At its regular meeting on Tuesday, the Planning Commission voted to elect new leadership. Todd Shaw was selected as chair and Claire Hempel will serve as vice chair. The two are replacing former Chair Conor Kenny and Vice Chair Fayez Kazi. Mayor Steve Adler, Mayor Pro Tem Delia Garza and Council Member Greg Casar surprised the […]
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Zoning and Platting Commission recommends Circuit of the Americas PUD
At its meeting Tuesday, the Zoning and Platting Commission unanimously recommended – with staff members’ caveats – the Circuit of the Americas planned unit development. The commission would like staffers to track the impervious cover on the site and ensure an arborist maintains the site’s trees for at least three years. “We really have to […]
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Environmental Commission recommends increased impervious cover for Goodwill
Goodwill of Central Texas is hoping to bring a new secondhand store and drop-off center to 2411 Lake Austin Blvd. In order to do so, the donation retailer will require a variance to allow it to build up to 89 percent impervious cover on a site where code caps the limit at 40 percent. Candace […]
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Springdale Farm project earns variance from Planning Commission
At its Tuesday meeting, the Planning Commission passed an environmental variance for 755 Springdale Road. The applicant, StoryBuilt, has sought the change for more than a year, but the case failed to clear the Environmental Commission earlier this summer due to concerns about building in a critical water quality zone. StoryBuilt is hoping to construct a mixed-use […]
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Planning Commission tackles more Montopolis cases
On Tuesday, the Planning Commission denied two out of three Montopolis area rezoning cases that neighborhood activists railed against back in June. At the end of June, the commission passed two of the five cases that the Montopolis Neighborhood Plan Contact Team had raised concerns about:Â 200 Montopolis Drive and 6206 Clovis, and 508 Kemp. Three […]
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ZAP tweaks proposed merger of housing and planning departments
The Zoning and Platting Commission on Tuesday discussed the potential merger between the Neighborhood Housing and Community Development and the Planning and Zoning departments. After multiple commissioners expressed concerns about the measure, they voted unanimously to include three recommendations to the proposal, which appears in City Manager Spencer Cronk’s Fiscal Year 2020-21 budget. News of […]
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Environmental Commission recommends environmental aspects of COTA PUD
The Circuit of the Americas has been making its way through city boards and commissions on its quest to expand from a concert venue and racetrack into a more residential- and retail-focused development. The 1,153-acre parcel located east of State Highway 130 and north of Farm to Market 812 are seeking City Council’s approval to […]
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Applicant contests the math of supermajority at Board of Adjustment vote
After several postponements and a design adjustment for the home at 71 Julius St., the Board of Adjustment narrowly failed to approve a motion to grant a variance to allow the Holly neighborhood house to be built within the waterfront overlay setback. Board members Melissa Hawthorne and Darryl Pruett voted against a motion to approve […]
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Goodnight Ranch working on PUD amendment, adds extra parkland
Goodnight Ranch, a planned unit development off Slaughter Lane in Southeast Austin, was originally approved in 2006. Fourteen years later, the neighborhood’s developers are looking to amend the PUD in order to create a municipal management district, add additional permitted land uses and increase the development entitlements. The city of Austin originally granted the 695-acre property […]
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Alley vacation granted despite protests
City Council voted unanimously on June 4 to grant vacation of an alley between East Eighth and East Ninth streets in order to facilitate construction of a multifamily complex, in spite of a request from neighbors in an adjacent residential building to postpone consideration of the matter. An alley vacation is a type of easement […]
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Compromise reached at Lantana PCA, Environmental Commission recommends project
After postponing its recommendation on the project consent agreement at the Lantana project in Southwest Austin, the Environmental Commission has reached an agreement with the developer and the Save Our Springs Alliance on how to move forward. On Tuesday, the Planning Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the 35-acre project in Southwest […]
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Annexation planned for McKinney Falls tract
Sometime in the next few months, the city will likely be annexing a 55-acre tract in Southeast Austin and granting zoning to allow development of the property as a light industrial (LI) site. The matter was on Thursday’s agenda, but was postponed as the result of an agreement between the landowner and city staff, according […]