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 | May 1, 2024 | City Council 2024
Last week we examined the City’s legal shellacking regarding the Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ) for the Statesman PUD. In that article I mentioned that this is just the latest legal drubbing for the City and promised to discuss those legal losses in this...
by Daryl Slusher | Jan 17, 2024 | Police and Public Safety
Happy New Year and thanks to readers for bearing with us while we took a few weeks off. I was working on several stories to begin the new year, and we’ll get to those. But, that was before the machete attack on the young man near Auditorium Shores. So that will be our...
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 | Oct 5, 2023 | City Council 2023, Leslie Pool HOME proposal
Well folks, my last five articles or so were lengthy deep dives. So this time around I’m going to keep it shorter, do some follow-ups and also report briefly on some items we have not yet covered. A logical starting point is to follow up on our last article...
