After spending $1 million, city drops plans for recycling facility

The city’s Solid Waste Services Department – at a time when it has just published a Zero Waste plan and instituted a new Single Stream Recycling program – has stopped work on developing a new Materials Recycling Facility. SWS has…

Uncategorized • By Mark Richardson • Oct 10, 2008

City declares curbside recycling of plastic bags a bust

The City of Austin has completed a pilot project testing the feasibility of curbside recycling for plastic bags from grocery stores, dry cleaners and newspapers in the area. However, Solid Waste Services officials are calling the results something less than…

Uncategorized • By Mark Richardson • Oct 9, 2008

Financial woes lead CTRMA to find innovative financing for Manor Expressway

The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority will be using its existing US183-A toll project as collateral to finance the proposed Manor Expressway, or US 290 East.   Executive Director Mike Heiligenstein outlined the financing plans at a work session of…

Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Oct 9, 2008

Skipping process, Hays County lifts parks moratorium for one project

The Dripping Springs Youth Sports Association received $266,000 from Hays County on Tuesday, effectively lifting a moratorium on parks projects in the county. A moratorium had been in place on all new parks projects until the Citizens Parks Advisory Committee…

Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Oct 9, 2008

Zero Waste Strategic Plan to be revealed tonight

A Zero Waste policy is one of the cornerstones of the “Green New World” that many see as Austin’s future. Austin’s Zero Waste Strategic Plan will debut tonight at the Solid Waste Advisory Commission (SWAC), where the initial concept was…

Uncategorized • By Mark Richardson • Oct 8, 2008

Report shows Chamber of Commerce giving $100,000 to defeat Prop 2

With slightly less than a month to go before the Nov. 4 election, the campaigns for and against Proposition 2—the charter amendment to prevent the City of Austin from paying tax abatements promised to The Domain—are shifting into a higher…

Uncategorized • By Mark Richardson • Oct 8, 2008

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Stocks, credit markets not likely to affect Hays Road Bond program

With the recent volatility in the stock market and fears of credit markets seizing, some taxpayers and officials have expressed concerns over how this is affecting regional bonds.   For Hays County, an upcoming $207 million road bond election is…

Uncategorized • By Jacob Cottingham • Oct 7, 2008

ACC to reap rewards of Seaholm TIF without the risk

The City of Austin is making the rounds of its fellow taxing authorities this week with a resolution that allows them to opt out of the Tax Increment Financing Zone, or TIF, the city is using to redevelop the Seaholm…

Uncategorized • By Mark Richardson • Oct 7, 2008

Smith tapped to work out differences between warring county departments

Last week, Travis County Judge Sam Biscoe broke the deadlock on the county downtown master plan by appointing recently retired Planning and Budget Office Director Christian Smith to devote himself full-time to getting past the current in-house impasse.   The…

Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Oct 6, 2008

Despite conservation, city needs WTP4, says Meszaros

Greg Meszaros, the top official at the Austin Water Utility, says the city is moving ahead with building Water Treatment Plant 4, despite assertions by some that conservation measures have given the city more time before the plant will be…

Uncategorized • By Mark Richardson • Oct 6, 2008

West Park is first PUD application under city’s new policy

Oak Hill’s West Park Planned Unit Development made its appearance last night, heralding the first time a PUD has made it to Council under the city’s revised ordinance intended to give the city more power to negotiate with developers.  …

Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Oct 3, 2008

City says Domain Mall has lived up to agreement; Rodgers disagrees

City Council members learned two important things Thursday about the potential effects of Proposition 2 – the citizen-backed charter amendment to stop the city from making payments to Domain developer Simon Properties. Austin voters will decide whether to enact the…

Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Oct 3, 2008

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