
Jack Craver
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1 week ago |
austinpolitics.net | Jack Craver
— 3 min read Selena Xie, paramedic and erstwhile president of the Austin EMS Association, sent me the photo above of a flooded area at Spicewood Springs Rd. To the left is a black sedan that has gotten stuck. Says Xie: "I was responding to a call and found this car trapped in the water with people waving at me.
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2 weeks ago |
austinpolitics.net | Jack Craver
A memo from the city's top finance officials appears to dash hopes of building deck parks over I-35 without a hefty contribution from property taxpayers. The memo from Deputy CFO Kimberly Olivares, shared with City Council on Saturday, shits all over the alternative revenue streams proposed by a group of Council members, deeming them illegal, infeasible or both. The biggest chunk of non-property tax revenue that the pro-cap group put forward was $171 million from the Convention Center expansion.
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1 month ago |
austinpolitics.net | Jack Craver
— 7 min read City Council members today publicly digested a consultant report that flatly described the proposed caps on I-35 as a poor public investment. The analysis by Hayat Brown, a national engineering and advisory firm that specializes on capital projects, concluded that the cost of the caps would far exceed the revenue they would generate through increased property valuations or commercial leases on the caps themselves.
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1 month ago |
austinpolitics.net | Jack Craver
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1 month ago |
austinpolitics.net | Jack Craver
— 4 min read Let's talk about the Animal Services Division. I've been meaning to address this for a while and an article in today's Monitor and a column by a former head of Animal Services reminded me to do so. Don Bland, who led the division until last month, was placed on administrative leave in early March and retired at the end of the month. A person familiar with the situation said that City Manager T.C. Broadnax offered Bland the chance to retire or else be dismissed.
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*If* you limit the number of units on a lot, then FAR restrictions lead to smaller and cheaper units. But an easier way to encourage smaller units is to simply scrap the unit caps.

What is the steelman argument for FAR (floor area ratio)?

RT @jen_rice_: 👀 https://t.co/iiN5xdsBvd

RT @christianbrits: Another argument against funding NPR/PBS/VOA is that private corporations will act as state media for free