A month in which Austin built taller, closed schools, shot at itself, and studied the same rail line it has been studying for decades.
- Downtown Austin office vacancy rate:20%
- 66 storiesvs1 in 5 square feet
Height of Texas's new tallest tower, opening its hotel in August | Floor space sitting empty in downtown Austin
- Cost of the planned Lady Bird Lake boardwalk, funded largely by TxDOT:$25 million
- ~1 millionvsNone
Annual visitors to Zilker Park | Replacement plan for the scrapped Zilker Vision Plan
- Austin has already hosted air taxi test flights — at SXSW. The city has no zoning rules, noise ordinances, or vertiport policy for what comes next. The neighborhoods under future flight paths are just finding out.— Austin Monitor
- Texas hemp industry market value threatened by total THC ban currently moving through the Legislature:more than $8 billion
“"No parent should have to go through this. He used pictures that were completely innocent."”
- Random shootings attributed to two suspects arrested in Austin before most residents knew to be afraid:up to 10
- Austin fire stations shot at in separate incidents under active APD investigation, with no suspects, no motive, and no confirmation of whether firefighters were inside:2
- ~10 yearsvsIdentical
Years since Austin adopted Vision Zero, with the explicit goal of eliminating traffic fatalities | Austin's pedestrian death rate vs. other large Texas cities
- Pflugerville ISD is closing four elementary schools — Dessau, Parmer Lane, Windermere, and Pflugerville Elementary — in one of the fastest-growing suburban corridors in the country. Texas's school finance formula does not fund growth on the timeline that growth actually arrives.— KVUE / KXAN
- Days between CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott's public assurance that Big Bend National Park would be spared from border wall construction and the award of a $1.7 billion wall contract covering Big Bend:7
“"You're asking a hospital to create a clinical program for which there is no evidence-based model anywhere in American medicine."”
- $10 millionvs0
Amount Texas Children's Hospital will pay the state under its settlement with AG Ken Paxton | Number of established clinical models for the state-mandated 'detransition clinic' the hospital must now build and staff
- Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said he learned about Governor Abbott's deployment of state troopers to clear encampments on city-owned parks and trails the same way most residents did — after the fact. No call. No coordination. Abbott's implicit answer to who controls Austin's streets: he does.— Austin Monitor