Redline ID REDLINE ASMP Page Number Type Change Proposed 2021 ASMP Document Amendments Log 2/25/2022 New Image new image New Page Amendment Log Updated Street Network Map Updated Tagline (SB.1): Pair education and narrowly-focused enforcement strategies initiatives, targeting key behaviors on freeways and high-speed corridors, with street design improvements to reinforce safe travel behaviors for all. Map Updated Growth Concept Map and Transit Priority Network Map Tagline Correct text Text Map Policy Spread Map Spread Map Map Tagline Curb management is the flexible and efficient use of the public space between building fronts and the vehicular travel lanes along street edges; this is the space in which the movement of people and goods meets access. In order to utilize public curb space efficiently, clear guidance is needed to ensure curb management strategies are available to allow all users of the public realm adequate space in which to carry out their daily needs. Add note about Smart Trips now being part of Get There ATX In Austin, the Smart Trips neighborhood outreach program offers free transit adventures to reach residents how to use public transit for recreational trips (note: as of 2021 Smart Trips is known as Get There ATX) . Updated Sidewalk Prioirization Map New Policy - Roadway System Policy 6: Support streets as places where people and community engage in non-mobility activity: Recognize the diverse and expanding civic needs within our right-of-way and adaptive uses of the street Non-mobility Activity in Practice Roadway Capacity Projects Map Bicycle System Map Urban Trail System Map Project Connect Spread - Inital Investment & System Plan Updated Tagline: Pursue strategies and collaborate with regional partners to reduce ozone, particulate matter, and greenhouse gas emissions, including promoting sustainable transportation modes and improving traffic flow 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ii iii xxv 28 42 50 56 86 95 96-97 98 108 122 129 194 Redline ID REDLINE ASMP Page Number Type Tagline 2021 ASMP Document Amendments Log 2/25/2022 Change Proposed Updated Tagline (AC.3): Use materials and methods that reduce carbon, conserve energy, limit waste, and support the Net-Zero Community Climate Goals Text Replace "Austin Community Climate Plan" with "Austin's Climate Equity Plan" where it is found Updating Climate Plan Highlight: Austin Community Climate Plan The Austin Community Climate Plan identifies over 130 actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the energy, transportation, and materials …
2021 ASMP Amendments Public Engagement Report Round 1 February 2022 Created by the Austin Transportation Department Contents 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….….. 3 2. Public Engagement Strategy………………………………………………….……….…… 3 2.1. Policy Survey……………………………………………………………………….… 3 2.2 Street Network Presentation and Public Feedback Map…………………………. 4 3. Public Comment Summary…………………………………………………………………. 4 3.1 Demographic results on engagement activities……………………………………. 4 3.2 Policies - What we heard……………………………………………………………... 7 3.3 Street Network Public Feedback Map - What we heard………………….……….. 8 4. Next Steps…………………………………………………………………………………….10 4.1 Public Comments, Boards & Commissions, Council ……………….……………..10 5. Appendices…………………………………………………………………………………....10 Appendix A: Policy Amendment Online Survey………...........……………………….. 11 Appendix B: Policy Amendment Paper Survey……………………………….....…….. 18 Appendix C: ASMP Amendments Flyer……………………………………………...…. 22 Appendix D: Public Feedback Map …………………………………………………….. 23 Appendix E: ATD Mobility Newsletter ……………………………………………....….. 24 Appendix F: Neighborhood Association positions …………………………....………. 25 Appendix G: Log of emails received …………………………………………...…….... 27 Appendix H: Full table of Public Feedback Map comments………………………….. 