State of Austin Land Use — Q1 2026

The headline numbers

Inside the brief

Twenty-eight months of structured pipeline data — a corpus no other Austin publication is currently producing in this form. The read is that approval is near-universal once the Commission recommends; the meaningful differentiator is velocity and stall risk, not outcome. The brief covers:

• Pipeline volume and the case-group structure behind the raw hearing count.
• The velocity picture — median and P90 elapsed time to disposition, and how DB-90 cases clear far faster (14-day multi-hearing median).
• Organized-opposition mapping, with the top neighborhood groups by case count (MLK 33, Highland 31, Wooten 14).
• Framework context: how DB-90, the Citywide DBC framework, and DDB Phase I are reshaping the pipeline.