by Daryl Slusher | Jun 12, 2024 | City Council 2024, Transportation
Project Connect is about to have its big day(s) in court. Specifically I mean the core element of Project Connect, Austin’s proposed light rail system. This is also the latest lawsuit challenging the legality of policies passed by City Councils when Steve Adler was...
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 | Apr 18, 2021 | Austin Elections
Monday April 19 marks the beginning of early voting in the City of Austin’s May 1 election. Early voting ends Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Election Day is of course, May 1. The two marquee items are the proposed rollback of the Council’s June 2019 repeal of the homeless...
by Daryl Slusher | Aug 26, 2020 | Land Development Code/Zoning, Uncategorized
by Daryl Slusher One of the paradoxes of current day Austin governance will be on vivid display at this Thursday’s virtual City Council meeting. That is that even as the Council crusades for racial and social justice — for example slashing the police department...
by Daryl Slusher | Mar 18, 2020 | Land Development Code/Zoning
by Daryl Slusher Nine Vote Super Majority Now Required To UpZone Homes Against Owner’s Wishes First and Second Reading Council Votes Quashed Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer this afternoon ruled for the plaintiffs, and against the City of Austin, in a lawsuit...