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At their meeting last week, the Zoning and Platting Commission considered zoning requests for two landowners on far North Lamar. When the dust settled on the final votes, one ended up lucky and the other not so much. The…
Moving forward with their plan to ensure more transparency in city government, the City Council took their first real step toward clarifying one of the more complicated areas of open records law yesterday: how to treat communications dealing with city…
Residents of the Mueller development got their first chance to weigh in on actual plans to push a rail spur out to the redeveloped site of the city’s former airport Wednesday night. Of course, those plans are no more…
Council members delayed a vote Thursday on changes to the city’s Energy Conservation Audit and Disclosure ordinance. The move came as Mayor Lee Leffingwell called for “further analysis” of a set of recommendations made by the Austin Apartment Association. …
Council Member Bill Spelman raised concerns at Thursday’s Council meeting about the pending economic development agreement between the city and online auction site eBay. Austin’s Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office predicts that the deal will net the city…
Officials with the city’s three public safety entities are concerned that cuts at the federal level may impact their ability to collect grant money for fiscal year 2012. Austin’s Police, Fire, and EMS departments talked about those issues before the…
In what Historic Preservation Officer Steve Sadowsky termed a “difficult case,” the Historic Landmark Commission last week was unable to prevent the remodel of a contributing structure in the Bryker Woods neighborhood. The Kerbey Lane house is a contributing…
On Tuesday, the Travis County Commissioners Court approved a set of construction permits for a Lakeway-area marina. The move came with some hesitation on the part of the court, which lamented its inability to dictate land use in its jurisdiction.…
Yesterday afternoon at the Green Pastures restaurant in South Austin, incumbent Council Member Chris Riley and two of his opponents in the race for Place 1, Roger Chan and Josiah Ingalls, faced tough questions about energy, urban rail, and economic…
After weeks of courting Democratic groups, City Council candidates crossed the aisle yesterday, taking their messages to a forum hosted by the Republican Club of Austin. Forum moderator and club President Dewayne Naumann told In Fact Daily that the…
The deliberations of Travis County’s Local Tax Policy Working Group have produced a series of recommendations that, if enacted, would change the way the county issues tax exemptions for historic properties. Their suggestions include a call for a $75,000 across…
Community Action Network members warned Monday that 35 percent of Austin and Travis County’s population is considered to be low income, a situation that could have serious consequences for the region. The Community Action Network (CAN) presented its second…
