Point Austin: Refighting the Last Wars

Prop. 1, Prop. 2, Saving Barton Springs ... and Everything Else

"..."Growing Together: How AMD Is Renewing Its Commitment to Austin" was "printed on recycled paper, using 30% post consumer..."

April 21, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Cleaning Up Economic Development

Greens and the Chamber of Commerce join hands for renewable energy in Austin

"...Last month the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce announced a plan to create a..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

FWS Approves Stratus-pheric Development

"...laying a significant piece of groundwork for an overall development that could be the size of a small city..."

Nov. 2, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Déjà Vu Development

photograph by Jana Birchum

"...An oddly shaped parcel of state-owned land in Central Austin, currently undeveloped, is poised for imminent large-scale development. Concerned..."

July 18, 1997 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

It’s Expensive to Build in Austin, and Regulations Are Adding Cost

Red tape raises rent

"...Since at least 2017, reducing the cost of housing..."

Aug. 4, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin’s Exclusionary Housing Policies Are Getting Revolutionary Rewrites

After decades of resistance doors open for less-wealthy Austinites

"...Austin's land use rules may have more influence over who..."

July 28, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Then There's This: Tuning In to Austin

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

"...that the City Council last year adopted the Imagine Austin comprehensive plan, a road map for how and where..."

Sept. 27, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Urban Renewal, Sustainable Development, and ... Fluoride?

Preview Pt. One of a crowded Council agenda

"...Agenda highlights for December 15, 2011 (Part the First):..."

Dec. 12, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: The Tree in the Way

Commission decision could lead to changes in tree ordinance

"...whether the tree should make way for a Downtown development. On Oct. 11, the panel voted 5-4 to deny..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Column by Amy Smith

Downtown Austin Plan Needs You

The DAP re-envisions Downtown, district by district

"...the area continues to grow and change? The Downtown Austin Plan team wants to hear from the community on..."

March 5, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Lowe's, Austin, and HB 1204: Who's Got the Cards?

Are Austin's hands tied on another land-use battle over the aquifer?

"...Are Austin's hands tied on another land-use battle over the aquifer?..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Clean Energy: Austin's Next Boom?

A Preview of Clean Energy Potential in Central Texas

"...Will "clean energy" become a new industry for Austin, with job-creating prowess and the economic potential of the..."

June 21, 2002 News Feature by Courtney Barry

How Austin Fared

Despite Austin's reputation as the most expensive rental market in Texas, the state Department of Housing and Community Affairs has approved only one low-income housing tax credit project for Austin this year.

"...A high-pressure ridge over Austin kept the rain away all summer, but politics at..."

Oct. 22, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Austin's Waterloo

Taking a Walk along Waller

"...As long as there's been an Austin, the six miles of Waller Creek have been part..."

July 7, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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 at Large: City Hall’s Game of Threes

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

"...he can begin the groundwork to produce a "Land Development Code that achieves the stated goals of the City,"..."

March 22, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: If You Build It, They Will Come

Arguments over infrastructure reflect community visions

"...Back in 2014, City Council pondered at length a development proposal for Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park. The developer..."

Feb. 2, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: Down in the Grove

Agreement on latest PUD portends … a little progress?

"...to consider the Grove at Shoal Creek planned unit development, there was sufficient comity in the room to suggest..."

Dec. 9, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Council: Austin is Which Way?

Austin's planning woes have a long history

"...Manager Marc Ott's decision to bifurcate the Planning and Development Review Department, separating its planning and zoning functions from..."

March 20, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Then There's This: Loophole Development Code?

Lobbyists may get a crack at rewriting land-use regs

"...an advisory group that will help rewrite the Land Development Code...."

Feb. 1, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Developing Stories: Goodie Basket Development

The Grayco South Shore PUD proposal adds public benefits for height

"...Can it be? Austin's urban design and planning processes actually seem to be..."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Point Austin: Raising the Bar

AMD opens its Lantana campus, and the questions continue

"..."They have set the bar pretty high for commercial development on the aquifer, and this is now a bare..."

June 20, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Another Springs/Aquifer Development Fight

Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District finds itself on wrong side of environmental fight as its board continues determining whether it should build new headquarters on donated parcel inside aquifer recharge zone

"...get zoning approval for the Wildflower Commons planned unit development inside the ecologically fragile recharge zone. For groups such..."

July 6, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Point Austin: Beside the Point

Neighborhood activist gives us an earful on proposed downtown high-rise

"...Zilker Neighborhood Association, and longtime bee in the Downtown development crowd's bonnet, shared with Beside the Point "several different..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Austin @ Large: Every Day Is Halloween

But will only the good corporate kids get the candy?

"...before the election, and the City Council's approval of Austin's new scorecard for granting employer tax incentives proved to..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

How Easy Is Austin?

"...Austinites may interpret that expectation in opposite ways, in light..."

July 19, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Drag Development Villa-fied

The Villas on Guadalupe goes back to the drawing board.

"...the past few months worrying that a "New Triangle" development has landed on their doorstep in the form of..."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Proposed Development Would Revive Austin Opera House but Faces Neighbor Opposition

200 Academy Drive: Big hit or last call?

"...Congress strip, looks wholly unremarkable today. But it's an Austin cultural landmark dating back 45 years, home to vitally..."

Jan. 21, 2022 News Feature by Kevin Curtin

Too Much Urban Development in Watershed Already

"...Douglas Watkins writes [“Postmarks,” Jan. 6] about the extensive development in the Barton Springs Watershed of the Edwards Aquifer,..."

Jan. 10, 2006 Postmarks

Take That!: Supremes Allow Takings for Development

Effect on notable local cases still uncertain

"...the right to seize private property to promote "economic development" plans, even though those plans may primarily benefit private..."

July 1, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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