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More than a yard sign: Straddling the aisle in District 10

District 10 is Austin’s wealthiest district – it boasts an annual median family income of $131,100. It’s also one of the city’s most sprawling districts, stretching from MoPac Boulevard to Lake Travis. The race for District 10 is the most…

Elections • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Sep 16, 2016

More than a yard sign: Differing ideas about how District 7 should grow

You could classify Austin’s District 7 as the “middle district” – it falls smack dab between the city’s lowest- and highest-income districts, with an annual median family income around $74,000. Half (around 56 percent) of district residents rent their homes.…

Elections • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Sep 15, 2016

More than a yard sign: A runoff rematch in District 6

Austin’s District 6 is one of the city’s wealthiest – the median family income is about $86,000 a year. It also boasts the largest number of Asian residents in the city. Council Member Don Zimmerman represents Austin’s northernmost district. He…

Elections • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Sep 14, 2016

More than a yard sign: A near repeat of 2014 in District 4 race

Austin’s District 4 is one of its most diverse – more than 65 percent of its residents are Hispanic, and nearly 10 percent of the district is African-American. Currently, City Council Member Greg Casar represents the north central district. Austin’s…

Elections • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Sep 13, 2016

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More than a yard sign: An incumbent, a boxer and a tech guy in District 2

Complaints we hear citywide about affordability are magnified in Austin’s District 2. The southeast district has some of the lowest-income residents, with a median family income of $42,650. The district also boasts the largest Hispanic population – a point of…

Elections • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Sep 12, 2016

Council to see requests for Marshalling Yard extension, ECHO's $350M homelessness plan

The Public Health Committee has recommended adopting the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) long-term forecast for addressing homelessness, signaling a commitment to spend an estimated $350 million over the next decade to fill gaps in the city’s homelessness response system.…

City Council • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 5, 2024

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Watson, Council members refine direction in push to keep Marshalling Yard shelter open

Mayor Kirk Watson and other members of City Council want to give city staff specific directions and benchmarks in their work to keep the Marshalling Yard Emergency Shelter open indefinitely and keep other city shelters from becoming overwhelmed with the…

City Council • By Chad Swiatecki • Sep 24, 2024

Austin cuts minimum lot size by more than half, requiring less land to build a home

More homes, less lawn. This was the pitch made by Austin City Council members Friday when, for the first time in 80 years, they voted to lower the amount of land needed to build one house. The change allows property…

Land Development Code • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • May 17, 2024

City to ban unsafe fence designs

The city will soon prohibit unsafe fence designs, like those with spiked or widely spaced pickets, to reduce the risk of serious injury and death in humans and animals. On Tuesday, the Planning Commission unanimously recommended City Council approve the…

Land Development Code • By Jonathan Lee • May 26, 2023

Vision plan authors hope for a more sustainable future for Zilker

The current state of Zilker Park, from an ecological perspective, is about what you would expect for a 100-plus-year-old metropolitan park in a city with a population just shy of 1 million. With 2.6 million visitors enjoying nature and amenities…

Parks • By Nina Hernandez • Dec 21, 2022

Austin Transportation promises more community engagement with new Healthy Streets

The Austin Transportation Department is reviewing six new Healthy Streets candidates for the program’s second batch of streets open for safe, socially distanced bicycling, walking and rolling. Since the program’s rollout, the department’s Director Robert Spillar said the Healthy Streets…

Transportation • By Ryan Thornton • Jun 26, 2020

Yard Bar evades muzzle on live music

Customers at Yard Bar, a Burnet Road restaurant, will continue enjoying outdoor live music with their dinner and drinks for years to come, thanks to City Council’s rejection of an appeal of the restaurant’s relatively strict outdoor music venue permit…

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