@WalkableAustin

Build up, not out. 🌆

 Austin, TX
Joined April 2015
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1 min wait at AE Mueller! #voted!
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WSJ front page: American roads becoming deadlier for peds Austin has long req’d 25’ of clear fire access, the standard fire code requires 20’. Wider streets encourage dangerous speeds We need to build fire trucks around the city we want, not build our city around fire trucks
big_pedestrian@big_pedestrianOct 17
Less than 5% of fire department calls are for fires and yet, the FDs insist on an 18-ton truck and four person crew to attend a 78 y/o woman with chest pain. At this point, fire trucks are mostly branding. FDs have become a spectacularly expensive EMS service. Time for reform
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vote No on Prop I!
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convention center rising
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density is scary. and this isn't?
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NIMBYs worst nightmare 🗳️
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If preserving the golf course takes priority over other city needs, can we at least rethink remaining land? More revenue for UT, more tax base for Austin, more housing, more walkability. More city.
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This land was donated to UT in 1910 with the vision of becoming its new main campus. A century later, UT explored replacing student-subsidized golf with a walkable, mixed-use neighborhood. Using valuable urban land to build an actual city is a good thing
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the double standard is glaring. in east austin, we encourage dev for housing, transit, sustainability and tax base. west austin, we cap heights & limit dev to protect surrounding exclusionary zoning same city, different priorities
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four stories of housing in heart of a major city now qualifies as “looming” threat. never change, @statesman ☠️
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