Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...Craig Estes, R-Wichita Falls, applauded the board for its "visionary approach toward student safety." But the policy did not..."

Aug. 29, 2008 News Feature

Library Fails to Carry

Commission Votes for Local Over Regional

"...can be made more efficient with fewer, but larger, regional branches. "Isn't it better to close the smaller branches..."

Feb. 13, 1998 News Feature by Walter Cole

Citizen Mary

A Profile of Mary Arnold, Advocate for Austin

"...has been in past years." The proposed SH 45 project that would link I-35 with MoPac, she says, is..."

April 5, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Day Trips & Beyond: Texas Springs Under Threat

Visit these five watering holes while you can

"...to offer. It doesn’t get any better. But that vision of watery bliss might become a reality of the..."

April 20, 2017 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

The Participants

"...Group, charged with producing guidelines for downtown public/ private projects like CSC; the DDAG's report is due to be..."

Dec. 3, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Off the Desk

"...Here's a chance to foster sensible development: The Community Vision Project -- a partnership of the City of Austin,..."

June 21, 1996 News Feature

The LCRA Moves to Turn on the Tap

Future of Hill Country waits on Authority's decisions on water plan

"...of Austin, where the Lower Colorado River Authority is projecting a thriving customer base to sprout over the next..."

Dec. 3, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Why Portland Doesn't Look Like Austin

Rose (City)-Colored Glasses

"...years -- the Outer Southeast document discusses "a perfect vision... for the year 2020" -- but would like to..."

Dec. 15, 1995 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Gone and Quartered

Stiffed on Capital Metro money, the city scrambles to fund another $51 million in transportation projects

"...planned since 1995 was finally approaching construction. But both projects relied on "Quarter Cent Program" funding from Capital Metropolitan..."

April 16, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Climate, Meet Mobility

Copenhagen is all about green transport – and Austin should be, too

"...February 2007. When City Council passed it, the big vision was to usher in a new era. Austinites collectively..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Tentatively Titled

Austin's Class of 1997

"...Garza, who will use his own name on the project rather than the Dah-veed band moniker. "Several of the..."

Jan. 24, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Austin's Transportation Future: What Will It Look Like in 2033?

Highways, headless horsemen, and high-speed trains: The ghost of our transportation future

"...From simplistic to futuristic, the next decade of transportation projects figures to dramatically reshape how we get around in..."

Nov. 10, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Neighborhood Soup

"...Austin Tomorrow, the noble, relevant, yet useless Seventies urban vision that's still the official and charter-mandated city plan. And..."

Aug. 1, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Working on the Railroad

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

"...Before standing-room-only crowds, a historical brokering of a regional Central Texas transit system – focused on rail, not..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Here Come the Transporters

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

"...parts of the same plan. Though the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority's toll-road system and Capital Metro's commuter-rail-and-bus proposal..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Matter Over Mind

The proposed Cypress Realty Development in Dripping Springs

"...clinging to its small-town roots, a youthful group of visionaries decided it would be cool to box up their..."

Sept. 21, 2001 News Feature by Rob Curran

Who Owns Sixth Street

Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?

"...admit they have never come forward with any overarching vision for the street that would achieve those goals. "They..."

May 4, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Pete's Principle

Ex-Chamber Head Winstead Takes Us to the Toll Road

"...month when he addressed the first ever Austin-San Antonio regional planning conference at Southwest Texas State University in San..."

May 22, 1998 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

Austin at Large: Let’s Get Connected Again

What we can do now to prepare for the mobility future

"...should I find upon my return but a long-range regional mobility plan, the very bone I've gnawed for so..."

Dec. 21, 2018 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...the Texas Youth Commission scandal, the Texas Civil Rights Project announced a lawsuit against TYC on behalf of Joseph..."

April 13, 2007 News Feature

Public Notice: Show and Tell

Civic leaders have big plans for your future

"...for the city. Both are clearly labeled as draft vision plans, and incomplete ones at that, with more sections..."

Oct. 5, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Brigid Shea: 'A Proven Leader'

Brigid Shea sits down for a Q&A on a wide range of city topics

"...time on the council and my work on city projects. I've actually told people that I think everybody should..."

April 27, 2012 News Feature by Amy Smith

Building Utopia

After years of pipe dreams, politics, and planning, the new Mueller Neighborhood is rising at last

"...offers the gratifying headiness of a nearly perfect world vision. Co-created by passionate Austinites, this inner-city village on the..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Austintonio?

Connecting San Antonio and Austin by Train

"...We're really victims of our own lack of vision," says Ross Milloy, talking about the rapid and relatively..."

April 4, 1997 News Feature by Dan Quinn

'Chronicle' Endorsements

May 10 municipal elections

"...in collaboration with other council members as well as regional representatives, began to turn that agency in a more..."

May 9, 2008 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

'Chronicle' Endorsements

May 10 municipal elections

"...in collaboration with other council members as well as regional representatives, began to turn that agency in a more..."

April 25, 2008 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Downtown Bound

City to Lease Downtown Lots to Residential Developers

"...in downtown." --Matt Kreisle, leader of the Heritage Austin downtown-vision effort. photograph by Jana Birchum Of course, were it..."

Nov. 28, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Past, Present, and Future of Waller and Shoal Creeks

Finally doing right by Austin's waterways

"...central-city creeks are on Austin's well-known to-do list of projects that have taken generations to bring to fruition (a..."

Nov. 30, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...• The Austin Area Regional Transit group made a presentation of its regional rail..."

Jan. 5, 2007 News Feature

Manifesto Destiny

Literate pop, the Elephant 6 in your Parish

"...but the cooperative spirit that gave birth to new projects in the "alternative" vein (a defunct designation, to be..."

July 23, 2004 Music Feature by Melanie Haupt

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