Tag Archives: East Austin
Displacement fears block recommendation of Montopolis project
Concerns about family displacement and housing affordability prevented the Planning Commission from recommending approval of a proposed apartment complex in the Montopolis neighborhood Tuesday. In two different votes, the commission failed to garner the seven votes necessary to endorse the…
Development • By Jack Craver • Feb 1, 2016
Ethics panel dismisses complaints against Historic Landmark Commission
For the second time in recent months, the Ethics Review Commission waded into the affairs of the Historic Landmark Commission in response to a complaint from an activist. But unlike the previous instance, the commission quickly dismissed the complaints, ruling…
City Hall • By Jack Craver • Jan 18, 2016
Oracle: when a tech company expands in Austin
Demolition, it seems, follows Robin Wilkins. Wilkins, 54, moved into the Lakeview Apartments on South Lakeshore Boulevard after another apartment building she was living in was slated to be torn down. She stayed for five years, paying no more than…
Housing • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Jan 8, 2016
Seniors lead East Austin trike revival
As James Maxwell tells it, the first journey nearly broke him. “I almost gave up bike riding,” he said. “These are something else.” Maxwell, 68, stares down a line of five glossy, red tricycles. While at the moment they’re idling…
Austin • By Audrey McGlinchy, KUT • Dec 17, 2015
Is gentrification a human rights issue in Austin?
Over the past few months, the city’s Human Rights Commission has been taking a hard look at preservation and gentrification. Though such issues might seem outside the commission’s purview, onetime City Council candidate Fred McGhee has a different opinion. McGhee’s…
Austin • By Elizabeth Pagano • Dec 7, 2015
Designed to be neighborly, porch fuels animosity
A still-pending variance request may have seemed simple enough at first glance, but on Austin’s East Side, issues of gentrification are never far away. And at the Board of Adjustment, unhappy neighbors are usually on hand as well. At the…
Land Development Code • By Elizabeth Pagano • Dec 4, 2015
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STR prohibition proves popular in variance case
With new regulations for short-term rentals in the works, the topic of STRs has become subtext in any number of seemingly unrelated development cases in the city. This was certainly the case at the most recent Board of Adjustment meeting,…
Land Development Code • By Elizabeth Pagano • Dec 3, 2015
Fire official's objection may scuttle zoning change
With the Austin Fire Department objecting to the zoning change, City Council decided to postpone a decision on downzoning a limited industrial property to allow vertical mixed-use retail and residences on an East Austin tract located next to a facility…
Zoning • By Jo Clifton • Dec 2, 2015
Mayor, community leaders unveil new facility for the homeless
A $14.6 million facility combining housing and services for Austin’s chronically homeless is expected to break ground in Central East Austin early next year with the support of Mayor Steve Adler, the Downtown Austin Alliance, various nonprofit organizations working to…
Austin • By Vicky Garza • Nov 12, 2015
Mt. Zion rezoning finally moves on to Council
It may have taken the most circuitous route imaginable to get there, but the the Greater Mt. Zion Baptist Church rezoning case is moving on to City Council after bouncing around the Planning Commission since June. This time, the church…
Zoning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Nov 6, 2015
Questions circle East Austin demolition
A skeptical Historic Landmark Commission voted to initiate historic zoning on an East Austin house this week, despite the objections of the owner, who told a story that some commissioners had trouble swallowing. In the words of Commissioner Blake Tollet,…
Preservation • By Elizabeth Pagano • Oct 30, 2015
East side Boys and Girls Club draws crowd at Planning Commission
City Hall was filled with children from the Boys and Girls Club of Austin – and its opponents – at the Tuesday night meeting of the Planning Commission. The students were there to support a zoning change from Single Family…
