Almost every woman in Austin has a list. Mine includes the guy who hangs out near my office and tells women who walk by, “I know you like to party with a dick in your mouth.” Then there’s the group of men on the Capital Metro Route 2 bus who talked about my anatomy and what they’d like to do with it for six stops. There’s the bros who caught up with me on a scooter, making jokes you might expect about “riding.” Men in cars making “blow job” signals towards me on Congress Avenue as I was texting my editor about this story. This is all from the past few weeks alone.
Don’t You Dare Park Here
After six-ish years working in urban planning and design, I can confidently say that nothing gets people more riled up than parking — not even traffic compares. This is especially true in Austin, as we frequently hash out the merits of parking-centric topics like parking minimums, parking podiums, event parking, and residential parking permits. The city’s Residential…
Rounding Up Development in Austin’s Growing East 12th Street Corridor
Development along Austin’s East 12th Street has been a long time coming, with anticipation fueled for months — years, really — by hush-hush land acquisitions and speculation, not to mention quite a few projects in various stages of approval, though not much actually moving on the ground. It’s safe to say that’s changed recently, with one…