Imagine Austin Five Years Later

Progress report details wins, losses, path forward for 30-year plan

"...Imagine Austin, the city’s comprehensive 30-year plan for an inclusive,..."

Oct. 9, 2017 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Council To Imagine Imagine Austin

Plus SH 45, White Lodging, frat houses, and more

"...a 60-item agenda that includes the mother of all planning issues – the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan – which..."

June 15, 2012 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Future Is Ours: A Timeline of Austin's Comprehensive Plan

"...August-October 2009: Before there can be a plan, there must be a plan to plan: City completes..."

Oct. 1, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Forums on Mobility, Comprehensive Plan

"...Residents may weigh in on the city's Strategic Mobility Plan as part of a community forum series on the..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature

Imagine Austin With CodeNEXT

Draft two brings big changes, more questions

"...the new zones were designed to "implement the City's Comprehensive Plan by providing a mix of intensity of development..."

Sept. 22, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Mayor’s Race Offers Clear Choices on How Austin Should Grow

Election marks a critical juncture on the way to Austin's future

"...Austin's next mayor will only serve two years before facing..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

CodeNEXT Wrecks Austin

Or did Austin wreck CodeNEXT?

"...into the "compact and connected" city idealized in the Imagine Austin comprehensive plan. But CodeNEXT is not the code..."

May 25, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Point Austin: Can This Code Be Saved?

Plan for a common future, or pretend it just won't happen

"...That's a comically widespread Austin sentiment often echoed over the years, and it might..."

May 11, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Austin at Large: Your House Is Our House

Reconnecting to a vision of an Austin where everyone can live, despite our failures

"...oldest and dearest family friends, decades after moving to Austin, is now finally taking an interest in city politics..."

Sept. 24, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

What's Austin's Creative Capacity?

Final results of city's survey of creatives to be reported on

"...Hey, you Austin creative types: Been complaining about the difficulties of making..."

Nov. 4, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Imagining Austin

Austinites begin a new comprehensive plan for the city's future

"..."If we do our jobs right, we'll create a plan that has a profound influence on our generation and..."

Jan. 29, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Then There's This: Tuning In to Austin

Before revising land code, city performs field work with 'Code Next'

"...City planning staff and a team of consultants spent this week..."

Sept. 27, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Point Austin: Imagine Affordability

Imagine an Austin in which everyone can afford to live

"...of the Carver Museum & Cultural Center in East Austin to catch a glimpse of what Austin might look..."

Oct. 7, 2011 News Column by Amy Smith

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes

"...On Friday, Oct. 4, city planners released their initial draft of the Land Development Code..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Sounds Like a Plan … or Three

City Council hears reports on Merck, racism, and housing

"...City Council adjourned at the fairly miraculous hour of..."

April 10, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Council: Imagine Comprehensively

Zoning and proclaimations crowd next week's agenda

"...let out a werewolf howl) after last week's fairly exhausting and exhilarating session. Council managed to enact higher standards..."

Nov. 1, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Austin at Large: Mapping the Transition Zones

Ever so slowly, City Hall learns to govern without consensus

"...If you've been following Austin's effort to reform its broken and obsolete land use..."

May 3, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin At Large: Let Me Make Things Clear

Yes, we need to move ahead quickly – but not recklessly – with a new land code

"...are ones that 1) are already happening all over Austin, but piecemeal and with much wasted time and energy..."

Feb. 21, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Point Austin: Postponing the Code

CodeNEXT rewrite generating inexplicable panic

"...larger question of the entire project: of entirely rewriting Austin's land use code...."

Oct. 13, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Austin at Large: City Hall’s Game of Threes

Spencer Cronk quizzes the Council to win a new land use code!

"...fair of Cronk to ask Council, and by extension Austin, to make that same choice again, knowing what we..."

March 22, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: Does Austin Need SF Zoning?

Or is this status quo protection already obsolete in the City That Never Shrinks?

"...Currently, there is not any kind of real plan for creating that decent housing where it's needed. In..."

Oct. 8, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Comp Plan: Time To Speak Up!

Deadline extended for visioning input

"...more time to contribute to a vision statement for Austin's future. The initial "Imagine Austin" survey will remain open..."

Jan. 19, 2010 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Austin at Large: Polling and the Police

What we know, don't know, and need to know about the public's view of public safety

"...I wrote last week about Voices of Austin's polling that, the group claims, shows that Austinites decisively..."

July 17, 2020 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Imagining Austin

Public forums begin on comprehensive and mobility planning

"...It's 2040 in Austin: Where should the city have absorbed new population growth..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

In-Comprehensible? ANC Balks at Comp Plan.

ANC fears Imagine Austin will unravel neighborhood planning efforts

"...The Austin Comprehensive Plan is well into its third phase of..."

Dec. 3, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Comp Plan Combo Platter

The comp plan process reaches critical density

"...After a year of public outreach, the city's comprehensive planning effort has now entered the third round of..."

Oct. 1, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Public Notice: Imagine That

Land development code draft ready at last

"...For planning geeks in Austin, this is the week it finally..."

Jan. 27, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Comp Plan

There's still time to influence the vision for Austin's future

"...request of the Citizens Advisory Task Force for the Austin Comprehensive Plan, Austinites have more time to participate in..."

Jan. 22, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Comp Plan Framework Goes to Council

Framework thus far avoids controversy

"...The Austin Comprehensive Plan comes to City Council this week, clearing..."

March 11, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Austin At Large: Say Farewell to Greg Guernsey

An exit interview with Austin’s longtime planning chief

"...– that I'm leaving," says Greg Guernsey, director of Austin's Planning and Zoning Department since 2006 and a city-staff..."

July 12, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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