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Slusher Kicks Ass!
"...Jackie Goodman, as she attacked, from the dais, the neighborhoods who oppose the huge Regency Village project:..."
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March 13, 1998 Column
Mulling Over Mueller
"...hold focus groups with the city, the state, the neighborhoods around Mueller, and the development community. (In my alter..."
Oct. 31, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Baby's First Birthday
Corner to Corner: One Year Old
"...interest - or at least they don't dispute that neighborhoods are sacred and good. Yet we all define the..."
Oct. 6, 1995 News Feature
Eastward Expansion
Surfing the wave of gentrification on the Eastside
"...positive impact of renewal and the rebuilding of deteriorating neighborhoods is having a corrosive side effect on longtime, lower-income..."
April 10, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú
Embracing Code Compliance
New director Carl Smart discusses his goals for a more user-friendly department
"...others that I am just learning about. And the neighborhoods, the communities are different. By being a capital as..."
Sept. 30, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
'An Independent Person'
A Conversation With Randi Shade
"...important to the environmental community. When it comes to neighborhoods, I have the strongest record of any council member,..."
June 3, 2011 News Feature by Michael King
Austin @ Large: A Healthy Heart
Central Austin neighborhoods should embrace UT, not fight it.
"...Envision Central Texas portfolio -- they mean making their neighborhoods more like West Campus...."
Jan. 23, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
UT Area Cautious -- at Best -- Over Planning Effort
Campus-area residents take their turn in the city's neighborhood-planning spotlight.
"...The six neighborhoods comprising the Central Austin Combined Neighborhood Planning Area cover..."
Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Lauri Apple
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Our readers talk back.
"...three-minute capsule summary of South Austin's decades-old struggle between neighborhoods and massive apartment complexes. She concluded that a "good..."
Feb. 8, 2002 Column
Not Empowered Yet
East Austin gets passed over for a HUD empowerment zone.
"...grants, and other financial aid to several East Austin neighborhoods -- has nonetheless borne fruit, advocates say...."
Jan. 25, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Under One Roof
Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?
"...their borders, hollowing the tax base and ghettoizing inner-city neighborhoods. Since then, the mayor and City Council have "incentivized"..."
July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
(Gasp!) Watson Was Right
The Former Chief, the Audit, the Research All Say: We Need Community
Policing
"...The reason may be relatively simple: Austin's most troubled neighborhoods do not feel empowered to stop crime, and their..."
March 21, 1997 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade
(Gasp!) Watson Was Right
The Former Chief, the Audit, the Research All Say: We Need Community
Policing
"...The reason may be relatively simple: Austin's most troubled neighborhoods do not feel empowered to stop crime, and their..."
March 21, 1997 News Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade
Mayfield Fights Back
Ward and June Say Nay in Northwest Hills
"...Any neighborhood that stands in the way of development..."
Jan. 3, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
With Equity in Mind, Austin Embarks on Bringing Its History Up to Date
So many more stories to tell
"...The owners of marquee properties in affluent neighborhoods, including many newcomers to the Eastside, can afford to..."
July 2, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse
Community First! Expansion to Create 1,400 Additional Homes for Austin's Formerly Homeless Neighbors
A neighborhood to call home
"...neighborhood." That slogan will someday evolve to the plural "neighborhoods" to reflect the organization's most significant expansion yet to..."
April 30, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan
Austin's Land Use Debate Returns to the Spotlight
A new draft code has risen out of CodeNEXT's ashes
"...new housing should be built in and near established neighborhoods – a new draft code has risen out of..."
Oct. 11, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders
Why Does Everyone Hate CodeNEXT?
Can a polarized Austin reach consensus on land use by next spring?
"...accelerate growth and encourage the destruction of traditional single-family neighborhoods via intensive redevelopment; 2) CodeNEXT will prevent the necessary..."
June 9, 2017 News Feature by Michael King
On Leaving Dove Springs
A meditation on neighborhood, fear, family, and change
"...perhaps an unfair assumption to believe that wealthier, whiter neighborhoods have the financial and political resources to execute progress..."
Aug. 22, 2014 News Feature by Sam Anderson-Ramos
Point Austin: Dear Occupant
Austin welcomes all newcomers – but we don't know where to put them
"...residents vs. the current six) in certain single-family-zoned residential neighborhoods ... for the next two years. It's hardly a..."
Feb. 21, 2014 News Column by Michael King
There Goes the Neighborhood
City split over the latest in urban living options: short-term rentals
"...of so-called "commercial" – non-owner-occupied – STRs in residential neighborhoods will mean she and other "outsiders" will be "shut..."
June 22, 2012 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Developing Stories: Compact & Connected
All aboard for Transit-Oriented Development
"...community's ticket to help shape the redevelopment of the neighborhoods that will play host to the MetroRail stations. Make..."
June 22, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor
Going Vertical
The new VMU zoning could transform your neighborhood – and you have 90 days to help decide how
"...prospect of perky new mixed-use projects sexily arising in neighborhoods near you, let's move on to the particulars.VMU: What..."
Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor
Developing Stories
The Heritage neighborhood suspects it's receiving political payback from the city manager
"...a way to pay for needed traffic-calming devices in neighborhoods," Kiolbassa said. Given that the city cites a waiting..."
Jan. 19, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor
The Towers of Power
Are high-rises the key to a middle-class Downtown?
"...how tall the buildings are. If people in other neighborhoods can see tall buildings in the distance and it..."
Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Mueller: The Art of the Deal
Will the City Give Away Mueller Airport to Save Barton Springs?
"...in the Hood Austinites, especially those living in the neighborhoods around Mueller, have spent more than 15 years hashing..."
Dec. 1, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Naked City
The council approves a controversial, and hotly contested, site plan that allows Hyde Park Baptist Church to build on 58 acres of parkland it owns in northwest Austin.
"...the City Council last Thursday. Five residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the Northwest Austin park known as the Quarries,..."
Nov. 17, 2000 News Feature by Emily Pyle
Take Five
In the Place 5 Race, Activism Is the Operative Word
"...reformer, the bicycle advocate, the downtown Austin advocate, the neighborhoods advocate, or the disabilities advocate. That's Linda Curtis, Amy..."
April 14, 2000 News Feature by Jenny Staff Johnson
Into the Woods
Cherrywood Neighbors' Journey of Change
"...with the de rigeur transit-oriented town center and residential neighborhoods. Will they be Cherrywood? Or perhaps Muellerwood?..."
Feb. 27, 1998 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison
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Environs Observer
"...a petition opposing the development from those in contiguous neighborhoods (not just a few affected residents). I haven't heard..."
