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Tag Archives: City of Austin Planning Commission
City attorney presence could be scaled down at land-use commission meetings
The city’s land-use commissions may lose their on-call legal counsel, according to Mitzi Cotton, assistant division chief at the Law Department, who presented at the Nov. 29 joint meeting of the Planning Commission and the Zoning and Platting Commission. After…
City Hall • By Joseph Caterine • Dec 1, 2016
Despite protest, commission OKs liquor rezoning
The Planning Commission has endorsed a rezoning case that will result in a Twin Liquors store opening near the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders. Despite opposition from Austin Neighborhoods Council President David King, lack of objection from the…
Zoning • By Joseph Caterine • Nov 1, 2016
'Train wreck': Planning Commission discusses CodeNEXT
A working group of the Planning Commission had only negative things to report at the commission’s Oct. 25 meeting after analyzing the final prescription paper for CodeNEXT, the city’s overhaul of the Land Development Code. The paper, which addresses fiscal…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 28, 2016
'Spot Zoning' case moved to subcommittee
A strange example of patchy zoning came before the Planning Commission at its Tuesday meeting. Chair Stephen Oliver and Commissioner Michael Wilson co-sponsored an item that proposed initiating a code amendment to create an overlay district for two lots on…
Planning • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 27, 2016
First-of-its-kind housing plan presented to Planning Commission
In a city where 200,000 additional housing units will be needed over the next 30 years to meet the growing number of newcomers, having a plan to keep those units affordable is prudent. Accordingly, Jonathan Tomko, a senior planner with…
Housing • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 25, 2016
Planning Commission debates connectivity over rezoning application
Following a CodeNEXT presentation advocating for greater connectivity in Austin, the Planning Commission had an opportunity to emulate that theme in considering a rezoning application at its Oct. 11 meeting. Applicant Brown & Gay Engineering, represented at the meeting by…
Zoning • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 18, 2016
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CodeNEXT prescription papers scrutinized at Planning Commission
CodeNEXT Advisory Group members Dave Sullivan and Colby Wallis – joined by city staff members Annick Beaudet, Ashley Greenstein and Paul DiGiuseppe – were met with skeptical looks when they presented the final two CodeNEXT prescription papers at this week’s Planning…
Planning • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 14, 2016
Lamar Beach Master Plan moves to Council
Pitching a park master plan at a Planning Commission meeting is a hard sell, especially when you’re following presentations on the city’s fiscal health and its affordability crisis. Rebecca Leonard of Design Workshop nevertheless took up the task before an…
Planning • By Joseph Caterine • Oct 13, 2016
Planning Commissioners raise concerns about proposed bus routes
Members of the Planning Commission raised concerns at a meeting last week in response to a presentation on the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s planned overhaul of bus routes. The ambitious 10-year plan, Connections 2025, aims to create a bus system…
Planning • By Jack Craver • Oct 6, 2016
Brentwood flag lot prompts density debate at Planning Commission
A short debate during a Tuesday meeting of the Planning Commission about a subdivision in the Brentwood neighborhood was a fitting example of the conflicting views on development at the center of city politics. Commissioner Karen McGraw voiced concern about…
Planning • By Jack Craver • Oct 4, 2016
Planning Commission votes to break Rainey Street covenant
It’s one of the most densely populated parts of the city, with nearby access to bike trails, downtown, public transit and Interstate 35, but development fights in the Rainey Street District have a familiar villain: traffic. Last week, the Planning…
Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Sep 27, 2016
East Austin's boom: What to do? And how to do it?
As a first, necessary step toward addressing East Austin’s growth, the Planning Commission continues to look for a way to get a handle on the conversation about that growth. Commissioner Nuria Zaragoza, who sparked the latest discussion on the subject…
