Is a New Austin Land Development Code Done Yet?

Council: Stick a pin in that!

"...will allow city staff to resume rewriting the Land Development Code. In asking for that guidance, City Manager Spencer..."

May 3, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Council Passes Protections for Central, Eastside Creeks

Pollution, erosion, and development safeguards included

"...threats of pollution. Those areas are in the city's Desired Development Zone, a classification (by watershed) adopted back in..."

June 24, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Little Hotel on the Prairie

Proposed hotel and golf course would be constructed on city-owned parkland.

"...another question: What will it take to make the Desired Development Zone desirable? Do we need development engines like..."

March 24, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Considers Film Incentives

Localized subsidies proposed to fight off in-state competition

"...Lone Star State. Last Thursday, staff from Austin's Economic Development Department briefed council on their plans for a Creative..."

April 22, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Daily Hustle: 12/1/10

Sunny outlook for economic incentives?

"...Council’s holding a special-called meeting to discuss an economic development agreement with SunPower. We’ve got the deets below the..."

Dec. 1, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

A City With Smarts

Austin Wising Up to Growth Plans

"...Austin Tomorrow's division of Metro Austin into desired and less-desired growth areas has been adopted wholesale -..."

April 17, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Schoolyard Scuffle

Talking Out of School

"...for allowing higher impervious cover on campuses within the desired development zone -- and other perks including waiver of..."

July 9, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff

The Whole Truce

Gary Bradley ponders the significance of his proposed settlement agreement with the city of Austin.

"...that will bring all of Bradley's current and future development under the city's control. It will also subject the..."

Feb. 25, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...makes the whole area an environmentally poor place for development: All the crud that washes off the yards and..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Watson Way

Mayor Kirk Watson talks about challenges for austin during his next term.

"...is talking in terms of a Water Quality Protection Zone, and meaning it. The results of that are Tivoli,..."

March 31, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson

Bond Election Cliffs Notes

General Obligation Bonds

"...at developing the major arteries and corridors of tomorrow's Desired Development Zone. (One might argue that inadequate roads themselves..."

Oct. 23, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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

Turning Point

Relations on the Mend

"...direct and inverse relationships (as effective impervious cover increases, development site impervious cover decreases; as mitigation acreage increases, development..."

Feb. 19, 1999 News Feature by Jenny Staff

Council Watch

Details of the Bradley Settlement are finally made public and opened up to debate; Bill Spelman announces that he will not run for re-election to Place 5.

"...currently pending before the City Council, to cease further development in the aquifer. The very thing that this column..."

Feb. 18, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

The Webberville Conundrum

Austin's plans for an eastern landfill hit a little obstacle – the people who live there

"...on the council agenda to move forward with exploring development of the Webberville tract. That brought a quick response:..."

June 6, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Urban on the Rocks

It's the Sprawl, Y'all

"...Problem is, nobody asked the folks in the Desired Zones whether they desired to be Desired. Rightly or..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Don't Dissolve District

"...regulate pumping and prevent pollution in the entire recharge zone of the Barton Springs Aquifer. The City of Austin's..."

May 1, 1998 Column

Postmarks

We're Not Naive

"...residential zoning on the "cave tract" would limit total development on the three tracts to no more than 500..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Column

Text of the Resolution:

"...to discourage urbanization of land over the Barton Springs Zone; and..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...$10 million here, $15 million there, and presto, downtown development took off. Yet when it comes to preserving our..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Swap Meet

The City Council, divided 5 votes to 2, stumbles toward an agreement with Stratus to trade land or development rights at the former Robert Mueller Airport.

"...Stratus Properties, the largest landowner in the Barton Springs Zone, about giving up a piece of the city's former..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

An Honest Ballot

A look at what you're actually going to be voting on

"...infrastructure extensions and capacity extensions in the Barton Springs Zone, which includes a large portion of southwest Austin and..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature by Michael King

AMD and the Edwards Aquifer

SOS says mitigation offers aren't enough

"...By most indications, AMD is poised to abandon the Desired Development Zone for a 60-acre watershed tract, despite mounting..."

April 22, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

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

"...seemingly endless civic disputes, this one over the Land Development Code (LDC) rewrite. That may sound boring, and it..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Dreaming of Buffalo

Prairie preservationists want to turn Austin's eyes – and energies – eastward

"...92 mostly intact acres surrounded by pasture and housing developments just east of I-35 at Wells Branch. Dinges isn't..."

Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Greenprint Draws a Blueprint for Central Texas

A new tool sheds light on a path toward conservation

"...lines, schools, parks, recreation facilities, government campuses, and private development projects need to get built in the region, how..."

Nov. 13, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Mapping the Future

Seven longtime Austinites talk about Smart Growth, neighborhood planning, and the future of Central Austin in an October roundtable discussion.

"...control," says Mark Rogers, director of the Guadalupe Neighborhood Development Corporation (GNDC) in East Austin...."

Dec. 3, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Elements of Smart Growth

"...2 bond propositions; The creation of the Smart Growth zones shown on the map (Drinking Water Protection Zone, Desired..."

April 17, 1998 News Feature

Austin @ Large: Every Day Is Halloween

But will only the good corporate kids get the candy?

"...importance to a City Hall that's supposedly made economic development its highest priority...."

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

Council Watch

Peace at Last? City, Gary Bradley Strike the Deal to End All Deals

"...city estimates that under the existing Water Quality Protection Zone regulations, the amount allowed to be developed could have..."

Feb. 11, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

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