Why Does Everyone Hate CodeNEXT?

Can a polarized Austin reach consensus on land use by next spring?

"...members had been flummoxed by posted draft spreadsheets (a planning estimation tool) that seemed to indicate aggressive redevelopment and..."

June 9, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Developing Stories: The Promise of Planning

Can the city deliver on East Riverside?

"...the comments above – on an ambitious city master plan for transforming East Riverside Drive – nearly a year..."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...Shade and Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez, announced a plan to increase the number of construction contracts awarded to..."

Sept. 11, 2009 News Feature

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...Comprehensive Plan Team Chosen..."

May 1, 2009 News Feature

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

City Hall's Bumpy Road

Can Austin planners and the City Council ever bring an end to the local transportation wars?

"...Every morning at 7:10am, Katie Larsen, a senior planner in the city's Transportation, Planning, and Sustainability Dept., catches..."

May 23, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Use Only as Directed

Patenting the Formula

"...in 1994 when the city first formed the Citizens Planning Committee, whose report is the Magna Carta of Austin's..."

Aug. 20, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Preparing for Takeoff

Plans under way for major redo of Airport Boulevard and Highland Mall

"...month, the city and its prospective partners unveiled tentative plans for redeveloping Highland Mall and upper Airport Boulevard to..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

Council To Imagine Imagine Austin

Plus SH 45, White Lodging, frat houses, and more

"...a 60-item agenda that includes the mother of all planning issues – the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan – which..."

June 15, 2012 News Feature by Amy Smith

Developing Stories: Charrette Duet

Curing Congress and going green

"...of recent community charrettes brought Austinites together to brainstorm, plan, and meld minds on two diverse topics: Congress Avenue..."

March 19, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

City Falls Behind on Housing Goals

Housing for Austin’s poorest residents in short supply

"...for more intense infill development under the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan; the blueprint goal is 75%...."

Jan. 29, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Daily Hustle: 9/16/10

Don't miss the Comp Plan boat

"...we enter yet another new phase in developing the Comprehensive Plan, there's an occasion this morning to mark it:..."

Sept. 16, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

"...• COMPREHENSIVE COMPADRES Revving up for the city's comprehensive planning process..."

July 10, 2009 News Feature

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...• COMPREHENSIVE-PLAN DEADLINE UPON US The city has budgeted $1.3 million..."

Oct. 31, 2008 News Feature

Cool City: The Leffingwell Lens

One council member's view of the Austin Climate Protection Plan

"...the City Council unanimously adopted the Austin Climate Protection Plan. Conceptually, it's perhaps the most aggressive and well-rounded local..."

Aug. 31, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Numbers Game

Read Council's Lips: No New Taxes

"...less pleasant than some of the Smart Growth-ing, Triangle-saving, bike-planning vision stuff that has characterized the spring of 1998...."

May 29, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff

The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

"...deeply into the tortured psyche of Wood as this comprehensive look, which includes the full (though uncompleted) version of..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Finders,Keepers

Losers, Weepers...

"...a moratorium on spending the remaining windfall until a comprehensive plan is developed. Mitchell's white shadow, Ronney Reynolds, seconded..."

Jan. 19, 1996 News Column

Public Notice: Inconvenient Details

Council aims for the stars, stuck in the dirt

"...the Lenox Oaks proposal to amend the Montopolis Neighborhood Plan and the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan to rezone several..."

Aug. 12, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Then There's This: Southland

Seven neighborhoods take Imagine Austin on a test run

"...damp morning might have been lighter than what city planners had anticipated, but the significance of the Saturday confab..."

Jan. 18, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Then There's This: Time Flies

Sullivan is ready to pass the torch ... preferably not to a 'gray-headed anglo'

"...a major milestone on April 11 when the city Planning Com­mis­sion that he chairs passed, on a 7-0 vote,..."

April 27, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Oct. 1-7

"...COMMUNITY DIALOGUE Help AISD develop a long-range facilities master plan. 6-8pm. Central West: Austin High, 1715 W. Cesar Chavez...."

Oct. 1, 2010 News Feature

Developing Stories: Future Mobility: Shaping the Transportation Bonds

Urban rail is what you won't see this November – so what will you see?

"...for other projects within Austin's emerging multimodal Strategic Mobility Plan – "a $100 million package of investments in roads,..."

March 26, 2010 News Column by Katherine Gregor

City Counseling: Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

"...announced opposition to awarding the contract for designing a comprehensive plan at this week's City Council meeting. McCracken agreed,..."

Feb. 27, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

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

"...On Friday, Oct. 4, city planners released their initial draft of the Land Development Code..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin's Next Shot at Ending Homelessness

Thanks to an infusion of philanthropic cash, the city and its iTeam embark on a new effort

"...The city and ECHO's new Action Plan to End Homelessness, released in April and then re-released..."

Aug. 24, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

CodeNEXT Wrecks Austin

Or did Austin wreck CodeNEXT?

"..."compact and connected" city idealized in the Imagine Austin comprehensive plan. But CodeNEXT is not the code itself. It..."

May 25, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

'Completing Communities'

A conversation with Kathie Tovo

"...the Joint Subcommittee, and then it wound to the Planning Commission. It's basically a tool that's going to help..."

June 3, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

On the Lege

Austin Rep. Elliott Naishtat is leading charges to protect both seniors and children this session

"...up with several billion dollars to finance the new plan...."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

Council Has Much Business to Attend to Before Its Break

A 125-item agenda stands between Council and a summer break

"...The very next item (66) is the Adler/Alter plan to tweak compatibility standards that Austin Sanders details here;..."

June 10, 2022 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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