Tag Archives: City of Austin Zoning and Platting Commission
Postponement shows ZAP issues around receiving timely public comment
The Zoning and Platting Commission voted to postpone the only zoning discussion case of their first meeting of the year. The request was to grant Townhouse & Condominium Residence (SF-6) district zoning on 24.3 acres at 8201 Thaxton Road. But…
City Hall • By Daniel Salazar • Jan 12, 2021
ZAP OKs Ullrich plant variances
The Zoning and Platting Commission voted at its Dec. 15 meeting to recommend the approval of seven environmental variances for the Ullrich Water Treatment Plant, with a stipulation that the size of an access road included in the project be…
Water • By Seth Smalley • Dec 23, 2020
ZAP approves commercial zoning for Johnny Morris Road property
The Zoning and Platting Commission has approved a rezoning for commercial development near Colony Park. Commissioners voted Tuesday to rezone a property at 7008 Johnny Morris Road in Northeast Austin to Community Commercial with mixed-use and conditional overlay combining districts.…
Zoning • By Daniel Salazar • Nov 23, 2020
ZAP weighs industrial rezoning request near Colony Park
The Zoning and Platting Commission has recommended rezoning a tract near Colony Park in response to a request to build a refrigerated warehouse in Northeast Austin. The commission heard a rezoning request for a 14.7-acre property at 6215 1/2 Johnny…
Zoning • By Daniel Salazar • Nov 17, 2020
City studies changes in Austin's industrial land use
Mark Walters with the Housing and Planning Department gave a presentation to Zoning and Platting commissioners last week on a city study that evaluated trends of industrial land use in Austin. Walters said city staffers have noticed the “continuing erosion…
Planning • By Daniel Salazar • Nov 10, 2020
ZAP briefed on Onion Creek flooding and development
Zoning and Platting commissioners were briefed last Tuesday on the effects of flooding on development in South Austin’s Onion Creek. Kevin Shunk, the floodplain administrator in the city’s Watershed Protection Department, gave the presentation in response to questions from ZAP.…
Planning • By Daniel Salazar • Oct 29, 2020
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ZAP endorses mixed-use for East Austin tract
On Tuesday night, the Zoning and Platting Commission voted in favor of mixed-use zoning for an East Austin property, but once again clashed over the scope of conditional overlays. ZAP commissioners recommended designating a 4.67-acre tract at 5601 Nixon Lane,…
Zoning • By Daniel Salazar • Sep 8, 2020
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…
Planning • By Nina Hernandez • Aug 24, 2020
ZAP approves East Austin zoning change with condition
At its Tuesday evening meeting, the Zoning and Platting Commission voted to recommend a zoning change at 5601 Nixon Lane. The commission voted in favor of the 4.67-acre property, at the corner of Nixon Lane and FM 969, changing from Community…
Zoning • By Nina Hernandez • Jul 9, 2020
ZAP deadlocked on Jollyville Apartments case
After three separate deadlocked votes, at its June 2 meeting the Zoning and Platting Commission moved on from the Jollyville Apartments case without making a recommendation to City Council. The applicant is requesting a rezoning of the 0.79-acre parcel at…
Zoning • By Nina Hernandez • Jun 11, 2020
ZAP finds a compromise to bring density and more affordable housing with a unit cap
In an effort to bring more density to the environmentally sensitive area of far Southwest Austin, developers came to the Zoning and Platting Commission on Feb. 4 with a plan to construct 15 condominiums within a small footprint on their…
Zoning • By Jessi Devenyns • Feb 13, 2020
Reporter's Notebook: The breakdown of wide-eyed, optimistic exuberance
The trouble with working groups… At the Feb. 3 meeting of the Public Safety Commission, two agenda items required the appointment of commissioners to serve on working groups. These groups are tasked with assisting the city in determining the scope…
