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New nonprofit seeks to boost census participation
With six weeks until the 2020 census kicks off, the local effort to boost participation hopes to raise additional money for outreach efforts. Census Program Manager John Lawler, who is overseeing the Austin/Travis County Complete Count Committee, which both the…
Travis County • By Jack Craver • Jan 23, 2020
Austin ISD considers opening a school for young adults with autism
A local nonprofit wants to start a school in Austin that serves young adults with neurological conditions like autism. Easterseals of Central Texas is seeking to start the school within the Austin Independent School District. The school would help students…
AISD • By Claire McInerny, KUT • Jan 23, 2020
Monetizing the carbon cycle may lead to ecological solutions
In the very near future, there is a possibility that Texas landowners will be able to reduce carbon emissions while earning money on their unused land. Jim Blackburn, a professor at Rice University and the president of the Trinity-Edwards Springs…
Environment • By Jessi Devenyns • Jan 23, 2020
Austin Transportation updates enforcement to keep bike lanes clear of cars
At least in theory, the Austin Transportation Department has long been able to ticket drivers for illegally parking in bike lanes. In practice, however, such enforcement has been inconsistent. The Austin Transportation Department started making hires this week in an…
Bicycles • By Ryan Thornton • Jan 22, 2020
Austin may get an economic development corp.
City Council appears to be moving cautiously toward creation of a local economic development corporation that would be totally separate from the city but governed by a Council-appointed board of directors. People unfamiliar with such entities may naturally wonder why…
Austin • By Jo Clifton • Jan 22, 2020
Commission calls city’s approach to South Austin planning “piecemeal”
Cases that come before the Zoning and Platting Commission are reviewed individually. But when a zoning request change at 12001 S. Interstate 35 came up at the Jan. 7 meeting, it caused the commission to lament the overall process for…
Planning • By Jessi Devenyns • Jan 22, 2020
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Asian chamber program looks to open contract opportunities for airport expansion
Small businesses owned by women and minorities can get an up-close lesson next month on how they can bid on contracts related to the ongoing expansion work taking place at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 22, 2020
Downtown to grow in a new direction
Generally speaking, residents used to take in the downtown skyline from the east or west. Today, the skyline has shifted 90 degrees so that the volume of development is better viewed from the north or the south shore of Lady…
Development • By Ryan Thornton • Jan 21, 2020
Fannie Mae award will bring services to Montopolis affordable housing project
The federal housing lender Fannie Mae has awarded $555,000 to a local affordable housing nonprofit to help add health care and educational services to a project that will bring 90 new housing units to the Montopolis neighborhood. The Guadalupe Neighborhood…
Housing • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 21, 2020
Austin backs off plans to stabilize Shoal Creek slope after impasse with landowners
The city is abandoning efforts to stabilize a part of the cliff that runs along the Shoal Creek Hike and Bike Trail near Pease Park after landowners up the hill refused to grant property easements needed for the work. Heavy…
Transportation • By Mose Buchele, KUT • Jan 21, 2020
Planning Commission supports request for 400-foot buildings in East Austin
There are not many places in the city where buildings tower 400 feet into the sky. However, there is a chance that the areas of Austin where these skyscrapers are permitted are about to expand. In a 9-0-1 vote, the…
Planning • By Jessi Devenyns • Jan 21, 2020
Travis County confronts tricky process in reforming pay for law enforcement
Travis County leaders are determined to reform the pay scale for the county’s 1,450 public safety employees, but they’re not quite sure how to do it. The county has long had separate pay scales for civilian employees and law enforcement…
