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"...it, because of the horrors of gentrification and rising land values as a result – but maybe I'm wrong...."

Dec. 30, 2005 Column

The Towers of Power

Are high-rises the key to a middle-class Downtown?

"...and haggled over when Downtown gets its own, proper land-use planning process – that is, a neighborhood plan, though..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...same time that you restrict and prevent more efficient land-use policies in the inner city. The system is like..."

May 3, 2002 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...preserve acreage. That sale led to purchase of more land, that is contiguous to better preserves while placing impervious..."

March 15, 2002 Column

Neighborly Planning

The city, businesses, and residents all seem pleased with the results of the East Martin Luther King Neighborhood Planning Workshop.

"...suggested to city staff ways to improve urban design, land use, transportation, and services in East MLK, a 5.5-square..."

Feb. 8, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

St. Michael's Passion

Whose truth prevails at Austin's Catholic high school?

"...confront Austinites who live far from Barton Creek.'Upon This Land, We Will Build Our School' Good Catholic youth in..."

Dec. 14, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...changed in the last 10 years? While the exact land is different (some has been developed, mostly at very..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Column

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Readers' last gasps on light rail.

"...sacred cow though it may be here in the land of oil and wide open spaces...."

Nov. 3, 2000 Column

Naked City

Hays County environmentalists and other area residents applaud a recent LCRA decision to delay building a water pipeline to Dripping Springs until an Environmental Impact Statement can be completed.

"...Robert Cullick says the EIS is intended to provide answers to the environmental community's concerns in a formalized process...."

Jan. 7, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

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Share the Smart Growth

"...on alternate solutions which cost nothing? Revise the antiquated land development code to make the development of lots and..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Column

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Speaking With Authority

"...the Texas Railroad Commission. Besides serving as mayor of Garland, Matthews' previous posts include vice chairman of TTA, to..."

May 29, 1998 Column

Think Locally, Act Regionally

Regional Government's All the Rage - Are We Ready?

"...political turf system? These are big questions with many answers, which is why, so far, regionalism has been merely..."

Feb. 20, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Ever the Spoils

Two University Dramas Tackle Women After War

"...but highly empowering sitcoms, and in what is now England instead of New Zealand...."

Nov. 21, 1997 Arts Feature by Adrienne Martini

After a Uniquely Short and Turbulent Term, Watson Is the Mayoral Candidate to Beat

Four opponents make their cases against the incumbent

"...council’s recent housing initiatives, including reducing the amount of land needed to build a house, allowing apartments to be..."

Oct. 11, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Fantasia Review: What Josiah Saw

Southern Gothic horror-noir binds and dooms a shattered family

"...plans pipe dreams. An oil company is after the land that brings this curdled remnant of a family together,..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hog Book Aims to Encourage Hunting and Eating Feral Hogs

Jesse Griffiths wants you to #EatAHogSaveTheWorld

"...to certain belief systems about wild hogs because their land has been destroyed. What do you hope this book..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, March 19-25

"..."Before the lava descended," Vuong writes, "that piece of land was insignificant, just another scrap in an endless mass..."

March 19, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 10-16

"...God didn’t allow him to enter into the Promised Land. Why? At the end of his travails, he made..."

April 10, 2020 Column by Rob Brezsny

Public Notice: Speed 2, Trust 0

AISD board, City Council give up on consensus-building

"...a spate of some 275 proposed changes to the Land Development Code first draft to pass, on first reading,..."

Dec. 13, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Beto O'Rourke's Long, Hot Road to the Texas Primary

We report from the 2020 Democratic campaign trail on whether all the blue, sweat, and beers are worth it

"...streets around Texas Southern University and seal off Debate Land, an alien habitat filled with exotic species of politico..."

Sept. 27, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

CodeNEXT Public Hearings Start Saturday

Everything you need to know about signing up to speak

"...on the latest and final(ish) draft of the proposed land use rewrite. Austinites are invited to speak at one..."

April 24, 2018 News Post by Sarah Marloff

Council: Day of the Robots

All automation everything

"...large will be underwritten by a state and federal Home­land Security grant. So we'd better get the money now,..."

May 5, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Public Notice: Angry Hornets

Happy ending to Grove saga leaves questions

"...claim the moral high ground in that your preferred land use policies represent a struggle for economic justice, desegregation,..."

Dec. 9, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Grove PUD Neighbors Sue City

They say the city's interpretation of Texas' valid petition rights statute is wrong

"...Last week, landowners surrounding the 75-acre tract of land at Bull Creek..."

May 6, 2016 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

In the Company of Goats

Perfect pairings at Pure Luck

"...Sweethardt grew up on the very same land in Dripping Springs, milking the goats and working the..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Breaking Chains, Bending the Knee

'Game of Thrones’ complex consideration of freedom and slavery

"...family slaughtered and the rest kicked out of their homeland, but she began her quest for the crown with..."

May 7, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

More Gore From Housecore Horror

New film fest adds more classics plus a locally lensed premiere

"...simple internship – to shadow a group of high-tech land surveyors as they make their first foray into an..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Alchemies of Anatomy

Choreographer-performer Rosalyn Nasky has a penchant for details

"...Nasky seems nothing like the performer in "Temple." She answers my questions in a quiet, girlish voice, glancing at..."

June 22, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Sundance Announces Competition Slate

Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City

"...frustrated young mother turns to a fundamentalist community for answers, but after years of dogma and loss, she must..."

Dec. 1, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

An Okie-Dokey Deadpan

Oklahoma director Mark Potts on his suburban comedy Simmons on Vinyl

"...the phone from Norman, for a moment before he answers: "I guess that, yeah, sure, you could call me..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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