CodeNext Archives - Texas Institute for Property Rights

Principles, Politics, and Planning, Part 3

The purported goal of land-use regulations, such as Austin’s CodeNext, is to plan the development within a community. On the

In the last post, we saw that Austin’s attempt to rewrite it’s land-use regulations (called CodeNext) has resulted in great

In 2012, Austin began the process of rewriting the city’s land-use regulations. The project came to be named CodeNext, and

I have previously written, albeit briefly, about both the economic and moral aspects of opposition to Austin’s CodeNext. The debate

In the last post, we briefly examined the contradictory goals of some opponents of Austin’s proposed new land-use regulations. The

For the past five years, the city of Austin has been working on a revised land-use ordinance called CodeNext. The