Code Black

Shot by a filmmaker/physician over the years of his residency, this doc about ER medicine is immersive and eye-opening.

"...failure in the system – in other words, a Code Black...."

Aug. 1, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Adler Offers Olive Branch After Second Reading of Land Development Code

Code compromise?

"...Council advanced its effort to rewrite Austin's Land Development Code to the third-and-final stage late on Thursday, Feb. 13,..."

Feb. 21, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Council Previews Fall's Main Event: A Land Development Code Revision

A code, foretold

"...months, mostly on the dais, to shape Land Development Code revision (what was once CodeNEXT). At its special called..."

May 10, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Embracing Code Compliance

New director Carl Smart discusses his goals for a more user-friendly department

"...over as only the second ever director of Austin's Code Compliance Department. The former director of Code Compliance for..."

Sept. 30, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

What Land Use Code Do We Need to Build the City We Want?

Planning a way forward after CodeNEXT

"...In hindsight, last year's shuddering halt to the CodeNEXT land use code rewrite looks less like an act..."

April 12, 2019 News Feature by the News Staff

City Council Returns to Land Use Code Conversation

"Everybody is really saying the same thing"

"...week's return to the dais of the Land Development Code revision, aka NextCodeNEXT, aka CodeCRONK, proved rather anticlimactic. Council..."

April 19, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Will Austin's New Wildfire Code Be Enough?

"The risk is bad"

"...Wildfire Risk Report ranked Austin as the fifth-highest metro area at risk of wildfire in the western United States,..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Public Notice – Code X: The Final Chapter?

What to look for when the new LDC draft comes out tomorrow

"...release the new draft of the proposed land development code rewrite this Friday (keep reloading www.austintexas.gov/ldc) and let the..."

Oct. 4, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Breaking the Code

Plain English Is the Goal for Land Development Rules

"...illustration by Doug Potter..."

May 15, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Transition Areas & Zones of the Land Development Code Revision

The debate over density and gentrification continues

"...LDC rewrite seeks to correct this with its transition areas and zones, where missing middle would be the norm...."

Dec. 13, 2019 News Feature

Public Notice: Deciphering the Code

CodeNEXT questions pile up faster than answers

"...in the process of rewriting the city's land development code, and one striking thing was that all three meetings..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Land Development Code: What's New in Draft Two

A look at the latest version of Austin's revised land use rules

"...it starting at 10:30am Tuesday (see "Calm Before the Code" for more on Council's schedule). The Code Text: The..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

Austin at Large: And Unto Us, a Code Is Born

A decade’s worth of groaning begets the promise of a new city

"...the long, labored delivery of Austin's new Land Development Code, with which City Hall has been pregnant for oh..."

Dec. 13, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Is a New Austin Land Development Code Done Yet?

Council: Stick a pin in that!

"...allow city staff to resume rewriting the Land Development Code. In asking for that guidance, City Manager Spencer Cronk..."

May 3, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Mapping the Land Development Code Madness

Trying to make sense of the proposed changes

"...Transition Areas, Transition Zones..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

A Guide to Austin's Land Development Code Lingo

Know your zones

"...Oct. 4 first draft of the proposed Land Development Code, with major amendments that have been proposed since –..."

Dec. 13, 2019 News Feature

What Is Form-Based Code?

"...The following definition of "form-based code" is slightly edited from the Form-Based Codes Institute...."

Jan. 8, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

UT Area Cautious -- at Best -- Over Planning Effort

Campus-area residents take their turn in the city's neighborhood-planning spotlight.

"...six neighborhoods comprising the Central Austin Combined Neighborhood Planning Area cover a large swath of land dotted with historic..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

School Dress Code Obsolete

"...their dreadlocks. This is uncalled for. A 90-year-old dress code is obsolete. Is that school also monitoring the female..."

Jan. 27, 2020 Postmarks

Land Development Code Zone Summary

Don't know your R1s from your MS2Bs? We break it down for you.

"...Rural Residential and Lake Austin (carried over from current code),..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...holding your liquor well is part of the Biker Code.) Notably, there was not one call for reinforcements by..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Letters at 3AM: Reading Diplomatic Code

There's a shift toward the promotion of Turkey as a stabilizing force in the Middle East

"...pipeline from Turkey to central Europe. A common free-trade area has already been agreed upon by Turkey, Syria, Jordan..."

June 17, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

It's Not Just a ZIP Code

Neighborhood Associations

"...in South Central Austin's far southwest corner -- an area that, like St. Johns in the north, is more..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

COVID-19 CODE RED: Austin Moves Into Crisis Mode

Austin Public Health: "We are in a very dangerous situation in Texas"

"...be bad, but a collapse of the Austin metro area's health care infrastructure would be worse, and it's that..."

July 10, 2020 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

South by So Real

Hustling SXSW hip-hop with Matt Sonzala.

"...Houston hip-hop scene way before anyone outside the 281 area code knew the names Paul Wall and Mike Jones...."

Feb. 12, 2008 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

East Austin Studio De-Tour

Homesteading artists face city code challenges – and raise old fears – in changing neighborhoods

"...the many Hispanic families that have lived in the area for nearly a century. There, the Limóns, their kin,..."

July 15, 2011 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Then There's This: Tuning In to Austin

Before revising land code, city performs field work with 'Code Next'

"...there, but it's on to the next step – Code Next, to be precise, a branding name for this..."

Sept. 27, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes

"...Fourteen months after the Land-Development-Code-rewrite-that-shall-not-be-named went down in flames, amid squabbles over parking requirements..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Kevin Slavin

Off the screen and on the streets

"...all of these zany adventures because he works for Area/code, and when you work for Area/code, life is but..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Carson Barker

Postmarks

Extremists Not Righteous

"...The article asserts that the 809 area code phone frauds "started" on the Internet. I would..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Column

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