Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...but only 3,315 were seniors in 1997, despite double-digit growth in the area student population. Statistics in the IDRA..."

March 19, 1999 News Feature

Building From Scratch

It Takes a City and a State to Raise a Village

"...urban development and influence the form and pattern of growth as it enters the new millennium." So the New..."

Feb. 19, 1999 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Regular Folk

"...For one thing, the rapid growth experienced all over Austin has not yet set down..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Corridor Conundrum

The Truth Is Out There on the Highway

"...in our parts since 1990. That's what the region's growth amounts to...."

May 8, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Don't Dissolve District

"...utility lines and roads out into the Hill Country. Growth can instead go to the places in town where..."

May 1, 1998 Column

Harnessing Anger

"...to preserve their bucolic isolation while simultaneously spurring economic growth. As a member of an Austin Transportation Study (ATS)..."

Feb. 13, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Page Two

"...the last two decades, are the issues related to growth. There was once talk of no-growth or restricted growth,..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Column by Louis Black

Road Shows

Are County Bond Proposals Good for the Long Haul?

"...the county to pay for those roads." But as growth out in the county has become more dense, particularly..."

Oct. 17, 1997 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Page Two

"...like the anti-prosperity bit, the argument being that unrestricted growth promotes the economy and that sensible environmental restrictions are..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

"...and how it is going to handle all the growth. It is too easy to get into heroes and..."

June 13, 1997 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Nofziger Responds

"...on unsuspecting cities that have either promoted excessive unplanned growth (Austin region) or who have wedded themselves to highly..."

April 25, 1997 Column

Page Two

"...Austin's soul defined itself in the early Eighties as growth versus non-growth which mutated into planned, controlled growth versus..."

April 4, 1997 Column by Louis Black

You Don't Need Money, Just a Little Bit a Month...

1996 AISD Bond Election

"...AISD's past dealings and attitudes toward its contribution to growth on the aquifer, in particular, should give pause...."

Feb. 23, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Austin Gets Compared to a Lot of Cities. But Is Life Better There?

Shopping for home

"...a turning point,” Porter said. “We elected a very pro-growth Council, and they were able to usher through a..."

Feb. 21, 2025 News Feature by Abe Asher

How a Small Town Has Fared as a Microchip Factory Brings in Billions

Has Taylor, TX, become Boomtown, TX?

"...Rapid development and growth is not a new phenomenon in Central Texas, but..."

April 28, 2023 News Feature by Abe Asher

I Used To Go Here

Delayed coming-of-age comedy still has some maturing to do

"...this type of film you expect a little character growth, some flashes of insight. You expect a portrait of..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Shalavé Cawley

Point Austin: Looking for a Magic Bullet

CodeNEXT arguments reflect the complexity of affordability problems

"...to reform city policies in a more progressive direction. Growth vs. Use..."

Sept. 15, 2017 News Column by Michael King

City Council Clashes Over 2017 Budget

Competing ideas on how to spend $969 million

"...this taxpayer-subsidized Economic Development Department." Amid the arguments between "no-growth" and "pro-growth" extremes, Zimmerman insisted most Austinites agree with..."

Aug. 19, 2016 News Feature by Michael King

Memoirs of a Movement

Remembering the campaign to Save Our Springs

"...Bob Moffett and others in a long line of growth-at-any-cost corporados. We also sought to give direction to the..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature

Painting by Numbers

Wherein we recall how we got here ... and contemplate the baleful map-drawing future

"...the notion of one person, one vote, Texas' population growth necessitates that the Lone Star State expand from 32..."

Jan. 28, 2011 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Climate, Meet Mobility

Copenhagen is all about green transport – and Austin should be, too

"...It's now central to the wealthy nation's strong "green growth" economy. One of the few Danish words I learned..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Learning From Denver

More insights from the Congress for the New Urbanism

"...2000, Denver citizens felt the need to address pressing growth issues in more detail. So the city set to..."

July 3, 2009 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Hill Country Militia

Grassroots homesteaders tighten ranks to fight urban encroachment

"...A series of long-simmering insults, coupled with rapacious growth on the fringes of Bexar County, is driving many..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature by Greg Harman

What I Want to do With My Life

Mike Krusee on New Urbanism, Smart Growth, toll roads, and why Bobby Kennedy is his hero

"...Scott was a proponent of Smart Growth. We all look at things through our own lenses...."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: City Slights

In our civic dialogue, grace and respect have all but disappeared

"..."Smart Growth" is now a term that has the same resonance..."

July 20, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Thank you for covering growth issues in Southwest Travis County ["Cease-Fire Ends in Southwest..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Column

Cease-Fire Ends in Southwest Road Wars

Environmentalists charge that Daugherty has been working backroom deals for southwest roads

"...with some conviction, meetings like the Southwest Travis County Growth Dialog as a way to reach some type of..."

Sept. 22, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Austin @ Large: Balancing the Books

The big hole we need libraries to fill

"...ballot. One would require the city to limit the growth of its property tax revenue to either 4.5% a..."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Page Two

Mirroring those on the state and national levels, current city budget battles reflect the fact that we are not willing to pay for the quality of government we demand and expect.

"...programs to take care of the sprawl created by growth and then annexation. Imagine how much bigger those budget..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Borders Backs Out

A setback for Sixth + Lamar, a victory for keeping Austin weird

"...fee waivers and other incentives under the city's Smart Growth program. Therein lay the controversy: BookPeople and Waterloo, along..."

April 25, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

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