How to Read a Charter Amendment

Ballot language too confusing? Let us translate!

"...require the city to take actions that encourage new development away from the Barton Springs watershed and that discourage..."

March 17, 2006 News Feature by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...City Council will vote tonight (Thursday) on an Interim Development Regulation Ordinance. It reads: "protecting the character of older..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature

Texas Left Holding Short HUD Hurricane Aid Stick

State gets a sliver of total it requested from Congress

"...ever since the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced last week that Texas will only get $74.5..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

AMD Sets Its Site on Lantana

Company trumpets facility greenbuilding; opponents ask what's downstream

"...pulled out all the stops to promote its site development plan as a world-glass greenbuilding project that it says..."

Dec. 23, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...500 civic leaders and planners on hand to discuss development along the corridor. See "Beyond City Limits." Naked City•..."

Nov. 25, 2005 News Feature

Reining in the Mother of All Big Boxes

Local activists seek community-wide benefits analyses of big-box proposals

"...bring about city code changes to directly address big-box development. Last year, when a city-funded study on big-box development..."

May 27, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

City's Zero Energy Homes Prove Too Pricey for Montopolis

Energy efficient building project proves fiscally impractical for current neighborhood location

"...Program, the City of Austin Neighborhood Housing and Community Development Department, and the Austin Housing Finance Corporation. The development..."

April 29, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Weird by Design

City's proposed design standards emphasize livability, walkability, and flexibility

"...adobe. Instead, its core provisions govern land use and development orientation (i.e., where the building is in relation to..."

April 1, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...the city would trade Block 21 land or Seaholm development rights for a chunk of land Stratus owns along..."

April 1, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

"...findings that got in the way of business or development. The survey was sent out to about 1,400 biologists,..."

Feb. 18, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Headlines and happening from Austin and beyond

"...the City Council postponed any decision on the Transit-Oriented Development Ordinance for one month; the new discussion date and..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Pfluger extension may run through middle of Seaholm- area project

"...the pedestrian bridge over Town Lake directly through the development, thus easing bicycle and pedestrian connections to Bowie Street,..."

Dec. 24, 2004 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Controlling Their Own Destiny

So many questions for the gaming industry, so many Austin game developers to answer them

"...And as Austin's game-development community grows right along with the industry itself, it,..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Network) have told the city of Buda and two development concerns to expect a lawsuit under the Clean Water..."

July 30, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Boxed out

"...on a big-box ordinance, voting 7-0 to keep mega-retail developments out of the Barton Springs zone of the Edwards..."

Dec. 12, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

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

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

"...its Save Our Springs water-quality ordinance and cap the development at 15% impervious cover -- not at the 40%..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Here a Box, There a Box, Everywhere a Big Box

One Lowe's, two Wal-Marts, and three sets of angry Southside citizens

"...Sunset Valley -- than it has to a proposed development in the preferred growth corridor along I-35...."

Aug. 22, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

It's a Done Deal

The City Council approved the Stratus settlement 6-1. Now what?

"...adamant haste last Thursday to approve Stratus Properties' 1,253-acre development proposal for Southwest Austin, the City Council endorsed the..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Stratus Sparks Citizen Uprising

Hundreds of citizens turn out to denounce the proposed Stratus deal.

"...floor at last Thursday's public hearing on a proposed development agreement with Stratus Properties. Until last week, the city..."

July 5, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City

Stratus Status

"...proposed City of Austin/Stratus Properties agreement on further southwest development meanders through the planning process, citizens' groups continued a..."

May 24, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

Circular Logic

Stratus forgets to tell Circle C residents about their zoning requests.

"...that thousands of Circle C-area residents were unaware of development plans for a hodgepodge of tracts bordering their neighborhoods...."

May 17, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Citizen Mary at Work

Highlights of the Activism of Mary Arnold

"...Regents from selling Lions Municipal Golf Course for commercial development...."

April 5, 2002 News Feature

Naked City

FWS's Frederick Moves On

"...of the maneuvers spread quickly through Austin's environmental and development communities, fueling speculation that Frederick's transfer was due in..."

April 5, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...and 1980. NUNA sponsored the compatibility ordinance that stabilized development and directed it toward reinvestment in historic buildings...."

Jan. 18, 2002 Column

Suttle Scuttled?

Development lawyer Richard Suttle no longer finds himself on the Stratus payroll, coincidentally (?) at a time when the company tries to clean up its image.

"...was urged to drop Suttle in favor of another development lawyer, Steve Drenner, who is viewed much more favorably..."

Nov. 9, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

No Water, Plenty of Sewage

"...Georgetown Industrial Foundation consider a water park for economic development and tourism, to be underwritten with "4B corporation bonds."..."

Aug. 17, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Stratus Quo?

Stratus Properties tries to shake the ghost of Jim Bob Moffett as it is acquired by Tom Hicks.

"...Armstrong's former boss and founder of the real estate development outfit formerly known as FM Properties, is kaput, gone,..."

Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

We're sorry you feel that way.

"...my case, would like to have more control over development and protection of property values. We would like to..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Column

Totally PC

When it comes to city planning, nothing's constant but change.

"...became a story about changing the whole planning and development system. Should we stop the city of Austin before..."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Prepare for Departure

Mueller Airport Redevelopment Project Inches Toward Council Approval

"...looks like a beautiful baby: a showpiece, cutting-edge inner-city redevelopment project that increases the tax base, enriches the neighborhoods..."

June 30, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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