A Church and Its People on Austin's Eastside

The living history of David Chapel

"...building would mean more parking spaces required by the Land Development Code. Parker says to accommodate new construction, David..."

Dec. 25, 2020 News Feature by Lina Fisher

City Council District 10: In Seven-Car Race, Alter Finds Center Lane

D10 appears most likely to end in a December run-off – predicting who will make it past Nov. 3 is not easy.

"...on his own established such an encampment on state-owned land in South­east Austin.)..."

Oct. 9, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Public Notice: Two Steps Forward ...

A year ago, the last CodeNEXT draft was "unworkable." What's changed?

"...When we last saw Draft 3 of CodeNEXT, it was being excoriated as poorly drafted and organized,..."

April 19, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Public Notice: Trick or Treat!

Scary times for CodeNEXT

"...to be considered for the final draft of the CodeNEXT land development code rewrite. And in what someone must..."

Oct. 27, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Council: Raise Your Hand If You're Running for Mayor

It's impossible to ignore Council members' political aspirations

"...to participate formally in the rewrite of the city's Land Development Code – were already hot topics. But it..."

Feb. 8, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Council Watch

Planning Commission and two council members consider measures to reduce commercial noise pollution near residential land; Vista Ridge PUD developer negotiates compromise agreement on its single-family development overlooking Bull Creek.

"...Here's a mixed-use development that neighborhoods could do without: For over a year,..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Column by Kevin Fullerton

Infill On Trial

What's the Verdict on the Latest Central-City Boom?

"...may know, is the city's official comprehensive growth and land-use plan, adopted in the mid-1970s, still in effect despite..."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Public Notice: Old News on CodeNEXT

Scattershots, while waiting for Draft Three

"...of council members answering a seven-item questionnaire about the CodeNEXT land development code rewrite effort. Taken as a whole,..."

Jan. 26, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Steve Adler: 'New Way Forward'

"...spent 35 years in court defending women, workers, tenants, landowners, against discrimination and abuse. I spent almost 10 years..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

Naked City

Faster and friendlier, Part II: Revisions to the land development code

"...is dropping on City Hall's effort to make Austin's development review process "faster and friendlier," especially for small business...."

Nov. 7, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Mayfield Fights Back

Ward and June Say Nay in Northwest Hills

"...Any neighborhood that stands in the way of development is a nest of radicals, troublemakers, nay-sayers. So we..."

Jan. 3, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Road to Somewhere

Citizens' Planning Committee Draws a Map

"...to make sense of the messy confrontation we call development in Austin. With that beginning, the CPC members --..."

Dec. 22, 1995 News Feature

Public Notice: Peace on Earth, Good Will to Most

A final look forward at the start of the end of the CodeNEXT process

"...a while as when I wrote a column on CodeNEXT three weeks back ("Public Notice: Back to the Present,"..."

Dec. 22, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Point Austin: Looking for a Magic Bullet

CodeNEXT arguments reflect the complexity of affordability problems

"...Member Greg Casar discuss the in-progress rewrite of Austin's land development code, aka CodeNEXT. By the time you read..."

Sept. 15, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Council Watch

City Council considers status of various development-related lawsuits in executive sessions.

"...take a look at another front on which the development war -- supposedly settled by the peacekeeping force of..."

Oct. 22, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Austin At Large: Blinking in the Bright Light

Austinites stagger into the post(?)-pandemic streets, waving at the new neighbors

"...talking about the deficiencies of the current Title 25 [Land Development] code since at least the mid-Nineties; if we..."

Dec. 3, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

More From Laura Morrison

Mayoral candidate on CodeNEXT, APA, public process

"...concerns about where we’re moving forward, for instance, on CodeNEXT – which is obviously going to be a big..."

Jan. 11, 2018 News Post by Michael King

Public Notice: Stating the Obvious

Adler "Austin Bargain" missing some fine print

"...published in the Feb. 8 Austin American-Statesman ("Consensus on CodeNEXT Key to Managing Growth"), Mayor Steve Adler lays out..."

Feb. 10, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Developing Stories: 'L' Is for 'Lake' – and Legal and Ludicrous

The Waterfront Overlay has an intricate history

"...What a tangled web our Land Development Code weaves!..."

Sept. 14, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Separation Anxieties

New Section?

"...At the Historic Landmark Commission meeting in July, Stocklin presented six criteria from..."

Aug. 27, 1999 News Feature by Charles Nafus

Tied to the Tracks

"...doors are to begin with, both by creating "transit-oriented development" and by promoting generally higher densities and more varied..."

April 4, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City of Dreams

Visions in Earlier Austin Plans Not Unlike Our Own

"...unpredictable creeks, and hills and "fertile and gracefully undulating woodlands" whose beauty was remarkable even then, and General Burleson's..."

Dec. 1, 1995 News Feature

Council Poised to Pass Three Housing Supply-Friendly Items

The most controversial would allow larger apartment complexes near single-family homes

"...a productive year in initiating changes to Austin's outdated Land Development Code, but at their final meeting before taking..."

June 9, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

House Makes Its First Post-Freeze Moves to Fix the Grid

Who's got the power?

"...could untangle the state law provisions that stymied Austin's Land Development Code revision process last year. Currently, property owners..."

March 12, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice: Consensus? Conschmensus.

Majority rules ... absolutely

"...So the Land Development Code draft passed on second reading last week,..."

Feb. 21, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro

CodeGREEN

"...Editor, The signs that fill my neighbor’s yards reading “CodeNEXT is BACK, SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD” would make you think..."

Jan. 15, 2020 Postmarks

Public Notice: Everything in Its Place

Contemplating “urbanism”

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

Sept. 6, 2019 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Public Notice: Ora Houston's Nightmare

Night of the living acronyms

"...will come in a series of contentious decisions regarding land use code that will head to Council starting over..."

July 31, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Council Watch

Important Council actions in 1999 and what's on the agenda for 2000.

"...live? The council tried to work into the city code its stated commitment to justice in zoning decisions, with..."

Jan. 7, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Council Takes Long Day's Journey Into Night

"...with another long night of policy-making. From billboards to landfills (see "Solid Waste Land," p.26), it was an endurance..."

March 5, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff

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