- Protect the character of your neighborhood and community,
- Keep Austin affordable and protect your interests and pocketbooks, and
- Maintain effective zoning rules that give you the opportunity to participate in planning decisions that affect your neighborhoods and homes.
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Displacement and CodeNEXT: Views From The East Side
September 9, 2017 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
The organization Community Not Commodity is hosting a discussion on preventing gentrification in Austin’s Eastern Crescent and the displacement of its longtime residents. Childcare, food, and translation services will be provided.
Panelists will include:
Alberta Phillips, moderator
Editorialist and columnist, Austin American-Statesman
Dr. Jane Rivera
Co-chair, The Housing & Real Estate Committee of the Mayor’s Task Force on Institutional Racism
Carmen Llanes Pulido
Executive director, GO! Austin / VAMOS! Austin (GAVA)
Fred McGhee
Archaeologist and local historian
Susana Almanza
P.O.D.E.R., community and environmental activist
Dr. Eric Tang
African & African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
About Community Not Commodity
Community Not Commodity is affiliated with Save Our City Austin, (“SOCA”), a local non-profit. For a list of the board of directors of SOCA, go here. We are a diverse group of grassroots community leaders from across Austin who want the new CodeNEXT to reflect the wishes of your communities and not the latest planning theories of city staff or the financial interests of developers. We want a code that protects our environment, safeguards our watersheds, and maintains and adds open space and parkland for all our communities. We are committed to providing you user-friendly information and effective ways to become engaged so your community and you can:
Our basic philosophy is simple: We want a Community Land Development Code that serves you, and not a Land Grab Code that serves special interests.