within the corporate limits of the City of Austin. East Avenue, between these two streets, had been for many years past a divided highway for one-way traffic, with north-bound traffic using the traffic lanes on the east side and south-bound traffic using the traffic lanes...
The new ordinance is based on the International Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Code. Austin’s Public Safety Commission had recommended tighter wildfire protection standards for structures built between the city’s wildlands and urban center, and endorsed the adoption of a WUI code. In April 2020,...
TPPF Lawsuit to Halt City of Austin Short-Term Rental OrdinanceROBERT HENNEKE
The second option is to demonstrate that the building has a 4% improvement in energy performance compared to a baseline building that complies with ASHRAE 90.1 Appendix G (with Austin Amendments). Furthermore, the building must meet the prescriptive code requirements of the 2021 Intern...
Ask Charlotte City Council to vote “NO” on the proposed City ordinance that would create non-discrimination laws on the basis of “marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression,” This dangerous ordinance will impact the City of Charlotte negatively in...
city commissioners Courtney Shipley, Amber Sellers and Brad Finkeldei are expiring this year. The primary election was triggered by a Lawrence charter ordinance that calls for a primary if the number of candidates who file for the City Commission is more th...
Streetsblog’sJoe Linton reportsimplementation of Measure HLA — Healthy Streets Los Angeles — remains on holdas the city council continues todick aroundwait for a draft ordinance that isn’t due until August. Thoughadvocates had been awaiting yesterday’s committee approvalsas the next clarifying ...
including some who were also in the room at last Tuesday’s City Commission meetingcalling for stronger action to address homeless issues. The city has hesitated to enforce its no-camping ordinance universally, with city staff citing the need for more eme...
People were told 3 days ahead of demolition, and they were upset. Protests, etc. (I personally think the little telephone building was extremely cute, and felt sad over the whole thing.) After that, the city put a demolition ordinance in place. The ordinance builds in delay and notification...
“If this becomes more prevalent, and [if] one Council member or all of them ask us to do the research, [we would] come up with a proposed set of rules or a new section of our code,” Shannon said. Craft-Rubio and Warrick suggested looking at what cities like Austin, where mobile...