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County Budget Office looks for way to help fund Public Integrity Unit
In preparing for the Fiscal Year 2014 budget mark-up process, the Planning and Budget Office Tuesday presented Travis County Commissioners Court with ways to offset the cost of funding the state’s Public Integrity Unit. District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg oversees the…
Uncategorized • By Charlotte Moore • Aug 28, 2013
Groups call for almost $5 million in additional funds for Austin parks
Drawing momentum from a jogger injured by a falling tree on the Butler Hike and Bike Trail this past weekend, those pushing for more money in the Parks and Recreation Department budget rallied Tuesday morning. A group calling themselves…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 28, 2013
Council ponders interim ordinance to move stalled projects forward
Austin City Council members are set Thursday to take action on an ordinance that would offer an interim process by which developers with expired site plans could seek an extension. If approved, the measure would solve a problem created when,…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 28, 2013
Environmental Board approves rare variance to remove heritage pecan tree
The Environmental Board narrowly approved a variance last week to remove a heritage pecan tree in East Austin which a city arborist says is in poor condition. Developer Austin Stowell is seeking a variance from the city that would…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 27, 2013
Council prioritizes recommendations from Lake Austin Task Force
Austin City Council members last week began to prioritize the findings and recommendations of the city’s Lake Austin Task Force. Though a number of specific issues appeared to grab their attention, they seemed to mostly circle around the idea of…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 27, 2013
City union urges Council to ‘do right thing’ with 3 percent pay raise
In search of a 3 percent pay raise, members of the union that represents local municipal employees showed up in force Thursday for the first of two public hearings about the City of Austin’s FY2014 budget. There, they unloaded on…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 26, 2013
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Council nixes requiring lamination of downtown windows to cut noise
Austin City Council members unanimously agreed last week that a proposal to force developers of new downtown high-rise residential structures to laminate windows would do too little to mitigate noise problems and end up costing too much to install. At…
Uncategorized • By Charlotte Moore • Aug 26, 2013
Commission endorses zoning change for far East Austin juice bar
The stars have aligned for a juice bar in the far reaches of East Austin, though not everyone is convinced that the business will thrive. The Zoning and Platting Commission has recommended a zoning change that will allow plans…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 26, 2013
Council backs Garza Ranch on first reading but cans Encino Trace project
The fight over Garza Ranch isn’t quite over yet, though City Council definitively shut down amendments to the Save Our Springs Ordinance for another South Austin development last night. City Council agreed to amend the SOS Ordinance for the…
Uncategorized • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 23, 2013
New project duration rules raising questions
Staff from the city’s Planning and Development Review Department Thursday presented Council members with a set of potential rules to replace Austin‘s former Project Duration Ordinance. If approved, staff hopes the changes – new code for grandfathering property in the…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 23, 2013
Spelman vents frustration at staff over work on city leave bank
Months of frustration over delays in a long-planned change to City of Austin leave rules boiled over Thursday in Council Chambers. There, Council Member Bill Spelman called out city staff for what he cast as foot-dragging over the issue of…
Uncategorized • By Michael Kanin • Aug 23, 2013
City formally demands White Lodging return $688,000 in fee waivers
The City of Austin is formally asking for the return of $688,000 in fee waivers awarded to the developers building a new Marriott Hotel at Third Street and Congress Avenue. Assistant City Manager Anthony Snipes made the request of…
