Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole lists a set of familiar responses as milestones for her 2013 Council year. And though she clearly sees the importance of such items as the start of the Land Development Code rewrite, wage floors, and the potential coming of Urban Rail, she quickly focuses on what to her was the […]
2012 City of Austin Bond Election
A total of seven individual requests, which included programs for Transportation and Mobility; Open Space & Watershed Protection; Parks and Recreation; Housing; Public Safety; Health and Human Services; and Library, Museum and Cultural Arts Facilities. All but $78 million in housing bonds passed, granting city officials more than $300 million in new money to work with.
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Austin voters approve Affordable Housing bonds by wide margin
City of Austin voters handily approved $65 million in affordable housing bonds Tuesday. The vote recharges an Affordable Housing program left without a clear funding path after $70-million-plus ballot question failed at the polls in 2012. At the end of the evening, more than 60 percent of those voting cast ballots in favor of […]