Austin Mayor Steve Adler lauded the headway City Council has made on mobility, equity and housing issues, during his eighth and final State of the City address, delivered to a packed City Hall on Thursday. | via austinmonitor
Austin Mayor Steve Adler lauded the 10-1 City Council system and the headway council has made on mobility, equity and housing issues during his eighth and final State of the City address, delivered to a packed City Hall on Thursday. He also lamented the lack of progress on more intransigent issues, such as zoning reform.
“If we retreat from the progress we have made or if we don’t confront and own our most serious challenges, if we nibble at problems rather than facing them head-on; if we shy away from the cost and conflict and disruption that attend anything important enough to be worth doing, we imperil the future we seek,” he said.
Adler’s two terms as mayor have coincided with growth — and growing pains — in Austin. Since the civil rights and eminent domain lawyer took office in 2015, the city has debuted the Central Library downtown, joined the Major League Soccer league and broke ground on Waterloo Greenway, the High Line of the Lone Star State.
Adler was the first mayor to preside under the 10-1 council system, which was enacted after a successful citizen-led petition initiative. Prior to 10-1, the mayor and six Council members were elected in citywide races. Under the new system, 10 geographic districts elect their own Council members in an effort to improve voter turnout and representation.“It created the power and need for new coalitions,” he said. “Coalitions that have passed historic, progressive initiatives.
Adler credited the 10-1 system for ushering in what he called “Austin’s Golden Age of Mobility,” citing
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