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The Bull Creek Planned Unit Development is not your ordinary development. Instead of multiple homes, condos, shopping centers or commercial buildings, this 54-acre, multi-million dollar PUD project on prime property near the mouth of Bull Creek at Lake Austin will…
Attendance has been low at a round of meetings Capital Metro has hosted to get feedback on budget planning and the Sunset Commission recommendations. Two of the five attendees at Saturday’s town hall meeting at the Spicewood Springs Library…
The Oak Hill business community wanted to make it clear to Council Member Sheryl Cole at lunch yesterday: The environmental community does not speak for us. Of course, there was a codicil offered: The Oak Hill business community also…
Instead of the “two or three” finalists for the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) position that Austinites were promised (see In Fact Daily, June 3), they got four: Lucia Athens, Dennis Murphy, Beth Pratt, and Matt Watson were introduced to the…
With nearly $100 million in transportation projects under consideration in a potential bond election this November, the members of the 2010 Transportation Bond Citizen Task Force spent time Thursday questioning Transportation Director Rob Spillar on the specifics of his department’s…
Views on how the northwest end of downtown should be redeveloped currently appear to break down into two camps: those of homeowners in Judges Hill and those of property owners and residents in nearby neighborhoods. Those who live in…
As the city manager’s office interviewed semifinalists for the new chief sustainability officer position yesterday, one candidate, Brandi Clark Burton, decided to pull her name from consideration. Clark, founder and chief inspiration officer at Austin EcoNetwork, wrote on that group’s…
City Manager Marc Ott has removed Margaret Shaw as director of the Neighborhood Housing and Community Development Department. Shaw, who had been in that position for two years, has been reassigned to Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services (EGRSO), and Assistant…
One month after postponing a historic rezoning decision on a house in west Austin, the Historic Landmark Commission voted last week to reject the owners’ application for historic status. The commissioners’ concern with the property lay not with its historical…
The city has paid a great deal of attention to its water quality over the years, but most of the attention has focused on surface water, found in its rivers and creeks. Recently city officials have begun taking a look…
On Tuesday, Travis County Commissioners Court acted to halt proposed safety improvements to Hamilton Pool Road. In the process, Pct. 3 Commissioner Karen Huber attached an amendment instructing staff to hold 2005 bond funds that might have been spent on…
Travis County Commissioners get most of the attention when it comes to making decisions for the county’s future, but more often than not the responsibility for carrying out those decisions falls to Transportation and Natural Resources Executive Director Joe Gieselman.…
