Austin City Council last week approved adding the Vertical Mixed Use “V” to the property located from 1501 to 1603 Shoal Creek Boulevard, after a hearing that featured considerable discussion about the geologically sensitive area. Council Member Paige Ellis abstained, citing the fact that the area had already suffered from collapses in the past. The […]
Old Judges Hill
This neighborhood is a proposed Local Historic District near West Ave and 15th Street, south of Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Posted inPreservation
Commission considers a house by other name
Much like Tara and Wuthering Heights, historic homes in Austin have names of their own. But a recent bid for immortality on Judges Hill at the Historic Landmark Commission revealed the naming process might stand to have a few established parameters. At the Sept. 25 meeting of the commission, Mo Olian requested to have his […]
Posted inZoning
Commission split on mixed-use zoning near Lamar
The Planning Commission urged a property owner and his neighbors to try to reach a compromise Tuesday after a hearing in which both sides of a contentious zoning case accused the other of duplicity. “They’re traumatized; I’m traumatized,” said John Scott Neal, the owner of a parcel of land that includes 1507, 1509, 1511, 1601 […]
Posted inDevelopment
Judges Hill neighbors dispute calculation of support for district
After five years of work, Old Judges Hill may very well be Austin’s next Local Historic District, but not everyone in the neighborhood thinks that’s a good idea. Proponents and opponents of the change spoke their piece at the Historic Landmark Commission last week, and though the commission approved the historic district zoning, serious […]