Steven Pickering

A divided Austin City Council on Thursday rejected a request for more density in a southeast Austin neighborhood that already has a high number of apartments. The owners of several lots in the 1400 and 1500 blocks of Parker Lane near Oltorf had originally requested a zoning change from SF-3 to MF-3, but went to […]

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo and Council Member Mike Martinez took part in a town hall-style meeting at City Hall Monday evening to discuss APD’s ongoing effort to obtain blood samples from DWI suspects. The audience filled the chamber and spilled out into the lobby. While most of the members of the crowd were there […]

Mayoral candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn vowed on Monday to secure a medical school for Austin, a goal that has eluded other mayors, state representatives, and state senators.   Central Texas elected officials have been pushing for a UT medical school for several years, but have been stymied by the large price tag for the project, […]

The Austin City Council on Thursday voted unanimously to go ahead with the next phase of the Downtown Austin Plan, despite reservations from some Council Members that the plan was too expensive. The ROMA Design Group is charging $841,860 for phase two of the plan, bringing the total contract amount to more than $1.4 million. […]

Council Members Brewster McCracken and Lee Leffingwell squared off over the city’s budget on Tuesday during a mayoral candidate’s forum sponsored by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (http://www.acslaw.org/about/mission ), a group for lawyers interested in promoting democracy and access to justice. Candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn did not attend. McCracken and Leffingwell found […]