45 2 1. Introduction The Austin Strategic Mobility Plan (ASMP) is Austin's comprehensive, multimodal transportation plan, and it guides our short- and long-term transportation projects, programs, initiatives, and investments. Adopted in April 2019, the ASMP plans for all the ways we get around Austin. Council passed Resolution 20200610-002 in June 2020, “directing the City Manager to amend the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan (Ordinance No. 20190411-033) to add the Project Connect System Plan that includes the Locally Preferred Alternatives for the Orange, Blue, Gold, Green, and MetroRapid Lines, as adopted by the Capital Metro Board of Directors, to the ASMP and associated technical elements”. The ASMP is anticipated to go through a deeper evaluation for changes at the five-year mark, therefore, this two-year update is meant to remain limited in scope to respond to the Council Resolution and other significant changes in the past two years. Austin Transportation Department staff officially initiated the process to amend the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan (ASMP) in May 2021. The initial phase of this process included an interdepartmental review of the ASMP policy document and the Street Network Table and Map. The interdepartmental review effort identified several potential policy amendments that were published for public comment in October 2021, and Street Network amendments were published for public comment soon after in November 2021. 2. Public Engagement Strategy This 2-year amendment cycle is the first amendment process since the ASMP was adopted in 2019. Since this process was meant to be limited in scope, and because it is the first amendment to the document, the public engagement …
2021 ASMP Amendments PLANNING COMMISSION MARCH 8, 2022 COLE KIT TEN, DIVISION MANAGER AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT Presentation Agenda o Timeline o ASMP framework o Policy Document o Street Network o What’s in this ASMP Amendment Cycle o Policy Document additions, updates, corrections o Street Network corrections and alignment with other City Documents o Interpreting these Updates o In Response to Public Comments o Q & A 2 Timeline | Initial Feedback Schedule 2021 October 1 November 15 December 31 ASMP Policy Survey released ASMP Street Network map released Original close date for Policy survey and Street Network map October November December January *Internal Review began May 2021 Updates were provided to Mayor and City Council via memos dated 6/10/2021, 9/30/2021 and 12/1/2021 2022 January 16 First extension date for Policy & Street Network feedback January 30 Policy & Street Network comment period closed October - January Round 1 Public Comments 3 Timeline | Remaining Feedback Schedule 2022 February March April May Developed updated draft of the proposed amendments Round 1 Feedback Report Updated draft published Boards and Commissions Council Mobility Committee Round 2 Public Comments Develop final draft of the proposed amendments Round 2 Feedback Report Final draft published Planning Commission City Council Public Hearing and Meetings February March April May *Notification for the second round of comments was sent out to the Community Registry on February 28 *Council Public Hearing will be advertised in the American Statesman 16 days prior to the hearing date and sent out to the Community Registry 4 What is the ASMP ? 5 Policy Document + Street Network Table & Map 6 ASMP | Policy Document • A comprehensive multimodal transportation plan for the future of our transportation network • 50 / 50 mode share • Includes: • Indicators + Targets • Policies • Action Items 7 ASMP | Street Network • A database of streets organized by Street Name with existing and future conditions of the right of way • These future conditions reflect the policies and transportation vision in the ASMP and reflect our multimodal systems for walking, bicycling, transit and driving • Used to identify right of way dedication requirements needed to accommodate future roadway conditions (referred to as Dedication of Right of Way in the Land Development Code) 8 *Adopted Street Network Table can be found at atd.knack.com/asmp#home/ ASMP | Street Network • Right of way dedication is only triggered …
Exhibit A REVISED Recommended changes to the general requirements for Vertical Mixed Use Buildings (Commissioners Azhar and Connolly) Consider the following changes and include, where possible: a. Source of income discrimination protection b. Onsite dispersion and access c. Comparable design standards for affordable units d. Proportional bedroom count, except where the number of affordable units is increased e. Floating rental units f. Simultaneous availability g. Affirmative marketing h. Unbundled parking and housing costs i. Tenant right to organize j. Post-Construction requirements and penalty k. Align city’s right to subsidize additional units with VMU2 program
