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Jan. 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
Naked City
Local news this week in Austin
"...Was it politics or just mass confusion that made Planning Commission members Betty Baker, Ray Vrudhula, Silver Garza, and..."
June 15, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett
A City With Smarts
Austin Wising Up to Growth Plans
"..."We want to draw a distinction between inner-city neighborhoods and downtown itself, because there may be different tools..."
April 17, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Suburban Blight
Austinites' Escape to the 'Burbs Backfires
"...Current fashions in public policy and planning likewise leave the existing 'burbs high and dry. It's..."
March 27, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
"...The fast moving targets of Fix290 and Oak Hill neighborhood planning efforts make it difficult for reporters and readers..."
June 16, 2006 Column
Naked City
Neighborhoods get together for a workshop to discuss how to deal with Smart Growth, redevelopment, and neighborhood empowerment.
"...The hot spot on the neighborhood scene last weekend was the cafeteria at Martin Junior..."
May 26, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
The Participants
"...Architects and a member of the city of Austin's Planning Commission, where he chairs the Codes and Ordinances subcommittee...."
Dec. 3, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Grow and Prosper
With neighbors still reeling from 1990 expansion, Hyde Park Baptist plans another growth project.
"...unlikely outpost for a contingent of religious pioneers. The neighborhood, built in 1889 in what was then the far..."
Nov. 19, 1999 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett
Council Takes Long Day's Journey Into Night
"...was the threat of (horrors) students moving into the neighborhood. Though there are some unsavory factors that accompany living..."
March 5, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff
Eastside Hotel Denied
Planning Commission fails to approve permit
"...The city's Planning Commission voted 4-1 Tuesday, June 9, against granting a..."
June 12, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú
VMU: Coming Soon Near You
Time to weigh in on Vertical Mixed Use zoning
"...and snazzy mixed-used projects along major roads in your neighborhood? Or, do you never want another developer to darken..."
March 23, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
The Rise of McMansions
Those large-scale "starter castles" on postage-stamp plots of land bring two of the Austin City Council's most cherished ideals into direct conflict.
"...bad, a principle reinforced at regular intervals by the Planning Commission, Save Our Springs Alliance, and the Sierra Club...."
March 3, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves
How Not to Gentrify: HRC Asks for Eastside Moratorium
Alvarez advises caution, further study
"...not to the unmixed delight of some longtime Eastside neighborhood groups. Late last month, spurred by a report from..."
Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar
Austin @ Large: Triangle, Full Circle
Seven glorious years later, and did we learn anything?
"...like Peter Calthorpe have colonized Central Texas, and the progressive-planning bug has spread from its Hyde Park incubators all..."
Oct. 8, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
City Hall's Bumpy Road
Can Austin planners and the City Council ever bring an end to the local transportation wars?
"...Katie Larsen, a senior planner in the city's Transportation, Planning, and Sustainability Dept., catches the No. 16 bus in..."
May 23, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Railing at the Rail Yard:
Capital Metro runs into (surprise!) angry neighbors as it contemplates redeveloping its Eastside rail yard.
"...inclusion, and think the transit authority is putting the neighborhoods at risk. The setting, as often, is the Eastside;..."
Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Here Come the Neighborhoods
"...a brilliant blue sky, members of the North University Neighborhood Assn. gathered on the steps of City Hall Feb...."
March 1, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Council Watch
City lays out new housing program, Southpark Meadows goes for world-class venue, Zilker Neighborhood Association holds council candidates forum
"...income, which is $44,300 for a family of four. Neighborhood Housing and Community Development director Paul Hilgers called the..."
April 28, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson
What Do Neighborhoods Want?
Battle of the Week
"...The Balcones Civic Association has been neighborhood planning since long before it was cool. The group..."
Sept. 11, 1998 News Column by Jenny Staff
Breaking the Code
Plain English Is the Goal for Land Development Rules
"...take care of some of those activities through ongoing planning. So that's why we have the level of detail..."
May 15, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Postmarks
Slusher Kicks Ass!
"...shaping city policy to fit the vision of our environmentalist/neighborhood coalition. In their short tenure, this group has achieved..."
March 13, 1998 Column
Still All About the Money?
WDP hopes Endeavor will agree to stronger worker safety terms
"...other projects. That decision came as a blow to neighborhood advocates, including members of the East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood..."
March 27, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp
TODs and Their Zones
What's what (and what's planned) at Austin rail stops
"...The TOD ordinance creates four classifications of zones: "neighborhood centers" (lowest density, buildings no higher than four stories),..."
Nov. 26, 2010 News Feature
UT's Brackenridge Tract: For Love or Money?
West Austin readies for another battle over redevelopment
"...are once again under consideration for massive new development. Neighborhood groups, university departments, graduate students, and local golfers are..."
Sept. 26, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham
Developing Stories: What Would Andrés Duany Do?
The town-planning messiah fixes Austin.
"...Cedar Door about solving Austin's various current urban-design and planning conundrums...."
April 13, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor
Developing Stories: Private Projects, Public Benefits
Could developers become Austin's new benefactors?
"...illustrated at City Hall last week. In one room, Planning Commission heard a presentation from the Affordable Housing Incentives..."
April 6, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor
Building Utopia
After years of pipe dreams, politics, and planning, the new Mueller Neighborhood is rising at last
"...In its master plan, the new Mueller neighborhood in near East Austin offers the gratifying headiness of..."
Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
Naked City
Villas Goes to Bat
"...an upscale student housing project. Yesterday, the North University Neighborhood Association failed to restore their valid petition against the..."
April 5, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple
Postmarks
More letters about music, art, and urban planning
"...Bizarro Planning Survey..."
Aug. 17, 2001 Column
Naked City
The City Council moves forward with Austin's regional transportation plan, but assures neighbors of road-widening projects proposed in the plan that they, not the state of Texas, have the authority to decide what gets built and when.
"...that let us know it was all an act. Neighborhood leaders had hoped the council would drive a stake..."
