{"id":361067,"date":"2026-07-04T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361067\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T15:22:52","slug":"austin-will-spend-200000-to-mail-out-public-notices-for-codenext-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/361067\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin will spend $200,000 to mail out public notices for CodeNEXT | Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tack another couple hundred thousand dollars onto the bill for the city&#8217;s massive land development code rewrite, but file this one under postage stamps.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nIn all land use cases\u2014zoning changes, variances, etc.\u2014law requires the city to mail notices to all surrounding property owners, informing them of the date and time of the case&#8217;s public hearing to offer residents\u00a0a chance to provide input or gain a deeper understanding of how they could be affected by the proposal.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nCodeNEXT\u2014the city&#8217;s overhaul of the land development code\u2014 proposes to change every zoning designation\u00a0across the city, and mailing notices to all property owners within city limits is not cheap.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nAustin City Council granted the $200,000 request from the Planning and Zoning Department on Thursday to fund the 700,000 public notices that will be sent to property owners across Austin when the CodeNEXT draft goes in front of the city&#8217;s sovereign\u00a0land use commissions\u2014Planning Commission and the Zoning and Platting Commission\u2014in August.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nAlina Carnahan, public information officer at the Planning and Zoning Department, said the next phase of CodeNEXT will play out like a citywide land use case&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nThe $200,000 postage cost, combined with the payroll for the team of project consultants, brings the total bill for CodeNEXT to $6.7 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tack another couple hundred thousand dollars onto the bill for the city&#8217;s massive land development code rewrite, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128220,132,134,133,128219],"class_list":["post-361067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-000-to-mail-out-public-notices-for-codenext","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-will-spend-200"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}