The Planning Commission on Tuesday recommended approval of a zoning change that could bring a large mixed-use project with affordable housing to Riverside Drive. Plans for the project at 6610 East Riverside Drive include 600 residential units, half of which would be affordable, as well as 95 live/work units and 4,000 square feet of ground-floor […]
East Riverside Corridor Regulating Plan
According to the city website, “The East Riverside Corridor (ERC) Regulating Plan was adopted by City Council on May 9, 2013. The ERC Regulating Plan lays out the rules that will guide new development and redevelopment to help realize the vision of making East Riverside a more vibrant, functional and beautiful environment… (Its) regulations address the physical relationship between development and adjacent properties, streets, neighborhoods, and the natural environment in order to implement the vision of an urban mixed-use neighborhood that supports current and future transit options.”
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Project Catalyst and Country Club Creek Trail: An ‘inopportune’ overlap
At the same meeting of the Environmental Commission where citizens aired their concerns about the Northern Walnut Creek Trail, commissioners had questions about the Country Club Creek Trail off of Riverside Drive. Commissioners wanted to know how plans for the Country Club Creek Trail could be impacted by the controversial 97-acre development known as Project […]
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Planners deny East Riverside change
At its most recent meeting, the Planning Commission voted 5-3 to deny zoning changes to several undeveloped lots from 5600 to 7522 Penick Drive, off East Riverside Drive. Ron Thrower of Thrower Design spoke for landowner Bill Greif and asked the commission to rezone the area from Single Family (SF-1) to Neighborhood Mixed-Use (NMU), which […]
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Regulating Plan changes split Planning Commission
Citing process concerns, the Planning Commission had no recommendations for amendments to the East Riverside Corridor Regulating Plan last week. Because the 4 acres at 1500 South Pleasant Valley Road are within the ERC regulating plan, developers were asking for a series of amendments to the proposal, not a zoning change that is seen in […]
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Eastside juice bar gets go-ahead despite some Council misgivings
Despite hand-wringing over the prospect of a drive-though in far East Austin, a modest juice bar proposal emerged unscathed from City Council consideration last week. “Here’s a guy trying to make a go of a small business. Everybody knows that he is going to get more business if he has this extra capability to […]