City Council Returns to Land Use Code Conversation

"Everybody is really saying the same thing"

"...in mid-2018, but others would like to focus on small area plans and "context-sensitive" decisions rather than blanket upzonings,..."

April 19, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

As Long As There's a Plan

Council, "people" co-exist on effort to create affordable housing

"...Home Depot at I-35 and St. Johns sits a small "pocket park" – two picnic tables and a few..."

Sept. 21, 2018 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Playback: Music Policy Draft Fails Venues

A complete detachment from the original vision of the Omnibus

"...pass from accountability perpetuates the mismatch of high-rises vs. small businesses. Agent of Change legislation needs application anywhere there's..."

May 19, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...poles which if fully explained could bring a very small part of the picture into greater, more detailed focus...."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Point Austin: Return on Investment

Austin Energy rate cuts are both a financial and political dividend

"...least amount of energy, are more often residents of small, energy-efficient apartments or condos – the mayor cited himself..."

Sept. 2, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Public Notice: Density vs. Affordability

It is categorically impossible for market forces to build housing in the central city that is affordable by any definition of that word

"...was highlighted in the relatively obscure issue known as small lot amnesty. At issue is whether existing legal plots..."

Feb. 19, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

We Remember What the Dormouse Said

Ten authors cut you a little slice of their own personal Wonderlands

"...distinctly recall the smoky Austin living rooms and efficiency apartments of my early twenties, and the announcement by a..."

March 31, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playback: Chilling With ScoreMore

Austin promoters ScoreMore tap San Antonio

"...St. has long been expected to be renovated into apartments...."

Nov. 28, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Sour Notes Tour Diary

Local indie troupe cruises NXNE and all points between

"...it easier for our hosts in their tiny DC apartments...."

June 28, 2013 Music Post by Jared Paul Boulanger

Naked City

"...block of West Fifth with retail, restaurants, and 138 apartments. Some West Austinites are worried, however, that their neighborhood..."

June 15, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...a several hundred million dollar investment because of a small little restaurant?" – J. Willard Marriott, CEO of Marriott..."

Sept. 29, 2006 News Feature

Sound Checking for a Pulse, and Finding It

The rock docs in this year's 24 Beats Per Second program rattle and hum with soul and revolt.

"...thousand bands toiling away in obscurity, traveling around in small vans, playing in even smaller clubs. For these bands,..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

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"...The first sentence of Jordan Smith's story describes "the small Southeast Texas city of Edna, seat of Jackson Co."..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Column

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"...but an alternative option. Some of our stations have apartments adjacent, but they are a novelty and not available..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Column

Bittersweet Spotlight

Round Rock's Ellen Marlow is on Broadway (at the age of 10)

"...Big Apple. At home, she's been auditioning primarily for smaller-scale musicals, and the talent pool is much smaller. She..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Arts Feature by Clay Swartz

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"...at CSC. Let's get behind some incentives to bring small businesses to downtown to serve the population, but don't..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...provisions making it easier to build New Urbanist-style projects (small-lot homes, condos and row houses, etc.) in both residential..."

Nov. 26, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...for a 93,000-square-foot HEB grocery, which would anchor a small shopping center. Several neighborhood associations appeared more willing to..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

San Francisco in South Austin

Finding dim sum and Cantonese seafood, early birds and all-nighters, at Marco Polo

"...a few minutes away and an ocean of student apartments across I-35 (and Wan Fu, just down Oltorf, doing..."

March 19, 2004 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Clark-Madison Unfair to University Neighborhoods

"...neighborhood in the city. Students here rent our garage apartments, small houses, rooms in our bungalows, or the other..."

Jan. 29, 2004 Postmarks

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"...acres. That land is currently developed with homes and apartments with no structural controls, and the corresponding runoff drains..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Column

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"...credible and well documented, not the "conspiracy theories" that small-minded critics like King claim. I would recommend that Mr...."

June 13, 2003 Column

Council Eyes Neighborhood Plan Changes -- Again, and Again, and Again

"...The plans also include Smart Growth infill provisions like small-lot homes or garage apartments. (Other NP provisions, dealing with..."

May 23, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Comforts of Home Cooking

Two Austin schools are teaching the old-fashioned way.

"...1910, a huge oak-shaded back yard with two garage apartments and two cottages, one of which is Shulman's former..."

Feb. 7, 2003 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

Is "neighborhood planning" the tool for the job Austin needs done?

"...the yuppies, the poor people, the large employers, the small employers? What kinds of development should we require, not..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Letters at 3AM

"...or so at night, and it wasn't unusual for small children to be up at 10, even 11 or..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

Buying Certainty for Stratus

"...office and retail space, as well as 400 upscale apartments on the Lantana tract, which lies near the intersection..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature by Robert Bryce

David to Goliath-Light: Drop Dead!

The newly formed Save South Congress Association aims to put the brakes on light rail's return.

"...high-density development," Lippincott said. "They want to run these small businesses out of the neighborhood and replace them with..."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town

Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.

"...through a back door. Others would be cramped little apartments with doors opening into filthy alleyways. Rotting garbage could..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Ian Quigley

No Place Like Home

All Belinda Acosta wanted was a roof over her head that wouldn't explode into flames. Little did she know that jumping into the Austin housing market is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

"...was the place she looked at that was so small she thought surely, a hidden camera was behind a..."

July 28, 2000 Features Feature by Belinda Acosta

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