Infill On Trial

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

"......"

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

Three True Tales of Urban Infill

Believe It, or Not...

"...megastructure concepts where the entire city is one huge building, or the rhetoric of inner city renewal doesn't address..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Public Notice: Building Foundations

Good work on the sustainable design front

"...Center is "the first fully inhabited 'net zero' commercial building in Austin," hosting learning programs for kids, and financial..."

Nov. 3, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Building From Scratch

It Takes a City and a State to Raise a Village

"...the New Mueller urban-village concept becomes a shaky proposition. Building a Town..."

Feb. 19, 1999 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Opinion: Time to Look in the Mirror on Housing

Builder David Whitworth asks, is protecting single family zoning a Republican or Democrat issue?

"...things with their trash can. I have been an infill builder in Austin since 2004. I have to tell..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Column by David Whitworth

Ten Districts, Many Visions

Managing Growth

"...In the latter, the development opportunities are all about infill rehab, with lots of old, single-story, light-industrial facilities, and..."

Oct. 3, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bigger, Better, Smarter

San Diego is everything Austin wants to be: livable, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, and downtown-centric. But will tools that worked in the nation's largest border and military base town translate to Central Texas?

"...housing, a streamlined development process, growth-management plans to promote infill and combat sprawl, and institutional vehicles for public/private redevelopment...."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Is This UTopia?

A Long-Overdue University Master Plan is Unveiled

"...architectural grace. But when the chair of the Faculty Building Advisory Committee, Austin Gleeson, takes you into this sanctum,..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Mapping the Future

Seven longtime Austinites talk about Smart Growth, neighborhood planning, and the future of Central Austin in an October roundtable discussion.

"...is optimism. "Ten years ago on East 10th Street, buildings were burning down and being torn down, and crime..."

Dec. 3, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Breaking the Code

Plain English Is the Goal for Land Development Rules

"...central city - cannot simply look up "SF-3" or "infill" or "duplex" and find out if it's permitted (it..."

May 15, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Corner to Corner

Top Ten Neighborhood War Zones of 1997

"...3. Infill, infill, infill. Everybody talks about it, but nobody does..."

Jan. 9, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Reinventing Airport Boulevard

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

"...neighborhoods who would love to see a few nice infill projects supporting those beloved places and improving their main..."

Jan. 8, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Urban on the Rocks

It's the Sprawl, Y'all

"...its grassroots origins, then we'll be okay." The First Building Block..."

April 30, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin @ Large: The Writing on the Wall

If neighborhoods don't embrace Smart Growth, the city as a whole will get stuck with stupid growth.

"...neighborhoods don't like Smart Growth. (We're talking about the infill-and-redevelopment part of Smart Growth here, not the incentives part...."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

A City With Smarts

Austin Wising Up to Growth Plans

"...Daryl Slusher. "We'll support downtown development if you stop building over the aquifer." (Slusher, who still voices doubts about..."

April 17, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin at Large: The Showdown at the Batcave

Part I: What's all this we hear about a $277 million developer handout?

"...old Warehouse District (the site of the current Hobby Building) in 1982 to build a big office building with..."

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

Squaring the Triangle

The Three Austins Collide at a Central-City Crossroads

"...real-estate deal, protected community property, or a model for infill development...."

July 4, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

False Accusations

"...Janet Beinke Infill, not Landfill Senor Editor,..."

March 21, 1997 Column

Austin @ Large: A Healthy Heart

Central Austin neighborhoods should embrace UT, not fight it.

"...designed to promote. When people talk about density and infill and mixed-use in the abstract -- as when they..."

Jan. 23, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Casting Votes Against Development

"...File In for Infill Dear Editor:..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Column

Austin @ Large: Painting by Numbers

Design standards turn out to be (maybe) more than just skin-deep

"...supposed to be what regulates the uses, not the buildings. In other words, if you want to build a..."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

With Equity in Mind, Austin Embarks on Bringing Its History Up to Date

So many more stories to tell

"...A mile east, another building on the National Register has a much different story...."

July 2, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

A New Council With New Energy Aims to Get City Hall Unstuck

Change is coming, but how much?

"...Transit-Oriented Development framework to guide the expected burst of infill development along the new corridors included in the Project..."

Jan. 20, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Developing Stories: What's Wrong With the Super PUD

The proposed PUD amendments won't fix the problems without a plan

"...affordable housing, locally owned businesses, public art, enhanced green building, and more. The public benefit of having PUD zoning..."

June 6, 2008 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...Works executive director Richard Halpin approached the church about building homes on lots that it owned. With help from..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Seeing the Light

Capital Metro unveils plans for light rail, a bus-rapid-transit system, and HOV lanes for Austin.

"...bus rapid transit, or BRT. Reconstructing the bridge, or building a new bridge, is an option, but there are..."

Oct. 22, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Use Only as Directed

Patenting the Formula

"...flaps and fumbles over transit corridors, downtown development projects, infill standards for urban-core neighborhoods, and revisions to the Land..."

Aug. 20, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin City Council Shows Surprising Interest in Upzoning

Mayor throws a curveball in advance of Monday's new Land Development Code revision report

"...to fight climate change. The new code should incentivize infill development as a way of putting people closer to..."

Nov. 22, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Whose Affordability Crisis?

Looking through the prism's lens

"...housing option closer to campus; neighborhoods would stem their infill; and the city would free up the affordable housing..."

Feb. 2, 2018 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

The Downtown Austin Plan

The city unveils its Downtown Plan in progress

"...the existing character – e.g. small-scale, two- to four-story infill apartments, not soaring condo towers...."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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