Tag Archives: Austin Music Commission
Arts, music supporters eye bond money to assist existing creative spaces
Leaders in Austin’s arts community appear to be in favor of using $12 million in proposed bond money to help existing creative businesses in purchasing their current spaces before they can be priced out or forced to move because of…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Jul 12, 2018
Arts, culture groups joining forces for bond request likely to exceed $100M
Representatives from the city’s three ethnic cultural centers will join forces with members of the Arts and Music commissions to ask City Council for a bond package request that could add up to more than $120 million. At Monday’s meeting,…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • May 10, 2018
Six years gone: Music Commission again asks Council to halt special events ordinance
The Austin Music Commission has asked City Council to put on hold nearly six years of work on updating and revamping of the city’s regulations covering special events. At Monday’s meeting, the commission approved a resolution that calls the current…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • May 9, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Collective concerns
No need to bug out… Word hit the street recently that the city was considering a rule that would require all homes to install insect screens. “Proposal would require homeowners to install insect screens,” said a KXAN headline. Buried near…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Apr 16, 2018
Creative 'hubs' requests moving forward for $40M bond ask
The questions surrounding a movement to build multiple creative “hubs” – or possibly one single campus – for Austin’s arts and music communities are becoming somewhat clearer as proponents of those groups continue talks ahead of an August decision on…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 12, 2018
Music Commission's 'hub' concept prompts request for $15M bond increase
The Austin Music Commission is asking City Council to add $15 million to November’s bond package to buy or build property that could be used as a music hub to support the city’s flagging music industry. At Monday’s meeting the…
Bonds & Propositions • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 4, 2018
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Reporter's Notebook: Let's talk talk
Talking to themselves… Do the members of the Commissioners Court and their staff need to take some time to discuss how they discuss things? Well, last Tuesday, the court discussed that very question! Concerning an upcoming retreat, Commissioner Brigid Shea…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Apr 2, 2018
Music proponents continue push for venues in CodeNEXT
Proponents of Austin music and the health of clubs and music venues are still pushing to make the final version of CodeNEXT more favorable to those businesses, after failing to win over the planners who contributed to the third draft…
Land Development Code • By Chad Swiatecki • Mar 8, 2018
City busking program brings public music performance into question
Austin’s long-debated policy concerning the legality of paid acoustic street performance – widely referred to as “busking” – returned as an issue of some discussion Monday, with the city’s music office attempting to change both the perception and enforcement of…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Feb 7, 2018
Live music proponents revive 'agent of change,' with eye toward fall
After it lay dormant since July, city leaders and music industry professionals are restarting the process that – it is hoped – will protect live music venues and nearby residential buildings from clashing over noise and general quality-of-life issues. Known…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 31, 2018
Nonprofits pitching in on cultural land trust proposal
A group of Austin nonprofit organizations are working together on an effort that would see the city of Austin create a cultural land trust to buy and preserve properties around the city for use as theaters, studios, live music venues…
Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Jan 12, 2018
Commission: Add music venues in CodeNEXT to help clubs spread through city
The push is on to make live music venues a distinct business use case in the city’s building code, a move that music industry proponents hope will make it easier for music hot spots to emerge in neighborhoods throughout the…
