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Staff may help redesign Zilker site
The Council has offered the assistance of city staff to reconfigure a multi-family property on Bluebonnet Lane, just off South Lamar, to fit more appropriately into the Zilker neighborhood. Former neighborhood association president David Ward has struggled to come up…
Uncategorized • By • Aug 29, 2006
Judges hear arguments on Congressional districts
Federal panel studies options, likely to release findings today or Monday Travis County voters will likely get another chance to vote for Congressman Lloyd Doggett when a federal three-judge panel gets done redrawing Congressional lines this week. The panel, which…
Uncategorized • By • Aug 4, 2006
Council struggles with developer's promise
Last week’s City Council discussion of zoning changes for Star Riverside Residential related more to when and how the Council could enforce covenants than to neighborhood opposition to the zoning of the northeast corner of Riverside Drive and Interstate 35.…
Uncategorized • By • Jul 31, 2006
Council to study Congressional maps on Wednesday
When the Austin City Council meets in special session on Wednesday, they will be able to look at the various Congressional proposed maps filed last week with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. That court is…
Uncategorized • By • Jul 18, 2006
County OKs new plan for troubled West Cypress Hills
The situation in the West Cypress Hills subdivision – the site of the infamous contamination of Lick Creek — has improved so markedly in the last 18 months that Travis County Commissioners were willing to approve a revised construction plan…
Uncategorized • By • Jun 21, 2006
Plans for Green WTP derailed
City staff may back away from Green, look toward WTP#4 Although plans to build a new Green Water Treatment Plant had been moving with the speed of a freight train, that train appears to have moved onto a siding. Now…
Uncategorized • By • Jun 15, 2006
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Changes planned to strengthen historic landmark law
More buy-in from homeowners on forming historic districts and stiffer penalties for builders and others who abuse remodeling permits were two of the major changes in the city historic preservation program recommended by the Historic Preservation Task Force. The panel…
Uncategorized • By • May 10, 2006
State defends US 290 West plans
Engineer says elevated toll road is best way to deal with projected growth Last night, the Texas Department of Transportation’s engineer over the US 290 West project through Oak Hill defended the future toll project as the best way to…
Uncategorized • By • May 3, 2006
City eyes Guerrero Park for Green plant
Parks activists raise questions about plan, seek additional land to mitigate potential loss The City of Austin’s Water and Wastewater utility is proposing to relocate the Green Water Treatment Plant (GWTP) to the Roy G. Guerrero Colorado River Park—a park…
Uncategorized • By • Apr 11, 2006
Commission backs hotel conversion
South Austin hotel would become housing for singles Despite the concerns of some neighbors over increasing crime, the Planning Commission voted to recommend a zoning change that will allow a group called Foundation Communities to convert a South Austin hotel…
Uncategorized • By • Mar 29, 2006
Complaint filed over campaign expenditure report
APA PAC may have failed to report Kim runoff spending to city A complaint has been filed in Municipal Court charging the treasurer of the Austin Police Association Political Action Committee (APA PAC) with failing to file a contribution and…
Uncategorized • By • Mar 21, 2006
Texas redistricting plaintiffs optimistic
Supreme Court justices indicate no clear preference during oral arguments WASHINGTON – The appellants in the Texas redistricting case told a group of supporters last night they were heartened by the discussion with the Supreme Court on Wednesday, even though…