Posted Jun 23, 2011, 8:50 PM
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http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...roposed_m.html
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Council kicks convention hotel incentives to special June 28 meeting
By Shonda Novak | Thursday, June 23, 2011, 12:59 PM
The Austin City Council today postponed until next week a vote on $4.3 million in fee waivers for a development firm to build a 1,003-room convention hotel on Congress Avenue.
The proposal now has been set for a special meeting next Wednesday — the first one for newly elected Council Member Kathie Tovo, who will be sworn in Tuesday.
But Heather Way, an affordable housing advocate, said she has made a request that the vote be postponed.
Way contends that the zoning request is a way for developers to bypass an interim city ordinance that in part aims to increase the stock of more moderately priced housing downtown. The ordinance requires developers seeking additional height and square footage in their proposed projects to include public benefits, such as affordable housing, or pay a fee in lieu into a city affordable housing fund, or for other community benefits.
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