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Rules for special events relaxed in response to new COVID guidelines By FOX 7 Austin Digital Team Published  AUSTIN, Texas - The Austin Center for Events (ACE) says it's revising the Bringing Events Back: Event Reopening Guide and the COVID-19 Health and Safety Form currently required for special events applications. Revisions to the guide and application process will take effect next week. Officials say applicants can anticipate changes to the social distancing requirements and masking requirements to incorporate the latest guidelines.  Providing proof of vaccine for patrons will not be a ...

What's under construction? City debuts Google map of new builds You’re driving around town and see some construction happening. You wonder – what is that going to be? The City of Wichita Falls has developed a web page where you can quickly and easily find out. The city’s planning department created a Google Map page that pinpoints new businesses and businesses under construction. Click on an icon – green for completed or yellow for permitted – and a box opens. Information in that box tells you what the site is, the address, square footage and value. It will tell you whether it’s n...

NOTEBOOK: Demand for newly built houses ‘very strong,’ Des Moines-area homebuilder says Friday, April 23, 2021 6:00 AM The National Association of Home Builders this month published an updated edition of its publication that includes a survey of homebuyers’ preferences. Buyers’ first preference? Sixty percent of those surveyed said they preferred to buy a newly built house, up 6 percentage points from 2018 when 54% said they wanted new houses. “That demand for a new house, some place that no one has ever lived in before, is very strong right now,” said Rachel Fli...

Staff Report Forestar Group Inc., a national residential lot developer, broke ground March 23 for Star Farms at Lakewood Ranch, a 700-acre gated neighborhood. Attendees at the event included Tony Chiofalo, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch; John Barnott, Manatee County Building and Development Services Director; and Tony Squitieri, Forestar West Florida Division president; Tim Martin, Forestar West Florida development director; and Robert Price, Forestar West Florida land development manager. The neighborhood is planned as a resort ranch hometown ...

For a year, two sisters and their five children have languished in a neglected, Hartford apartment despite numerous complaints about the cockroach infestation, heat and power outages, broken appliances and other issues. The poor conditions they've lived with are all too common.