Here Come the Transporters

In the endless Central Texas transportation wars, the lions and the lambs look for ways to make peace

"...proposal originate from different directions in the local political landscape, they're aiming for the same destination – the promised..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Roadblock

"...As the land development battles continue to rage in Hays County, two..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

The Can't-Miss Kid

The Man Behind the W.

"...helped another party switcher, Rick Perry, beat incumbent Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower. That same year, he worked for former..."

May 28, 1999 News Feature by Robert Bryce

Election Endorsements

The Primary Countdown Continues

"...both of these lifelong Democrats resigned their respective county commissioner seats - Biscoe in Pct. 1 and Bristol in..."

March 6, 1998 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Annex. And now the Hog Farm. Development on state-owned land in Austin is complicated enough to make your head..."

Oct. 10, 1997 News Feature

A Long Activist Legacy Survives on the Eastside

Holding on to El Barrio

"...Mexican American Aus­tin­ites who claimed this crescent of lakefront land as their own. Those who have followed have struggled..."

Nov. 20, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Commissioner Sonleitner On Corrections..."

Aug. 30, 2002 Column

Council Watch

"...requires an agreement between the city council and the commissioner's court. Aleshire says that in the past, he has..."

April 28, 1995 News Column by Alex de Marban

Evicted and Helpless

Disabled residents to be forced out of state supported living center

"...2007. And according to a 2014 AARP report, Texas lands at the very bottom of a scorecard that measures..."

Sept. 19, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Creating Sustainability

City plans Colony Park project as a long-term Eastside neighborhood

"...Finance Corporation, 50 acres have already been dedicated to parkland, the Turner-Roberts Recreation Center, and Austin Independent School District's..."

Jan. 27, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Design Advocacy Voices: Austin

"...public spaces and their relationship to adjacent buildings. Traditional land-use planning tends to focus on land-use compatibility issues, to..."

June 27, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Working on the Railroad

The regional Transit Working Group is poised to make progress on passenger rail

"..."We are in a time of landmark change when it comes to transportation," observed Hays Co...."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...close the schools. "Every year, Texas' testing and accountability landscape changes," said Superintendent Pat Forgione. "Across the state, these..."

Aug. 4, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...your kind words about my candidacy for Travis County Commissioner in Precinct 2 [Endorsements, Feb. 24]. I hope to..."

March 3, 2006 Column

A Rural Riddle

Hays County Water Planning Partnership forms to try and stop unmitigated growth

"...goes on to explain how living in the dry landscape outside of Austin's chaotic world of traffic and strip..."

Oct. 15, 1999 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Election Coverage 1998

"...County, voters will choose a County Judge and four Commissioners to lead in the post-Bill Aleshire age. Local Bond..."

Oct. 9, 1998 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...much simpler choice in the race for Travis County commissioner, Pct. 3, as independent challenger Kirk Mitchell has withdrawn..."

Sept. 4, 1998 News Feature

Off the Desk

"...would not attempt to enrich themselves by speculating on land in the area in which they will be dispensing..."

Jan. 12, 1996 News Feature

Planning Commission Recommends Adopting HOME Amendments ... With Amendments

There’s no place like HOME

"...Commissioners haggled over the amendments during a 12-hour meeting that..."

Nov. 24, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Point Austin: Purging the Commissioners

If you can't win the argument, blow up the process

"...refusal of her colleagues to immediately start jettisoning Planning commissioners on the grounds that too many might have professional..."

May 18, 2018 News Column by Michael King

The (Longer) Road to CodeNEXT

Opponents would freeze the process via referendum

"...The land development code revision known as CodeNEXT is currently in..."

Jan. 5, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

CodeNEXT: Conditions for Overlays

Draft 2.0 being readied for Sept. 15

"...on Friday, Sept. 15. City staff responsible for the land use code rewrite revealed the date almost as an..."

Aug. 11, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Early Returns

Four declare candidacy for the Pct. 1 Commissioners Court Primary Race

"...field to succeed retiring Travis County Precinct 1 County Commissioner Ron Davis is essentially complete. There are four declared..."

Oct. 2, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Courting Change

Travis County needs a new civil and family courthouse – and a new way of doing business

"...County bought the block in late 2010, returning the land to county control; in 1855, it was the site..."

May 4, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

More Developing Stories

A calendar of upcoming urban planning events

"...the results of a study with far-reaching implications for land-use development and the siting of affordable housing. Opportunity mapping..."

April 13, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

City Hall's Bumpy Road

Can Austin planners and the City Council ever bring an end to the local transportation wars?

"...behalf of "the majority of the people out in Voterland," Levy remarks that Austinites want more mobility for their..."

May 23, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Postmarks

Post-election political rumblings , and Music Editor Raoul Hernandez takes it on the chin from Nina Simone fans.

"...Our entire block was pressured to sell out. The land developer promised to give my parents the money in..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Column

Naked City

"...by Audrey Duff, with contributions this week by Nelson England and Amy Smith..."

Dec. 15, 1995 News Feature

Fear & Loathing

Travis County says goodbye to a coyote-killing machine

"...that agreement ran into trouble last September when county commissioners fielded complaints about the transparency and practices of TWS,..."

Dec. 22, 2017 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Naked City

"...the planned Wal-Mart at the former Northcross mall; the Allandale Neighborhood Association executive committee voted Monday to sue the..."

July 6, 2007 News Feature

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