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"...the gang will likely postpone the hearing on the Big Box Ordinance. Ya dig? UPDATE: Item 5, regarding Austin..."

"...An amended version of the Big Box Ordinance has bounced back down from council to..."

"...A revised version of the Big Box Ordinance bounced back from council to the Planning..."

"...for 6pm with their other public hearings, including the Big Box ordinance. The Responsible Growth for Northcross protest, by..."

"...A 45-day moratorium on big-box retail projects over the Edwards Aquifer has thrown a..."

"...economic, social, and environmental impact of Wal-Mart and other big-box retailers' expanded presence in Austin. The council will vote..."

"...everything," said HOA President Aron Wisneski, "we're against the biggest thing. And unless the military decides to build a..."

"...before the 1992 adoption of the Save Our Springs Ordinance. Those rules permit Wal-Mart to build to an impervious..."

"...Wal-Mart has set its sights on Austin in a big way. There are 10 in the greater Austin area..."

"...accounting of the supercenter plans, distinct from the proposed big-box ordinance (also up today), brewed over the weekend, as..."

"...in the land development code, leading to codification by ordinance of the city's best intentions for urban planning...."

"...City Council of Sunset Valley passed a "No Aquifer Big Box" resolution calling on all governmental entities to strictly..."

"...goals of pedestrian friendliness, incorporated into the design standards ordinance and elsewhere, it makes more sense to put it..."

"...The Lakeway City Council on Monday echoed voters' anti-big-box sentiment with a 6-0 rejection of a new zoning..."

"...Hey, Big Spender!: Council also temporarily cinched the city manager's purse..."

"...as he had previously branded on our brains, the biggest store around these parts period, following IKEA) but "would..."

"...by the city's new Design Standards & Mixed Use Ordinance. (The ordinance was enacted Aug. 31 but does not..."

"...Big Box, Back Off! Who hates big box? We hate..."

"...gloom and doom if the City Council approves an ordinance limiting the size of big-box retail development on environmentally..."

"...wasn't 3am), the council voted to enact a new Big-Box Ordinance that would require more public and more detailed..."

"...– Stacy Mitchell, author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight..."

"...With heated public debate this month over a proposed big-box ordinance and a Wal-Mart on steroids for Northcross Mall..."

"...the City Council last week stood united on a big-box ordinance, voting 7-0 to keep mega-retail developments out of..."

"...crosshairs of national chain retailers and restaurants – whose big formula operations threaten to edge out Austin's funkier homegrowns..."

"...2) What's been this council's biggest missed opportunity?..."

"...argue that city staff dragged its feet on the Big Box Ordinance – which in theory might have blocked..."

"...to their own 45-minute limit: On Item 81, the Big Box ordinance, 15 are signed in to speak, 123..."

"...First and foremost in everyone's minds will be the big box ordinance's appearance before the council. Tentatively turning up..."

"...central Texas outside of Cabela's and IKEA." (Actually, it's bigger than Cabela's, second only to IKEA's 252,000 square feet..."

"...themselves that stop the bulldozers. The city's Tree Preservation Ordinance is one of four key pillars in the lawsuit..."