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"...When single-member City Council districts were voted into existence by Austin voters last November,..."

"...second smallest, D9 to the south – both inner-city districts, yet very different in demographics. Running from 51st Street..."

"...for the two open slots in the city's pilot neighborhood planning program. As the first speaker for the first..."

"...If we value the neighborhood character contributed by locally owned stores and cafes –..."

"...Austin's looming 10-1 City Council – and arguably the traditional center of city power – means that one of..."

"...an almost unique confluence of circumstances and timing. In traditional, middle-class neighborhoods like Allandale and Crestview, the ranch-style bungalows..."

"...with your low-maintenance small lot. Affordable living in a traditional atmosphere, complete with (mandatory) gabled roof. Convenient to (mandatory)..."

"...caring what happens to the Triangle. But Central Austin's neighborhood spat of the decade has opened up two cans..."

"...chooses will determine the character and feel of its neighborhoods much more than elms or magnolias or the height..."

"...for future greenways and "destination parks," as well as Traditional Neighborhood Districts (TNDs). While the actual parcels have not..."

"...and the progress toward redevelopment of the Rainey Street neighborhood. Allegiance on Rainey Street has reportedly coalesced behind Robert..."

"...affordable, sustainable -- was first advanced by the Mueller-area neighborhoods themselves back in the Manor phase of the Move-It..."

"...Stratus has built its reputation on the more traditional, garden-style suburban communities in which sprawling golf courses serve..."

"...Overlay, the new City Hall and Town Lake Park subdistricts, the new zoning overlay in the Chestnut neighborhood plan)...."

"...realized there's gold in them thar inner-city lofts and traditional neighborhood districts...."

"...are what will most likely be your new Council districts. Probably...."

"...AISD sends its tax dollars away to "property-poor" school districts...."

"...AISD sends its tax dollars away to "property-poor" school districts...."

"...offered by the private sector. At first glance, the neighborhood associations in the area -- who've been working with..."

"...at least): that as former president of the Austin Neighborhoods Council and co-chair of the McMansion task force, Morrison..."

"...of suburban development we have now," says Goodman. "Isolated neighborhoods that are empty during the day, and non-residential areas..."

"...on the ballot, and it probably won't matter; a neighborhood association urges developers to build urban density; 'single-member districts'..."

"...That's how Scott Bernstein, president of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, summed up the call-to-service at CNU 17, the..."

"...was an 11th-hour addition to the ordinance: giving individual neighborhoods a voice. Citizens – through their official neighborhood planning..."

"...to shop, no one walking or cycling to a neighborhood taco joint. Perhaps that's because this corridor was never..."

"...Austin's water quality ordinances; SB 1016, which allows water districts to break contracts with the city so they can..."

"...their borders, hollowing the tax base and ghettoizing inner-city neighborhoods. Since then, the mayor and City Council have "incentivized"..."

"...overhauls its electoral system altogether, be it by single-member districts or a wide-open contest that turns the top vote-getters..."

"...the current code. Add in considerable upzoning of particular neighborhoods, especially in the rest of the Eastside, plus changes..."

"...utility's (unscientific) survey of residents, six of the 10 districts reflected pluralities in favor of maintaining one-day-a-week watering restrictions...."