Would end lawsuits, annex land, and provide water and wastewater service City staff Thursday unveiled a 46-page draft agreement between the city, Gary Bradley, and other entities that will end lawsuits between the city and Bradley and ensure city water…

Will market follow the signals to build in the Desired Development Zone? The City Council will soon be dealing with another big bundle of Smart Growth incentives to nudge development away from the Drinking Water Protection Zone (DWPZ) and into…

Area residents ready to begin neighborhood planning The City of Austin has agreed to buy the Brown Distributing Co. building at 411 Chicon St. to house the city's Building Services Division. Eastside neighbors of the property, which served as a…

Goal to retrieve documents from computers instead of file cabinets City Clerk Shirley Brown's restarting an image program that has nothing to do with makeup and hair color but everything to do with making more than a million documents readily…

MUD will provide better treatment in return for variance on holding pond The City of Austin appears ready to settle its differences with Travis County Municipal Utility District No. 4 over TCMUD 4's application to double the capacity of its…

Council gives neighbors and church five weeks to talk and a mediator to help During an hour and a half in executive session last night, the Austin City Council significantly rewrote a proposed ordinance with interim development controls for the…