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Property taxes are not the problem on a piece of land like that. If you are sitting on prime real estate that can be utilized by many versus a few (like a trailer park) and instead choose to sit on it...

Q:Are we not men? Austin:We are devo!...

Loudmouth, your nostalgia for a time when Austin was a "town" is really futile at this point. Not everyone wants to live in squalid hippy huts. Heaven forbid something be "fancy" in this city or just...

Or a yard with dead grass....

If you can find an affordable house in central Austin then more power to you. But, this is about maximizing prime downtown land and creating a livable urban core vs/ doing nothing and feeding the subu...

Talk about lame...ducknutz yeah, architecture is a lifestyle. And it is about choices. I will miss the airstream trailers too. But, the choice of urban density is far less of a fuck up. ...

Oh Loudfarts please do enlighten me with your flatulence. If you are such a genius then why are you always bitching and moaning about how the world is so unfair? You're such a titty baby. The more th...

DiarrheaMouth, get your head out of your ass. With less condos your rent is going to get higher. Austin isn't going to suddenly become an undesirable place to live. Demand for housing is only going t...

Yeah, as if the urban sprawl epidemic doesn't kill trees or pollute our environment. The hyper-development of urban centers is happening world wide. This shit isn't unique to Austin. People only beco...

Mr.Michael, typical doors are 3'-0". A mandatory door of 2'-6" isn't going to kill you. Nor is reinforcing your bathroom walls. These are simple improvemnets to your home which will add value. Or I gu...

nickl, you must have too much time on you hands if you're calling the city about graffiti on a bridge. Let's just white wash the whole city while we're at it. The bridge is industrial and gritty and ...

McMansion has nothing to do with specs. McMansion deals with FAR, setbacks, height restrictions etc. If a developer can't build a cheap X-Large house he can still build a cheap house that will be to...

The Red River Flats are apartments, not condos. That means a slightly different clientele. Anyone worried about noise isn't moving in there. Plus, the developer is working with the Mohawk to create a...

Seth, shitty construction and zero architectural value occurs regardless of the McMansion ordinace. The spec builders will continue to crap in your neighborhood with or without it....

No, Grape Ape, I never said only the poor stab and shoot people. I was simply paraphrasing what you said. Besides, who the fuck "likes those kinds of things"? Yes, everybody who lives in that area lov...