Austin City Council considers small-scale housing to ease crisis
The Austin City Council is once again addressing the city's housing crisis. Austin Development Services has made a proposal ...
Austin City Council prioritizes cyclist safety in parking code amendment
The amendment includes three new defined violations, including making it illegal to park in a designated bike lane. The code ...
Ongoing discussions for the Austin City Council
Austin mayor pro tem and district 2 council person Vanessa Fuentes joined FOX 7 Austin's Mike Warren to discuss ongoing ...
Austin promised to take a look at burying power lines. Now what?
The “Undergrounding Feasibility Study” is expected to go before some council members at next month’s Austin Energy Utility ...
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Austin to overhaul how it regulates Airbnbs and other short-term rentals
The city has proposed rules to make it hard to run a short-term rental without a city-issued license. Third-party data suggests thousands of owners rent out their homes without one.
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City needs up to eight permanent supportive housing projects per year to solve homeless housing
The city’s housing staff members acknowledge a need to accelerate the pace of new permanent supportive housing projects in ...
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New Rules Regulating Airbnb-Type Rentals on Their Way to Council Vote
The Planning Commission will hold a second public hearing on the three ordinances on Feb. 11 and Council is scheduled to hold a third and final hearing on Feb. 27 – which is the earliest date Council ...
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January reports show who’s got the money to run again
On Jan. 15, months after votes from the November election were tallied, all City Council members and candidates filed reports showing how much they had in their campaign bank accounts as of Dec. 31.