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Coyote debate howls through committee

Debate over the region’s coyote policy continued at City Council’s Public Safety Committee on Monday, where public comment on the city’s policy took center stage for about an hour. In November 2014, the city passed a coyote management plan, and…

Resources • By Elizabeth Pagano • Mar 31, 2016

Montessori school on narrow road remains in limbo

The Mariposa Montessori school may have found its ideal location, but without a variance that will allow it to build on the narrow Paisano Trail, plans are stalled. Currently, Mariposa Montessori is located on Brodie Lane, but it is now…

Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Mar 31, 2016

Council mulls changes to campaign finance rules

Austin City Clerk Jannette Goodall has come up with a list of proposed changes to the city’s rules governing campaign finance reports. She says the changes will make electronic filing “easier and more transparent.” Goodall and Bob Guz, who heads an…

City Hall • By Eva Ruth Moravec • Mar 30, 2016

Planning Commission OKs changes to garage rules

In a situation similar to the one surrounding the small-lot amnesty tool, Austin’s garage placement standards are currently being used in a way that differs from how they were originally presented to neighborhoods when established nearly a decade ago. This…

Land Development Code • By Elizabeth Pagano • Mar 30, 2016

County approves double-dip fees at Hamilton Pool

Crushing demand at Hamilton Pool Preserve has prompted a big change in policy, courtesy of the Travis County Commissioners Court. Starting in May, visitors to the park and its iconic pool will first have to go online to make a…

Parks • By Caleb Pritchard • Mar 30, 2016

Federal grant offers Austin chance to be leader in solar energy storage

Staff at Austin’s city-run utility is using millions of dollars of federal funds to explore new energy storage methods that will allow utility customers to receive more of their energy from renewable sources, particularly solar power. Austin Energy is one…

Energy • By Jack Craver • Mar 30, 2016

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500 body cameras soon to be within APD's reach

The Austin Police Department is inching closer to acquiring at least 500 body-worn cameras, but some close to the process told the Public Safety Committee on Monday that more public input should be sought. This month, APD announced a “pilot confirmation process”…

Police • By Eva Ruth Moravec • Mar 29, 2016

Expert outlines AE cost-of-service recovery options

As City Council deliberates over changing electricity rates, it is tasked not only with deciding how much to change rates for residential and commercial customers of the city-owned utility but with deciding whether the city should change the way it…

Energy • By Jack Craver • Mar 29, 2016

Activists upset about Grove transportation review

Members of the Bull Creek Road Coalition are expressing alarm about what they consider an abrupt end to the transportation review process for Milestone Community Builder’s planned unit development called the Grove at Shoal Creek. Architect Chris Allen sent out…

Development • By Jo Clifton • Mar 29, 2016

No medical offices for Millwright Parkway property

When does a neighborhood’s valid petition not require the support of a supermajority of City Council for a zoning change? Answer: when the property does not have permanent zoning. Christy Bickel, who lives in the Anderson Mill Limited District, gathered the signatures…

Zoning • By Jo Clifton • Mar 29, 2016

Publisher's Note: Whispers, more sponsorships, and Watson and Adler on transportation

A couple of small changes, more Web sponsorships, and some event announcements to get to here: First: We’re moving Whispers. Not far, just behind a new button that you’ll find on the front page of the site. We’ve struggled a…

Mission Note • By Michael Kanin • Mar 28, 2016

Affordable housing manuever loses at City Hall

Though it earned the respect of some Planning commissioners, an attempt to leverage a site plan extension for more affordable housing on the near-east side didn’t pay off last week. At last week’s Planning Commission meeting, Nikki Hoelter, who works…

Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Mar 28, 2016

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