Council members discuss plan to put dog park in industrial area

The City Council discussed and postponed action Thursday on what could be a controversial new dog park located in an industrial complex in southeast Austin. The proposed park, located off Winnebago Lane in the Missouri-Pacific Industrial Complex, would be, as…

Development • By Chris Thomas • Jan 27, 2014

Planning Commission opposes church’s expansion of parking lot

Though there were hopes that it could help alleviate parking troubles on South Congress Avenue, the Planning Commission shot down a zoning change request by the Congress Avenue Baptist Church at the commission’s most recent meeting. The next stop for…

Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jan 27, 2014

Council plans to move on Rob Roy zoning, covenant change

Though a lawsuit is already pending, the City Council will move ahead with a Rob Roy zoning and a change in a restrictive covenant change next week.   Before Council looked at the matter Thursday, Rob Roy homeowners Russ and…

Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jan 24, 2014

Patsy Woods Martin announces for Mayor; others are waiting

The founder of I Live Here, I Give Here, Patsy Woods Martin, announced late Thursday that she has officially thrown her hat in the ring to be the next Mayor of Austin. Trained as a chemist, Martin, 59, lists herself…

Elections • By Jo Clifton • Jan 24, 2014

Council members skeptical over incentive deal for AthenaHealth

Austin City Council members Thursday expressed no small amount of skepticism about an economic development incentives deal that would bring a new AthenaHealth Research and Development facility to the former Seaholm Power Plant. Concerns – mostly from Council Members Laura…

Local Politics • By Michael Kanin • Jan 24, 2014

Commissioners postpone resolution to support Project Connect

There was no resolution this week from Travis County Commissioners about supporting Project Connect, the high-capacity, cross-agency transit plan for the Austin metropolitan area.   The court mainly heard from supporters of Project Connect Tuesday.   “I have been in…

Local Government • By Jimmy Maas • Jan 23, 2014

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Measure to set residential occupancy limits headed for City Council

An effort to curb stealth dorms that would radically limit how many unrelated people can live in Austin’s residences is heading quickly back to City Council.   This past November Council started the process of limiting occupancy to four unrelated…

Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jan 23, 2014

Dripping Springs plans to discharge wastewater in Onion Creek

A plan by Dripping Springs officials to apply for a discharge permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that could send treated wastewater into Onion Creek is meeting with some concern from at least two Austin-regional entities.   Dripping…

Environment • By Michael Kanin • Jan 23, 2014

City plans ‘tight enforcement’ of violations in new bus transit lanes

Austin Transportation Department Director Rob Spillar told Austin City Council members Tuesday that city prohibitions on parking and driving in the dedicated downtown transit lanes would be “patrolled very tightly” until parking in those lanes “starts to switch over.”  …

Transportation • By Michael Kanin • Jan 22, 2014

No contract between Travis County and Saxet Gun Show promoters

This weekend’s Saxet Gun Show at the Travis County Exposition Center will likely be the last one at that venue for the foreseeable future.   For the second time in three weeks, the Travis County Commissioners Court heard public comment…

Local Government • By Jimmy Maas • Jan 22, 2014

Sheriff’s office defends no in-person jail visitation policy

Officials with the Travis County Sheriff’s Department defended their policy Tuesday of limiting family visits with Travis County Jail inmates to a for-profit video visitation system, saying that the change in policy was for security reasons and that video visitation…

Local Government • By Mark Richardson • Jan 22, 2014

Tinkering with city’s over 65 property tax exemption proves tricky

Increasing the City of Austin’s tax exemption for residents 65 and older and the disabled could cost the city a substantial amount in lost revenue. According to Deputy Chief Financial Officer Ed Van Eenoo, who wrote in a memo in…

Development • By Michael Kanin • Jan 22, 2014

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