A code amendment process for Safe, Mixed-income, Accessible, Reasonably-priced and Transit-oriented Housing, or SMART Housing, regulations was initiated after Austin City Council approved a resolution at its April 10 meeting. This type of housing is meant to stimulate housing production for low- and middle-income residents.

Councilman Bill Spelman said he saw Councilman Chris Riley's resolution as a way to look at all the SMART Housing regulations that could use improvement or fail to achieve council's goals.

The original resolution focused on the transit portion of the SMART Housing code. Riley said he thought the issue of locating housing near transit was important enough for the council to begin the code amendment process.