Anyone can stop in with their plans and sit down with a reviewer and ask questions that are specific to their project.

We did receive a significant increase in both our new residential applications as well as our remodel and addition applications prior to council taking action.

If the regulations were to change at any given point...the regulations that were in effect on the date the application was submitted are the regulations that would apply to that application.

Austin, of course, places a high priority on both citizen involvement and input and protection of the environment. So I think because of that, our regulations do tend to be a little difficult.

Our wind speedometer broke. We had 100 mile-per-hour winds for four-plus hours with gusts up to 150 mph. I would characterize the damage as heavy, but not catastrophic.

Most Seabees live here. This is their home. Frankly, the first day after the storm we had to almost hold them back because we had to get out own base squared away and make the base safe so we could use it to work from.