Pocket Parks Popping Up All Over Town

Miniparks stake out green space in a crowded city

"...recent opening of Sparky Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Central Austin, is part of an encouraging trend..."

April 17, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Should Have Been 'Regulate and Mediate'

"...City Ordinance No. 030320-23, in part three of the Neighborhood Plan Amendment Process, which is the city’s conflict of..."

Dec. 11, 2007 Postmarks

Run for Shelter

City takes first significant step toward relocating Town Lake Animal Center

"...home and instructed the city manager's office to begin planning for the construction. The council would then close the..."

Oct. 19, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Clear-Cutting Austin

Rapid growth laying waste to city's urban forest

"...next door to his house in the Deep Eddy neighborhood had been cleared of its previous, modestly sized house..."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Seattle Succeeded Because City Challenged Neighborhoods

"...Gregor failed to mention the central dynamic that made neighborhood planning in Seattle so successful, namely that neighborhoods were..."

May 22, 2007 Postmarks

Election Notes

Prop. 2 will shape the way the area develops at a time when the community is trying to decide for itself what sort of neighborhood it wants to be

"...is trying to decide for itself what sort of neighborhood it wants to be. "If Proposition 2 passes, we..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Story Is Neighborhood Planning..."

July 2, 2004 Column

Naked City

Too Many Cooks at Saltillo?

"...members will be required to have skills in either neighborhood or community involvement, finance or real estate finance, urban..."

July 18, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...reasonable infill development projects from taking place in their neighborhoods...."

May 3, 2002 Column

Naked City

Plan it, Damn it!

"...SOS battle? Perhaps, and this time the issue is neighborhood planning. At noon on Monday, Feb. 25, representatives of..."

Feb. 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Cast a Giant Shadow

Evaluating the mayoral legacy of Kirk Watson

"...says Joseph Martinez, chair of the East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood Planning Team and now Betty Baker's vice-chair on the..."

Nov. 23, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...NPCD, Sept. 14, 2001). Ms. Smoot's rants against the neighborhood planning process should elevate her to the Republic of..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Column

Naked City

Clean Campaigns heat wave, Alcoa's new problems, No Pipeline solutions at AAS, Personnel puzzles at AISD, City resignations, Mueller redevelopment candidates, Hyde Park meets again & Ed Herman's letter to the Times

"...this month: Austin Public Library associate director Cynthia Kidd; Neighborhood Housing and Community Development's Stuart Hersh, the lead staffer..."

Aug. 3, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

The council approves a controversial, and hotly contested, site plan that allows Hyde Park Baptist Church to build on 58 acres of parkland it owns in northwest Austin.

"...the City Council last Thursday. Five residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the Northwest Austin park known as the Quarries,..."

Nov. 17, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle

Who Will Be the New Council Voice for District 9?

Eight candidates vie for Austin's most powerful YIMBYs and NIMBYs

"...clearly divided urbanist and preservationist constituencies. It contains such neighborhoods, mostly consisting of single-family homes, as Hyde Park, Travis..."

Oct. 28, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Plaza Saltillo Decision Comes Down to Money

Cap Metro chooses Endeavor over Saltillo Collaborative

"...In a blow to neighborhood and grassroots activists, the Capital Metro board on Mon­day..."

June 27, 2014 News Feature by Amy Smith

About That History? It's Gone.

Developers destroy a little bit more of Eastside history

"...windowless industrial buildings. It feels isolated from the vibrant neighborhoods only a few blocks away and, at least in..."

May 4, 2012 News Feature by Cindy Widner

Point Austin: Suburban Nightmare

PromiseLand West amphitheatre plans drown out neighborhood opposition

"...When it comes to neighborhood development issues, there are two diametrically opposed camps: those..."

Nov. 18, 2011 News Column by Amy Smith

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, Jan. 20-27

"...recommendations for Northeast Austin's Cameron Road corridor at this neighborhood planning session. 6:30pm. Virginia L. Brown Recreation Center, 7500..."

Jan. 21, 2011 News Column

A Cacophony of Passions

Why the City Council changed the boards and commissions system – and what still needs to be done

"...technology, live music, threatened historic landmarks, cracked sewage pipes, neighborhood parks and libraries, minority contracting, or hippie jewelry on..."

Jan. 30, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Big Picture Map

A comprehensive map of Town Lake Corridor public and private development projects

"...owned Toomey Road area is part of South Lamar Neighborhood Planning Process. Concept plan for an Overlay District would..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Feature

Church Plan Unneighborly?

Redeemer Presbyterian Church's impending move from Concordia University's campus to East Austin has mix of homeowners and urban planners in Rosewood and Upper Boggy Creek area upset

"...lot of members with a bunch of clout – planning to build a massive complex on limited land. The..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Game, Set ... Match?: Tennis Battle Rages

Galindo neighbors want South Austin Park kept as open space

"...in 1998, but enough years have passed for the neighborhood to form its own ideas. Shocked by the vociferous..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Austin @ Large: Strictly Need to Know

Austin could learn something from Vancouver about public planning information.

"...Battle-scarred neighborhood veterans probably already understand why I find this bit..."

Nov. 1, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

The city gets into the affordable housing development business, buying land in East Austin for a mixed-use development there.

"...dreams of affordable villas with the power to restore neighborhood vitality. Despite some small-scale successes, the public has come..."

June 1, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Endorsements

"...he is environmental justice director), the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood planning team, and PODER, is a cleaner -- not..."

May 5, 2000 News Feature

Endorsements

"...he is environmental justice director), the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood planning team, and PODER, is a cleaner -- not..."

April 21, 2000 News Feature

Hispanic Pass Over

Garcia, Spelman Open Cans of Racial Controversy

"...who represents El Concilio, an East Austin organization of neighborhood groups, flung the expletive at Kirk Watson while expressing..."

Aug. 22, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...The Planning Commission has recommended the East Cesar Chavez, Dawson, and..."

Aug. 15, 1997 News Feature

City Promises to Obey Law ... Eventually

JJ Seabrook neighborhood fights back against 'ongoing construction site'

"...from their annoying neighbors, residents in the JJ Seabrook neighborhood (east of Airport Boulevard, roughly from Anchor Lane/Manor Road..."

July 19, 2013 News Feature by Elizabeth Pagano

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