Mobile Food

Some tips on getting a foot in the door of the trailer business

"...mobile food vendor permits capped by the city's health department at 4,000, there's a huge and lucrative black market..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Municipal Death Match!

With five council seats open, mayor and Place 1 look like the headliners

"...but so far successful water-conservation program, worked to modernize development agreements over the Edwards Aquifer (under heavy political pressure..."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Hill Country Militia

Grassroots homesteaders tighten ranks to fight urban encroachment

"...prized historic roads and farmhouses and ranches threatened by development-driven eminent-domain seizures and an increasing awareness of the value..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature by Greg Harman

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...last week's final approval of zoning for the Mueller redevelopment sailed through, paving the way for consideration in late..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...One point that needs emphasis is that the park's development does not have to be an either/or situation...."

Dec. 31, 1999 Column

Public Notice: Threading the Needle

Is this the year of urban planning?

"...balance of suburban roads, urban bike routes, and the redevelopment of major transit corridors, that could pass voters' muster..."

Jan. 6, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Room for the Unexpected

With the budget season not yet in full swing, there's still time for hope

"...City Manager Marc Ott's budget team has also compiled departmental wish lists, in hopes that departments can spend smarter..."

July 1, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

"...at North Austin's Domain, the high-end retail and residential development of the Simon Property Group and Endeavor Real Estate..."

March 9, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk :

"...Southeast neighborhood activists fighting a proposed manufactured home development near Bluff Springs Road unwittingly touched a sensitive nerve..."

Feb. 20, 1998 News Feature

Termagant Homosexuals...

"...parks to all the people of Texas regardless of economic or social status. After all, he does work for..."

May 23, 1997 Column

Men Who Would be Mayor

Scrambling for Money, Consensus, & Power

"...his ties to both the environmentalist and business and development crowds, and so far it's paying off. He has..."

April 25, 1997 News Feature by Alex de Marban

Taming the 12-Lane Monster

Task Force Finalizing Plan to Limit Environmental Damage From Aquifer Freeway

"...One proposal for US290, designed by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), would put six lanes of elevated..."

Dec. 13, 1996 News Feature

Life on the 38th Parallel

GAINing Ground

"...taken GAIN to center stage in Eric Mitchell's escalating redevelopment saga, where the neighborhood association has successfully spearheaded area..."

Jan. 12, 1996 News Feature

Public Notice: Displacement Bad

New task force report finds room to improve

"...is: "Work to ensure the regulations that govern new development do not create an environment that is ripe for..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Waller Creek Comes to Life

Conservancy seeks radical makeover east of Downtown

"...is being done, the economy's really robust, we know development is coming, which means people are coming here, so..."

Nov. 13, 2015 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Gone and Quartered

Stiffed on Capital Metro money, the city scrambles to fund another $51 million in transportation projects

"...interim general manager of Austin Energy). The Public Works department and the city budget office have been scrambling to..."

April 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: The Promise of Planning

Can the city deliver on East Riverside?

"...July 3, 2009). "Leveraging the transformational powers of transit-oriented development, the corridor plan shows East Riverside losing its car..."

Feb. 12, 2010 News Column by Katherine Gregor

City Hall Hustle: Gas, Water, and Trash

There could be a higher utility bill in your future

"...Hummer H3 lately? Not to impugn people's very real economic woes, but the oceanic disconnect between our resource woes..."

Aug. 8, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...only by our dangerous addiction to war and its economic benefits to our world-leading weapons industry. A registered Republican,..."

March 3, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...neither care about nor fully believe reports about the economic impact of smoking bans on small businesses, whether issued..."

April 8, 2005 Column

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...in attendance. David Magaña of the city's Public Works department briefed attendees at Metz Elementary in East Austin on..."

June 27, 2003 News Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...force, but criticize Knee for using the Internal Affairs Department to fire bad cops. You can't have it both..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column

A Colossal Wreck

The Intel Building and its discontents

"...you think one unfinished building is unsightly, the Asian economic downturn in 1997 blighted Bangkok with 389 of them,..."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Michael Erard

Chapter 3: Crazy Weekly

September 1988-August 1991

"...by the June 7, 1990, City Council meeting about development affecting Barton Creek, which lasts until past 3am. In..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Postmarks

We're sorry you feel that way.

"...4. The chronic perjury; 5. The creation of the Department of Justice as a political weapon; 6. The movement..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Column

Postmarks

Who has the ego problem?

"...pressure on our school system; and environmental degradation. Clearly, economic opportunity and prosperity is important; yet, the very essence..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...currently staffed by two civilian vets of the police department, with two or three more hires and a citizens'..."

Jan. 9, 1998 News Feature

Lone Justice

To Protect Resources, Judge Bunton Defies Politicians

"...to a deadline issued by Bunton to the Interior Department -- the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that..."

Sept. 13, 1996 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Mixed-Income, Mixed-Use Travis Flats Open in North Loop

County-backed development combines offices with affordable housing

"...grand opening of Travis Flats Apartments, a mixed-use, mixed-income development at 5310 Helen St., at 53½ St. and Airport..."

Nov. 19, 2021 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Public Notice: Everything in Its Place

Contemplating “urbanism”

"...The Land Development Code rewrite has taken a bit of a back..."

Sept. 6, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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