking reform at some point but I haven't seen anything like that yet
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Very hard to say since council changed ADU / duplex / triplex regulations a month later. Between that, permits dropping across the board last year, and the fact that ADUs near transit already didn't have parking requirements I don't know if we could draw any conclusions
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"Teslas will be in the wild, with no-one in them, in Austin, in June"
Elon Musk makes this sound like a terrifying threat
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Very sensible, it didn't make sense to build a station for such a low density neighborhood.
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Agreed. And I would assume SMART's "multiplier" is pretty low since it just offers permit/fee waivers. Didn't stop them from saying "The S.M.A.R.T. Housing program has generated the most affordable units of any program by a wide margin" though
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Anyway here's a nice map of all the bonus overlays
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I'm just not convinced it's worth maintaining these rube goldberg machines when they could be replaced by housing bonds instead.
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Is this worth all the time staff puts into crafting and administering these programs? Is it worth all of the projects that don't get built in walkable and transit-rich neighborhoods?
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Excluding SMART and AU, these programs combined are netting us a couple hundred units per year + a couple million in fee-in-lieu.
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Here's a comprehensive look at participation rates in the various bonus programs. We're leaving a lot on the table here and I suspect ETOD will underperform most of these.
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This chart shows how unresponsive these programs are to market changes or rent differences in different neighborhoods.
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I use the public permit search: abc.austintexas.gov/citizenporta...
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That's in addition to the 1400 units planned for the Borden Dairy site www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2023...
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The QR payment system increases dwell times at stops, makes taking the bus less seamless, and even leads to lower revenue due to how often drivers wave you on when it doesn't work (I realize this doesn't amount to much $$). Good riddance!
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Funny to remember the hysteria over its passage when these unit counts are less than what a single DB90 rezoning gets you.
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ETOD in general needs reform. Too many unfunded mandates in the program are pushing development away from our transit lines instead of attracting it.
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Seems reasonable but I wonder how BAC and PAC feel about it
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Can't speak to all of these changes but I definitely agree we've got too many boards