CO2-2021-006: Amending Title 25- 2(E) 4.3 Vertical Mixed-Use Buildings March 8, 2022 Sam Tedford Principal Planner, Inclusive Planning City of Austin, Housing and Planning Department Overview VMU-Related Direction Process Clarification VMU Basics Staff Recommendation Staff Research 2 VMU-Related Direction Planning Commission, July 2021 – C02-20210727 – Directed changes to the affordability requirements for Vertical Mixed-Use Buildings City Council, November 2021 – Resolution No. 20211118-052 – Directed an expansion of the VMU program through the creation of new tier with a height bonus 3 Process Clarifications Acknowledgement of confusion and lack of transparency – Prior public notices and renotices, multiple postponements – VMU working group Planning Commission, March 22 – Public hearing and potential action – Renotification required to explicitly state remote participation option City Council, April – date pending – Public hearing and potential action – Multiple postponements 4 Vertical Mixed-Use (VMU) Basics VMU is a voluntarydensity bonus program designed to achieve community benefits through the use of development incentives. Adopted in 2010 – Included a one-time opt-in/opt-out process for neighborhood associations or neighborhood planning teams Bonus Entitlements – Residential uses allowed on Commercial and Office-zoned sites – Unlimited FAR – Site dimensional waivers – 60% reduction of minimum parking requirement – 30ft height (VMU tier 2 only) Community Benefits – Active ground floor use – Mix of land uses near transit – Heightened design standards – Regulated Affordability Development Incentive Community Benefit Bonus Height (tier 2 only) Regulated Affordability Reduced Parking Minimum Heightened design standards Unlimited FAR Mix of land uses Residential Uses Active ground floor use 5 Staff Recommendation: Set-Aside Percentages and Affordability Levels Bonus Entitlements Affordability Requirements VMU Tier 1 Residential uses Unlimited FAR • • • Waiver of site dimensional requirements 60% reduction in parking minimum VMU Tier 2 All of the above 30ft bonus height • • • Rental Developments 40-year affordability period For-Sale Developments 99-year affordability period 10% set-aside affordable to 60% Median Family Income 10% set-aside affordable to 50% Median Family Income OR 12% set-aside affordable to 60% Median Family Income 10% set-aside affordable to 80% Median Family Income OR Fee equivalent to 10% of total units 12% set-aside affordable to 80% Median Family Income OR Fee equivalent to 12% of total units A summary of the staff recommendation for affordability requirements in the Vertical Mixed-Use program is shown in …
PLANNING COMMISSION March 8, 2022 MINUTES The Planning Commission convened in a meeting on March 8, 2022 in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 301 W. 2nd Street, Austin, Texas and via videoconference @ http://www.austintexas.gov/page/watch-atxn-live Vice-Chair Hempel called the Commission Meeting to order at 6:07 p.m. Commission Members in Attendance: Awais Azhar Joao Paulo Connolly Grayson Cox Yvette Flores Claire Hempel – Vice-Chair Patrick Howard Jennifer Mushtaler Carmen Llanes Pulido Solveij Rosa Praxis Robert Schneider Todd Shaw – Chair Jessica Cohen – Ex-Officio Absent: James Shieh Jeffrey Thompson Arati Singh – Ex -Ex-Officio Richard Mendoza – Ex-Officio Spencer Cronk – Ex-Officio CITIZEN COMMUNICATIONS A. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Approve the minutes of February 22, 2022. Motion to approve minutes of February 22, 2022 was approved on the consent agenda on the motion by Commissioner Schneider, seconded by Commissioner Azhar on a vote of 10-0. Commissioner Mushtaler off the dais. Commissioners Thompson and Shieh absent. B. PUBLIC HEARINGS 1. Plan Amendment: NPA-2018-0021.02 - Skyline Oltorf Mixed Use; District 3 Location: 5100, 5208 & 5010 E. Oltorf Street and 2424 & 2424 1/2 Riverside Farms Road, Country Club West Watershed; East Riverside/Oltorf Combined (Pleasant Valley) NP Area ADD Land, Ltd. And Charitable Holdings II Armbrust & Brown, PLLC (Richard T. Suttle, Jr.) Office and Rural Residential to Mixed Use land use Pending Maureen Meredith, 512-974-2695, Maureen.Meredith@austintexas.gov Housing and Planning Department Postponement request by Staff to April 26, 2022 Owner/Applicant: Agent: Request: Staff Rec.: Staff: Postponement Request: Motion to grant Staff’s request for postponement of this item to April 26, 2022 was approved on the consent agenda on the motion by Commissioner Schneider, seconded by Commissioner Azhar on a vote of 10-0. Commissioner Mushtaler off the dais. Commissioners Thompson and Shieh absent. 