Cap Metro Wants Its Pre-Pandemic Groove Back

Everything’s in flux with new ridership, new leadership, new routes

"...Wei Li, an associate professor of urban planning at Texas A&M, can empathize with Brewer's transitless..."

Nov. 18, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

Three Steps Forward, One Step Back

Various projects slated for I-35, Airport Boulevard, and Congress Avenue

"..."as a pilot project for possible future form-based code planning initiatives elsewhere." As such, the council action signals a..."

May 7, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories

City off to promising start with Seaholm East Redevelopment District

"...aspirations, and values. The council's key goals include top-notch urban design and architecture, public spaces, sustainable/green building, transit connectivity,..."

March 7, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Clear-Cutting Austin

Rapid growth laying waste to city's urban forest

"...this is a story about multiple threats to our urban forest and the challenges of protecting it from the..."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Top 10 Developing Stories: We got a plan

"...denser, transit-friendly development along more than 50 miles of urban corridors...."

Jan. 5, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...pick by designating Kirk Watson "the Yoda of Austin's urban planning." If anyone on your staff needs a refresher..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Column

'Chronicle' Owes Yoda an Apology Over Watson

"...pick by designating Kirk Watson “the Yoda of Austin's urban planning.” If anyone on your staff needs a refresher..."

Oct. 18, 2005 Postmarks

How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

"...could use accessible writing that addresses the challenges of urban sprawl. Journalist Alex Marshall (Salon.com, The Washington Post, among..."

May 4, 2001 Books Review by Tim Walker

Point Austin: The Tree in the Way

Commission decision could lead to changes in tree ordinance

"...The Planning Commission spent weeks listening to public testimony and deliberating..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Column by Amy Smith

Mayor Kills Nov. Rail Vote

No 2010 bond referendum for urban rail

"...killing Austin voters' opportunity to approve bond funding for urban rail in November. Council was to vote on this..."

March 10, 2010 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Equinomics

"...very specific and financially ambitious, focusing on child care, urban planning, and telecommunications/multimedia...."

Aug. 13, 1999 News Feature

Public Notice: Can I Get a Scheduler?

District 9 opponents need to be in three places at once tonight

"...the new Council. Riley and Tovo both specialize in urban planning, but the differing approaches they take to land..."

Sept. 19, 2014 News Column by Nick Barbaro

The Town Lake Variance Shuffle

The hike-and-bike trail, questionable developer tactics, and a potential windfall for urban parks all flow together on East Riverside Drive

"...the project would require significant, precedent-setting variances from the Planning Commission or, if denied there, from City Council...."

Nov. 24, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

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

July 2, 2004 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Austinites demand drastic changes in land use and transportation planning, our tax dollars will continue to subsidize sprawl, air..."

Dec. 7, 2001 Column

Would You, Could You Be My Neighbor?

The new incarnation of neighborhood planning and the latest handicapping of the mayoral candidates

"...post as chair of the Central East Austin Neighborhood Planning Team, I cannot crow about how our neighborhood plan..."

Aug. 31, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Page Two

The opposition to Light Rail is rebutted by our Editor.

"...to me, such an obvious choice for our long-term urban planning. I'm afraid the alternative is not to build..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Project Connect Accelerates

As decisions near, controversy dogs urban rail plan

"..."The first phase of urban rail is, to a large degree, just a first..."

June 13, 2014 News Feature by Mac McCann

Leffingwell Proposes Rail/Comp Bond Vote in 2012

Change to city attorney's office, single-member districts also

"...what does this mean for future bond packages on urban rail and a comprehensive bond election? – got an..."

June 16, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

All Aboard the Soccer Train!

Major League Soccer and urban rail take city by storm

"...will also provide the missing link in a new urban rail line serving the entire Central Texas area. The..."

March 28, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Then There's This: Think Trees

Margret Hofmann's spirit lives within Austin's urban forest

"...that created even stricter measures to protect the city's urban forest. Getting that sucker passed was a pretty monumental..."

Feb. 10, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

The Daily Hustle: 5/11/10

City Council highlights this Thursday

"...an assortment of intriguing action items including water conservation, urban rail and our potential transportation bond election. TDH has..."

May 11, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...and rail transit, both stalled projects discussed for years. (Urban planning has never really been Leffingwell's thing.) The mayor..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature

Recommended Sessions

"...the Chronicle at on-site registration) available for the New Urbanism 101 program. It includes Opening Night With Henry Cisneros..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...Margarita Guy cheerfully fulfilled every enviro's stereotype about pave-the-planet suburbanites, AMD spokesman Travis Bullard tried heroically to buffer what..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Mixing Young, New Voters Worked for Kim

Place 3

"...the sort who drink mojitos and get excited about urban planning. Jay Reddy of the Planning Commission said he..."

May 13, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Happy Trails to All at Austin Confab

National Trails Symposium comes to Convention Center

"...a conference than Austin, with its 100 miles of urban trails and more on the docket. In addition to..."

Oct. 22, 2004 News Feature by Dan Oko

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: You Kids Play Nice!

The idea of combining Austin and Travis County's governments seems like a good one, but never seems to gain any momentum.

"...conservative GOP boxes Out-in-the-County for left-leaning ones in the urban core. This prompted mutterings and flutterings that progressive Green..."

Jan. 18, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Chapter 4: The Nineties!

March 1991 -- December 2000

"...Gary Bradley emerging from another successful snowing of the Planning Commissioners wearing a dark suit, dark tie, dark grin...."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

Slum, Sweet Slum?

An Annual Look at My Own Backyard

"...invited all the aggrieved stakeholders to form a "Community Planning Council" to "advise" the board, and to enjoy the..."

Oct. 24, 1997 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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