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Austin Monitor Radio: Council Member Jimmy Flannigan

Council Member Jimmy Flannigan stops by KOOP to talk about the newest attempt to rewrite the Land Development Code. He shares his hopes and predictions with Austin Monitor reporter Jack Craver. To catch up on that, and get a quick…

Radio • By Elizabeth Pagano • Apr 29, 2019

Development code vote kicked down the road

City staffers are not quite in the clear to officially start work drafting a new Land Development Code. City Council was preparing to make a vote this week that would provide direction to City Manager Spencer Cronk regarding the code,…

City Council • By Ryan Thornton • Apr 26, 2019

Parks and Recreation lacks $2.4 million in funding, potentially faces more cuts

As the question of property tax caps continues to loom in the state Legislature, city departments are wrestling to pare down their budgets in anticipation of what management expects to be a $51.7 million gap in funding for the entire…

Parks • By Jessi Devenyns • Apr 26, 2019

West Austin home causes impasse at HLC

City code requires a structure to meet two out of five requirements in order to be designated historic. One of the most often-used requirements is that of historical association with an individual who “contributed significantly to the history of the…

Preservation • By Jessi Devenyns • Apr 26, 2019

Real estate leaders look for support for airport's $4.5 billion expansion

By mid-2020, city officials are likely to begin seeing options for how to fund the $4.5 billion expansion at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport that stakeholders say is needed to keep up with demand for the growing Central Texas market. There are…

Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 26, 2019

East Austin home slated for historic zoning against owner's wishes

It is rare in Austin that a home is preserved against an owner’s wishes. According to Preservation Austin, the city has disregarded an owner’s wishes in this manner exactly three times since 1974. Now there is a chance it will…

Preservation • By Jessi Devenyns • Apr 25, 2019

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Council to consider jump-start to small area planning

The city’s Planning and Zoning Department could be getting outside help to clear an anticipated decades-long backlog of planning documents for activity centers specified for growth in Imagine Austin. An amendment up for consideration at today’s City Council meeting includes…

Land Development Code • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 25, 2019

Travis County braces for lean times

Travis County commissioners spent a good chunk of Tuesday morning fuming over state legislation targeting local control, notably a proposal that will sharply limit the ability of local governments to raise property tax revenue. A bill recently approved by the…

Texas State Legislature • By Jack Craver • Apr 25, 2019

Council debates preservation of special zoning districts

City Council members have come to a loose consensus on the five questions in City Manager Spencer Cronk’s land development code memo. Council is fundamentally in agreement that a new code is necessary and that a zoning map should be…

Land Development Code • By Ryan Thornton • Apr 24, 2019

Revenue caps loom over discussion of public defender's office

Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt warmly welcomed a proposal to establish a county public defender’s office, saying it was imperative that Travis County join the vast majority of major urban jurisdictions in providing attorneys to represent criminal defendants who can’t…

Travis County • By Jack Craver • Apr 24, 2019

Environmental Commission recommends rimrock stairwell to lake

Shoreline access from the rimrock cliffs of Lake Austin has been a touchy subject in the past. While mechanized access has not been permissible for nearly a decade and property owners are only allowed to install pedestrian access, there are…

Planning • By Jessi Devenyns • Apr 24, 2019

A dozen Austin moontowers cleared to get needed steel replacement parts

Austin’s Historic Landmark Commission has approved using milled steel rods as replacement parts on 12 of the city’s iconic moontowers, sometimes known as moonlight towers. The commission OK’d the proposal from Austin Energy on Monday night. The electric utility is…

Preservation • By Joseph Leahy • Apr 24, 2019

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