Comp Plan Combo Platter

The comp plan process reaches critical density

"...After a year of public outreach, the city's comprehensive planning effort has now entered the third round of..."

Oct. 1, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Thoughts on land use, social justice, and making Austin look, feel, and work better.

"...consumed by land-use quarrels -- the staple food of Austin politicos and at times the crux for great change..."

July 25, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin At Large: Say Farewell to Greg Guernsey

An exit interview with Austin’s longtime planning chief

"...– that I'm leaving," says Greg Guernsey, director of Austin's Planning and Zoning Department since 2006 and a city-staff..."

July 12, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Comp Planning: A Brief History

Moving forward sometimes requires looking back

"...As our 2010 comprehensive planning effort bumps and grinds, it lends perspective to..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Imagining Austin

Austinites begin a new comprehensive plan for the city's future

"..."If we do our jobs right, we'll create a plan that has a profound influence on our generation and..."

Jan. 29, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Is "neighborhood planning" the tool for the job Austin needs done?

"...The usual disclosure: I can't write "objectively" about neighborhood planning, because I chaired the Central East Austin Neighborhood Planning..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

What’s on the Agenda for Tomorrow's City Council Meeting

A new shelter strategy, Cap Metro’s Red Line expansion, and more

"...City Council meets tomorrow, Nov. 14, to wrestle with a 100-item agenda...."

Nov. 13, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The wise aftermath of Smart Growth

"...fact is, most of us support something -- neighborhood planning, corner stores, destination parks, conservation easements -- that has..."

Oct. 5, 2001 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The Envision Central Texas project is an opportunity for the citizens to plan our own destiny.

"...Nothing is ever really settled in Austin, even the obvious. The fact that metro Austin will..."

Sept. 27, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Why Portland Doesn't Look Like Austin

Rose (City)-Colored Glasses

"...city council hearing on the recommended Outer Southeast Community Plan. In its current form, three years in the making,..."

Dec. 15, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin @ Large: Saving Austin Now -- and Tomorrow

A skeptical analysis of the pending Stratus deal

"...over Stratus -- although I've found that sitting through Austin public hearings paralyzes my facial muscles quite effectively.) But..."

July 12, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

I Plan, Therefore I Am

A Downtown Planning Timeline

"...1839: Judge Edwin Waller, later Austin's first mayor, lays out the original city of Austin..."

Jan. 30, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A Better Tomorrow

For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.

"...For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom...."

Oct. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Church and Its People on Austin's Eastside

The living history of David Chapel

"...Church was born, phoenixlike, out of the darkness of Austin's racial history. The congregation originated in 1924, when members..."

Dec. 25, 2020 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Smart Growth wouldn't be dead if it had stayed in touch with reality

"...of the Smart Growth tribe, at which Kirk Watson's Austin was held up as a model of intelligent regional..."

July 4, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: Postponing the Code

CodeNEXT rewrite generating inexplicable panic

"...larger question of the entire project: of entirely rewriting Austin's land use code...."

Oct. 13, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Austin at Large: City Hall’s Game of Threes

Spencer Cronk quizzes the Council to win a new land use code!

"...fair of Cronk to ask Council, and by extension Austin, to make that same choice again, knowing what we..."

March 22, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

For regional planning, it's a great day to go back to the future

"...a pretty good week for Will Wynn after all. Austin ISD has signed up its campuses for green power;..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Rewriting Austin History

City tackles ambitious preservation plan, contentious ordinance

"...The city's Neighborhood Planning and Zoning Department has launched the overhaul of the..."

Nov. 19, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Developing Stories: Million-Dollar Vision

Will council fund a fresh comprehensive planning process?

"...It's looking more and more like the city of Austin will be brave enough to embark on a fresh..."

May 23, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

City Hall Hustle: On the Road to a Waller Redesign ...

Council fumbles the master plan

"...addressed a measure passed in April regarding the city's plans for Waller Creek – the urban (and flood-prone) waterway..."

June 3, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

City Council Notebook

Council goes balls out for their last meeting of the year.

"...Suerte! Item 16: Approving the 2008 inductees to the Austin Music Memorial, including Doug Sahm, Roy Montelongo, and Tary..."

Dec. 12, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Bigger Picture

Planning comprehensively

"...Dec. 13 resolution authorizing an update to the city's comprehensive plan – plus a study of fresh long-range planning..."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Then There's This: People Get Ready

You don't need no baggage, you just get on board

"...so, tens of thousands of people will descend on Austin, and many of them will experience an epiphanic moment..."

March 9, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Then There's This: This Isn't Portland

Comp plan takes a public beating before council approves it

"...Is Austin trying to be something it's not? Not everyone thinks..."

June 22, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Rethinking Social Services: Five Priorities

City moves to reconsider social services funding standards

"...the Health and Human Services section of the 1979 Austin Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan. The text below appears in the..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Density Bonus

Key issues

"...program should support the goals identified in a city's comprehensive plan. Unfortunately, Austin lacks an up-to-date comprehensive plan –..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Greenbacks for Green Space

City moves to make development pay more for parks

"...red on the stress-o-meter, when the weekend finally comes, Austinites head to their neighborhood parks for a green respite...."

May 4, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

A Warning to Citizens

"...be warned. Don't be duped by the city Neighborhood Planning and Zoning Department. Participating in a neighborhood plan is..."

Sept. 24, 2007 Postmarks

City Hall Hustle: Riding the Riverside Rail

Which comes first, the train or the passengers?

"...furthest-reaching implications: approval of the East Riverside Corridor Master Plan. An addition to the currently being reworked Austin Tomorrow..."

Feb. 26, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

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