A proposal to amend zoning requirements for a South Austin residential development was discussed and subsequently approved by the Environmental Commission at its Jan. 20 meeting. Goodnight Ranch is a master planned unit development that covers 695 acres encompassing the area on the east side of Old Lockhart Road between Nuckols Crossing Road and Capitol View […]
Planned Unit Development
A zoning classification designated by the city to allow greater flexibility for projects within its boundaries.
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Planning Commission postpones ‘Statesman’ tract cases
In its Oct. 27 meeting, the Planning Commission indefinitely postponed consideration of neighborhood plan amendment and rezoning cases related to transforming the Austin American-Statesman site at 305 S. Congress Ave. A development team wants to redevelop the newspaper’s downtown property on the South Central Waterfront into mixed-use development, parks and open space. Richard Suttle, an […]
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Memo reveals details of Grove traffic plan
The development is here, years have passed since its final contentious City Council hearing, and now a watered-down traffic program for the 75-acre Grove planned unit development is underway. The original $1.3 million transportation plan created jointly by the Bull Creek Road Coalition and developer ARG Bull Creek, Ltd. included sidewalks and traffic calming improvements […]
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Schlotzsky’s PUD wins first round approval
City Council voted 7-4 on first reading last week to approve zoning that would allow a 96-foot tower on the property at 218 S. Lamar, the home of a closed Schlotzsky’s restaurant. Leading the dissent was District 5 Council Member Ann Kitchen, whose district includes the property. Joining her in rejecting the zoning change from […]
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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 an arborist maintains the site’s trees for at least three years. “We really have to […]
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East Austin tank farm site poised to become a PUD
Despite years of remediation efforts and development proposals for the former East Austin tank farm at 1011 and 1017 Springdale Road, the site has remained undeveloped. Then in May, the Jay Paul Company brought the city a new development proposal to transform the 30-acre site into a mixed-use planned unit development called Springdale Green. The […]
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Goodnight Ranch working on PUD amendment, adds extra parkland
Goodnight Ranch, a planned unit development off Slaughter Lane in Southeast Austin, was originally approved in 2006. Fourteen years later, the neighborhood’s developers are looking to amend the PUD in order to create a municipal management district, add additional permitted land uses and increase the development entitlements. The city of Austin originally granted the 695-acre property […]
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East Austin 2K-acre PUD gets unanimous seal of approval from Environmental Commission
The future of a decades-old sand and gravel mine just east of the Austin city limits on Harold Green Road is now clearer with the latest set of plans developers presented to the Environmental Commission on Jan. 15. Known as the Austin Green PUD, the 2,122-acre property has been marching through city planning for nearly […]
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‘Statesman’ site moves forward while staffers work on financing, governance for district
City staff has offered the first round of comments and requests for more information on the redevelopment plans for the 18.9 acres of waterfront property currently occupied by the Austin American-Statesman, with the site seen as the centerpiece of the long-planned South Central Waterfront District. The master review report presented at last week’s meeting of […]
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Pioneer Crossing PUD changes course, adding parkland
Having passed through and received an approval recommendation from the Zoning and Platting Commission on Sept. 17 for its 14th amendment, the Pioneer Crossing planned unit development arrived at the Environmental Commission on Oct. 2. A 376-acre portion of the 1,410-acre site sits at 3124 E. Parmer Lane where developers are requesting to reallocate the […]
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Developer offers extra parkland to speed construction
Pioneer Crossing at 10930 Defender Trail is an old, undeveloped planned unit development that City Council approved in 1997. A history of foreclosures and bankruptcy has left the 1,410-acre parcel fragmented between various owners. Nevertheless, the site is still beholden to the original agreements that require 112.5 acres to be dedicated to parkland. Despite 25 […]
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Taco PUD site marches on, again
Council unanimously gave first-reading approval last week to new planned unit development zoning for the small property known as the Taco PUD just across the street from Lady Bird Lake at Riverside Drive. Although the Taco Cabana has not operated at that location for several years, the name has stuck to the property at 211 […]