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Quality of Life

78702 Live Stories: A place for the kids

March 29, 2011

UT Radio-Television-Film 78702 Live Stories: A place for the kids Directors: Goodrich, Sean; Grafe, Amy; Ponce, Sara; Sometimes being a kid can be, well, boring, especially if you don’t have a lot of money to spend or computer games at home. Thats when it helps to have a place to go to hang out with [...]

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Projected growth of Austin

October 29, 2010

The city has a series of projections for growth patterns. The following info is from the city’s Imagine Austin campaign that solicits public opinion to create a new comprehensive development plan. Austin has grown considerably since the 1990s. Between 1990 and 2000 the city’s population nearly doubled. Growth has slowed since that explosive period, but [...]

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Cap Metro Proposes Ethanol Transfer Facility

August 10, 2010

The Capital Metro Transportation Authority (CMTA) Board is hosting a public meeting to discuss a proposed project – an ethanol transfer facility along Decker Lane on CMTA’s rail line. Travis County Commissioner Ron Davis has expressed some serious concerns regarding this proposed Ethanol Project and its implications for the residents of eastern Travis County. The [...]

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City Invites Residents to “Meet the Contractor” Meeting

August 3, 2010

The City of Austin Invites Residents to “Meet the Contractor” Meeting For the Canterbury Lift Station Removal Project Thursday, August 5, 2010 6 to 7 p.m. Metz Recreation Center, 2407 Canterbury Street Dear Neighbor, The repair work on the Canterbury wastewater structures located on fenced, City-owned property at the east end of Garden Street (and [...]

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Austin Turns to Citizens for Budget Advice

June 14, 2010

East Austinites are invited to weigh-in on the city’s budget. What’s important to you and to your community? The city faces a deficit projected somewhere in the range of $11 million to $28 million in the coming year. Programs and services will be cut. What do you think should be cut first and what should [...]

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Residents Near 4th and Attayac Want a Better Smelling Barrio

May 26, 2010

The stench of horse manure is common in the area of 4th and Attayac. It is a staging area for Die Gelbe Rose — a carriage company that provides rides west of I-35. Some neighbors have been active in trying to get the operation moved out of the neighborhood. Barrio Unido Neighborhood Association President Frances [...]

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Trash a Growing Concern in East Austin

April 14, 2010

Community activist Lori Cervenak-Renteria says she’s been after Capital Metro for two years to clean up big piles of trash furniture, mattresses, scrap wood and even its own railroad ties and rails along the tracks used by the newly launched MetroRail in her East Austin neighborhood, but to no avail (AAS).

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