Road Rage

The Barton Springs Road project has encountered more than few speed bumps

"...meantime, what had been at first conceived as a neighborhood street improvement plan had progressively become, willy-nilly, a municipal..."

Aug. 30, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Patching Things Up

Triangle Developers and Neighbors Work Together

"...by Cencor Realty Services, has the environmentally aware, pro-compact-city neighborhood in a bit of a quandary -- after years..."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Council Watch

Here and There

"...done before - voted in opposition to a valid neighborhood petition. Goodman joined the other six councilmembers in a..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Column

Deadlocked Over Density

Neighbors say ARA's development plans for East 11th Street would clash with existing homes and businesses, including the historic Victory Grill

"...never seem to arrive without long delay, bitter controversy, neighborhood opposition, and a common perception that the whole process..."

Sept. 5, 2008 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Taco Kings, Besieged

A conflict with neighborhoods has made the previously independent street taco vendors organize in self-defense

"...The four members of AVATACO, a newly formed association of Austin taco stand owners, spill out of a..."

Aug. 11, 2006 News Feature by Michael May

North Central Blues

APD's new North Central Area Command force is bringing community policing to blighted north central neighborhoods

"...a vast, overgrown vacant lot that has become the neighborhood dump. Hundreds of beer bottles litter the dense weeds,..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Car Croquet

Neighborhood leaders seek stronger code enforcement front-lawn parking.

"...says Walker, a member of the North Austin Civic Association and a seasoned community activist. "'I don't park on..."

Sept. 28, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Wall of Separation

Neighbors of Hyde Park Baptist Church Take a Final Stand Against Its Proposed Parking Garage

"...garage in the middle of the historic Hyde Park neighborhood. Unfortunately, that's not to be...."

Feb. 2, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Naked City

The city's way of handling the proposed ordinance banning lawn parking causes a rift in South Austin.

"..."The city's making the neighborhood associations run a citywide election for them," said Bryan..."

July 5, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Fighting to Stay

As Austin's housing market booms, its poorest residents fight to exist

"...This pattern has put neighborhoods around town on edge, and a culture of resistance..."

April 15, 2016 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Naked City

The West Austin Park, for years an unofficial off-leash "dog park" for neighborhood residents, gets an unexpected makeover into a T-ball field.

"...romp there. Dog-owning residents of the Old West Austin neighborhood (which extends west from Lamar to West Lynn) are..."

May 11, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Use Only as Directed

Patenting the Formula

"...Committee, whose report is the Magna Carta of Austin's neighborhood ascendancy -- we still considered "planning" to be about..."

Aug. 20, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Competing Tunnel Visions

Traffic Solutions at Sixth and Lamar

"...retailers and residents, championed by the Old West Austin Neighborhood Association (OWANA) and the West End Association, want to..."

Jan. 30, 1998 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

"...WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD?: Prior to last week, Councilmember Eric Mitchell, the de..."

Aug. 18, 1995 News Feature

The Action's in Place 3

Shade, Tovo, Nofziger race most watched and closely contested

"...two. Challenger Kathie Tovo, tested in the world of neighborhood politics (as a leader of the Bouldin Creek Neighborhood..."

April 29, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Bradford-Nohra Ruling Leads to Sequel

Hyde Park neighborhood fights Hyde Park family over Hyde Park home, Part II

"...owners of the Bradford-Nohra home against the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association. The group seeks to preserve the semi neo-classical..."

Aug. 27, 2010 News Feature by Amy Smith

Wheels Within Wheels

Council's boards and commissions appointments are always good conversation fodder

"...areas of the city that have already adopted their neighborhood plans, ultimately recommending approval or disapproval to the council...."

Aug. 7, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Point Austin: A Tale of Two Cities

Thinking about affordable housing from all sides

"...The immediate neighborhood was represented this day by Carol Gibbs of the..."

July 4, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Mixed Use, Mixed Emotions

An anniversary review of Austin's vertical mixed-use program discovers a range of responses to density, change, and planning

"...was an 11th-hour addition to the ordinance: giving individual neighborhoods a voice. Citizens – through their official neighborhood planning..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Concord – At Last

Up from the muck at Concordia

"...documents – capturing agreements among the city, the Hancock Neighborhood Association, and redeveloper East Avenue IG – weren't ready..."

March 30, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...'A Neighborhood Nightmare'..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...read with interest the letter from Patrick Goetz ["Postmarks: Neighborhood Group to Blame," July 13] describing the Rosedale Neighborhood..."

July 27, 2001 Column

Regular Folk

"...the rest of us. Several strolls through South Austin neighborhoods yielded conversations with every kind of person -- retirees,..."

Dec. 4, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Back to the Drawing Board

Process for Mapping School Boundary Lines Improved, Still Difficult

"...of 625 families living in Northwood - the latest neighborhood to mobilize over proposed attendance zone changes. The North..."

April 3, 1998 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

Postmarks

"...There Goes the Neighborhood..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Column

Austin Neighborhoods Council: A Whole New Book

Civic discourse on the skids

"...Last Wednesday the Austin Neighborhoods Council voted to change the part of its bylaws..."

May 4, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Developing Stories

Big Box, Back Off!; Las Manitas Swirls On; and Bucking the City

"...of granting approval. Issues to be considered would include neighborhood appropriateness, lighting, public safety and welfare, traffic impact, and..."

Oct. 27, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Will Towering Condos Spring to City Approval?

Developers tout proposed high-rise as perfect fit for Downtown; neighbors aren't so sure

"...and other ZAPsters, along with the vocal objections of neighborhood foes, mean the road to high-rise living may not..."

Oct. 21, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Breaking news from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...pattern of assigning young and inexperienced officers in minority neighborhoods (see APD, City Kick Off 'Dialogue')...."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Expanding on neighborhood expansion, taking C. Robison to task, and much more.

"...Neighborhood Group to Blame..."

July 13, 2001 Column

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