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Council postpones decision on Bat Fest bridge closure
The Austin City Council has postponed a vote on granting street closure permit for the Bat Fest until Aug. 21. Organizers of the festival want the Council to waive the rules requiring 90 percent of affected property owners to approve…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 8, 2008
Condition of property stalls vote by zoning panel
Chair Betty Baker could find little recommend in the rezoning of a half-acre of property on Swansons Ranch Road from SF-2 to CS after neighborhood complaints at Tuesday night’s Zoning and Platting Commission meeting. The problem with the property, owned…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 7, 2008
Council looking at support for expanding Medicare coverage
The Austin City Council on Thursday will consider a resolution in support of a nationwide single-payer healthcare system. Council Members Lee Leffingwell, Mike Martinez, and Randi Shade are sponsoring the item in support of House Resolution 676, the “United…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 5, 2008
Cap Metro panel recommends major fare increase
16 After two decades of being flush with disposable cash, the Capital Metro Transit Authority has finally taken a hard look at its finances, and that means making unpalatable choices such as cutting traditional fare subsidies for the elderly and…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 5, 2008
HLC backs historic zoning for Southerland House
16 Despite significant onsite demolition and objections from the owners, the Historic Landmark Commission recommended last week that the West Austin home of the founder of the state’s first registered architectural firm be zoned historic. Louis Southerland’s home is not…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 4, 2008
Austin Energy biomass plant up for consideration this week
10Austin residents may get two chances this week to give their opinion on Austin Energy’s plan to spend $2.3 billion over the next 20 years to buy power from a soon to be built biomass-powered electric generation plant near Nacogdoches…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Aug 4, 2008
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Legal Aid group takes aim at Cap Metro over fare hikes
Citing an adverse impact upon the poor, the non-profit group Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid plans to file a complaint with the Environmental Protection Agency over Capital Metro’s proposed bus fare hike. Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Jul 31, 2008
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Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Jul 30, 2008
URB chair wonders if property owners getting a fair shake
The Urban Renewal Board discussed several possible amendments to restrictions for properties along East 12th Street at its meeting last week, but Chair Kevin Cole wanted to make certain that the process by which those proposed changes were heard was…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Jul 30, 2008
LCRA prepares for public input on future water needs
10 The Lower Colorado River Authority, which has managed and provided water to the Central Texas area for the past 70 years, is preparing to assess the needs of its customers for the next 100 years. New General…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Jul 29, 2008
Commission, neighborhood approve mixed-use development for S. 1st St.
With the neighborhood’s blessing, the Planning Commission has endorsed a zoning change for a vertical mixed-use project on land owned by the Oak Meadow Baptist Church at 3715 S. 1st Street. Plans call for approximately 5,000 square feet of retail…
Uncategorized • By Austin Monitor • Jul 29, 2008
Duncan explains plans for reducing Austin’s carbon footprint
10 In an effort to meet both expected federal regulation and the city’s own climate change goals, Austin Energy announced last week plans to cap its carbon footprint through a combination of new carbon-neutral generating technology, energy conservation,…
