TipSheets

Today, City Council will convene to hold its regular Thursday meeting and, to celebrate the occasion, we’ve put together a collection of things that caught our eye while reading through the agenda. Behold! In February, Council approved a new density bonus program, DB90, to replace VMU2, which was eliminated by a court ruling. Now, DB90 […]

Though City Council members briefly reappeared to help unveil this year’s budget last week, they will have their first regular meeting this week after summer break. As one might expect, the agenda is somewhat overstuffed in an effort to make up for that lost time. We’ve done our level best to discern what the most […]

City Council will meet today for the last time before its summer break. Because the next meeting isn’t until July 18, one might expect the agenda to be overstuffed, but it’s really not that bad. As usual, we’ve done our optimistic best to guess at what might be most interesting. As we reported earlier this […]

City Council will convene for what looks to be a fairly fun meeting today. For those who would like to judge for themselves, the full agenda is, of course, posted online. We’ve also done some judging and our take on said agenda follows. Though not everyone is crazy about the drought contingency and water conservation […]

City Council will once again honor us with a Thursday meeting, and we’ve done the work of looking through the agenda for you and picking out what strikes us as interesting from said agenda. There’s a whole bunch of interesting stuff (OK, resolutions) coming from City Council members this week. We’ve already written about Council […]

City Council will convene today for a regular Thursday meeting. But, like every meeting, there are a few things on the agenda that we will be paying particular attention to. Those items have been detailed below in this, our humble TipSheet. Word is out that Austin’s next city manager is almost certainly T.C. Broadnax. Today, […]

Today, City Council will convene again for a regular meeting. We’ve taken a look at the reasonably sized agenda and picked a few things that might be of interest. As usual, the entire agenda is also online and can be read in its entirety here. A couple of high-dollar items on today’s agenda have definitely […]

Today, City Council will convene for a normal Thursday meeting, and we’ve put together a few of the items on this week’s (short!) agenda that caught our eye. Proposed changes to environmental protections on the Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail are on today’s agenda and, if it’s anything like the scene at […]

Today, City Council will convene for its regular Thursday meeting. We’ve taken a look at the agenda and compiled our best guesses about what will be of interest below. The biggest item on this week’s agenda might be one of its most dull – the lightning-quick revamp of new Vertical Mixed Use rules after an […]

City Council will, once again, meet for a regular meeting today. And we, once again, have gathered some highlights from today’s agenda to get you excited for the bonanza of public policy that will soon be upon us. For even more information, the entire agenda is posted online here.  Following approval of a stopgap measure, […]

Today marks the first official City Council meeting of 2024, and despite an extremely abbreviated work session, there are a few things that we’ll be keeping our eye on. As usual, this TipSheet is just a collection of best guesses about what might be interesting today. The meeting agenda can be read in its entirety […]

The last City Council meeting of the year is here. Breaking from a tradition that the final meeting of any year is longer than reason, Council opted to take up its most contentious items – amendments to the Land Development Code – in a separate (and very long!) meeting last week. Nonetheless, there are still […]