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City defends stance on Dripping Springs discharge permit
Chris Herrington, an engineer with the city’s Watershed Protection Department, hopes to dispel the notion that the city of Austin is an “800-pound gorilla” that intimidates surrounding municipalities into submitting to its environmental policy. At the Dec. 7 meeting of…
Resources • By Joseph Caterine • Dec 14, 2016
Alter appears headed to victory
District 10 challenger Alison Alter had a strong lead early over incumbent Council Member Sheri Gallo Tuesday night as the Travis County Clerk’s Office announced the results of early voting. Alter had nearly 66 percent of the early vote to…
Elections • By Jo Clifton • Dec 13, 2016
Task force report recommends moving popular events to different parks
Parks facilities in East Austin are likely to become host sites for a variety of large events in the coming years as the city looks to reduce the event schedule at its major urban core parks. A move toward utilization…
Parks • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 13, 2016
Courthouse committee winnows options for eventual house of justice
Travis County’s search for a new site for a civil courthouse could soon narrow in on the final two candidates: a private property versus the county’s current administrative headquarters at 700 Lavaca St. On Wednesday night, the Civil and Family…
Travis County • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 13, 2016
Corridor plans could yield new traffic law, but buses might not benefit as promised
Mayor Steve Adler’s sales pitch for his successful $720 million transportation bond promised the creation of new bus pullouts along major city corridors so that, in his words, “cars can keep on going when the bus pulls over.” Transit advocates…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Dec 13, 2016
Round Rock drafts its first land development code
It’s no secret that development is booming in Austin and its surrounding suburbs. Just north of Austin, the city of Round Rock is working to accommodate that growth by creating its first-ever land development code. One might think of the…
Land Development Code • By Syeda Hasan • Dec 13, 2016
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Of mudslinging and money in District 10
With very low turnout for early voting, the campaigns for incumbent District 10 City Council Member Sheri Gallo and challenger Alison Alter are making every effort to turn out the vote for Tuesday’s runoff election. Some of those efforts by…
Elections • By Jo Clifton • Dec 12, 2016
Testifying on zoning cases can mean waiting for hours – but is that fair?
Last week, when the contentious case for the Grove at Shoal Creek returned yet again to City Hall, City Council made welcome progress – but not quite when people expected it. Council was supposed to start its discussion at 9…
Zoning • By Syeda Hasan • Dec 12, 2016
LCRA defends wind power divestment decision
The Lower Colorado River Authority is responding to pushback against its decision to end a $360 million contract to take power from the Papalote Creek Wind Farm. On Dec. 2, the LCRA sent out an email to its employees laying…
Energy • By Cate Malek • Dec 12, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: Kerfuffles big and small
Behold the future… Rejoice, for this Tuesday will at last bring to a close 2016’s relentlessly sadistic cycle of political campaigning. Despair, however, for the events leading up to it may also presage a ghoulish spectacle of local tactics to…
Reporters' Notebook • By Elizabeth Pagano • Dec 12, 2016
Austin Monitor Radio: CodeNEXT update
CodeNEXT Citizens Advisory Group Chair Jim Duncan and Vice Chair Dave Sullivan join Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to chat about the rewrite of Austin’s Land Development Code. Sponsored by Austin Water. Post is embedded below.
Land Development Code • By Michael Kanin • Dec 12, 2016
Council approves bid to buy AISD properties
City Council approved a measure Thursday to move forward with a joint effort between the city, Travis County and the Austin Independent School District to provide affordable housing on publicly owned land. The measure authorized city staff to submit a…
