Austin residents finally got their say on the city s homelessness crisis, and their message was clear: They are opposed to people camping almost anywhere they please, and they have little faith in city leaders ability to find housing for them.
In a stern rebuke to Mayor Steve Adler and the Austin City Council, voters opted to reinstate the citywide ban on public camping that the council had canceled in 2019.
The final tally on Proposition B was 57.7% in favor, 42.3% against. Final results came down late Saturday night, with one-fourth of the city s registered voters about 156,000 people submitting a ballot.
Since the count is unofficial, the camping ban won t go into effect until after a canvassing of the results. That is expected to happen May 11. By approving the proposition, voters agreed to punish camping in public spaces with a fine as a Class C misdemeanor. A city spokesman said Sunday that the Austin Police Department is evaluating options for how to best imp
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193 acres of enormous North Austin ranch scoots onto the market
193 acres of enormous North Austin ranch scoots onto the market It s part of one largest undeveloped parcels of land in Central Texas.
Photo by dszc/Getty Images A sizable chunk of Austin’s enormous Robinson Ranch could become the area’s next major site for mixed-use development. Commercial real estate company JLL Capital Markets announced on December 17 that it had been tapped to market a 193-acre development site at State Highway 45 North and North MoPac Expressway. This parcel with about two-thirds the acreage of the Domain complex is part of the roughly 7,000-acre Robinson Ranch, one of the largest privately owned chunks of undeveloped land in Central Texas. By comparison, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport covers about 4,200 acres.