Latest Headlines for Thursday, April 26
Thursday, April 26, 2018 by Jessi Devenyns
City Hall
Libraries plan to designate areas for petitioning
After a month of consultations with the Law Department over the language of the rules governing petitioning on library property, the Austin Public Library may have found a compromise.Instead of limiting petitioning to sidewalks surrounding the libraries, which groups have…
Thursday, April 26, 2018 by Syeda Hasan
Housing
Austin renters facing eviction could get help through a new counseling service
David Jones has been renting his apartment in North Austin for four years. He’s grown an impressive herb garden on his front porch: Rows of parsley, oregano and thyme line one side. He’s a veteran on a fixed income, and…
Thursday, April 26, 2018 by Chad Swiatecki
Housing
Real estate leaders tackle equity, housing affordability at ULI breakfast
Austin’s ability to continue its rapid economic and population growth while trying to keep longtime residents from being forced out due to affordability issues was the topic of the day at Wednesday’s breakfast meeting for the Urban Land Institute. The…
Thursday, April 26, 2018 by Jo Clifton
Land Development Code
CodeNEXT: The devil is in the details
As the development process for the land use code rewrite known as CodeNEXT has progressed, a common refrain heard from critics is that it will drastically alter Austin’s existing zoning. However, at Tuesday’s work session, Planning and Zoning Department Director…
Thursday, April 26, 2018 by Elizabeth Pagano
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TipSheets
TipSheet: City Council, 4.26.18
Welcome to this week’s TipSheet for what promises to be a long meeting, filled with postponements from the previous meeting. Here are the items we have our eye on. In the interest of space, we’ve decided not to post the…
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 by Jack Craver
City Council
Despite hurt feelings, Council members embrace electric scooters
Rushing to respond to electric scooters that have taken over downtown, City Council will consider an ordinance on Thursday to establish rules regarding the increasingly popular devices.The proposed ordinance, drafted by city transportation staff, will allow the Transportation Department to…
