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Tag Archives: Austin City Council
Council directs city staff on code rewrite
Austin City Council has spoken: It wants a new Land Development Code and map to look at and consider for adoption this year, ready to pass on first reading in October. Council voted during a special session Thursday afternoon to…
Land Development Code • By Ryan Thornton • May 3, 2019
Golf course owner hopes Council will intervene in Butler Park contract dispute
The owner of Butler Park Pitch & Putt golf course is hoping City Council will reopen the contract process that threatens to end the nearly 70-year family operation. Lee Kinser, owner and president of the small golf course tucked off…
Parks • By Chad Swiatecki • May 2, 2019
Yard Bar evades muzzle on live music
Customers at Yard Bar, a Burnet Road restaurant, will continue enjoying outdoor live music with their dinner and drinks for years to come, thanks to City Council’s rejection of an appeal of the restaurant’s relatively strict outdoor music venue permit…
Planning • By Ryan Thornton • Apr 30, 2019
City eyes loan to cover facilities costs for job training nonprofit
City Council has committed to offering financial help to the Workforce Solutions Capital Area job training program to help it address facilities expenses that resulted in a 20 percent cut to its programs this year. The resolution, which passed as…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 29, 2019
Zoning for affordable housing wins initial approval
With Council Member Greg Casar leading the way, Council voted unanimously Thursday to give first-round approval to rezoning a tract at 916 and 918 Norwood Park Blvd. for 228 affordable housing units in District 4. Members of the Heritage Hills…
Zoning • By Jo Clifton • Apr 29, 2019
Council to consider jump-start to small area planning
The city’s Planning and Zoning Department could be getting outside help to clear an anticipated decades-long backlog of planning documents for activity centers specified for growth in Imagine Austin. An amendment up for consideration at today’s City Council meeting includes…
Land Development Code • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 25, 2019
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Council debates preservation of special zoning districts
City Council members have come to a loose consensus on the five questions in City Manager Spencer Cronk’s land development code memo. Council is fundamentally in agreement that a new code is necessary and that a zoning map should be…
Land Development Code • By Ryan Thornton • Apr 24, 2019
Summer pilot aims to save Zilker from parking overload
The first piece of a long-term effort to systematically rethink Zilker Park’s parking, transportation and environmental needs may come into play this summer with a short-term transportation pilot program aiming to reduce traffic and parking demand in and around the…
Parks • By Ryan Thornton • Apr 16, 2019
Council overrides staff to OK Blackland rezoning
Last Thursday, Council gave final approval to a zoning change that will allow an East Austin property owner to build five units on a lot at 2107 Alamo St., replacing an existing duplex. The vote was 10-1, with Council Member…
Zoning • By Jo Clifton • Apr 16, 2019
Council says no to cell phone tower
On a vote of 7-3, last week Council rejected an application to change regulations for a planned unit development that would have allowed a cell phone tower to be erected near a condominium complex and an apartment building west of…
Planning • By Jo Clifton • Apr 15, 2019
Reporter's Notebook: Chopped
Bueller?… Council Member Alison Alter took time from Tuesday’s work session to highlight a concern that current appointees to some city boards and commissions have been racking up absences, creating an issue of making quorum at several points. During discussion…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Apr 15, 2019
Austin gets a new comprehensive transportation plan
After passing the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan – the transportation piece of the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan – on an initial reading March 28, City Council unanimously approved the plan on second and third readings Thursday afternoon. According to the…
