Celia Israel and Kirk Watson answer urbanists, Israel lays out repro rights plan, and more of the latest from the campaign trails.
met virtually with members of various urbanist groups Friday, Sept. 16, in a candidate forum on housing and transportation policy co-hosted by, Farm & City, Safe Streets Austin, and the Friends of Austin Neighborhoods. Each candidate took the opportunity to lay out their approach to housing supply and affordability and how Austin handles them politically.
Watson offered a more tailored vision of land use reforms that could muster nine votes or otherwise avoid opposition from protesting neighbors, with an eye on Project Connect transit corridors as prime locations for extensive development, some of which could call for housing unit minimums rather than maximums.
Neither Israel nor Watson needed to get too deeply embroiled in Austin land use politics as members of the Texas Legislature, but they've both been involved in wrangling over. Israel did not endorse an alternative, in terms of either strategy or design, to the state's current plans for rebuilding the highway through Central Austin, but said she was unhappy with how the Texas Department of Transportation was planning the rebuild, and that she would push for more transit access.
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