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Seven residents vie for AISD seats
Today marks the first day of early voting, and the Austin Independent School District board of trustees has five seats up for grabs, with seven residents vying for spots. However, only two seats are being contested. Cindy Anderson and David…
Elections • By Courtney Griffin • Oct 24, 2016
BoA votes to protect 'compatibility to nothing'
A recent Board of Adjustment variance case proved that sometimes rules are rules, even absent the reasons they were put in place. William Faust, representing applicant Greg Smith before the board, explained that a small, vacant tract of residentially zoned…
Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Oct 24, 2016
Reporter's Notebook: Devolution and exclusion
Mistakesman… As early voting starts on Monday morning, one candidate is facing an uphill battle reaching out to voters thanks to the Austin American-Statesman. David Holmes, the Democrat running for Travis County Commissioners Court Precinct 3, says the Statesman cut…
Reporters' Notebook • By Elizabeth Pagano • Oct 24, 2016
Austin Monitor Radio: Council Member Sheri Gallo
Austin City Council Member Sheri Gallo joins Austin Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to chat about her reelection campaign. Post is embedded below.
City Council • By Michael Kanin • Oct 24, 2016
City Council approves Grove PUD 'placeholder'
City Council took an important procedural step Thursday toward approval of a major planned unit development that has fiercely divided several neighborhoods in West Austin. Council voted to approve the Grove at Shoal Creek PUD on first reading, the first…
Development • By Jack Craver • Oct 21, 2016
Council says no to public funding for Grove traffic mitigation
City Council on Thursday shot down a plan to explore using public money to mitigate any neighborhood traffic impacts from the Grove at Shoal Creek, a bitterly divisive planned unit development proposed for West 45th Street and Bull Creek Road.…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 21, 2016
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Council OKs legislative teams, agenda for 2017
City Council on Thursday approved the city’s legislative agenda, along with the hiring of 10 consultants in Austin and two in Washington, D.C. The Austin consultants altogether will receive $708,000, and the two Congressional consultants will receive $174,000. The vote…
Texas State Legislature • By Jo Clifton • Oct 21, 2016
Hotel strives to preserve Austin’s heritage, but not all of its heritage trees
The developers of the Carpenter Hotel are trying to strike a delicate balance between protecting the environment, preserving Austin’s heritage and creating a viable business. That was the argument they made before the Environmental Commission on Oct. 19, when they…
Development • By Cate Malek • Oct 21, 2016
10-1: Commission representation by the numbers
Graphs and map by John Laycock. One of the arguments in favor of replacing Austin’s former at-large City Council with the new, district-based 10-1 system was that the former system didn’t adequately represent certain parts of the city. Nonetheless, although…
City Council • By Jack Craver • Oct 20, 2016
ANC takes no position on Proposition 1
Mayor Steve Adler has written to the executive committee of the Austin Neighborhoods Council to reassure those neighborhood representatives that he will do his part to protect neighborhoods “in conjunction with the proposed transportation bonds” and the rewrite of the…
Austin • By Jo Clifton • Oct 20, 2016
SOS loses bid for MoPac injunction
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel declined to issue a preliminary injunction that would have prevented the beginning of construction on State Highway 45 Southwest. The judge ruled that the Save Our Springs Alliance and other plaintiffs in the…
Courts • By Jo Clifton • Oct 20, 2016
Marc Ott leaves Austin on a high note
Marc Ott, the city’s first African-American city manager, arrived for his first day on the job on Feb. 18, 2008. Ott’s eight-and-a-half-year tenure has weathered swift change in Austin, where the percentage of African-Americans has slipped and the city has…
