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Program expansion more than doubles cheap nighttime parking downtown

The city is more than doubling the amount of affordable parking spaces available for evening-hours workers in downtown Austin businesses, building on the success of a pilot program that started in 2016. The expansion of the Affordable Parking Program will…

Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 31, 2018

It's been a bad year for Texas wildfires. It will probably get worse.

Four large wildfires have broken out in Central Texas in about the last week. It’s part of a bad year for Texas fires, and climate researchers say the uptick in fires bears the fingerprints of global warming. Statewide, it started…

Local Government • By Mose Buchele, KUT • Jul 31, 2018

Creative groups highlight CodeNEXT's impacts on arts, music spaces

A collection of arts and music organizations throughout Austin hope to do the next-to-impossible: bring a level of clarity and understanding to the city’s massive CodeNEXT document by focusing on the sections impacting the increasingly endangered creative community. In a…

Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 31, 2018

Term sheet lays out stadium deal for rent, possible rail station

The term sheet for a proposed professional soccer stadium on city land ups the financial outlay of the Major League Soccer team’s to the city, with the possibility of bringing a metro rail line to the property as an ongoing…

Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 30, 2018

Cronk wants to change assistant city managers

City Manager Spencer Cronk announced via memo to department directors on Friday that he plans to make major changes in the city manager’s office. Cronk said he was appointing Chief Financial Officer Elaine Hart, who served as interim city manager…

City Hall • By Jo Clifton • Jul 30, 2018

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Dell Medical investment begins to pay dividends

Dell Medical, the University of Texas’ new medical school, wants Travis County residents to know it is spending their tax dollars wisely – and equitably. In 2012, voters approved $54 million of new property taxes to build Dell Med in…

Public Health • By Ryan Young • Jul 30, 2018

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Reporter's Notebook: Grave concerns

We only know how to bury ledes… A very strongly worded memo from the Parks and Recreation Department’s Acting Director Kimberly McNeeley warns that failure to extend a contract for interment and burial services in city cemeteries could have serious…

Parks • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jul 30, 2018

Equity Office proposes renaming 7 Confederate streets – and even the city itself

The Equity Office is recommending the city remove or change the names of streets, parks and markers in Austin that honor the Confederate States of America and slavery. The office also suggests eschewing the name “Austin” altogether, as Stephen F.…

Austin • By Andrew Weber, KUT • Jul 27, 2018

Planning Commission hears about 30-mile loop of urban trails

City transportation officials have a grand vision to dramatically expand the Shoal Creek Trail and eventually connect it to a 30-mile loop of trails around the northern half of the city. But it’s anybody’s guess when that vision will be…

Bicycles • By Jack Craver • Jul 27, 2018

Talking talent, and why Austin companies can't find enough workers

On top of complimentary food, coffee and other treats, music rooms for relaxing, and other perks typical of the Silicon Valley digital life, Austin-based job search firm Indeed has had to become something of a transit provider while trying to…

Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 27, 2018

County commissioners see SH-45 development as key to more affordable housing

On Tuesday, the Travis County Commissioners Court received an update on Turner’s Crossing, a proposed mixed-use subdivision that would be located about 15 miles south of downtown Austin. The project will make use of a public improvement district to fund…

Housing • By Ryan Young • Jul 27, 2018

IndyAustin targets stadium proposal, suggests petition for referendum

The local political action committee that helped to force an upcoming public vote on the implementation of CodeNEXT has set its sights on the city’s McKalla Place property and the push to build a professional soccer stadium there. IndyAustin is…

Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 26, 2018

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