# Time to weigh in on The Grove? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Austin\ **Created:** [June 1, 2016, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/time-to-weigh-in-on-the-grove/470 "2016-06-01T04:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 27
**Author:** ![alyshalynn](https://forum.atxfriends.org/user_avatar/forum.atxfriends.org/alyshalynn/32/50_2.png) [@alyshalynn](https://forum.atxfriends.org/u/alyshalynn)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/time-to-weigh-in-on-the-grove/470/27 "2016-06-16T19:50:58Z")
With no suggested edits to this resolution after our outreach to members, it looks like this specific language will be going to a vote with a few others in the upcoming days. Watch your inboxes for your Helios voting ballots and check out the other discussions going on now: **Homestead Exemptions** > [@Resolution on COA Homestead Exemption](http://forum.atxfriends.org/t/resolution-on-coa-homestead-exemption/462/): > > As many of you know, City Council began the yearly budget process earlier this spring and has been holding regular budget work sessions ever since. Now is the time for them to learn about the budget forecast and begin to make important decisions about where to allocate those funds. Unlike last year, this year’s budget will have much less room for major spending increases or shifts in spending. I would like to propose a FAN vote on the homestead exemption (HEx) issue for the following reasons: … **Complete Communities Indicators** > [@Complete Communities Indicators Resolution](http://forum.atxfriends.org/t/complete-communities-indicators-resolution/471): > > Recently, FAN member Wooten Neighborhood Association voted to urge cify officials to orient CodeNEXT (the effort to revise the land development code to promote a compact and connected city) and other city initiatives around the complete communities indicators listed in the Imagine Austin comprehensive plan. Today, @hfrankel07 sent the letter below on behalf of WNA to city council. The Downtown Austin Neighborhood Association had previously sent a similar letter. I propose that FANs vote on whet… **Carport Exemption** > [@FAN Carport Exemption](http://forum.atxfriends.org/t/carport-exemption/485): > > On the June 28 Planning Commission agenda they will hear an item to remove the 450 sf FAR exemption for attached carports. If this exemption is removed, then this will effectively be eating into how much housing can be built and that housing will be used to house cars instead. People will be required to include carports into their calculations and won’t be able to build other housing like ADUs. Since it looks like we are voting on other issues tomorrow, if anyone wants to discuss this as a poss… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/time-to-weigh-in-on-the-grove/470)._