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This Thursday, with a still-broken municipal-hearing process that’s biased against ordinary citizens, our city council will consider an over-the-top, weather-postponed request to radically rezone a single-family lot and bring downtown-style buildings to Austin’s historic Montopolis neighborhood. It’s the latest in a long series of rezoning requests targeting Montopolis, and together they threaten to displace numerous families ...

Last year, Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer ruled that City of Austin officials broke the law when they attempted to rezone our community without recognizing thousands of protests filed by local property owners. Now City Hall is asking the Texas Legislature to pass a pair of bills to bail it out. Filed earlier this ...

Springtime is upon us, and Austin is finally starting to see light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. That doesn’t mean we can ease up, though: Now is the time to fight harder than ever, so that our community can conquer COVID-19 once and for all. Unfortunately, recent data collected by the Texas Department ...

Ten months ago, Austin City Hall was confronted with the same challenge facing local governments everywhere: public hearings had to move forward, but residents had to be kept safe from COVID-19. Unfortunately, the online-video process the city council developed for zoning cases is failing our community. The current format sidelines Austinites concerned about changes proposed ...