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A zoning ordinance approved Thursday by the Austin Council allows developers to build 30 to 90 feet higher in exchange for more affordable housing units in certain areas of the city. but each ...
A lawsuit brought against the city of Austin by a group of homeowners seeks to make void four changes to the city's land development code.
The City Council and Planning Commission packed into the city hall chambers for a joint meeting dedicated to hearing public feedback on the proposed changes. Austin wants to change its land ...
The city of Austin, Texas, was established in 1839 to become a planned capital for the Republic of Texas. [1] Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar appointed his friend Edwin Waller to oversee the surveying of the new city and to develop a city plan for its layout. [2]
Early postcard picturing the Equitable Building Graph of the 1916 New York City zoning ordinance with an example elevation for an 80-foot street in a 2½-times height district. In 1916, New York City adopted the first zoning regulations to apply citywide as a reaction to construction of the Equitable Building (which still stands at 120 Broadway ...
The Capitol View Corridors are a series of legal restrictions on construction in Austin, Texas, aimed at preserving protected views of the Texas State Capitol from various points around the city. First established by the Texas Legislature in 1983 and recodified in 2001, the corridors are meant to protect the capitol dome from obstruction by ...
Reagan National Advertising of Austin, LLC, 596 U.S. ___ (2022), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the application of zoning restrictions on digital billboards in the city of Austin, Texas.
The city’s decades-long battle to overhaul local rules to allow more, denser housing to be built may be reaching a turning point. Austin will try again to tame its housing affordability crisis ...