Tag Archives: City of Austin Board of Adjustment
Reporter's Notebook: Red tread redemption?
Red dawn(s again)… Austin Transportation and the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority are partnering up this month to add more red lanes – or “fresh Elmo,” as they’re called by transit advocates – to the city’s central transit spine. Beginning last…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Jan 27, 2020
BOA denies a new build designed for a new decade
When the first Lake Austin Watershed Ordinance went into effect in 1980, some properties had development rights curtailed overnight. The property at 2803 Edgewater Drive is one of those cases where the ordinance limited the buildable area on the property’s…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Jan 17, 2020
BoA discusses how many postponements are too many
Postponement requests are available to applicants, neighbors and city staff who require extra time to organize their cases for the Board of Adjustment. However, there are certain cases that come before the board where a postponement request is a red…
City Hall • By Jessi Devenyns • Jan 16, 2020
BoA contemplates basements in Clarksville
There is an exception in city code that exempts homes with habitable basements from including the underground space in their overall square footage calculation. In order to claim that exception, however, a house must meet strict guidelines: The first story…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Nov 25, 2019
Board of Adjustment agrees to a lake setback reduction for a family home in West Lake
City records are not infallible archives. This reality was evidenced by a variance case at 1901 Westlake Drive, which was postponed last month by the Board of Adjustment in order to dredge up more information on the history of the…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Nov 14, 2019
Board of Adjustment soundly rejects variances over 'egregious' code violations
After dedicating nearly a year to the construction of his personal residence at 504 Sunny Lane, StoryBuilt founder Ryan Diepenbrock found his construction choices to be the subject of a case at the Board of Adjustment last Thursday. Diepenbrock, who…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Nov 13, 2019
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Lake setbacks threaten construction of family home in West Lake
Paris Schindler, owner of the lot at 1901 Westlake Drive, came to the Board of Adjustment seeking a variance to construct a 6,354-square-foot family home. While normally a 2.26-acre property would easily accommodate such a structure, 44,000 square feet of…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Oct 28, 2019
Board of Adjustment waits for new code to make a decision on a fence
Slow and steady wins the race, and sometimes that requires a case postponement – or two, or three – to successfully acquire a variance. Such was the case at the Oct. 14 meeting of the Board of Adjustment, where Corey…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Oct 22, 2019
Board of Adjustment debates how far is too far to read a sign
The Hill Country Roadway Ordinance mandates that any sign along Highway 360 be less than 12 feet high, smaller than 64 square feet and conceal exterior lighting. However, Ben Robinson, who was representing the applicant for the Nalle Woods apartments…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Oct 17, 2019
Board of Adjustment wants to participate more fully in LDC review
The Land Development Code draft continues to make its way through the city’s boards and commissions, making its latest stop at the Board of Adjustment on Monday night. The Board of Adjustment is tasked with sending feedback to the Planning…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Oct 16, 2019
Board of Adjustment seeks more information, postpones adaptive reuse project
In an effort to create market-rate affordable housing in North Austin, a developer is attempting to reuse the existing 281 units of the Austin Suites Motel at 8300 N. Interstate 35. In order to accomplish this goal, the developer came…
Land Development Code • By Jessi Devenyns • Aug 27, 2019
Dock variance fails for a second time at the Board of Adjustment
After the Board of Adjustment denied a variance request to extend the width of a dock into the interior setback of a Lake Austin lot and reduce the interior setback to 0 feet, the homeowners returned in August for a…
