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Developers, planners explore racial equity goals for building Austin

Members of Austin’s real estate and development community considered plenty of questions and ideas Wednesday concerning how to improve and prioritize racial equity in building projects throughout fast-growing Austin. No all-encompassing answers or silver-bullet tactics were revealed by the panel…

Planning • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 23, 2023

TipSheet: Austin City Council, 3.23.23

City Council’s abbreviated work session didn’t offer many clues to this week’s agenda, as most of it was spent behind closed doors in an executive session. However, reading through the posted agenda, there are a few things that stood out.…

TipSheets • By Elizabeth Pagano • Mar 23, 2023

Report: APD Training Academy curriculum review flawed, hampered by resistance to reform

A third-party evaluation of the Austin Police Department Training Academy’s curriculum review process found it lacked “a clearly defined mission and scope, which hampered its effectiveness from the beginning,” and that it suffered from instructors’ resistance to reform and did…

Police • By Emma Freer • Mar 22, 2023

Austin tried and failed to rewrite its land code. Republican lawmakers might do it for them.

In Austin, 5,750 square feet is a magic number. It’s one-tenth of a football field. Half of an Olympic standard swimming pool. And precisely the size of the American dream. “If you’re driving around urban Austin, through Hyde Park, Clarksville,…

Land Development Code • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Mar 22, 2023

Activists push to improve East Austin cultural spaces as city land heads for development

Arts stakeholders and local preservationists are pushing the city to make good on a 2021 resolution to improve and invest in a portion of East Austin known as the African American Cultural Heritage District. The group’s work, which is aimed…

Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 22, 2023

AISD celebrates $4 million in federal educational funds to boost outdoor learning, college prep

The Austin Independent School District is celebrating $4 million in federal appropriations that will expand outdoor learning and college prep for students. The district commemorated the funding at a Tuesday press conference held at St. Elmo Elementary School in South…

AISD • By Nina Hernandez • Mar 22, 2023

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Project Connect scenarios balance budgets against potential size and ridership

Cost constraints facing Austin’s planned light rail line through downtown have resulted in five options that feature shorter routes and place tracks at street level with traffic, in a substantial departure from the initial plans approved by voters in 2020.…

Transit • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 21, 2023

Mixed-use project in Bouldin Creek clears final hurdle

The Board of Adjustment granted a height increase March 13 that will allow a mixed-use project in the Bouldin Creek neighborhood to move forward.  Plans for the Copeland at 1000 S. First St. include two condominium buildings with a total…

Planning • By Jonathan Lee • Mar 21, 2023

Austin Public Health offers $50 gift cards for COVID vaccinations and boosters

Anyone who gets a Covid-19 vaccine or booster shot at an Austin Public Health vaccination event will be eligible to receive a $50 Visa gift card, the agency said Monday. APH said it hopes the incentive will be helpful to people…

Public Health • By Olivia Aldridge, KUT • Mar 21, 2023

New forecast modeling puts Austin homeless population near 4,600

New methods for counting and forecasting by one of Austin’s leading homelessness services organizations suggests nearly 4,600 people are experiencing homelessness in the city, far higher than previous estimates and counts using federal guidelines. The new figure was revealed at…

Public Health • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 20, 2023

Are Austin airport’s safety protocols keeping up with increased traffic?

Is the city doing enough to ensure Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is staying safe amid record increases in traffic and historic personnel and infrastructure constraints? The outgoing chair of the Austin Airport Advisory Commission is asking that question. During a briefing…

Transportation • By Nina Hernandez • Mar 20, 2023

Some Travis County residents can clear their arrest records at the 2023 Expunction Expo

Lee esta historia en español Travis County is set to host its fourth “expunction expo” May 20, an event where people who have been arrested but not convicted can remove the arrest from their record. Travis County District Attorney José…

Courts • By Haya Panjwani, KUT • Mar 20, 2023

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