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Council agrees on six 'outcomes' to work toward in 2017
City Council wants to make 2017 all about outcomes. During a two-day “retreat” led by a group of government management consultants at the AT&T Conference Center last week, Mayor Steve Adler and his 10 Council colleagues came up with six…
City Council • By Jack Craver • Jan 17, 2017
Highways and interstates a top priority for pedestrian safety plan
Austin appears to have had some early success in recovering from an all-time high in road fatalities in 2015, with 76 in 2016 compared to 102 the year prior. But reaching zero fatalities and serious injuries by 2025 remains the…
Transportation • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 17, 2017
Austin Monitor Radio: An introduction to GivingCity
GivingCity Editor and Publisher Monica Williams joins Austin Monitor Publisher Mike Kanin to chat about her publication and the nonprofit sector in Austin, Texas. Sponsored by Austin Water. Audio is embedded below:
Radio • By Michael Kanin • Jan 17, 2017
Council hopes to reform committees – again
City Council still does not know what to do about its committees. Despite reforms enacted last March aimed at making them operate more smoothly, Council members mostly agree that the four-member panels that they voted to put in place as…
City Council • By Jack Craver • Jan 13, 2017
Fighting demolitions, Ebony Acres residents hope city will recognize their history
Spurred by a rash of proposed demolitions, several East Austin citizens are hoping to move forward with a historic district for their neighborhood later this month. Late last year, potential demolitions on Grant Street, E M Franklin Avenue and Pennsylvania…
Preservation • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jan 13, 2017
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Specter of CodeNEXT informs vertical mixed-use cases at Planning Commission
In two separate cases on Tuesday, the Planning Commission approved vertical mixed-use zoning on Congress Avenue. The majority of the commissioners continue to see VMU zoning as a way to increase density along or near core transit corridors in line…
Planning • By Joseph Caterine • Jan 13, 2017
Developer proposes twin PIDs for single development
The man behind Travis County’s first official public improvement district is back for more, this time with a proposal that ratchets up the complexity of an already intricate process. Last Tuesday, Pete Dwyer of Dwyer Realty Companies presented to the…
Planning • By Caleb Pritchard • Jan 13, 2017
Nucleus Learning Network Data Vis Series: Exploring the election
Join Sarah Morris, a librarian who co-directs an educational nonprofit called Nucleus Learning Network, as she explores data visualization in a new series. So much of this past election season was spent poring over maps: from electoral college projections to…
Elections • By Sarah Morris, Nucleus Learning Network • Jan 13, 2017
Has Austin's booming population finally peaked?
For years, we’ve been hearing about how Austin is one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. Thousands of people move here each year, but recent reports show that some of the factors that draw people to the city –…
Austin • By Syeda Hasan • Jan 12, 2017
Planning Commission approves Plaza Saltillo project, affordability level disputed
After what Chair Stephen Olivier called “officially our longest case ever,” the Planning Commission approved three rezoning items associated with the six tracts of the Plaza Saltillo project at its Jan. 10 meeting. The properties, owned by the Capital Metropolitan…
Planning • By Joseph Caterine • Jan 12, 2017
Council seeks robust feedback on first CodeNEXT draft
City Council and the other groups involved in completing and implementing CodeNEXT – the multiyear process of rewriting the city’s Land Development Code – got a hard look Wednesday at how citizens will be able to review and give feedback…
