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Event Horizon
As festivals, crowds, and expenses proliferate – is Austin approaching major event overload?
"...for inspecting food establishments and signing off on the permits that allow them to operate. "Back in 2007, we..."

July 12, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Playback: The Beautiful Old
Gabriel Rhodes makes Grammy bait
"...Bar, both imploring the community to support them in permit disputes...."

May 24, 2013 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Hightower Report
Congress Incorporated; and Mountaintop Tiff
"...environmental impacts, the Envi­ron­mental Protection Agency has revoked the permit for the largest mountaintop removal project ever to assault..."

Feb. 4, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Fayette, Don't Spray It
Enviros target LCRA with potential lawsuit over Clean Air Act violations
"...in their sworn and signed application for their flex permit. So if they've got a problem with the methodology..."

July 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Food-o-File
A turf war yields more farmers' markets for everyone
"...at the Triangle, asking them to apply for a permit to operate a market in Sunset Valley. SFC employee..."

March 19, 2010 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

The Revised On-Site Brewery 'Sales' Bill
Bill would allow beer as part of brewery tour, but not true sales
"...Sec. 2.07 TOUR OF PERMITTED PREMISES...."

May 6, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Curious Development Afoot Over Aquifer
Proposed development in sensitive recharge zone prompts requests for contested case hearing with commission charged with reviewing developer's land application permit
"...state agency charged with reviewing the developer's land application permit. The proposed development, along FM 967 in the sensitive..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature by Jacob Cottingham

Shouldn't Installing Solar Panels Be a Reason for Tree Renewal?
"...solar panels in any way affects whether a tree-removal permit should be granted. We consider both trees and solar-panel..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Postmarks

Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
"...held their collective nose and passed a basic development permit on the Wilder tract this week. That gives Waste..."

June 9, 2006 News Feature

Birds vs. People at BCP
At least one Austin resident questions wildlife preserve's human-access policies
"...mixed public reaction. The BCP is operated under a permit by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, charging the..."

Feb. 25, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Naked City
Austin Stories
"...the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to deny a permit that would let the plant operate until at least..."

March 14, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Cleaning Fayette the 'Flex' Way
"...Environmental Protection Agency for a standard Clean Air Act permit to perform the renovations, Austin Energy and the LCRA..."

July 26, 2002 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Pumping Edwards Dry?
Creedmoor-Maha's request to pump more water gets nixed by the Barton Springs / Edwards Aquifer Conservation District.
"...Camp, one of the board directors who opposed the permit...."

Jan. 11, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

Bush's Xmas Stocking: Burning Coal?
New state and federal regulations threaten the Clean Air Act
"...company seeks to modify or apply for an operating permit. And national changes are expected any day now, with..."

Dec. 28, 2001 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Mercury, Cadmium, Arsenic, Grease ...
The Fish & Wildlife Service faults the EPA for failing to protect the Barton Springs Watershed.
"...would review the EPA's implementation of the "construction general permit" process, which authorizes the discharge of storm water associated..."

Aug. 3, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

Naked City
T.J. Higginbotham, a landowner in Hays County, wants to drill a well to produce 50 million gallons a year, reportedly to serve two proposed subdivisions in Dripping Springs, but Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District board members aren’t biting.
"...Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer Conservation District in March for a permit that would allow for test wells and eventually a..."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

Naked City
SOS sues the EPA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to do enough to prevent runoff pollution from despoiling Barton Springs.
"...All landowners are required to get a permit from the EPA if they plan to develop five..."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

A Dam Shame
Trout fishing group and recreational users oppose Guadalupe Blanco River Authority's plan to sell water to growing communities.
"...January, the TNRCC will hold hearings on a new permit that could allow the GBRA to draw nearly twice..."

Nov. 12, 1999 News Feature by Dan Oko

Where's the Party?
"...have to add to the above a city noise permit for playing after 10pm, a caterer with a liquor..."

May 21, 1999 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Postmarks
Cars the Issue, Not Parking
"...Walter Cole's "Tight Squeeze at UT" [Vol. 17, No...."

Sept. 11, 1998 Column

Naked City
Off the Desk:
"...and city council's indicated reluctance to grant the necessary permits. Shortly after news broke about the Circle C site,..."

March 13, 1998 News Feature

Standard Deception
"...a local shutter company, O'Hair Shutters, began seeking a permit to incinerate -- without emission controls -- huge amounts..."

Jan. 16, 1998 News Feature

Planning From The Neighborhoods Up
"...and Airport Blvd. -- to get a conditional use permit before they can build projects for which those zoning..."

Aug. 1, 1997 News Feature

A Council in Harmony
"...On May 2, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied a permit for a uranium enrichment plant that was to be..."

May 23, 1997 News Feature by Robert Bryce

True Love and Lawsuits in the Wedding Capital of Texas
'Til death do us party
"...of Dripping Springs and Hays County before receiving a permit to build their venue. When George, who can see..."

April 27, 2018 News Feature by Kate Groetzinger

Is Your Water Running ... Pink?
Dye study confirms Onion Creek as aquifer recharge source
"...The study took place in the context of a permit application pending before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality..."

Feb. 2, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

What's Up With Warren Wildlife?
Bouldin Creek's night at the museum
"...property he owns. But it is Warren's conditional use permit request with the city that they view as a..."

Jan. 5, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Permitting Pains
How will the new code affect the way you renovate your house?
"...only become reality when homeowners and developers start pulling permits...."

June 9, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Good City, Bad City
City staff does some things right, some things wrong
"...for the recent launch of the Austin Code & Permit Tracker, a nifty new online search tool that lets..."

Sept. 2, 2016 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Playback: Permitting Nightmare Precedes SXSW
SXSW events permitting induces promoter panic, the Austin Music Hall receives a stay of execution, and there are two last Austin Music Poll categories to vote in
"...Music still looms a month away, but a recent permitting quagmire elicited early panic attacks for Austin's business owners..."

Feb. 12, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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