Tai Moses

If you have an opinion about the new pedestrian and bicycle crossing planned for Lady Bird Lake and Longhorn Dam, there’s still time to get your two cents in. The city is using a virtual open house to collect comments on the design process for the bridge, and this phase of the comment period ends Sunday, […]

Are you tired of looking at those dreary metal utility boxes – aka traffic signal control cabinets – that dot the intersections of Austin? We sure are, and finally, someone agrees with us. The Austin Transportation Department, in league with UP Art Studio, has issued a call for local visual artists to transform the city’s […]

The Govalle Park parking lot at 5200 Bolm Road will be closed the week of Dec. 10-14 for the installation of a natural gas line. Visitors to Govalle Park or Southern Walnut Creek Trail are advised to enter at the ballpark parking lot, just east of the closed paved parking lot along Bolm Road, and […]

An innovative partnership consisting of Dell Medical School, CommUnityCare Health Centers and Travis County’s Integral Care is preparing to launch a mobile unit with the goal of bringing quality health care services to people experiencing homelessness. The mobile, multidisciplinary team will provide both primary care and mental health services, including substance abuse treatment, and will […]

Information junkies: If you’ve never looked at the city’s open data portal, we’re about to give you an early Christmas present. The open data portal is a veritable smorgasbord of data: charts and maps, datasets on transportation and mobility, public health, housing, neighborhood planning, public safety, and much, much more. Looking for a lost pet? View a map […]

City Council is seeking qualified applicants to fill openings on Central Health’s nine-member Board of Managers. Candidates should have a background in finance or accounting and a desire to serve the community by helping uninsured and low-income residents of Travis County obtain access to quality health care. Prior experience serving on boards or in positions […]

Austin’s Neighborhood Housing and Community Development Department is hosting a meeting for affordable housing developers who participate in either the Rental Housing Development Assistance Program or Home Ownership Development Assistance. As a result of a prior review process with area developers, the department has streamlined the application process and established a standardized review procedure for the […]

Travis County Parks staff and local fire personnel are set to converge on Pace Bend Park this week to conduct multiple prescribed burns in select areas of the popular park. The strategically planned burns will help to reduce fire danger and improve the health of the ecosystem by eliminating dead vegetation and invasive plants. The […]

Austin Independent School District invites the community to attend the groundbreaking of a new elementary school for students of T.A. Brown Elementary and Webb Primary School. The modernized new campus, constructed on the site of the old T.A. Brown, will be a green school focused on outdoor learning and the arts as well as STEM. […]

The Parks and Recreation Department has posted an online survey to gather public input about the state of the city’s parks and whether residents would like to see them altered, expanded or left alone. The survey results will help the parks department shape the future of the city’s 300 parks as well as determine users’ […]

The city has announced a call for ideas for a one-day symposium on transparency in government to be held sometime next year. Both advocates and practitioners will network, mingle and discuss trending topics at the 2019 Open Government Symposium. Have a topic for discussion or suggestion for a panelist? Fill out the short online form.

The anti-displacement task force that City Council created earlier this year to explore the effects of gentrification has completed its final recommendations and posted the report online for public viewing. The report does not mince words, stating that displacement is a “serious threat” that, if not addressed, will “destroy Austin’s long-term desirability as a place […]