As you know, CodeNEXT is the City’s plan to rezone your home and all of the properties around you. After widespread confusion and consternation over the first draft, the Council directed that Staff generate a new version (second draft) for citizen response prior to the final draft (third draft). The new version is due September 15, 2017. In the new version, the zoning districts are going to be renamed, reconfigured and reorganized. And there will be a new Map. All of our study and research to understand what the proposed code means for your property and neighborhood will have to start over. The proposed schedule ends public engagement just 45 days after the second draft is released. This is not giving us enough time to review and comment on the new version of a technical document and map before the third draft comes out. This timeline undermines the purpose of an additional draft. Please e-mail the Mayor and Council and tell them that we need more time. Let them know that ten weeks between the Second Draft and Map and the Third Draft is not adequate time to GET IT RIGHT. E-mail addresses: Steve.Adler@austintexas.gov Ora.Houston@austintexas.gov Delia.Garza@austintexas.gov Pio.Renteria@austintexas.gov Greg.Casar@austintexas.gov Ann.Kitchen@austintexas.gov Jimmy.Flanagan@austintexas.gov Leslie.Pool@austintexas.gov Ellen.Troxclair@austintexas.gov Kathie.Tovo@austintexas.gov Alison.Alter@austintexas.gov