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Austin, Central Texas to begin recovery from major flood event
People across the Central Texas region woke Thursday morning to a major flood that local officials say will likely go down as a record event. Some parts of South Austin and Hays County received almost 15 inches of rain,…
Public Safety • By Michael Kanin • Nov 1, 2013
ICRC holds final public hearing on proposed Council districts
As the deadline for a single-member district map grows closer, the crowd wanting to address the map has grown larger and more vocal. Wednesday night, the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission held its fourth and final public input meeting designed…
Austin • By Elizabeth Pagano • Nov 1, 2013
County ponders how to deal with heritage tree in path of road extension
Travis County Commissioners will face a tough decision next week as they decide the fate of a 100-year-old oak tree that is in the way of an extension of Frate Barker Road in South Austin. The item came up…
Local Government • By Mark Richardson • Oct 31, 2013
Landmark Commission rejects Crestview bid to designate home
Some Crestview Neighborhood residents were left crestfallen at Monday night’s Historic Landmark Commission meeting after their bid to designate the McKown-James House fell flat. The commission voted to initiate the historic zoning process at its Sept. 9 meeting, despite…
Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Oct 31, 2013
Leffingwell votes against climate protection clause in CAMPO plan
Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell found himself Wednesday defending a controversial vote to take references to climate protection and greenhouse gas emissions out of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s 2040 plan. Leffingwell told In Fact Daily that he cast his…
Environment • By Michael Kanin • Oct 31, 2013
Planning Commission OKs daycare with restrictions, reservations
The Planning Commission threw its unanimous support behind a proposed Central Austin daycare last week despite some reservations about the viability of the business plan. The commission voted in favor of a change at 4505 IH-35 from SF-3 to…
Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Oct 30, 2013
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Austin may be competing with Phoenix for new Apple facility
Phoenix and Austin could be in competition again, this time in a race to lure Apple to manufacture computers in a local facility with the possibility of hundreds of jobs and millions in economic development to either region. An…
Development • By Mark Richardson • Oct 30, 2013
Council approves fund to preserve heritage of Rainey Street District
Though they ultimately voted unanimously to create a Rainey Street District Fund from collection of development fees, it took at fair amount of bickering for City Council members to get there last week. It remains to be seen exactly how…
Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Oct 29, 2013
County developing five-year plan for social service contracts
Business in Austin and Travis County may be booming, but ironically, officials say as the economy expands, so does the need to provide social services for those whose boat does not rise with the tide. To meet that growing…
Local Government • By Mark Richardson • Oct 29, 2013
Environmental Board denies variance, orders fill removed from lot
Though it has been in place for years, the Environmental Board definitively shut down a variance request that would have allowed a huge amount of fill to remain in northeast Austin. Instead, the board recommended that that fill be removed,…
Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Oct 28, 2013
ICRC continues hearing on preliminary 10-1 Council Districts map
As a deadline for establishing Austin’s first single-member districts looms, the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission continued to listen to citizens over the weekend. The commission is currently on a whirlwind tour of the four Travis County Commissioner precincts. This…
Austin • By Elizabeth Pagano • Oct 28, 2013
Fleet Services says it needs more staff, bays to service vehicles
The head of the city’s Fleet Services Department told members on the Council Audit and Finance Committee last week that his department has numerous unmet needs, noting that department is short 60-80 repair bays for the city’s vehicles, including nearly…
