In Politics to Win, Again and Again

Introducing the passionate people who get our local politicians elected

"...leaders, helping to create the Save Our Springs Alliance. SOS launched a petition drive to put a citizen-written watershed..."

Sept. 13, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

City Council Prepares to Send Charter Amendments to Voters

Changes to petition elections coming to your ballot

"...collect enough signatures from Austin voters to put proposed ordinance changes on the ballot of a citywide election. The..."

July 12, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Save Our Springs Sues City Over Statesman Site Redevelopment

They claim city violated procedural rules and affordability requirements

"...SOS claims that the PUD “goes beyond zoning by essentially..."

June 7, 2024 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Tensions Rise Ahead of Meeting on Zilker Plan

Dazed and confused over Zilker

"...Rewild Zilker – a coalition of Save Our Springs (SOS) Alliance, Sierra Club, and the Zilker Neighborhood Assoc­iation –..."

May 19, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Austin's Petition Tradition Is Up for Review

It could get a little harder to put an ordinance on a ballot

"...Austin voters can write their own city ordinance, get a fraction of the electorate to sign a..."

March 14, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Hays Project Threatens Aquifer, Pressures Small Town

Wading through MUD-dy waters

"...double the impervious cover allowed by Save Our Springs ordinance standards (35% as opposed to 15%), and proposes mostly..."

Oct. 28, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Remembering Bruce Todd and Sarah Weddington

Remembering Bruce Todd and Sarah Weddington

"...prevailed at the ballot box with its environmental protection ordinance. Shea, who led that campaign, was elected to the..."

Dec. 31, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

When Did the Single-Family Home Go From Being the American Dream to an Urbanist Nightmare?

One policy wonk's view of how we got here

"...The DDZ followed the Save Our Springs Ordinance – a citizen initiative overwhelmingly approved by Austin voters..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

Land Development Code: What's New in Draft Two

A look at the latest version of Austin's revised land use rules

"...• The SOS Ordinance is preserved intact – for now...."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight

A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes

"...in the years since the landmark Save Our Springs Ordinance passed in 1992, back when opposition to development in..."

Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Senate Delivers First Blow to Paid Sick Leave

SB 15, the boy who cried "voter fraud!" advance, and other Lege news

"...for holidays and sick days, and would nullify existing ordinances, including Austin's, now tied up in the courts. [inset-1-right]..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Farewell and “Gracias” to Gus Garcia, Austin Trailblazer

Hispanic activist, former trustee, council member, mayor died Monday, at 84

"...a 1994 court ruling overturning the Save Our Springs Ordinance, eventually sustained at the Texas Supreme Court. "That vote..."

Dec. 21, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

Quote of the Week: Bill Bunch

Save Our Springs Alliance executive director gets it a little twisted

"...opposition to CodeNEXT by endorsing the very sprawl the SOS ordinance aims to control. (As quoted by our friend..."

Oct. 12, 2018 News Column

The Texas Hammer: Save Our Springs (If They’ll Let Us)

Austin's environmental values are in perennial conflict with the legislators

"...had its symbolic peak when Austin's Save Our Springs Ordinance (1992) triggered legislative "grandfathering" of developments that had been..."

March 17, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Rush to Judgment: CodeNEXT 1.0 out Now

Draft now out, it's time for some hot opinions

"...member of the CAG and an attorney with the SOS Alliance, told the Chronicle Wednesday that the coalition is..."

Feb. 3, 2017 News Feature by Caleb Pritchard

Leffingwell Shares the Ride

Former mayor now chair of “Ridesharing Works” campaign

"...Monday afternoon, Leffingwell argued that the proposed Prop. 1 ordinance – placed on the May 7 ballot by petition..."

April 12, 2016 News Post by Michael King

Preserving Austin's Natural Mecca

Interactive documentary project Living Springs celebrates Barton Springs

"...of $85. The movement to revise the Comprehensive Watershed Ordinance to stop damaging development in the area led to..."

July 31, 2015 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

Church and State

"...that Steve Adler “worked against the Save Our Springs ordinance.” The ad, paid for by the the Shudde Fath..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Postmarks

Then There's This: Whither Vested Rights?

Rejection of first case under new regs portends cloudy future

"...Just two weeks after approving a new Vested Rights Ordinance – ostensibly revised to satisfy litigious developers and their..."

July 18, 2014 News Column by Amy Smith

Mike Martinez: 'Leadership of Austin's Tomorrow'

"...don't think we need to revisit things like the SOS Ordinance, I don't think we need to revisit old,..."

May 30, 2014 News Feature

Then There's This: Urban (Watershed) Legend

In reversal, city says new development must comply with SOS

"...must comply with regulations under the Save Our Springs Ordinance. City staff made the determination this month, reversing a..."

March 14, 2014 News Column by Amy Smith

Staff Photographer Jana Birchum's Favorite Photos of 2013

January 6, 2014. 12 photos.

"...The 20th anniversary celebration of the Save Our Springs (SOS) Water Quality Ordinance brought out the real heart of..."

Jan. 6, 2014 Photo Gallery

'Zombie' Projects and Lake Austin

Council will consider remedy for expired site plans and lake protections

"...politically sensitive agenda items involving the Save Our Springs Ordinance: a long-simmering development plan that failed to secure a..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Feature by Amy Smith

Then There's This: The Power of Threats

Lege's bullying tactics have winning record at City Hall

"...attorney presented them with two options: either repeal the ordinance in one fell swoop, or just suspend enforcement of..."

Aug. 30, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Then There's This: Council's Version of Sine Die

Packed agenda address affordability, wages, waivers, and more

"...has asked Council to revisit a 2011 prevailing wage ordinance in an attempt to settle a months-long wage dispute..."

June 28, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Commissioner Race Heats Up

Shea formally announces her candidacy for Pct. 2

"...campaign that led to voter passage of the 1992 SOS water-quality protection ordinance...."

June 23, 2013 News Post by Amy Smith

Communication Breakdown

Does the closure of HausBar Farms spell trouble for the urban farming movement?

"...and so here's where it clashes. You don't see SOS [Save Our Springs] over here, or Sierra Club."..."

April 12, 2013 Food Feature by Anna Toon

Then There's This: Fight or Flight

Council tries to find balance between developers, enviros, and the Lege

"...mad dash to rescind the city's 16-year-old Project Duration Ordinance was touched off by an attorney general's opinion last..."

March 29, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

City Looks to Outside Counsel

Repeal of land code 'not a black and white legal issue'

"...weigh differing legal interpretations of the city’s Project Duration Ordinance, long a burr under the saddle of developers...."

March 25, 2013 News Post by Amy Smith

Council Notes: All About AE?

This week, the Council takes on urban density, grandfathering, and parking

"...sparks, as it concerns the city's project duration/pro­ject dormancy ordinance. The state attorney general recently opined that the city's..."

March 22, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

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