(AMM) Austin council approves scrap ordinance revisions.The article announces the approval given by the Austin City Council to an amendment to its metals recycling ordinance, which is aimed at addressing the sale of stolen metals.GordonLisa
At a city council meeting in September, José G. Roig, the director of Austin’s code department, said that there are about 11,000 Airbnb rentals within the city limits, but some housing experts say that number is closer to 13,000—and climbs above 18,000 when rentals in the larger ...
Northwest Austin Business Council Meeting Please join us for our first meeting of 2020. Council Members Alison Alter for Austin, Jimmy Flannigan, and Leslie Pool, Council Member, District 7 will join us for a discussion on their 2020 priorities and vision for Northwest Austin. Moderated by our ...
City Council--not the Transportation Department--should be in charge of setting densities. Council has already determined that we must zone our corridors for more density, knowing full well that these are already busy streets. More density on the corridors will mean more congestion, even though ...
Burleson Heights is hosting an informal meeting with the candidates for the newly created District 3 City Council seat. Under the 10-1 plan approved by Austin voters in 2012, Austin will be divided into 10 districts, each represented by one City Cοuncil member elected by residents in that ...
Council on Foreign Relations Fellow Bruce Hoffman@hoffman_bruce: After 9 years Austin Tice remains imprisoned in Syria. Society of Professional Journalists@spjtweets: “President Biden, you speak often and movingly of the significance of journalism and its value in a democratic society. Austin obviou...
“Dallas Developer Pleads Guilty to Bribing City Council Members.” Sherman Roberts, who led the City Wide Community Development Corporation, was indicted four years ago for a bribery scheme involving former Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway and former City Council Member Carolyn Davis for their support ...
The following statement by Lyndon Henry, a technical consultant to the Light Rail Now Project and contributing editor to Austin Rail Now (ARN), was presented as part of Public Comment by phone on 7 August 2020 to a joint meeting of the Austin City Council and Capital Metro Board considering...
After two weeks of this plague the Paiutes drew to council to consider the remissness of their medicine-men. They were sore with grief and afraid for themselves; as a result of the council, one in every campoodie was sentenced to the ancient penalty. But schooling and native shrewdness had...
“He was the first foreigner I ever met,” al-Majd, who is now the head of the management council of the revolution in Idlib Province, told me over Skype. “He was like one of us. . . . He was cool, kind, and so serious about his work.” That June, July, and August would ...