Housing Authority Won't Use Affordable-Housing Bond Money

HACA chooses to keep independent of city's $55 million in affordable housing bonds on November ballot

"...the poor in the city – than the Housing Authority of the City of Austin. It would make sense..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Council Watch

Business as Usual: After Bradley, Council Moves on to Other Things

"...ARA Contract Renewed The Austin Revitalization Authority will live to build another year, due to its..."

April 7, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

New Urban Sagas

Mueller Mutation

"...It's hard to argue that the redevelopment of Robert Mueller Municipal Airport is small stuff. The..."

Oct. 16, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Here Come the Transporters

In the endless Central Texas transportation wars, the lions and the lambs look for ways to make peace

"...the same plan. Though the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority's toll-road system and Capital Metro's commuter-rail-and-bus proposal originate from..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Postmarks

Think Positive

"...to object to Mike Clark-Madison's portrayal of the ongoing Mueller redevelopment planning process in "This Is Our Land: Remapping..."

May 8, 1998 Column

Postmarks

VanScoy's Agenda Part 2

"...on both of these "ground-breaking" stories were drama-seeking, audience-loving, authority-averse personal friends of hers? Both had their own programs..."

March 12, 1999 Column

Naked City

RomaDesign Group prepares to present its revised redevelopment plan for Robert Mueller Airport to theCity Council; now the ex-airport just needs some tenants.

"...popping up all over the shuttered confines of Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. Which is exactly what neighborhood leaders and..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

The Austin City Council is back from their winter break, and they have a full schedule ahead of them.

"...The redevelopment of the former Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, now the..."

Jan. 19, 2001 News Feature by Emily Pyle

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?

"...infill and combat sprawl, and institutional vehicles for public/private redevelopment. San Diego likewise shares many of Austin's problems --..."

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

Crossing That Bridge

Council approves a separate bike and pedestrian bridge over Town Lake near the existing Lamar Street Bridge, and hears neighborhood concerns about moving central booking to the new criminal justice center downtown.

"...solution to the parking-garage dispute remains elusive.Swap Meet The Mueller Neighborhoods Coalition and the SOS Alliance wrote a joint..."

April 21, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...City Hall's redevelopment frenzy continues to gain momentum, as Austin closes in..."

May 21, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Here Comes the Neighborhood

Capital Metro, City Hall, and Eastside neighbors come together to share their hopes -- and fears -- for the Saltillo corridor.

"...planners, and many neighbors aim to create. The transit authority, which owns the property, and the city hope the..."

June 27, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple

On the Lege

Dumb and Dumber

"...dumb is Ron Wilson's HB1871, designed to keep Robert Mueller Municipal Airport open even after Austin-Bergstrom International is operational?..."

March 12, 1999 News Column

Naked City

The City Council moves forward with Austin's regional transportation plan, but assures neighbors of road-widening projects proposed in the plan that they, not the state of Texas, have the authority to decide what gets built and when.

"...Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO), the regional transit authority that distributes Texas Dept. of Transportation funds -- for..."

June 15, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

"...will be ready early next week. The plans address redevelopment of areas surrounding three future Eastside stops on Cap..."

March 21, 2008 News Feature

Crestview at the Crossroads

Near north neighborhood faces redevelopment transformation

"...the next couple of years – and two major redevelopment plans – could well reshape Crestview's future more profoundly..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

"...More on this next week. Naked City The Housing Authority of the City of Austin is trying to ease..."

Dec. 15, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

"...review panel, and would raise the city manager's purchasing authority without council approval to $100,000. The previous Charter Revision..."

Feb. 15, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Which Way Do We Go?

Rae Takes the Wheel

"...the ultimate justification for Capital Metro's existence and taxing authority, and devoted much time and energy into planning a..."

April 9, 1999 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

"...On Tuesday, March 5, Catellus Inc. and the Mueller Redevelopment Team, finalists to be Master Developer of the..."

March 1, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...Strategies on behalf of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority over the summer. Toll opponents were ecstatic over the..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...What does CMTA stand for? If Capital Metro Transit Authority doesn't immediately spring to mind, you're not alone. Austin..."

March 6, 1998 News Feature

Endorsements

"...of major public initiatives like Envision Central Texas, the Mueller redevelopment, and the current work on affordable housing, and..."

May 12, 2006 News Feature

Endorsements

"...of major public initiatives like Envision Central Texas, the Mueller redevelopment, and the current work on affordable housing, and..."

May 5, 2006 News Feature

Endorsements

"...of major public initiatives like Envision Central Texas, the Mueller redevelopment, and the current work on affordable housing, and..."

April 28, 2006 News Feature

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...last week that it won't use its eminent domain authority to seize land currently occupied by Players, the burger..."

Aug. 19, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Point Austin: A Question of Vision

Austin's possible futures are prefigured in two very different sorts of public action

"...investigation, almost certainly frivolous, over land owned by toll authority officials near where toll roads will run. Godspeed to..."

Feb. 11, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

Headlines

May 16, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...watershed. More on this later. - R.B. Banking on Mueller..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature

Building From Scratch

It Takes a City and a State to Raise a Village

"...The notion of turning a post-aviation Mueller into a progressive "urban village" -- mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly, transit-oriented,..."

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

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