About Linda Latham Welch

Keeping Austin Green

Nikelle Meade is a one-woman environmental agency. If Austin looks greener and seems less encroached upon by developers these days, you might give Meade a thank-you the next time you see her on the street.   Consider, for example, her six-year-long effort on the Milago project. In 1998 developers had their eyes — and bulldozers — fixed on that neighborhood on the south end of Rainey Street, in the heart of a historic Hispanic neighborhood. That was just fine with the people who might move …