Taking Budget Mountain by Strategy

To balance the city's long-term accounts, financial discussions need to climb beyond the General Fund

"...meeting AE finance executives held with the Electric Utility Commission discussing the budget, a "major factor" in the gap..."

July 23, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Downtown Austin Plan: Why Do It?

At least three council members question cost

"...Downtown: A solid plan for central-city rail transit and transportation is crucial to making the whole region's mobility work...."

March 20, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Spring Training

Seasonal snapshots of the council candidates

"...wants to support Austin's ecologically friendly industries, improve public transportation and nonautomobile forms of transportation, implement strict transparency at..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...from Wal-Mart will appear before the Zoning and Platting Commission on Tuesday, April 19 (6pm at City Hall) to..."

April 15, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Lines in the Sand

Austin Legislators Prepare to Redraw Their Own Districts -- While Doing Business as Usual

"...into the Capitol complex, said she'll be working on transportation issues, and will try to protect the one-quarter-cent sales..."

Jan. 19, 2001 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Postmarks

A tawdry Kelsonian cababble.

"...proposing to convert northern Hays County from rural to suburban under the guise of a water emergency. By refusing..."

June 9, 2000 Column

Postmarks

"...No.14], as a member and chairman of the city's Urban Forestry Board for seven years, I would like to..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Column

Postmarks

Extremists Not Righteous

"...thought people had gotten past the "HIV is an urban gay male disease"... especially the Chronicle. But in picking..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Column

Council: Rosewood Moves Forward

Nondiscrimination ordinance stalls

"...is based off suggestions offered by the Human Rights Commission in November...."

Feb. 26, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Neighborhood Watch

Sustainable Neighborhoods group advocates 'family-friendly' north side development

"...protect the interests of households with children in the urban core. While parts of the six areas SN serves..."

March 22, 2013 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Council Rings the Changes

A full agenda yields a few grains of legislative sand

"...Community Development, Austin Resource Recovery, Code Compliance, Public Works, Transportation, and Watershed Protection. The departmental agenda for next Wednesday,..."

May 4, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

The Daily Hustle: 6/22/10

Agenda highlights, lowlights – 'til midnight?

"...financial plan and analysis of financing options for an Urban Rail System.”..."

June 22, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Downtown Austin Plan Needs You

The DAP re-envisions Downtown, district by district

"...will add form-based (context-sensitive, place-making) elements, building on the urban design guidelines developed by the Design Commission. The standards..."

March 5, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City

"...to it as it flies away from you." – Commissioner Ron Davis on BFI's inability to find a site..."

Nov. 2, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

"...• City Planning Commission Chair David Sullivan was more than a little disappointed..."

Nov. 17, 2006 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...of us opposed it because it would cause more urban sprawl, already Central Texas' nemesis. We were assured in..."

April 30, 2004 Column

Naked City

"...At its May 28 meeting, the Travis County Commissioners Court is expected to act on a proposed solid..."

May 24, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Postmarks

"...dollars' worth of proposals from city departments, boards and commissions, citizens, and council members. Many worthwhile projects were left..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Column

Squaring the Triangle

The Three Austins Collide at a Central-City Crossroads

"...in Austin and gave them to the Department of Transportation. At that time, another bill -- which didn't pass,..."

July 4, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Vicious Cycle

Citywide Bike Plan: a Modest Beginning

"...result, according to a 1993 report of the Austin Transportation Study: only 49 miles of bike lanes were set..."

Feb. 16, 1996 News Feature

Killer Green Information Environmental BBSs

BBS Basics

"...including BikeNet (bicycle use in sports, touring, racing, and transportation), EcoNet (ecology issues), and fishing. Callers have limited access..."

April 28, 1995 News Feature by R.U. Steinberg

Postmarks

SXSW Diary

"...No.26]. The sentence that says Austin "lacks the public transportation necessary to make a truly dense downtown workable, and..."

March 20, 1998 Column

Big Money for Big Roads

Deciding how the Mobility Bond is spent on Austin's most traveled streets

"...Before Election Day in 2016, when the $720 million..."

Feb. 23, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Hitting the Trails

City Trails Vision Provokes Suburban Wrath

"...warned Slaughter Creek resident Eric Anderson at the Austin Transportation Study's meeting on October 14, adding that he has..."

Nov. 15, 1996 News Feature

Headlines

"...› The Transportation Department revealed the latest vision for urban rail to..."

May 25, 2012 News Feature

City Hall Hustle: In the Shadow of Sanders ...

Council facing less dramatic agenda this week

"...the Sanders family settlement. The city budget. The November transportation bond vote...."

Aug. 6, 2010 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Six-Card Stud

It's a wide-open Place 4 race

"...Concerning transportation, Cravey has earned the endorsement of the League of..."

April 25, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

The Downtown Austin Plan

The city unveils its Downtown Plan in progress

"...As Downtown grows and evolves, can the city's urban heart become a great place that embodies the character..."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Council's Got ... Talent?

At intermission, we talk to the headliners

"...eligible Downtown resident, he's presided over growth altering Austin's urban fabric much more than the Nineties dot-com swell did...."

July 13, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

"...evacuees who have nowhere else to go or lack transportation, as well as those with special medical needs not..."

June 8, 2007 News Feature

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