Kathie had a good night!

Congratulations to Kathie Tovo on her win.

It was a nip and tuck there towards the end, thanks to the piles of cash developers threw at her opponent. Kathie hung in there and in the end won a resounding win.

Kathie will bring to city council an honest voice and speak for the neighborhoods that developers are chomping at the bit to develop into unaffordable housing for the privileged few.

I took a drive out to Stiener Ranch the other day with my son to show him where I used to work more than 10 years ago. As we drove towards the lake on Quinlan Park road, the vastness of the $500k+ homes was staggering. In the last 10 years hundreds of these behemoths have been built and they line the road and reach back into the land around the lake covering every empty space that used to be there. Then it struck me, these are the people that the developers are targeting for our central city neighborhoods and by the looks of the commute, there are plenty of them who would jump at the chance to buy a central city mac-mansion.

Fortunately for us, we now have two council members who are sensitive to neighborhood issues and with Imagine Austin looming we are lucky to have had Kathie step up and take a shot!