by Daryl Slusher | Jun 12, 2025 | Austin History
Most readers have probably heard by now that former Mayor Pro Tem/former City Council Member Jackie Goodman passed away on Tuesday June 3. Jackie and I were friends, colleagues on the Council, and we shared an era in Austin. We also lived less than a mile apart, in...
by Daryl Slusher | Jun 11, 2025 | City Council 2025, Land Development Code/Zoning
The Austin City Council had another crowded zoning agenda on June 5. Numerous residents of East Austin turned out to express reservations about proposed DB90s (Density Bonus, 90 feet in height) at the northeast corner of Oak Springs and Airport and another at 2967...
by Daryl Slusher | Jun 3, 2025 | City Council 2025, Land Development Code/Zoning
To begin let’s return briefly to the City Council meeting on May 22 of this year. The Acacia Cliffs item is about to be heard. That’s the case in which the owner of a naturally occurring affordable apartment complex in northwest Austin is proposing to tear down the...
by Daryl Slusher | May 28, 2025 | Police and Public Safety
Let’s begin by following up on our last story about the Acacia Cliffs apartment complex. That’s where a new City Council-devised development incentive called DB90, supposedly designed to create new affordable housing, instead turned into an incentive for the owner of...
by Daryl Slusher | May 15, 2025 | City Council 2025, Land Development Code/Zoning
The Acacia Cliffs apartment complex on Hart Lane in Northwest Austin defies several Austin political/governance precepts that get repeated often by members of the “progressive” cohort. First of all Acacia Cliffs is a high density affordable housing development in NW...
