Design Advocacy Voices: Austin

"...We invited design and planning professionals (and city representatives) to take a..."

June 27, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

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

Preview Pt. One of a crowded Council agenda

"...$3 million in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funds for the Colony Park Sustainable Community Pilot Project..."

Dec. 12, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Save as We Pave?

The latest trend in environmentally sensitive planning tiptoes into Travis County

"...That's the contradictory but intriguing proposition offered by "conservation development," a national movement now taking shape as a..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

More Developing Stories

A calendar of upcoming urban planning events

"...young metropolis' thoughts turn to … urban planning and design, judging from recent and upcoming events around town.Transit-Oriented Development..."

April 13, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Where Are They Now?

The latest on this year's big digs

"...projects, including Penn Field and the Seaholm Power Plant redevelopment...."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Sprawl Ain't All

Want to know what 'conservation development' means? Then head to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, or – if you're interested, but not that interested – just read this story.

"...subdivisions that also preserves environmentally valuable open space? While "conservation development" might seem like an oxymoron, in fact it's..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

What the Ordinance Says

"...The current draft of the proposed Travis Co. Conservation Development Ordinance defines two things: the incentives available to..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...to hear local officials describe the impact that transit-oriented development zones will have on their industry. Leander Mayor John..."

Sept. 22, 2006 News Feature

Passionate Pioneers

"...Last month at the fifth annual Conservation Development Symposium, organized by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Great Springs Project Proposes a Network of Trails From Austin to San Antonio

Squaring conservation with development

"...one of the fastest-developing regions in the country prioritize conservation? That's the hope of the ambitious Great Springs Project,..."

Jan. 1, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

One Site, Two Designs

"...1) Site before development. An ecological assessment of the land, performed at the..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

"...new $40 million, 150,000-square-foot building at the new Mueller development. For more on Mueller, see "Developing Stories."..."

March 23, 2007 News Feature

'Nothing Is Done Alone' Extended Interview

The TxCC and their role in Bastrop's recovery after the fires

"...In late October, I visited the HQ of Texas Conservation Corps at American YouthWorks, here in Austin. I wanted..."

Dec. 2, 2013 Chronolog Post by Kate X Messer

Beside the Point: Trust Us, We're the Water Utility

AWU's vows to deliver on WTP4 and conservation just don't wash

"...well as prior councils – have been related to design," Council Member Randi Shade told the Chronicle. "This will..."

Oct. 23, 2009 News Column by Nora Ankrum

Developing Stories: Compact & Connected

All aboard for Transit-Oriented Development

"...with it the community's ticket to help shape the redevelopment of the neighborhoods that will play host to the..."

June 22, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Waterfront Planning: Professionals Needed

Yet activist Mary Arnold gets the first nod

"...members should be "drawn from the fields of urban design, environmental protection, architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, shoreline ecology,..."

July 24, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

A Planner's Paradise

A marriage of land use and transportation planning rarely seen in "property rights happy" Texas is being plotted

"...talk about planning – witness last week's hearings on design standards and the McMansion ordinance – planning has never..."

Sept. 8, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...of the tax burden on modest properties; stifles innovative design; hands over aesthetic regulation to reactionary neighborhood groups; penalizes..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Column

Flippin' the Birds

Closing parts of Balcones Canyon Preserve angers mountain bikers and doesn't do enough to save wildlife.

"...western Travis County, acquired to offset the pressure of development on endangered species such as the golden-cheeked warbler and..."

April 13, 2001 News Feature by Dan Oko

How Green Grows My County?

'Greenprints' aim to protect our most precious natural lands

"...and its corridor and discuss the impacts of growth, development, and change...."

Dec. 14, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

To the Lighthouse

After 20 years, WTP4 returns to a still unanswered question: Do we need it?

"...No earth has yet been moved. "We haven't done design. We're gathering data to do the design," says Ulray,..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Road to Ruin

US290: We Built It, and Dammit, They're Coming

"...And in January of 1995, the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District revealed that several wells drilled into the Edwards..."

Jan. 19, 1996 News Feature

'Completing Communities'

A conversation with Kathie Tovo

"...– that will be one tool to measure how development is going to impact schools. It was a recommendation..."

June 3, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Council Watch

The Bradley deal is out in the open but no one seems to have an opinion on it.

"...is becoming deafening. In this pivotal chapter in the development wars, so far the story is the absence of..."

Feb. 25, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

The Next New Neighborhood

City and residents plan a sustainable Colony Park

"...in a shovel-ready master plan for a mixed-use community designed to maximize environmental and social sustainability. By December, the..."

April 4, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Neighborhood Soup

"...after the neighborhood-planning staff in the Planning, Environmental and Conservation Services Department (PECSD) has time to prepare its recommendations...."

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

Plans in Play

The Big Eight

"...Scope: Land use and development patterns, transportation, mass transit, traffic/congestion, water/wastewater, solid waste, energy,..."

July 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...calls of Mueller neighbors, the city's prospective partner Catellus Development, and others to reverse the earlier Planning Commission decision..."

July 2, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Making a List

Examining the prospects for Austin's lobby at the 77th Legislature

"...the war drums beating pretty soundly at this point," development lawyer David Armbrust said a few days before Christmas...."

Dec. 29, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Past Planning Efforts

"...then living in Rainey, putting in "large-scale high-density residential development" along the lake and commercial along the interstate, and..."

July 16, 1999 News Feature

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