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Neighborhood Plans: Threat or Menace?

University area neighborhood plan is not as helpful to the city as you might have thought.

Shoal Creek Debacle, Part XXXVII

Shoal Creek used to be a great bicycle route for us law-abiding commuters. Then, the neighbors got involved.
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Envision Circle C in Downtown Austin

Well, the neighborhood associations of the center city are at it again; this time trying to rally the troops against the clear consensus expressed in…
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Bad Neighborhood Plans, Part Three

Well, the neighborhood that destroyed light rail’s chances in 2000 (“yes, we moved next to an active railroad; but NO, we don’t think we should…
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Irresponsible Neighborhoods, Part Two

I was watching Channel Six for a bit while waiting for my wife to get ready to go out to a childbirth class, and I…
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Bad Neighborhoods, Part One

Austin’s neighborhood Nazis are at it again. In an article about the current activities of the Envision Central Texas project, an inoffensively driven planning exercise…