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After a busy 2024, Fuentes looks to take on more leadership roles. With her first term and a smooth reelection behind her, Vanessa Fuentes returns to the dais in January with a fresh to-do list and aspirations of becoming the next mayor pro …
Ryan Alter looks back on accomplishments of 2024
12 hours ago · District 5 Council Member Ryan Alter is proud of City Council’s many accomplishments in 2024, starting with what is obviously one of his favorite topics: housing. “I think first and foremost, we as a Council made some really important strides when it comes to affordability, especially around ...
City Council passes new energy plan through 2035. Here’s what it …
Dec 16, 2024 · After nearly two years of study, revision, public outreach and intense debate, the city of Austin finally has a new plan for how it will meet its energy needs over the next 10 years. Austin Energy’s Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2035 serves as a road map, not just for how the ...
After a decline last year, Travis County homeowners should expect …
Dec 11, 2024 · As Austin-area homeowners receive their latest property tax bills this winter, they should expect to see an increase. According to an analysis by the Travis County Tax Office, the average property tax bill this year for homeowners who live in their homes is $1,123 higher than last year, or about an ...
Arts Commission wants convention center installations preserved …
Dec 18, 2024 · The Arts Commission wants the city to push the Austin Convention Center to pay for and assist in the removal and preservation of four city-commissioned art installations that are at risk of being destroyed when the facility is torn down next spring. At Monday’s meeting, the commission approved a ...
Austin went on a land-buying spree in 2020. So far, little has been ...
Dec 18, 2024 · As Austin was coordinating Covid-19 test centers and trying to secure personal protective equipment at the start of the pandemic, it was also buying land. Lots of it. Thirteen acres by July 2020. Another 3 acres that fall. Six more acres in December. By the end of 2020, the city of Austin through ...
Real estate trends point toward stable growth even after Austin …
Dec 19, 2024 · While Austin has moved out of the “supernova” growth phase among real estate markets across the nation, real estate and development professionals expect the Central Texas region to remain a hot spot in 2025 for many types of construction and property development. Urban Land Institute Austin’s ...
ECHO’s $350M plan offers to ‘effectively end’ homelessness in Austin
Nov 8, 2024 · The city is projected to need $35 million annually over a 10-year period to effectively end homelessness via a plan that emphasizes adding hundreds of permanent supportive housing units while also addressing emergency shelter and prevention steps to keep people from losing their homes.
Latest State of Downtown report shows the city core's businesses …
Nov 13, 2024 · The latest report on downtown Austin’s economic and cultural health shows the city core is seeing ongoing vacancies and low utilization of office space in a trend that has caused a flattening of many indicators of business activity. That analysis…
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Jo is the political editor at the Monitor.She joined the In Fact staff in November 1998 when the publication was still a weekly. She became editor and publisher in mid-2000 and continued in that position until 2010, when the Statesman Co. purchased In Fact Daily, and in the months immediately following its sale to the Capital of Texas Media Foundation.