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Lots of nimby policies (Prop 13, blocking new construction) significantly raises housing costs for everyone, I suspect this isn't a small part of why many peopl
by s0rce 6y ago
Lots of nimby policies (Prop 13, blocking new construction) significantly raises housing costs for everyone, I suspect this isn't a small part of why many people leave.
- pb7 6y agoAnd you think the people leaving are the ones that voted for this? Can you explain what leads you to think that?
- throway1gjj 6y agoThe people leaving are the ones that allowed this to take place by their voting choices, whether they realised it or not. And now they're bringing their great ideas to Texas.
- s0rce 6y agoNo, probably not generally, I must have misinterpreted the post I commented on, I thought it was general policies leading to people leaving.
- MAGZine 6y agoAre the people who are leaving the same people who vote for these policies? I suspect tech people who might move to texas are strongly YIMBY, not NIMBY.
- sremani 6y agoThere are pockets of Nimby in Texas - truth to be told Austin is one of the most Nimby cities in Texas. The only good thing is unlike Bay Area - the Cities in Texas a primed for outward sprawl.
- dannyincolor 6y agoHow is public transit in Austin? Scalable for urban sprawl? I don’t know much about it from an on-the-ground POV
- sremani 6y agoThere are no real geographic barriers stopping Austin's growth. I am not in Austin but if I have to guess, the public transport sucks balls. You have to have Car unless you live in the urban core. The bigger problem in Austin is, their nimbyism manifested in such a way that City and County constrain the growth by not expanding the infrastructure. But the land is there - the city can grow into a bigger metro.
- RhysU 6y agoWell, there's a river with too few bridges.
- cloverich 6y agoAs in much of Texas, not very good in most places. If you are central there are some options. And Prop A passed in the last election, which will expand the (single) commuter rail line that exists now (among a few other things). If it is well received, it could potentially expand beyond that. Most residents I know are hopeful but skeptical. Living along Lamar puts you in the best position to take advantage of it, and there is concomitantly a "rapid" bus line that runs regularly North / South fully along it -- I used that on occasion too. I was fortunate to live in a community on the Commuter rail stop (in Crestview) while I worked downtown and took the train daily for a couple years -- splendid. But though it was packed, I knew nearly nobody else in person that had used it, and many did not even know it existed -- such is the small areas it served. IMO the best (commuter) features of Austin is it has the room to grow. Unlike Houston (or Dallas, I assume), it has much less roadway infrastructure and things seem slow to build here. So, despite being in and out of this city since college (~20 years ago), I still feel unsure what the future looks like.
- netflixandkill 6y agoPublic transit in Austin is laughably bad unless you're on a small set of travel paths, mostly to the university and a narrow part of the city center. As an example it takes about 20 minutes to drive from my house to the airport, and 3 hours to get there by bus, not counting the walk to the bus stop. The light rail line goes nowhere near the majority of the city. If we're doing any sort of event downtown or ACL or whatever, I rent a condo nearby instead of dealing with taxis or busses despite only living 15 minutes from the city center and very much "in Austin." Nobody deals with publix transit if they can afford not to.