Tag Archives: East Riverside Corridor Regulating Plan

695 homes – many of them affordable – planned on East Riverside

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…

Zoning • By Jonathan Lee • Mar 3, 2023

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…

Parks • By Jessi Devenyns • Apr 10, 2019

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…

Development • By Kara Nuzback • Mar 2, 2015

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…

Development • By Elizabeth Pagano • Sep 15, 2014

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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…