AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin City Council on Thursday voted against putting a petition referendum to have a vote on CodeNEXT on November’s ballot.

Organized by a coalition of groups that are against CodeNEXT, the fate of the large scale land development and zoning changes in the city would be in the hands of the voters if the petition were to make it onto the ballot. 

The vote was 6-4 with council members Ora Houston, Kathie Tovo, Alison Alter and Leslie Pool against, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

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Petition author Fred Lewis’s political action committee and others got more than 30,000 signatures to have broad rewrites to Austin’s land use code.

Even had the Council voted to move forward with the petition, City Manager Spencer Cronk would need to prepare the petition language, send it back to Council who would then conduct another vote to put it on the ballot.

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At the end of April, the agenda item was pulled for discussion by Councilmember Alison Alter.

Lewis' group has threatened to sue the city if it didn't send the measure to a vote.

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