When Did the Single-Family Home Go From Being the American Dream to an Urbanist Nightmare?

One policy wonk's view of how we got here

"...Well, Austin is once again locked in one of our emotionally..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

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

Their Reputations Precede Them

Run-off rivals Galindo and Morrison set the record straight

"...minds, at least): that as former president of the Austin Neighborhoods Council and co-chair of the McMansion task force,..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Before Save Our Springs ...

Big events in Austin's enviro history, pre-SOS

"...A selection of landmark events in Austin's early environmental history, excerpted primarily from the early chapters..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Plans in Play

The Big Eight

"...resource provides a comprehensive list of all current long-range planning efforts in the region. (No agency we contacted had..."

July 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Take the A-Train

Mike Clark-Madison discusses 10 years covering light rail, and urges voters to support it.

"...If this story, which has been going on in Austin for 15 years or more, and which in cities..."

Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Citizen Mary at Work

Highlights of the Activism of Mary Arnold

"...Arnold's nearly 30 years of activism on behalf of Austin:..."

April 5, 2002 News Feature

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

Mixed Use, Mixed Emotions

An anniversary review of Austin's vertical mixed-use program discovers a range of responses to density, change, and planning

"...One year ago, Austin embarked on a complex experiment in populist urban planning..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

What Happened to the No-Kill Millennium?

Austin's plan to end wholesale euthanasia at Town Lake shelter remains a distant dream

"...the city's progress on its No-Kill Millennium resolution, a plan developed in 1997 to end the euthanasia of adoptable..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Men Who Would be Mayor

Scrambling for Money, Consensus, & Power

"...neighborly audience from the Lakewood Homeowners' Association in Northwest Austin. They are fielding questions that touch the heart of..."

April 25, 1997 News Feature by Alex de Marban

S.o.s. 101

"...1993 was a year a lotof people came to Austin. It was the year they split the phone books..."

April 30, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff

Shocked That We Failed to Mention …

"...shocked to see your story on the city's Comprehensive Plan that failed to mention Robin Cravey [“The Bigger Picture,”..."

Jan. 12, 2008 Postmarks

Naked City

City Council Members continue to debate the fate of the proposed Congress Ave. Gotham condominiums, with debate now centering on height restrictions and the city's Waterfront Overlay ordinance.

"...Waterfront Overlay's framers (and a passel of agitated South Austinites, who continue to flood council offices with anti-Gotham calls,..."

Dec. 10, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

The Daily Hustle: 5/4/10

My breakfast with Marc

"...Ott segued into a discussion of the Strategic Mobility Plan, and the possible November transportation bond it will inform,..."

May 4, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Trench Warfare

Federal judge rules for LCRA on the Dripping Springs pipeline project, but the SOS lawsuit proceeds

"...from Southwest Parkway Storage Tank on the outskirts of Austin to Dripping Springs, the biggest town in northern Hays..."

May 11, 2001 News Feature by Rob Curran

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...living is putting the squeeze on more than 200,000 Austin residents, most with perfectly respectable jobs, the stigmatized "affordable..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Postmarks

The Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival is not sexist; the city/Bradley settlement bodes poorly for Barton Springs; golf courses pay their way; and more reader mail.

"...at Zoot, I hosted the inaugural meeting for the Austin Chapter of the IAWCR with Barbara Tropp, Susan Spicer,..."

March 24, 2000 Column

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

Postmarks

A tawdry Kelsonian cababble.

"...designed for developers, not current rural residents. LCRA's alleged plan to serve only 7,000 residences is contradicted by their..."

June 9, 2000 Column

Paper Tigers

Some Editors Not So Smart About Smart Growth

"...city voters in 1992, environmental leaders were concerned that Austinites would grow complacent, believing that the southwest sector's development..."

April 3, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Postscripts

Shuttle Carnage Looms

"...homes in our neighborhood. City staff reported to the planning commission during the zoning hearing last week that our..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Column

The Backstage Crew

Council Candidates' Consultants Direct the Show

"...Meet Alfred Stanley, Dean Rindy, and David Butts, Austin's premier liberal/Democratic consultants. Over the past 25 years, they've..."

April 11, 1997 News Feature

Shameless Accusations

"...Editor: In your reprint of Mike Clark-Madison's PR piece [“Austin@Large,” News, May 5], he shamelessly accuses SOS Alliance, Sierra..."

May 10, 2006 Postmarks

Postmarks

Bunch Replies

"...Overall the piece ignores the role of thousands of Austin citizens who care enough to get involved and fight..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Column

Off the Desk:

"...city's lawsuit against the South Texas Project (STP) nuclear plant is barreling along. Anti-nuclear activists Paul Robbins, who wrote..."

Nov. 24, 1995 News Feature

Corner to Corner

Top Ten Neighborhood War Zones of 1997

"...from MoPac to Leander will become the slums of tomorrow...."

Jan. 9, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Neighborhood Soup

"...The ghost of Austin appeared quickly on July 15, as 13 community groups..."

Aug. 1, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Bigger Picture

Planning comprehensively

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

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

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