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"...the 90-day clock ticking for input into Austin's new VMU zoning. Individual neighborhoods have a one-time "window" to recommend..."

"..."Affordability is where the rubber hits the road on VMU projects," says Steve Metcalfe, a real estate attorney with..."

"...Council Member Chito Vela proposed two amendments to the VMU2 ordinance that would let developers waive parking requirements and..."

"...Council message board to point out that the city's VMU program has added hundreds of affordable units since its..."

"...VMU Answer Line: 974-2150..."

"...a complex experiment in populist urban planning known as "VMU." That's "vertical mixed-use," a new zoning tool to advance..."

"...even the alluringly medical CBD-CURE) are alphabet Ambien. But VMU is cool. Think of it this way: Vertical is..."

"...a window into how one neighborhood-planning team carefully weighed VMU's power to change its neighborhood, for better or worse...."

"...advocates view as a glaring flaw in the existing VMU overlay, created in 2007. The idea behind that code..."

"...extra height (above the 60 feet allowed in current VMU zoning) to, among other things, accommodate ground-floor retail. Throughout..."

"...income (for one person, that's about $55,400). Staff estimates VMU has produced about 5,379 housing units (540 of which..."

"...along with neighborhood consternation, questions, and conflicted sentiments about VMU. The voluntary program for developers is intended to produce..."

"...That VMU overlay limits the height of buildings on those tracts..."

"...meeting on the City of Austin's Vertical Mixed Use (VMU) Opt-in/Opt-out process will take place this Wednesday, Dec. 13..."

"...from litigation. So, they proceeded slowly and carefully; the VMU2 and compatibility reforms were envisioned as modest changes less..."

"...on the Imagine Austin Speaker Series website at austintexas.gov/department/imagine-austin-speaker-series. VMU Revamp Postponed to June..."

"...we're talking bulldozers. To date, the centerpiece of affordability, VMU style, reserves 10% of the units in a development..."

"...one that expanded the reach of Austin's vertical mixed-use (VMU) density bonus program, which incentivizes large multifamily housing along..."

"...last year modifying compatibility rules for Vertical Mixed Use (VMU) developments, staff found that 66% of VMU-zoned sites would..."

"..."you give this gift to developers if you deregulate VMU. If you get rid of compatibility, if you give..."

"...“You give this gift to developers if you deregulate VMU. If you get rid of compatibility, if you give..."

"...a proposal to tweak the current program and add "VMU2," a sort of VMU on mild steroids that could..."

"...AC: And regarding the opt-in to VMU zoning, do you think their established neighborhoods did their..."

"...Hill, and South Lamar "as they went through their VMU process. ... On virtually all the neighborhood plans, I..."

"...OK, only one more – the VMU neighborhood discussion. It was hard to imagine, when council..."

"...Most important initiative: "This has been the six-month VMU roadshow. We've made 27 VMU neighborhood appearances [explaining the..."

"...The ordinance's cornerstone is a new zoning classification: VMU, or vertical mixed use. Current mixed-use zoning allows for..."

"...they could have done more. Removing front setbacks in VMU for example, would allow storefronts right up to the..."

"...to fix some of the limitations in the current VMU zoning. The product of several months' work by staff..."