Sections

About Us

 
Make a Donation
Local • Independent • Essential News
 

Tag Archives: Development Services Department

Planning Commission calls for reorganization at City Hall

Planning Commission members have unanimously approved a series of budget requests aimed at reforming and streamlining the way their commission is run. Most significantly, the recommendations would establish an Office of the Land Use Commissions that would work with the…

City Hall • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 8, 2024

City will promote relocation of homes as alternative to demolition

The city has identified a number of ways to increase the relocation and deconstruction of homes as an alternative to demolition that could take place amid the push for more housing on smaller parcels of land. A memo issued last…

Preservation • By Chad Swiatecki • Aug 5, 2024

Will Austin really be the next single-staircase city?

City staff is pushing back on a proposal to allow single stairways for multifamily buildings. City Council unanimously approved a resolution to amend the code and allow multifamily projects up to six stories to have a single staircase in May.…

Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jul 2, 2024

City’s historic preservation commission and code enforcement look to get in sync

After several recent cases that illustrated a divide between the city’s code enforcement policies and historic preservation aims, Historic Landmark Commission members are working to make sure things are more aligned and less hopelessly complicated for property owners who find…

Preservation • By Elizabeth Pagano • Jun 12, 2024

The Austin Monitor thanks its sponsors. Become one.

Downtown Commission suggests tweaks to 'agent of change' noise requirements

The Downtown Commission wants the city to take a more proactive role in a proposed new measure that seeks to address friction over noise levels between new residential developments and existing music venues. Last week’s meeting included a presentation on…

Music & Entertainment • By Chad Swiatecki • Apr 23, 2024

Audit shows changes needed at Development Services Department

Nearly a decade after a damning evaluation of the city’s planning and development processes resulted in more than 460 recommended changes, a recent audit of two smaller components of the Development Services Department found some steps left incomplete from a…

City Hall • By Chad Swiatecki • Dec 8, 2023

Subscribe to our newsletter

Subscribe

Council approves development changes as required by state law

With several new state laws going into effect on Friday, Sept. 1, Austin City Council approved some significant changes to the rules governing the city’s Development Services Department this past Thursday. Most of those changes are aimed at making it…

Development • By Jo Clifton • Sep 7, 2023

Council hears plan to overhaul site plan review process

Few who have dealt with the city of Austin’s site plan review process would dispute that it’s cumbersome, time-consuming and expensive. But consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which analyzed the process and then outlined improvements for City Council at Tuesday’s…

Land Development Code • By Jo Clifton • Aug 30, 2023

Planning Commission recommends airport master development plan update

The Planning Commission voted Tuesday to recommend an update to the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport’s Master Development Plan Ordinance. The airport’s Master Development Plan Ordinance must be updated every 10 years. It allows the city to look at the site comprehensively,…

Planning • By Nina Hernandez • Aug 24, 2023

Site plan appeal reveals city tech failings at ZAP

Though an appeal to a site plan extension failed at the Zoning and Platting Commission’s most recent meeting Aug. 15, the case exposed what happened after mayoral declaration to help development held up by the pandemic went into effect. In…

City Hall • By Elizabeth Pagano • Aug 24, 2023

New building under construction on your block? Austin could change how you're notified.

East Austin residents flooded a City Council meeting last month for a vote on rezoning the Borden Dairy plant to allow mixed-use development. The 21-acre site will make room for apartments, hotel rooms and a mix of office, restaurant and…

Planning • By Luz Moreno-Lozano, KUT • Jul 5, 2023

Housing and Planning Committee grapples with how to prioritize code amendments

Members of City Council’s Housing and Planning Committee grappled during a Tuesday briefing with how to best approach moving forward on a set of amendments to the city’s Land Development Code. The discussion occurred at the committee’s May 23 special…

Land Development Code • By Nina Hernandez • May 25, 2023

Next Page »

Back to Top