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Austin Monitor Radio: CM Garza on the Homestead Tax Exemption

District 2 Austin City Council Member Delia Garza joins Monitor publisher Mike Kanin to talk about the proposed 20 percent City of Austin homestead tax exemption. Sponsored by Kerbey Lane. Track is embedded below:

Monitor News & Media • By Michael Kanin • Feb 19, 2015

Council reopens debate on downtown park events

In the wake of public outcry related to a national cyclocross event at Zilker Park earlier this year, City Council has rekindled a long-running debate about the use of urban parks for special events. “I think it is incumbent on…

City Council • By Tyler Whitson • Feb 18, 2015

Stealth dorm regulations head back to Council

The stealth dorm issue has lived to see another City Council. The Planning Commission took the next step to combat occupancy limit violations at its regular meeting last week. Commissioners voted unanimously to forward a recommendation from the Stealth Dorm…

City Council • By Sunny Sone • Feb 18, 2015

Council limits Spicewood Springs project footprint

City Council voted Thursday to approve a zoning change that would allow a new professional office building on Spicewood Springs Road. Council limited the size of the structure to 12,000 square feet, despite protests from the applicants. The vote was…

Austin • By Kara Nuzback • Feb 18, 2015

Commissioners delay action on DA's office complex

Two absences at the Travis County Commissioners Court on Tuesday forced a delay on a decision over a building to house the district attorney’s office. Commissioners Ron Davis and Gerald Daugherty were not on the dais, leaving a three-person quorum…

Development • By Caleb Pritchard • Feb 18, 2015

Bike signal debate triggers acrimony at Council

Some Austin City Council members grew irritated while debating the problems of bicycles at intersections and whether to accept grant money that could ease those problems at Thursday’s meeting. At issue was a proposal that the Austin Transportation Department accept $200,000…

Austin • By Jenny Blair • Feb 17, 2015

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Texas mayors take aim at Legislature's tax caps

Austin Mayor Steve Adler and the mayors of nine other large Texas cities came together Monday to declare their intention to fight any proposal to diminish local government control, especially cities’ authority to set tax rates. The idea of a…

Austin • By Jo Clifton • Feb 17, 2015

Angry neighbors welcome Council to zoning

City Council heard its first zoning case on Thursday night. The hours-long battle between neighborhood and development interests on Burnet Road was, most likely, an accurate welcome to the process. In the end, plans for a multifamily project at 8528…

City Council • By Elizabeth Pagano • Feb 17, 2015

Board rules tree-shielding carport must go

A Cherrywood resident who hoped to save both his cars and his trees found no fix at the Board of Adjustment. Adrian Young, who owns the house at 3216 Lafayette Ave., was seeking a variance to reduce the setback from…

Environment • By Elizabeth Pagano • Feb 17, 2015

Developers propose brackish water for Decker Golf

In a major shift, Decker Lake Golf LLC representatives have proposed a new plan they say would not use reclaimed water to irrigate a PGA-class golf course proposed for Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park. The company’s vice president, Warren Hayes,…

Austin • By Tyler Whitson • Feb 16, 2015

Explainer: Open Meetings and the new Council

On their way to postponing an item that would have allowed Mayor Steve Adler to fund office staff positions via dollars raised by a 501(c)3 organization, Austin City Council members Thursday expressed a handful of concerns. As Kara Nuzback reported…

Austin • By Michael Kanin • Feb 16, 2015

Video: 2.12 Council rundown, KXAN

Monitor Publisher Mike Kanin joins KXAN‘s Sally Hernandez for a quick rundown of Council’s February 12 discussions of Mayor Steve Adler’s plan to fund additional office staff with (c)3 dollars and a now-in-process study of a potential 20 percent homestead…

Austin • By Michael Kanin • Feb 15, 2015

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