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Community members press Austin Community Development Commission for an "equity overlay" to limit displacement
Summary
Dozens of speakers urged the Community Development Commission to push the city to adopt an equity or anti-displacement overlay that would evaluate zoning changes for displacement risk and require community-centered benefits, citing long-running gentrification in East Austin and the Eastern Crescent.
Dozens of Austin residents and organizers urged the Community Development Commission at its February meeting to back an "equity overlay"—a geographic policy tool they say would require city decision-makers to evaluate zoning and development proposals for displacement risk and concrete community benefits.
The requests came during the meeting's public-communications period, when multiple speakers representing Community Powered ATX, Go Austin Vamos Austin and other neighborhood groups described long-standing displacement in East Austin and across what they called the Eastern Crescent. "The new zoning changes only benefit the rich and leave the low incoming workers displaced," said Adrian Macias, identifying himself as a youth coordinator for POTA. Celine Rendon, an organizer with Community Powered ATX who said she lives in…
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