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Zoning compromise advances Boys & Girls Club

Controversial plans for an after-school facility that would serve underprivileged children moved one step forward at City Council on Thursday night. With a unanimous vote on the dais, Council approved on first reading a rezoning that would allow the Boys…

Movement at ZAP to replace chair

Gabriel Rojas, chair of the Zoning and Platting Commission, started Tuesday night’s ZAP meeting with an apology. Referring back to the March 15 meeting of the commission, during which action on the Austin Oaks planned unit development was postponed indefinitely…

No medical offices for Millwright Parkway property

When does a neighborhood’s valid petition not require the support of a supermajority of City Council for a zoning change? Answer: when the property does not have permanent zoning. Christy Bickel, who lives in the Anderson Mill Limited District, gathered the signatures…

County association project gets measured OK from city panel

Though developers may not get the height they are after, plans to develop the Texas Association of Counties’ offices near the downtown campus of Austin Community College got the unanimous blessing from the Planning Commission Tuesday. Commissioners voted to change…

Council shoots down Thornton Road Studios rezoning

A group of artists, musicians and small business owners in South Austin was granted a stay of execution related to its work spaces last Thursday night, when City Council denied a zoning change that would have transformed the property into…

ZAP OKs medical offices in South Austin

Competing concerns over facilitating the construction of a medical office and maintaining the character of a quiet area led to a compromise among members of the Zoning and Platting Commission on Jan. 19. The panel voted to recommend rezoning a…

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ZAP says no to gas station, yes to office space

The site of a burned-down day care center will now likely become office and retail space, thanks to action taken by the Zoning and Platting Commission last week. The commission adopted city staff’s recommendation that the .96-acre plot of land…

Planning Commission OKs condo development

Despite concerns raised by neighbors, including a telephone psychic who worried that the noise from nearby construction could harm her business, the Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval last week of a zoning change to facilitate the construction of six single-family…

Fire official's objection may scuttle zoning change

With the Austin Fire Department objecting to the zoning change, City Council decided to postpone a decision on downzoning a limited industrial property to allow vertical mixed-use retail and residences on an East Austin tract located next to a facility…

Developers and neighbors come together on Austin Oaks charrette

Negotiations between neighbors and developers over the proposed Austin Oaks Planned Unit Development are going swimmingly, according to what representatives involved in the process told the Zoning and Platting Commission on Tuesday. After agreeing in September to engage with neighbors…

Mt. Zion rezoning finally moves on to Council

It may have taken the most circuitous route imaginable to get there, but the the Greater Mt. Zion Baptist Church rezoning case is moving on to City Council after bouncing around the Planning Commission since June. This time, the church…

How much can a city zone?

You don’t need a badge and a gun to have police powers. Just ask the members of the Zoning and Platting Commission, who on Tuesday listened as Assistant City Attorney David Sorola gave a presentation outlining the extent of the…

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