by Daryl Slusher | Oct 24, 2023 | Austin History, Environment
As usual there’s a lot going on, more than we can fit in here. For instance this Thursday October 26 at 2 PM is the joint Austin City Council – Planning Commission meeting on Council Member Leslie Pool’s proposed redefinition of single family zoning categories,...
by Daryl Slusher | May 19, 2021 | Environment, Strong Mayor Initiative, True Stories
The Prop B results have rightly gotten almost all the post election attention and analysis since the May 1 election. (Prop B was the reversal of the Council’s June 2019 repeal of the public camping ban.) That has been the case here at the Austin Independent as well as...
by Daryl Slusher | Dec 17, 2020 | Environment, Land Development Code/Zoning, Strong Mayor Initiative
The Stonegate Neighborhood Association in East Austin agreed to a compromise with developers on the Heflin Lane zoning case reported on earlier in the Independent. Under the compromise more units will be built on the property than the neighborhood would prefer (the...
by Daryl Slusher | Dec 16, 2020 | Environment
The multiple lawsuits related to the Provence Development off Hamilton Pool Road, in the Barton Springs Zone, are posted for potential settlement this Thursday, December 17 — on the West Travis County Public Utility Agency (WTCPUA) agenda. Those include state and...
by Daryl Slusher | Nov 18, 2020 | Environment
If anyone is feeling nostalgic for a 1980s or early 1990s style Austin growth battle they might want to check in on Bee Cave and the surrounding area. There, residents are locked in a fierce, high stakes battle with the City Council and the West Travis County Public...
by Daryl Slusher | Oct 22, 2020 | Environment
The little known entity, West Travis County Public Utility Agency (WTCPUA), is poised to take an action today, Thursday October 22, that could have dire consequences for Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer around Austin. The situation is explained in detail below...
by Daryl Slusher | Jun 5, 2020 | Environment
by Daryl Slusher About a week ago Bill Bunch, the Director of the Save Our Springs Alliance (SOSA), contacted me and reminded that we are approaching the 30th Anniversary of the Barton Creek PUD uprising. That happened Thursday June 7, 1990 when Austinites rose up and... by Daryl Slusher | Jun 1, 2020 | Environment
by Daryl Slusher According to the Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) a truck containing a “radiographic camera, an industrial device that contains radioactive material” was swept into the Pedernales River by flood waters on Friday May 29. A TDSHS press...
