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Austin is still fighting the updates to the building code after many many years which would have helped growth within the city itself. If Austin can keep buildi
by maherbeg 5y ago
Austin is still fighting the updates to the building code after many many years which would have helped growth within the city itself. If Austin can keep building housing, then it might be ok.
- jeffwask 5y agoIt needs the transportation network before the houses and it's too late for that.
- davidw 5y agoIt really tends to be the other way around. If you build a transit network and no one is riding on it, people freak out about their money being wasted (and they're not entirely wrong). It's entirely possible to build out transportation at a later date. Look at cities in Europe, which are historic and difficult to work with: the people are there first, and then they add the transportation. Part of the problem (a huge part) is our land use decisions in the US, which require that people possess and store an automobile for even the most basic things in life.
- sanxiyn 5y agoI live in Seoul and here transportation network and housing are planned together. Yes it's possible to build transportation later, but it's unnecessarily painful, so why bother?
- davidw 5y agoIt's great if you can kind of plan some things out together, but I think flexibility and adaptability are more important than trying to plan out everything ahead of time. It's impossible to predict the future. In the US, we try and rigidly control and plan out land use and are surprised when it causes huge problems like the Bay Area housing crisis.
- jeffwask 5y agoIt was already really bad before the most recent push. It was bad in 2013 and nothing has been done since to fix it.
- renewiltord 5y agoI lived in Austin for a while and just drove everywhere in a Nissan Titan (a pickup truck). Wasn’t bad. Quite easy to get around.
- imilk 5y agoI much prefer to ditch the car for 90% of my day to day life, so that sounds awful.