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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]
The 1839 Austin city plan (commonly known as the Waller Plan) is the original city plan for the development of Austin, Texas, which established the grid plan for what is now downtown Austin. It was commissioned in 1839 by the government of the Republic of Texas and developed by Edwin Waller , a Texian revolutionary and politician who would ...
Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax's office prepared the budget, which was amended by the City Council on Wednesday and then approved in a 10-1 vote, with District 6 Council Member Mackenzie Kelly ...
As the need for commercial air service became clear in the 1920s, the 1928 Austin city plan called for the establishment of a municipal airport. Austin voters supported a bond election to fund the airport (among other projects) later in 1928. The airport was constructed a few miles northeast of downtown, on what was then the edge of the city.
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The City of Austin made a statement warning citizens of an online paid parking scam after it received three separate complaints in a 24-hour span.
The Los Angeles City Council designated the building a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1992. A $4 million renovation, with retro-futuristic interior and electric lighting designed by Walt Disney Imagineering , was completed before the Encounter Restaurant opened there in 1997 but is no longer in business. [ 37 ]