A drawn-out struggle to write new rules that govern land use in Austin ended 2020 the same way it began: with a power-shifting victory for property owners who are resistant to multi-family homes popping up in their single-family neighborhoods.
A pair of game-changing events - a court judgement against the city in March and an upset in the City Council runoff election in December - have made it so that neither side in a multi-year fight on the City Council has much of an upper hand right now. That rebalance of power could lead to negotiations heating back up and the council hammering out an agreement in 2021.
Celebrate the holigays like a scream queen with Bulimianne (l) and Louisianna (Photo by Corin Smith)
As a friend of Dorothy, it s only a little fitting that one of my most played Xmas songs this season is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. But seriously, Ms. Judy s lyrical longing for
Someday soon we all will be together/ If the fates allow is spot on for how many of us might be feeling. Though we don t celebrate the same traditions, this time of year feels especially fitting for time with lots of loved ones and time to decompress, but right now, that s not the case so much. I, for one, am pretty deflated in the cheer department (and that s not just because I wasted the better part of a Saturday night cringe-LOLing my way through
193 acres of enormous North Austin ranch scoots onto the market
193 acres of enormous North Austin ranch scoots onto the market It s part of one largest undeveloped parcels of land in Central Texas.
Photo by dszc/Getty Images A sizable chunk of Austin’s enormous Robinson Ranch could become the area’s next major site for mixed-use development. Commercial real estate company JLL Capital Markets announced on December 17 that it had been tapped to market a 193-acre development site at State Highway 45 North and North MoPac Expressway. This parcel with about two-thirds the acreage of the Domain complex is part of the roughly 7,000-acre Robinson Ranch, one of the largest privately owned chunks of undeveloped land in Central Texas. By comparison, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport covers about 4,200 acres.