Texas

A proposed toll road near Houston exemplifies an unintended effect of the stimulus: encouraging sprawl.

Officials in North Texas showed significant support yesterday for legislation to raise money for billions of dollars in road and rail improvements.

The city of Waco, Texas, imposes limits on new billboards--hoping to reduce its overall inventory with a "cap and replace" strategy.

The Texas Legislature is considering a bill that mirrors efforts in cities across the state and nation to reduce the use of plastic bags or charge for their use.

Austin joins cities across the U.S. and elsewhere in shifting away from individually-metered spaces and towards pay stations in an effort to increase revenue and efficiencies.

In 2007, the PA legislature passed Act 44 that calls for converting Interstate 80 into a tolled facility. A freshman PA Congressman, continuing in his predecessor's footsteps, introduced a bill to ensure that never occurs.

A suburban city near Austin tried to beautify with a parking ordinance, but city leaders are rethinking it.

Leaders in Arlington, Texas, near Dallas, are studying how to reduce pollution generated by idling cars at drive-thru windows.

Houston may be able to anticipate four new rail lines before 2012, if a deal two years in the making can be worked out through negotiations.

The city of San Marcos, Texas, near Austin, plans harsher measures to crack down on graffiti, including holding a minor's parents responsible and banning certain graffiti-making tools.

The city of Dallas is committing to purchase homes for hundreds of homeless residents, rather than building shelters.

Jones Plaza in Central Houston was redesigned in 2001 to accommodate large concerts and events, but locals objected to the lack of green space. So planners are going back to the drawing board.

The City of Austin is set to take in a record amount of solar power to advance towards a goal of deriving 30% of local energy from renewable sources by 2020.

Cities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are working together to save water and use reclaimed water for non-drinking purposes.

Growth rates in Waco, Texas, have planners concerned that the region won't be able to afford the necessary roads and services the new sprawl will require.

An exhibition in Houston organized by the Center for Land Use Interpretation looks at how the oil industry has transformed the landscape of Texas.

Terrain.org takes a look at Plum Creek, a New Urbanist development outside Austin, TX that added 1,400 households to a town that had only 4,000 people in the mid-1990s.

San Marcos, Texas, joins a handful of other cities around the country in requiring pet owners to monitor their pets electronically.

Plans for a broad statewide highway project known as the Trans-Texas Corridor have been abandoned by state officials.

A new study in Houston reveals that the number of crashes at intersections with new red-light cameras has doubled from the time before they were installed.