Stories by Kimberly Reeves
New SH 45 SW traffic projections won’t be ready for vote
The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s (CAMPO) board will have to wait until November for updated traffic projections for a potential segment of the controversial State Highway 45 Southwest, which means the new information will come after the scheduled vote…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Sep 13, 2012
State Highway 45 SW gets airing at CAMPO hearing
Both sides of the debate on the controversial proposal to build State Highway 45 Southwest were represented at Monday night’s hearing on amendments to the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s long-range plan, but the lack of a dynamic modeling study…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Sep 11, 2012
Public weighs in at hearings on salamanders
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held a hearing on Wednesday and another last night on its proposal to add four rare Central Texas salamanders to the federal endangered species list. The hearings were separated by a mere 20…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Sep 7, 2012
Success of Mueller limits affordable housing funding options
The ironic consequence of the Mueller community is that success is making it tougher to create the mixed income neighborhood that was Mueller’s initial goal. At the most recent Mueller Municipal Airport Advisory Commission meeting, officials with Catellus Development,…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Sep 7, 2012
Panel looks into dilemma of finding housing for ex-cons
The Community Development Commission is about to tackle one of the toughest, yet most-pressing issues in Austin’s rental market today: where to put ex-offenders. The addition of permanent supportive housing units pushes the issue to the forefront. The challenge…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Aug 30, 2012
D.C. court rules Texas voting maps discriminatory
In a long-awaited decision, a three-judge federal court in Washington, D.C., ruled Tuesday that the statewide maps for both Congressional and state legislative districts drawn up during the 2011 legislative session by Texas Republican lawmakers discriminated against minority voters. …
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Aug 29, 2012
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Austin enjoying a ‘mini-boom’ in construction, says downtown advocate
In a time when many U.S. cities are suffering economically, construction in downtown Austin is booming. That good fortune is not lost on Downtown Austin Alliance Executive Director Charlie Betts, who says Austin is reaping the benefit of downtown…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Aug 28, 2012
Commission voices concerns over details of Seaholm redevelopment
An update on the redevelopment of the Seaholm Power Plant last week underlined the importance of context and connectivity on Austin’s waterfront. Construction to transform the decommissioned power plant into a mixed-use development is expected to begin in September.…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Jul 30, 2012
Capital Metro’s outlook improves heading into new fiscal year
Last summer, Capital Metro strongly signaled it was in for a rough fiscal 2012 when directors approved the agency’s budget. Austin’s transit agency faced an aging bus fleet, dwindling reserves and expenses that were driving up the cost of the…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Jul 26, 2012
City seeks community input on ambitious Colony Park plan
Undertaking its biggest project ever, the Austin Housing Finance Corp. is beginning work to create a 208-acre mixed-use, mixed-income master-planned community in the Colony Park neighborhood in East Austin. The city announced a $3 million three-year federal planning grant…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Jul 25, 2012
Council rejects rezoning of school district property
In a hotly contested case at its final meeting before the summer break, the City Council rejected a proposal for rezoning vacant land used as neighborhood green space in the Estates at Travis Country to make way for a single-family…
Uncategorized • By Kimberly Reeves • Jul 12, 2012
Transit group begins addressing thorny issues
Following a review of regional transportation basics, the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization’s transit working group has shifted to key issues: how to calibrate the choices for transit and fund the projects? The CAMPO committee, chaired by Mayor Lee…
