Lamar stair-steps down – that's a common fix for complexes with some parts that lie in trigger area around single-family houses that restrict height (photo by Jana Birchum) Austin's land use rules may have more influence over who gets to live here than any other local laws. For decades, those rules have kept less-wealthy Austinites out of many of the city's central neighborhoods, and others out of Austin altogether. But increasingly, middle- and low-income Austinites who have been excluded by those very policies are demanding new code that would make living here sustainable.

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