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Austin looks to other music cities as 'agent of change' ordinance develops
If Austin is to make real progress in its new round of trying to pass an ordinance intended to calm noise complaints between residential buildings and entertainment venues, a number of lingering issues from the shelved 2017 effort will have…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 4, 2018
With $12M for creative spaces, arts/music group starts shaping allocation process
With $12 million for acquisition of creative space approved by voters earlier this month, members of the city’s music and arts commissions will spend the rest of November generating ideas for how to best use the money for saving and…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Nov 19, 2018
Special events ordinance on pace for April 2019 implementation
After six years of drafts and revisions, it appears Austin’s long-brewing special events ordinance will go into effect in April 2019, giving event producers during spring festival season – cityspeak for South by Southwest and spring break – another year…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 25, 2018
Noise enforcement called key to new push for 'agent of change' ordinance
The city is making another attempt to find peace and common ground between music and entertainment venues and high-rise hotels or residences as those two land uses becoming increasingly intermixed while Austin continues to grow. A resolution passed under consent…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 23, 2018
City approves Austin Marathon route months in advance
Next year will mark the 28th year of the Austin Marathon. Since the marathon’s inception in 1992, the route has undergone a few dramatic changes and several minor changes as planners have tried to please runners, spectators, city government and…
Music & Entertainment • By Ryan Thornton • Oct 19, 2018
Legal questions remain as soccer team once bound for Austin may stay put
The possibility of Austin not becoming the relocation destination for an Ohio Major League Soccer franchise has brought a variety of new questions into the issue of the city providing land for a new 20,000-seat sports stadium in North Austin.…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 16, 2018
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With cuts reduced, arts groups push city to reshape future funding
The city’s Arts Commission has asked City Council to allocate more than $1 million in extra money to arts organizations recently informed they were facing sharp cuts in their funding from the city’s Cultural Arts Division. At last Monday’s special…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Oct 1, 2018
Nightlife vet takes the lead of music venue district on Red River
With the appointment of the first executive director for the Red River Cultural District, changes are pretty much guaranteed for the downtown stretch that includes more than a dozen live music venues and represents one of the city’s most renowned…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Aug 28, 2018
Memo points toward cultural trust to save arts spaces
It appears City Council will move ahead with the creation of a cultural land trust and an economic development corporation in the coming months, both attempts to combat the rising cost of real estate for residents and local artists. A…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Aug 23, 2018
County commissioners eye legal options on city's soccer stadium deal
Travis County commissioners voted Tuesday to preserve their option to challenge the city of Austin’s deal to make a piece of North Austin land tax-exempt to facilitate the construction of a professional soccer stadium. The unanimous decision came in the…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Aug 22, 2018
Stadium agreement approval clears the way for pro soccer in Austin
Wednesday’s 7-4 vote to have city staff finalize and execute an agreement that will result in the construction of a professional soccer stadium on the city’s McKalla Place property in North Austin broke along expected lines. The four City Council…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Aug 16, 2018
Council vote on soccer stadium hinges on amendments – lots of them
After 10 months of discussion and roughly three months of often very public negotiations, the fate of Austin as the possible home of a professional sports franchise will come down to the fate of 28 amendments. Today’s special called City…
