Tag Archives: Top Stories
Memo identifies preliminary locations for temporary homeless shelters
As part of a recent push to help Austin’s homeless, the city has been looking into using city-owned buildings to help ease overcrowding in downtown shelters. Last week, the Parks and Recreation Department provided a list of recreation centers that…
City Council • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 21, 2017
How zebra mussels will change Austin lakes (and maybe Barton Springs) forever
The invasive zebra mussel has been moving south for years, leaving destruction in its wake. Now, it’s in Lake Travis, and it will soon make its way downstream, changing the look, feel and maybe even the taste of Austin’s lakes…
Environment • By Mose Buchele, KUT • Aug 17, 2017
Regulation Vacation: City collects taxes from unlawful Airbnbs
Becca Dobberfuhl has a name for her Bouldin Creek home. “It’s all this rusty, rusty, rusty color,” she said. “And the house is a modern house and it has a box-like look to it so we call it the ‘Rusty…
The Code • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Aug 16, 2017
Report shows compensation for nonprofit leaders
A report provided by city staff sheds light on how much top executives of Austin nonprofits get paid. The document was prepared in response to a budget question submitted by Council Member Ora Houston, who wanted to know how much…
Austin • By Jack Craver • Aug 15, 2017
Guadalupe plan still in the works
The long-delayed report that will recommend giving two lanes of Austin’s iconic Drag entirely to buses is near the finish line, according to Austin Transportation Director Rob Spillar. “If these improvements are to be considered for funding, we’ve got to…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Aug 14, 2017
Planning Commission endorses east side plan to replace auto salvage yard with mixed-use project
Continuing tension over gentrification, density and a lack of adequate planning for growth on the city’s east side converged on an unlikely fight to preserve an East Austin junkyard at the most recent meeting of the Planning Commission. In the…
Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 14, 2017
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Council wades nervously into pools plan
City Council delivered decidedly mixed reviews of the Parks and Recreation Department’s recently unveiled Aquatic Master Plan, with some Council members decrying what they fear is a plan to shut down neighborhood pools and others bemoaning the unequal distribution of…
Parks • By Jack Craver • Aug 2, 2017
Capital Metro blames cheap parking for one sector of ridership declines
The University of Texas isn’t the only institution of higher education whose students are turning cold on public transit. On Monday, the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors learned that a partnership with Austin Community College has seen dwindling…
Transportation • By Caleb Pritchard • Aug 1, 2017
Proposed bond includes big money for parks
The Austin parks system is looking to win big from a major bond that voters will likely be asked to approve in 2018. A citizen task force is currently in the process of drafting a general obligation bond to fund…
Bonds & Propositions • By Jack Craver • Aug 1, 2017
Flag lots could be making a comeback
There’s more to CodeNEXT than zoning, believe it or not, and last week the land use commissions received an update from staff on non-zoning changes that would be part of the rewrite’s second draft, with the hottest item of discussion…
Planning • By Joseph Caterine • Jul 31, 2017
Clarksville meeting displays fear of CodeNEXT and density
On Wednesday night the pews at St. Luke United Methodist Church in Clarksville were packed with nearby residents who had come to hear about how their surroundings would be impacted by CodeNEXT, the proposed rewrite of the city’s Land Development…
