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Council approves Oak Hill plan, minus the controversy
The Oak Hill Neighborhood Plan – which is turning out to be the mother of all neighborhood plans – will stretch across three Council meetings. The 11,000-acre planning area is both massive and complicated, overlaid with environmental features and recharge…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 25, 2008
Dawson “shockingly” happy with redevelopment plan
The Planning Commission has endorsed a zoning change for property on Wilson St. in the Dawson Neighborhood that would allow the owners to redevelop the existing mixture of single-family and multi-family housing with a larger, denser multi-family style complex under…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 25, 2008
City attorney says campaign contribution limits unenforceable
Austin’s City Attorney believes that the city charter’s limits on campaign contributions and expenditures are currently unenforceable. In addition, City Attorney David Smith has issued a written opinion stating that there are currently no restrictions on a City Council…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 22, 2008
Council to set language for Charter amendment vote
Council Members will vote today on language for two items amending the City Charter, questions that will appear on the November ballot. Although there has been little discussion of a Council-sponsored proposal to give the Council authority to hire and…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 21, 2008
Controversial Oak Hill Plan back before Council today
The Austin City Council will take up the Oak Hill Neighborhood Plan and the future land use map that goes with it today. However, a coalition of neighborhood residents and environmental activists is asking the Council to make changes to…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 21, 2008
HHS Committee hears preview of Austin Homeless Survey
Most of those who panhandle in Austin are not criminals, and are not making large sums of money on the city’s street corners, according to a University of Texas study that will be presented to Austin City Council this week.…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 20, 2008
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Economist sees political reasons for local real estate holding pattern
Both the Austin economy and real estate market will remain in a holding pattern until spring of 2009 because of several national and local economic factors. That was the message to members of the Real Estate Council of Austin on…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 19, 2008
City may add regulations for development over closed landfills
The Austin City Council this week will hold a public hearing and take a vote on new regulations for development over old landfills. The goal of the update to the city code is to align city regulations with state regulations.…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 18, 2008
Chief Information Officer reaches resignation agreement with city
City Chief Information Officer Pete Collins resigned from his post Wednesday, accepting nearly $66,000 from the city as the result of an agreement signed by City Manager Marc Ott. As part of that agreement, Collins promised not to make any…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 14, 2008
Wynn to meet with presidential campaign advisors on energy policy
Austin Mayor Will Wynn is in New York today, joining dozens of other mayors from around the country for the Mayor’s ’08 Action Forum on Infrastructure. As part of the conference, hosted by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Wynn…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 14, 2008
Commission ponders demolition permits for 21c Museum Hotel project
The Historic Landmark Commission on Monday cleared the way for the demolition of one property in the Rainey Street Neighborhood to make way for the new 21c Museum Hotel and gave the property owner two weeks to work on plans…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 13, 2008
City CIO Collins resigns
City Chief Information Officer Pete Collins, who has been on administrative leave since mid-June has submitted his resignation. Collins will receive nearly $66,000 from the city as the result of an agreement and release signed this afternoon. That amount…
