Tag Archives: City of Austin Zoning and Platting Commission
Zoning and Platting Commission recommends scrapping CodeNEXT entirely
One of the city’s two citizen land use commissions has decided that CodeNEXT, the overhaul of the city’s Land Development Code that has been in the works for five years and has cost the city $8.5 million, is a lost…
Land Development Code • By Jack Craver • May 14, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Scoot on
Much ado about scooting… As best as we can tell, the Scooter Wars hyped up on social media have largely been playing out as a sitzkrieg. Absent thus far is the oppressive sidewalk clutter – dubbed “mobility spam” by one…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Apr 23, 2018
Commission votes to allow residential buffer between neighborhood and small business development
At its April 17 meeting, the Zoning and Platting Commission approved a rezoning on Ferguson Lane and Sansom Road, despite strong urges to reject the proposal from the residents of Walnut Place Neighborhood Association. The agreed-upon motion includes a residential…
Zoning • By Sommer Brugal • Apr 20, 2018
Grove PUD plan postponed
The Grove at Shoal Creek Planned Unit Development was back at City Hall for a moment this week. This time, the Zoning and Platting Commission postponed approval of its preliminary plan, with some commissioners citing unanswered questions about the plan,…
Planning • By Elizabeth Pagano • Apr 5, 2018
As deadline nears, CodeNEXT capacity figures still in question
The land use commissions received a briefing on the affordability implications of the third and final draft of CodeNEXT Tuesday night, with only a few weeks left before they turn in their official recommendations to City Council. Consultants and staff…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Mar 30, 2018
Commission strikes compromise in contentious mixed use zoning request
In line with the emphasis on mixed use zoning proposed in the CodeNEXT draft, the Zoning and Platting Commission voted to approve staff’s recommendation of mixed use Limited Office zoning for a lot on Slaughter Lane during its Mar. 20…
Zoning • By Joseph Caterine • Mar 26, 2018
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Land use commissions skeptical about CodeNEXT 3.0 promises
The third draft of CodeNEXT made its long-awaited debut last Monday, presented to the public at an open house that evening in the flattering light of the golden hour – but by the next night, at the joint land use…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Feb 20, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: We've made haranguements
Save Our Strings… Could the city be moving toward declaring musicians as an endangered species? Not yet, but at last week’s meeting of the Austin Music Commission there was a good deal of talk about declaring the city’s music culture…
Reporters' Notebook • By Elizabeth Pagano • Feb 12, 2018
Days away from new draft, city commissions give their last word on CodeNEXT (for now)
Less than a week out from the release of the latest version of CodeNEXT, city commissions are weighing in on what they’d like to see in this latest draft of Austin’s Land Development Code. The Zoning and Platting Commission laid…
Land Development Code • By Syeda Hasan • Feb 8, 2018
Reporter's Notebook: Which side?
More news from the Amazon (bid)… Austin has landed on the bad side of an LGBT rights group’s effort to influence online retail giant Amazon’s decision on where to build its next headquarters. The “No Gay? No Way!” campaign issued a…
Reporters' Notebook • By Austin Monitor • Feb 5, 2018
City demographer smashes assumptions about growth at CodeNEXT meeting
For the past year, the land use commissions have been reviewing the drafts of CodeNEXT, and the discussions have primarily revolved around how to accommodate the incredible population growth the city has experienced for the past few decades. About two…
Land Development Code • By Joseph Caterine • Feb 1, 2018
CodeNEXT wrong on PUDs, says commission
Waiting for the release of the third and final draft of CodeNEXT has not stopped the Zoning and Platting Commission from continuing to criticize the second draft, even after the commission submitted its formal recommendation last October. One of the…
