Posted Oct 26, 2012, 4:41 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Austin <------------> Birmingham?
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Austin to plan for coming decades in development code revision
Austin Business Journal by Robert Grattan, Staff Writer
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 2:19pm CDT
Robert Grattan
Staff Writer- Austin Business Journal
The Austin City Council has begun a two-year process that will reshape Austin's aging land-use code and replace it with a more accessible set of ordinances designed to carry the city into the future envisioned by the Imagine Austin plan.
The revision will be led by a steering committee of city staff, City Council-appointed stakeholders and an outside consultant. The city has a $2 million budget for the consultant, and plans to submit a request for quotation in the coming weeks, said George Adams, the city's assistant planning director.
Once a consultant is on board, the city will solicit input from developers, business owners, citizens and community groups. By March 2014, city staff expects to have an outline and preliminary draft completed. The process is expected to result in a new code by September 2015.
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Downtown Austin: A new river will run through it
Austin Business Journal by Jan Buchholz, Staff Writer
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 9:12pm CDT
Jan Buchholz
Staff Writer- Austin Business Journal
As a newcomer to the Austin area, it was hard for me to envision a series of parks connected seamlessly along the eastern edge of downtown Austin in an area known as Waller Creek. Though I’ve driven I-35 numerous times — and Red River Street, too — and navigated my way around downtown, somehow I’ve never quite sensed that there is a creek that meanders from the University of Texas south about 1.5 miles to Lady Bird Lake.
From what I can tell, there are quite a few people who didn’t know that Waller Creek exists. For much of the time, it’s a dry creek bed, but bring a little rain and Waller Creek roars with destructive force that over history has killed a dozen or so people. I guess there really is a creek there.
Now a mile-long, $146.5 million flood control tunnel is under construction to mitigate those destructive forces.
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