City Council: On South Lamar, Who Can We Trust?

With new zoning, housing project developer commits to some income-restricted units

"...Five of the tracts include a zoning overlay for vertical mixed use, one of Austin's density bonus programs designed..."

Oct. 22, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

City Hall Hustle: Under Advisement

It ain't what you do – it's what you shouldn't say in e-mails

"...districts, and the application of Residential Permit Parking within Vertical Mixed Use districts" as a solution to parking woes..."

March 11, 2011 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside the Point

Zoning and development action doesn't come any hotter and heavier than last week's City Council meeting.

"...last week's meeting was truly a zoning triptych: a vertical mixed-use opt-in/opt-out extravaganza, passage of affordable-housing guidelines for Downtown,..."

Feb. 8, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Neighborhood Associations Need to Work Harder at Being Proactive

"...Dear Editor, The city of Austin’s vertical mixed use opt-in/opt-out process needs the attention of Austin’s..."

April 17, 2007 Postmarks

'Completing Communities'

A conversation with Kathie Tovo

"...neighborhoods haven't accepted sufficient multifamily zoning or upgrading their [vertical mixed use] standards, for instance...."

June 3, 2011 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

City Planning: Goodbye Riley, Hello Weiss

Planning Commission loses attorney, gains architect

"...proud of participating in the city's transition toward more mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly development. He also has advocated for reduced parking..."

Aug. 24, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Developing Stories: Private Projects, Public Benefits

Could developers become Austin's new benefactors?

"...addition, ANC is advocating for an affordable-units-only waiver on vertical mixed-use projects; currently, the city's new design-standards ordinance provides..."

April 6, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Neighborhood Watch

Sustainable Neighborhoods group advocates 'family-friendly' north side development

"..."As Portland has built up and intensified and created mixed-use centers, they can be incredibly expensive to live in,..."

March 22, 2013 News Feature by Robyn Ross

What Part of 'No' Don't You Understand?

12th Street corridor residents oppose convalescent center

"...a rendering that, at least externally, looks like the vertical mixed-use style of development popping up in Central Austin...."

Aug. 28, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

The Downtown Austin Plan

The city unveils its Downtown Plan in progress

"...distrust; this negative legacy colored, for example, the recent vertical mixed-use opt-out process. Similarly, Austin's failure to periodically update..."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Y Not?

The battle over AMD's move to Lantana is a one-tract skirmish in a larger war over the uncertain future of Central Texas

"...ride. This would be no strip-mall city, but a vertical mixed-use "town center" connected to the surrounding neighborhoods with..."

June 24, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

We Have to Be Willing to Give Up Our Cars

"...our city. I gather from the article that the vertical mixed-use process has been productive for that very reason...."

Feb. 1, 2008 Postmarks

Developing Stories

The Heritage neighborhood suspects it's receiving political payback from the city manager

"...of Capital City Partners, developers of Guadalupe 31, the vertical-mixed-use poster-child project on Guadalupe between 30th and 31st. (Designed..."

Jan. 19, 2007 News Column by Katherine Gregor

Affordable Housing and How to Get More Keeps Council Busy

What happened last week and what's on this week's Council agenda

"...June 9 meeting were deep anxieties about expanding the vertical mixed-use density bonus program, designed to create affordable housing..."

June 17, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

In-Comprehensible? ANC Balks at Comp Plan.

ANC fears Imagine Austin will unravel neighborhood planning efforts

"...planning area (which extends throughout the extraterritorial jurisdiction), emphasizing mixed-use centers and focusing redevelopment/infill between MoPac and SH 130...."

Dec. 3, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Beside the Point

Duckmobile politics

"...fill in the front half; a bloc of neighborhood vertical mixed-use zonings and 6pm public hearings on affordable-housing incentives,..."

Feb. 1, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Beside The Point

Rethinking our old water treatment plant, and other feces-related topics

"...library as a stand-alone building, the other incorporating a vertical mixed-use design (i.e., other uses). Lee Leffingwell disagreed; noting..."

June 1, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Will Travel for Food

Oregon Brewers Festival

"...Portland, Ore.: Its mass-transit system, bicycle-friendliness, and initiatives on vertical mixed-use development have been hailed. Overlooked by policy wonks,..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

Council Recap: Once-Sacred Neighborhood Protections Battered by Austin's Affordability Crisis

Are taller buildings with less parking the answer?

"...bonus programs to incentivize affordable housing, such as the vertical mixed-use overlay, changes to which are also in the..."

May 21, 2022 News Post by Maggie Q. Thompson

Public Notice: Think Globally, Act Locally

Planning for mobility, hoping for democracy

"...• The vertical mixed-use density bonus program is one of the city's..."

March 18, 2022 News Column by Nick Barbaro

At Council: More Apartments, North and South

Council considers two zoning cases facing opposition from surrounding neighbors

"...are now seven adjoining tracts zoned for commercial/retail and mixed-use development, north of where Lamar meets Barton Skyway and..."

Oct. 15, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

(Even Further) Beside the Point

Auld Lang ... Sigh

"...Aside from a clutch of vertical mixed-use opt-ins from different neighborhoods and planning areas (Judges'..."

Jan. 11, 2008 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Crestview Neighborhood Development Buzz

North Lamar Transit-Oriented Development Zone changes and proposals abound at North-Central neighborhood meeting

"...Mike Blizzard, a spokesman for Crestview Station LLC (a mixed-use development on the former Huntsman site, centered around the..."

Aug. 24, 2007 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Middle Ground for Dawson Plan

"...in 1999, included the infill option of the day, mixed-use building. We allowed major upzonings all along South First..."

June 4, 2007 Postmarks

VMU Saves Lives?

Can you build a sense of community - and safer housing - with vertical mixed use?

"...woman. The incident occurred at Villas on Sixth, a mixed-use project with deeply affordable apartments developed by the city..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Beside the Point

McCracken waxes Wal-Mart for the cameras

"...400-foot Seventh and Rio Grande condo tower and dense mixed-use zoning for the I-35 Concordia campus both coming before..."

Feb. 16, 2007 News Column by Wells Dunbar

VMU: Affordable for You?

The city welcomes density but also wants to keep it within a working-class price range

Feb. 9, 2007 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Point Austin: Beside the Point

Neighborhood activist gives us an earful on proposed downtown high-rise

"...dealing with, ironically enough, removing barriers for developers building vertical mixed-use projects. With this crowded agenda, the last council..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Column by Wells Dunbar

Tovo and Casar Unfiltered on CodeNEXT

The Council members' full conversation with the Chronicle

"...if you look at the success of the VMU [Vertical Mixed-Use development] program, that actually has created a fair..."

Sept. 14, 2017 News Post by Nick Barbaro

Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: A Year Later

Twelve months after Mayor Steve Adler rolled out his plan to save live music and the arts, what's happened?

"...(opening restricted zoning areas in planned unit development and vertical mixed-use projects to creative spaces, facilitating development of affordable..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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