Topic – Austin

Austin votes money for rail study

Question: how to pay for rail?

David Crossley, Jun 28, 10.

Austin City Council voted $100,000 to study how to pay for urban rail system, and delays bond election to 2012

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For-profit urban farming growing

Austin noted as growth spot

Vilas Bhuchar, Jun 14, 10.

Interest in for-profit urban farming has been growing in cities nationwide, including Austin, Seattle Detroit, Indianapolis, and San Francisco.

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Austin partnering with neighborhoods to complete small projects

Relies on local volunteers

Steve Hawley, May 19, 10.

If neighborhoods provide volunteer labor, the city government will help them build bike paths, dog parks, and small public works projects.

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Austin breaks ground on first affordable housing TOD

Transit Oriented Development

Jay Blazek Crossley, May 17, 10.

Austin nonprofit Foundation Communities broke ground on a transit-oriented affordable housing project across the street from the MLK MetroRail Station.

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Report: Houston third-best city for jobs

But unemployment increases

Steve Hawley, Apr 29, 10.

The numbers are based on short-term and long-term growth over the last decade, but Houston still lost 3.5 percent of its jobs in 2009.

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TxDOT, GCRD studying Houston-Austin passenger rail

Rail Division created in 2009

Steve Hawley, Apr 21, 10.

TxDOT is studying the corridor between Austin and Hempstead, while the Gulf Coast Rail District is analyzing the corridor between Hempstead and Houston.

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Austin pilots car-sharing program

'Personal public transit'

Steve Hawley, Apr 14, 10.

Billed as 'personal public transportation,' the vehicles can be used 24/7 without reservations but are currently restricted to government employees and testers.

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Austin TODs arrive before train service

TOD ordinance passed in 2005

Vilas Bhuchar, Apr 12, 10.

Even as Austin waited for its long-delayed Red Line service to start, TODs, or transit-oriented developments, popped up around several planned train stations.

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Austin hopes to make Airport Blvd. more walkable

Community groups supportive

Steve Hawley, Apr 09, 10.

An Austin City Councilman, supported by residents, businesses, and property owners, hopes to create a walkable, mixed-use corridor built around rail stations.

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Hill Country cities allowed to regulate outlying development

Protects water quality

Steve Hawley, Mar 24, 10.

Cities in the Hill Country may regulate construction in their extraterritorial jurisdiction to protect water quality, according to the state attorney general.

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