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Tag Archives: Imagine Austin
Homelessness roundtable calls for coordinated programs to provide relief
With homelessness one of the top concerns for city leaders, the most recent Imagine Austin speaker series brought together a trio of specialists who have spent years looking for ways to help those who lack a permanent home. Among the…
Austin • By Chad Swiatecki • May 7, 2019
Commission tries in vain to add affordability requirements to commercial rezone
The legal constraints of Vertical Mixed Use zoning stalled efforts to add income-restricted affordable housing to a rezoning request at the Zoning and Platting Commission’s Dec. 19 meeting. The 2-acre property at 9829 1/2 North Lake Creek Parkway is currently…
Zoning • By Joseph Caterine • Dec 22, 2017
Five years later, Imagine Austin gets progress report but no update
Despite a long road ahead, the progress report on Imagine Austin presented at the Nov. 7 joint land use commission meeting indicated that the city was on track in its implementation of the comprehensive plan. Still, some commissioners expressed frustration…
Planning • By Joseph Caterine • Nov 9, 2017
In lieu of Imagine Austin update, Planning Commission recommends mixed-use project
The city’s comprehensive plan is starting to show its age. On Tuesday, the Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve a mixed-use zoning request, against staff’s recommendation, for three commercially zoned properties on the border of one of the Imagine Austin…
Planning • By Joseph Caterine • Apr 14, 2017
Featured Collection: Austin Energy 2022 rate case
Austin Energy ramps up outreach for proposed rate changes
Austin Energy has entered the public hearing phase of its base rate review process, following its proposal to raise service costs. The monthslong dialogue with stakeholders and city staff, slated for resolution by City Council in November, has surfaced predictable…
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Austin plan sets goals for more affordable housing. But where should it go?
City Council is set to vote this week on whether to adopt the city’s first-ever housing plan. The plan aims to address Austin’s growing affordability crisis by setting goals for new housing production. But apart from encouraging more affordable housing,…
Housing • By Syeda Hasan • Apr 3, 2017
CodeNEXT could allow new music districts and creative spaces around Austin
Affordability – for both the city’s mostly lower-income artists and the venues and galleries where they work – will be the creative community’s biggest concern as Austin rolls out and gradually revises its CodeNEXT plan, a comprehensive rewrite of the…
Land Development Code • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 9, 2016
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New section of Guadalupe named activity corridor, despite neighborhood concerns
City Council designated a new section of Guadalupe Street as an activity corridor despite some neighborhood concerns, making its higher concentration of businesses, people and services official. The change came as part of a package of amendments to the Imagine…
Planning • By Cate Malek • Oct 10, 2016
As city overhauls development code, Central Austin neighborhood works on its first plan
The city of Austin is working with people who live in the North Shoal Creek area to develop their first-ever neighborhood plan. The effort could help determine the future of that part of Austin and the rest of the city.…
Development • By Syeda Hasan • Oct 3, 2016
Austin Police Department Budget, 2012-2022
During the 2020-21 budget process, City Council cut $31.5 million from APD’s budget, citing the protests and “community outcry against the disproportionate impact of police violence on Black Americans, Latinx Americans and other non-white ethnic communities,” according to the approved…
Guadalupe amendment moves to Council without endorsement
Sometimes it’s easier to say what something isn’t than to say what it is. For example, not many people know what an “activity corridor” is under the Imagine Austin plan. But, for the time being, a section of Guadalupe is…
Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 26, 2016
"Pork chop" battle continues between districts
At the intersection of Morrow Street and Lamar Boulevard, a concrete barrier prevents District 4 residents to the east from heading due west into District 7. But the divisions between those who want to see the barrier removed and those…
Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jun 8, 2016
How much can a city zone?
You don’t need a badge and a gun to have police powers. Just ask the members of the Zoning and Platting Commission, who on Tuesday listened as Assistant City Attorney David Sorola gave a presentation outlining the extent of the…
Zoning • By Jack Craver • Oct 26, 2015
Austin Monitor Radio: Imagine Austin BBB
This is the complete audio from the Monitor’s July 27, 2015 BBB, a discussion about Imagine Austin, CodeNEXT, and the economic implications of it all. Panelists are Steven Yarak, Jeff Jack, Jim Robertson, and Jim Duncan. The audio is embedded…
