Planning Commissioners raise concerns about proposed bus routes

Members of the Planning Commission raised concerns at a meeting last week in response to a presentation on the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s planned overhaul of bus routes. The ambitious 10-year plan, Connections 2025, aims to create a bus system…

Planning • By Jack Craver • Oct 6, 2016

Homeowners sue over neighbors' rowdy parties

Tormented by loud, amplified music that lasted all night, drunken partygoers trespassing onto their property, cars blocking their driveway and “a parade of people coming to their door late at night ‘looking for the party,'” East Austin homeowners Christian Hartnett…

Courts • By Jo Clifton • Oct 6, 2016

Council discusses transportation concerns at the Grove

City Council has only just dipped its toe into the debate over the Grove at Shoal Creek, the controversial mixed-use planned unit development proposed for a 75-acre lot in Central Austin. After postponing further discussion of the case after a…

Zoning • By Jack Craver • Oct 5, 2016

County compromise puts surf park opening in the pipeline

As impossible as it sounds, surf’s up in Central Texas. On Tuesday, the Travis County Commissioners Court and the owners of NLand Surf Park formally struck a bargain to allow the massive wave pool east of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport to…

Travis County • By Caleb Pritchard • Oct 5, 2016

Vote in the Republican primary? Here's what's for you in the mayor's transportation bond

In East Austin, a case of poorly delivered mail has led to a political strategy revelation, of sorts. It involves Mayor Steve Adler’s $720 million transportation bond and one-half of a local political action committee that attempted to recall City…

Bonds & Propositions • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Oct 5, 2016

District 10 candidates battle over development priorities

Growth and the interests of real estate developers commanded the discussion among candidates vying to represent Austin’s wealthiest district Tuesday night. City Council Member Sheri Gallo, who has held the District 10 Council seat since she was elected in 2014,…

Elections • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Oct 5, 2016

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Commission deadlocks on new police proposal for impounding cars

The Public Safety Commission deadlocked on a proposal to expand the Austin Police Department’s ability to impound a car when the driver does not have a driver’s license. The proposed ordinance, put forth by the Austin Police Department, would allow…

Police • By Jack Craver • Oct 4, 2016

Parks and Rec Board hopes to make golf courses self-sustaining

Worried that Austin’s municipal golf courses are sucking money away from the city’s already underfunded parks, the Parks and Recreation Board is investigating how to make the courses pay for themselves. The city’s municipal golf courses have been operating at…

Parks • By Cate Malek • Oct 4, 2016

Brentwood flag lot prompts density debate at Planning Commission

A short debate during a Tuesday meeting of the Planning Commission about a subdivision in the Brentwood neighborhood was a fitting example of the conflicting views on development at the center of city politics. Commissioner Karen McGraw voiced concern about…

Planning • By Jack Craver • Oct 4, 2016

Nightclub developer wins suit against city

City Council will consider on Thursday whether to pay $126,400 to the developer of an east side nightclub whose fiscal surety was released to the wrong person. The case made its way through the courts, the nightclub owner won, and…

City Council • By Jo Clifton • Oct 4, 2016

Judge considers Rodgers' Pilot Knob claims

How much notice should the City Council agenda provide to citizens who want to know what Council is doing that may impact their taxes and water rates? That’s one of the questions Judge Stephen Yelenosky will have to answer when…

City Council • By Jo Clifton • Oct 3, 2016

AISD backs off city amendment, for now

A potential disagreement between the city and Austin Independent School District board of trustees and staff was put on hold at the AISD board’s regular Monday meeting last week, when a motion to send a letter of opposition to City…

AISD • By Courtney Griffin • Oct 3, 2016

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