by Daryl Slusher | May 29, 2024 | City Council 2024, Land Development Code/Zoning
If the long time battle over the City of Austin’s Land Development Code were a television series, May 16, 2024 would be a season ending episode and possibly the end of the series. It would now be that period where fans are left to wonder whether there will be an...
by Daryl Slusher | Apr 10, 2024 | City Council 2024
They did it. The Austin City Council hired a new City Manager. Some people, like me, were doubtful that they could pull it off by April — or at all — but they did. Another way of looking at this is that the Council took 14 months, did a national search, and then...
by Daryl Slusher | Feb 15, 2024 | City Council 2024
Austin’s City Manager search has already claimed a casualty. However, it’s not the Austin City Council’s fault. As reported in several Austin media outlets last week, headhunters employed by the Austin Council contacted Bozeman, Montana City Manager Jeff...
by Daryl Slusher | Dec 19, 2023 | City Council 2023, Land Development Code/Zoning, Leslie Pool HOME proposal
As folks have probably heard, the Austin City Council passed the HOME (Home Options for Middle-Income Empowerment) initiative on a 9-2 vote at the end of the December 7 eleven hour plus public hearing on the matter. Council Members Alison Alter and Mackenzie Kelly...
by Daryl Slusher | Dec 6, 2023 | City Council 2023, Land Development Code/Zoning, Leslie Pool HOME proposal
I attended Tuesday’s City Hall press conference hosted by Council Members Leslie Pool and Chito Vela, featuring a lineup of Pool’s HOME (Home Options for Middle-Income Empowerment) initiative supporters. I have to say that what they were promising sounded pretty...
