Developing Stories

Connect-the-dot conversations heard around town

"...as swell as green building is – intelligent land-use planning is even more critical to crafting a comprehensive solution..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Hold Those Tolls!

Road conditions: funding hazy, future unclear

"...January, he became chairman of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (the group in charge of the region's transportation..."

July 27, 2007 News Feature by Larry Schooler

Young and Hungry

ACC offers students two restaurants' worth of opportunity

"...hospitality management, travel & tourism, and meeting & event planning (with a future degree program in beverage management looming..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Food Feature by Mick Vann

As The Transportation Policy Turns, Latest Episode

The great Central Texas toll roads drama continues to unfold

"...of Transportation could not get the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization's Transportation Policy Board to budge, even a little..."

June 16, 2006 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

To Bond, or Not to Bond?

Bonds dominate the immediate City Council horizon

"...development east of the city, expected to drive much regional growth in the next decade. Highway-related projects had not..."

Jan. 13, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

"...• The final draft proposal for a regional water quality plan for the Barton Springs Zone will..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Point Austin: High Tuition

As the centex toll plan moves forward, Austin becomes a reluctant stepchild

"...have the city do what the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization had refused to do a couple of weeks..."

March 11, 2005 News Column by Michael King

McCracken Charges Toll Road Cover-up

Council Member says toll road proponents overplayed direness of funding situation

"...At Monday night's meeting of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization's Transportation Policy Board, McCracken called for an investigation..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

Toll road segments poised to drop like flies

"...The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization's Transportation Policy Board has come up with a..."

Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

State Picks Up a Toll-Free Call

Road-weary local leaders win a sympathetic hearing at Transportation Commission

"...the toll plan approved by the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization in July...."

Nov. 5, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Put That in Your Big Box and ...

Activist groups beg to differ with the city's big-box report

"...Hockenyos of Texas Perspectives and Scott Polikov of Gateway Planning Group, to appear at City Hall, by which time..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Toll Roads May Take a (Minor) Detour

Krusee contemplates changing strategy, but not retreat

"...says it is time to make some changes to regional mobility authorities, but before toll road opponent Sal Costello..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Naked City

The CAMPO board sticks up for fiscal equity on the highway front

"...The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority has opened the door to taking road..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Travis Co. Manifest Destiny

Some of the central organizational players in the land and water wars of western Travis Co.

"...Regional Water Quality Planning Project: A core committee of multijurisdictional..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Austin @ Large: For Whom the Road Tolls

The Regional Mobility Authority takes small but necessary steps in the direction of multi-modal transportation

"...who will benefit the most from the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority's $2.2 billion toll road system – suburban..."

May 21, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The ECT To-Do List

"...Integrate transportation and land-use planning..."

May 14, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Austin Stories

"...list of City Hall veterans taking their retirements: longtime planning and development maven Tracy Watson, most recently head of..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Feature

The Battle for the Springs: A Chronology

"...conservation planners submit Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan proposal to regional governments (city, county, LCRA, Texas Parks & Wildlife). BCCP..."

Aug. 9, 2002 News Feature

Naked City

"...summer in order to lessen the burden upon students planning to enroll in one or more of the roughly..."

Feb. 22, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Down to Two

Runoff candidates offer views on city's future.

"...-- Raul Alvarez, Sierra Club environmental justice director and planning scholar, and Rafael Quintanilla, consultant/attorney and former city planning..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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?

"...their vision of a SmartGrown city. This made community-based planning a no-brainer, and of all the major cities of..."

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

Naked City

CAMPO prepares to undergo a controversial peer review of its transportation planning process.

"...perfectly innocuous: "an independent quality-assurance peer-review of overall transportation planning and decision making in the CAMPO planning area." But..."

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

Postscripts

In the Works

"...30 next year. The company isn't limiting itself to regional titles, though Schwarz stresses that "we are going to..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...to take over the county's public health system: Family planning and reproductive services will not be available in Seton's..."

Jan. 15, 1999 News Feature

Bond Election Cliffs Notes

General Obligation Bonds

"...latest bond inventory no longer includes funding for even planning a new main branch. Otherwise, Prop. 4 has actually..."

Oct. 23, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The ACM Machine

Assistant City Managers Outlive Rumors of Their Demise

"...she started out with a graduate degree in Urban Planning, she immediately moved into city government. After getting her..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Postmarks

Balcones Responds

"...4. The shareholders and employees of Balcones applaud the Planning Commission's announced intention to provide an orderly, comprehensive study..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Column

Point Austin: Running in Place

On November rail vote, Leffingwell says ... not just yet

"...ballot." He added that while he remains committed to planning a system and building public consensus in its support,..."

June 8, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Developing Stories: Where Are They Now?

The latest on this year's big digs

"...have the paperwork signed and begin digging into the planning work by mid-January. To date, they've just looked at..."

Dec. 29, 2006 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Follow South Austin Master Plan

"...after another as an isolated case, without applying any planning guidelines. Yet years ago, the city hired a consultant..."

June 14, 2006 Postmarks

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