County doubts efficacy of toll study

The chief executive in Travis County’s Transportation and Natural Resources Department (TNR) has raised doubts with County Commissioners about the scope of work on the proposed regional toll road study. TNR Executive Manager Joe Gieselman, who also served at the…

Uncategorized • By • Oct 14, 2005

Walter Brown, father of Wimberley planning, dies

Walter W. Brown, Jr., who served on the first City Council for the Village of Wimberley and played a critical role in its planning, passed away October 7 at the age of 62 after a short bout with cancer. Brown…

Uncategorized • By • Oct 13, 2005

City to push small contracts for MBE/WBE vendors

Responding to requests from Council Members and others in the community, the Department of Small and Minority Business Resources has created a new procedure to monitor contract awards by city departments for jobs of less than $5,000. The MBE/WBE Advisory…

Uncategorized • By • Oct 12, 2005

Panel fails to suggest height for Spring tower

ZAP committee suggest trips, floor plate The Zoning and Platting Commission subcommittee considering recommendations for the Spring Condominium project failed to reach agreement on a height limit for the controversial spire at its final meeting last night. That fact, especially…

Uncategorized • By • Oct 11, 2005

NACA wins fight over convenience store

Council denies zoning change in keeping with neighborhood plan It had all the elements of a dime-store crime novel—drugs, prostitution, heroes and villains—all tied together with a dramatic plot line. But in the end, the Austin City Council last week…

Uncategorized • By • Oct 10, 2005

Link to Wednesday's news

Link to Thursday's news Internet provider feud hits Time-Warner Road Runner finds way around battle between Internet backbone giants After two days of outages caused by a battle between Internet service providers which left customers of the Road Runner network…

Uncategorized • By • Oct 7, 2005

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Firefighters, city reach tentative accord

After eight months of talks, negotiators for the Austin Association of Professional Firefighters and the City of Austin reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday on a new three-year contract. The proposal will give significant raises to firefighters at the lower…

Uncategorized • By • Oct 6, 2005

Neighbors fear medical office would draw too much traffic on crowded road

An agent on a Northwest Austin zoning case took Chair Betty Baker’s advice last night and requested a continuance on the case until November. The rezoning of the former Texas Cosmetology Commission building at 5717 Balcones Drive off MoPac Boulevard,…

Uncategorized • By • Oct 5, 2005

Neighbors, staff oppose South Austin project over location, zoning precedent

The siren’s song of an affordable west-side subdivision was too much for City Council to resist last week, as it unanimously approved first reading to rezone a 23-acre parcel from predominantly light industrial to a single-family small lot subdivision. Neighbors…

Uncategorized • By • Oct 4, 2005

Sign ordinance passes on second reading

An amendment to the city’s sign ordinance that would allow sign companies to exchange billboards in residential neighborhoods for new signs along some of the city’s major expressways passed the Council on second reading last week. There may be more…

Uncategorized • By • Oct 3, 2005

Easy part of South Austin plan done

Large swath of area now under plan It was a little like eating dessert first. The Austin City Council approved a little more than 90 percent of the Greater South Austin River City Combined Neighborhood Plan on Thursday, but postponed…

Uncategorized • By • Sep 30, 2005

City to seek injunction against café

New code enforcement policy starts today The City of Austin plans to file a request for its first civil injunction on a building code violation in District Court today, seeking a cease and desist order against the owners of South…

Uncategorized • By • Sep 29, 2005

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