Kirk Watson releases his first housing proposals, puts his “get it done” brand to the test.
When Kirk Watson was mayor in the late 1990s, he acquired a reputation as a dude who gets sh*t done, which he still enjoys more than 25 years later. One of the things that got done, after a typically Austin 30-year cycle of not getting it done, was the opening of the long-awaited and long-needed new airport.
As for the benighted LDC, Watson's one-two punch, which could be bold, is to let each of the 10 districts pursue its own reforms of the code, and then reward those neighborhoods that create more chances for housing with bonus city funding for their parks, libraries, rental assistance, and other community services.
Further up the boldness scale are launching a permanent coalition of local governments to form a Central Texas Housing Partnership that could work sorta like the Austin Transit Partnership building out Project Connect – a thing that Watson failed to get done in 2000 – and turning Lake Walter E. Long into another Mueller instead of the $800 million superpark the city planned, and had zero money to build, in 2019.
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