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Fire, EMS unions echo calls for city to review extreme weather policies
An ice storm last month prompted fears of a Winter Storm Uri redux, with widespread power outages, and concerns among city officials, including about the leadership of since-terminated City Manager Spencer Cronk. Now, fire and EMS union representatives have joined…
Public Safety • By Emma Freer • Mar 9, 2023
Music Commission to continue push to improve venue accessibility
The Music Commission plans to continue its work in making music venues of all sizes more accessible to the disabled, following the positive results from a task force on that issue convened last year by the Circuit of the Americas.…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 9, 2023
More housing coming to North Shoal Creek neighborhood, pending rezoning
The Planning Commission Feb. 28 recommended rezoning a 3-acre site along Shoal Creek Boulevard to allow a 330-unit multifamily housing project. The request would change the zoning for properties at 8640 and 8700 Shoal Creek Blvd. from Limited Industrial (LI)…
Zoning • By Jonathan Lee • Mar 9, 2023
TipSheet: Austin City Council, 3.9.23
Today, Austin City Council will meet once again for a regular meeting. Tuesday’s work session was mostly dedicated to briefings on eTOD frameworks (which is up for a vote today) and the Climate Equity Plan (which is not). The full…
TipSheets • By Elizabeth Pagano • Mar 9, 2023
Historic Landmark Commission votes to keep the party going at legacy venue the Broken Spoke
The Broken Spoke will keep its doors open to honky-tonk enthusiasts for the foreseeable future, after a move to grant the venue a historic zoning designation made its way through the Historic Landmark Commission last week. Now 59 years old,…
Preservation • By Kali Bramble • Mar 8, 2023
TxDOT to seize part of Waller Beach Park for I-35 construction
Interstate 35 in Central Austin is on the cusp of a once-in-a-generation change as the Texas Department of Transportation gears up for an almost $5 billion transformation of the highway that slices through the city’s core. Before the state’s contractors…
Roads • By Nathan Bernier, KUT • Mar 8, 2023
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New charter review commission proposed
Although the previous City Council didn’t take action on a 2019 special report on citizen initiatives from the Office of the City Auditor, the current Council appears likely to approve creation of a new citizens commission tasked with recommending changes…
City Charter • By Jo Clifton • Mar 8, 2023
Report: Austin needs to take action to mitigate impacts of watercraft overcrowding on Lady Bird Lake
Austin must take action to better manage watercraft on Lady Bird Lake, according to results from a comprehensive lake capacity study unveiled at the Environmental Commission on March 1. The Parks and Recreation Board commissioned the study in December 2021…
Environment • By Nina Hernandez • Mar 8, 2023
Group again sues city over changes to development rules
A group that stopped the city’s rewrite of the Land Development Code has filed a motion in Travis County District Court to undo changes City Council made to the code after that ruling. Led by Francisca Acuña, the group contends…
Courts • By Jo Clifton • Mar 7, 2023
Downstream of Austin, Texas rice farmers face another year without Colorado River water
Lee esta historia en español Talking on the phone from his tractor in Colorado County, Texas, Craig Gutman said he was not surprised to hear water would not be available for rice farmers like him this year. “I was pretty…
Water • By Mose Buchele, KUT • Mar 7, 2023
Transit-oriented development plan prompts parking discussions
Parking has been at the center of discussions around the equitable transit-oriented development policy plan, a document City Council plans to vote on this week that will guide future housing and land use policies around Project Connect stations. Elected officials…
Land Development Code • By Jonathan Lee • Mar 7, 2023
HACA shifts voucher allocation to let housing groups assist homeless
The Housing Authority of the City of Austin has shifted 300 of its housing vouchers to be more available to those experiencing homelessness, in a move aimed at helping the city reduce the number of people in chronic need of…
