Then There's This: Tuning In to Austin

Before revising land code, city performs field work with 'Code Next'

"...City planning staff and a team of consultants spent this week..."

Sept. 27, 2013 News Column by Amy Smith

Then There's This: People Get Ready

You don't need no baggage, you just get on board

"...the next three decades, it's important to have a plan...."

March 9, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Why Portland Doesn't Look Like Austin

Rose (City)-Colored Glasses

"...city council hearing on the recommended Outer Southeast Community Plan. In its current form, three years in the making,..."

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

Reinventing Airport Boulevard

Can 'form-based zoning' transform a suburban drag into walkable neighborhoods?

"...for Austin as a whole during the city's ongoing comprehensive-planning process...."

Jan. 8, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Still Looking for a Home

Austin searches once again for a comprehensive solution for homelessness

"...designed a solution that includes a business-community-backed (i.e., well-funded), comprehensive approach that offers a significant portion of the city's..."

Nov. 30, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Scaling the Pyramid

City moves to reprioritize social service programs in the new year

"...as with other omnibus city efforts like the Austin Comprehensive Plan, the city's commitment to these programs is as..."

Oct. 15, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Letter to City Council

Reasons why the city should forestall WTP 4

"...Request to focus efforts on water conservation, reuse and planning instead of committing $400 million more of bond debt..."

Feb. 20, 2009 News Feature

Austin Resource Recovery Charts a New Course to Achieving Zero Waste

A quick look at the city’s new Comprehensive Plan

"...toward zero waste,” Austin Resource Recovery’s existing 2011 Master Plan committed Austin to near total solid waste diversion from..."

Nov. 7, 2023 News Post by Hannah Rossi

The Revolution Will Not Be Motorized

Will the city create a path to give bicyclists a little respect?

"...by kicking off a landmark update to Austin's Bicycle Plan, the city's 10-year-old road map to institutionalize bicycling as..."

May 9, 2008 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

The Local Politics of Climate Protection

Q&A with Will Wynn on his efforts to fight global warming

"...Mayor Will Wynn launched the Austin Climate Protection Plan. We visited with him recently about his experiences, satisfactions,..."

April 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Point Austin: Imagine Affordability

Imagine an Austin in which everyone can afford to live

"...billed as a "release party" for the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan, included musical entertainment, promotional swag, food trailers, and..."

Oct. 7, 2011 News Column by Amy Smith

City Counseling

Have we got plans for you

"...With a myriad of existing and often competing plans addressing affordable housing, transportation, sprawl, neighborhood zoning, conservation, recycling..."

Feb. 13, 2009 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Kitty-Puppy Law­suit, Round One

Powers of neighborhood plans tested by citizens suing city

"...location – because the city's adopted Govalle/John­ston Terrace Neighborhood Plan had not first been amended to include the new..."

Jan. 18, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

A Whole New Ball Game

Stakeholders say Colorado River Park can serve a lot of different needs.

"...best for this tract of green. "I see this plan as very shortsighted," Moriaty says. "This is shortsighted because..."

Dec. 17, 1999 News Feature by Dan Oko

Infill On Trial

What's the Verdict on the Latest Central-City Boom?

"...Austin Tomorrow, you may know, is the city's official comprehensive growth and land-use plan, adopted in the mid-1970s, still..."

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Public Notice: Plans for the Future

The CodeNEXT process is upon us

"...– your attention to a number of legitimately major planning initiatives that are coming to a head. And with..."

Oct. 16, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Shocked That We Failed to Mention …

"...was shocked to see your story on the city's Comprehensive Plan that failed to mention Robin Cravey [“The Bigger..."

Jan. 12, 2008 Postmarks

The Chicago Comparison

"...it's illuminating to review Austin's annual report (and the plan it contains) against the Chicago Climate Action Plan, released..."

June 19, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories

Connect-the-dot conversations heard around town

"...An initiative allied with the city's Austin Climate Protection Plan, the public-private stakeholder task force achieved a once-impossible feat...."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

The Mayor’s Race Offers Clear Choices on How Austin Should Grow

Election marks a critical juncture on the way to Austin's future

"...policy position on policing. (Israel released a public safety plan Wednesday; we'll have more on that next week). She..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Scenarios at a Glance

Five different versions of Austin's future

"...To understand your role at this point in the comprehensive planning process, you have to accept some essential contradictions..."

Oct. 1, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Visualize Whirled Tank Farms

An update on the continuing controversy over the future of the tank farms

"...Last week's inaugural planning workshop on the former East Austin tank farm had..."

June 7, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Totally PC

When it comes to city planning, nothing's constant but change.

"...as a story about changing the makeup of the Planning Commission. Then it became a story about changing the..."

Oct. 6, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

A City With Smarts

Austin Wising Up to Growth Plans

"...But after many, many, many city plans and projects are stitched together into the Smart Growth..."

April 17, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and nowhere else

"...Planned Parenthood is joining with MTV and the Kaiser Family..."

April 2, 2010 News Feature

City Hall Hustle: Small Council, Huge Agenda

Maybe they could use a few more members after all ...

"...is approval of the "scoping framework" for the long-coming Comprehensive Plan, designed to guide land use, transportation, environmental matters,..."

July 24, 2009 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Public Notice: Imagine That

Land development code draft ready at last

"...For planning geeks in Austin, this is the week it finally..."

Jan. 27, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

The Daily Hustle: 5/18/10

Org urges bond 'reconsideration'

"...period; • Creating a bond package before completing Austin’s Comprehensive Plan and Strategic Mobility Plan; • Lack of alignment..."

May 18, 2010 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Climate, Meet Mobility

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

"...bill. Austin has had its ambitious Austin Climate Protection Plan in place since February 2007. When City Council passed..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Suburban Blight

Austinites' Escape to the 'Burbs Backfires

"...Current fashions in public policy and planning likewise leave the existing 'burbs high and dry. It's..."

March 27, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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