2. Plan Amendment: NPA-2021-0021.02 - 1406-1506 Parker Lane: District 9 Location: 1406, 1408, 1504 and 1506 Parker Lane, Lady Bird Lake Watershed; East Riverside/Oltorf Combined (Pleasant Valley) NP Area Gross Land Fund II, LP (Shawn A. J. Gross) Drenner Group, PC (Amanda Swor) Single Family to Multifamily Residential land use Pending Maureen Meredith, 512-974-2695, Maureen.Meredith@austintexas.gov Housing and Planning Department Postponement request by Staff to April 26, 2022 Owner/Applicant: Agent: Request: Staff Rec.: Staff: Postponement Request: Motion to grant Staff’s request for postponement of this item to April 26, 2022 was approved on the consent agenda on the motion by Commissioner Schneider, seconded by Commissioner Azhar on a vote of 10-0. Commissioner …
Planning Commission: February 22, 2022 NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN AMENDMENT REVIEW SHEET DATE FILED: July 27, 2021 (In-cycle) NEIGHORHOOD PLAN: Montopolis CASE#: NPA-2021-0005.02 PROJECT NAME: Montopolis Multifamily PC DATE: February 8, 2022 January 11, 2022 ADDRESS/ES: 2601 Montopolis Drive, 6700 & 6800 E. Ben White Blvd SVRD WB DISTRICT AREA: 3 SITE AREA: 18.64 acres OWNER/APPLICANT: Montopolis QO2B, LLC AGENT: Thrower Design, LLC (Ron Thrower and Victoria Haase) CASE MANAGER: Maureen Meredith STAFF EMAIL: Maureen.Meredith@austintexas.gov TYPE OF AMENDMENT: Change in Future Land Use Designation PHONE: (512) 974-2695 From: Industry Base District Zoning Change To: Mixed Use Related Zoning Case: (No case filed) From: LI-NP To: (TBD) NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN ADOPTION DATE: September 27, 2001 CITY COUNCIL DATE: Not scheduled PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: February 22, 2022 - ACTION: 1 1 of 25B-1 Planning Commission: February 22, 2022 February 8, 2022 – Postponed to February 22, 2022 on the consent agenda at the request of the neighborhood. [J. Shieh – 1st; G. Cox – 2nd] Vote: 11-0 [C. Hempel abstained from Items B-15 and B-16. S.R. Praxis absent]. January 11, 2022 – Postponed to February 8, 2022 on the consent agenda at the request of the applicant. [A. Azhar – 1st; J. P. Connelly -2nd] Vote: 11-0 [C. Hempel abstained on Items B-4 and B-5. P. Howard and J. Mushtaler absent]. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: To not support the applicant’s request for Mixed Use land use. BASIS FOR STAFF’S RECOMMENDATION: The property is an 18.64 vacant tract of land sandwiched between East Ben White Boulevard and Montopolis Drive. The area is an industrial node with active industrial uses. The applicant has not submitted the associated zoning application at this time but proposes to build 1,200 multifamily units with 10% of the units being income restricted. Although a zoning case has not been filed, a review by the Austin Fire Department was made based on the information provided in the Summary Letter submitted by Thrower Design, the applicant’s agent. The Austin Fire Department does not support residential uses in this location because of the fire and toxicity hazards associated with the compressed and liquefied compressed gas stored in the vicinity, therefore staff does not support the applicant’s request for Mixed Use land use. The email from Scott Stookey from the Austin Fire Department is on page 14. LAND USE DESCRIPTIONS EXISTING LAND USE ON THE PROPERTY Industry - Areas reserved for manufacturing and related uses that provide employment …
Planning Commission: February 22, 2022 NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN AMENDMENT REVIEW SHEET NEIGHORHOOD PLAN: East MLK Combined (MLK) CASE#: NPA-2021-0015.01 PROJECT NAME: Austin Sports Facility PC DATE: February 8, 2022 January 11, 2022 December 14, 2021 DATE FILED: July 29, 2021 (In-cycle) ADDRESS/ES: 1138 ½ & 1140 Gunter Street DISTRICT AREA: 3 SITE AREA: 0.834 acres OWNER/APPLICANT: GSTF, LLC in care of Michael Orsak of 3 MP ENT AGENT: Brown & Ortiz P.C (c/o Caroline McDonald) CASE MANAGER: Maureen Meredith, Housing and Planning Dept. (512) 974-2695 PHONE: STAFF EMAIL: Maureen.meredith@austintexas.gov TYPE OF AMENDMENT: Change in Future Land Use Designation To: Mixed Use From: Single Family Base District Zoning Change Related Zoning Case: C14-2021-0125 From: SF-3-NP NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN ADOPTION DATE: CITY COUNCIL DATE: March 3, 2022 ACTION: To: CS-MU-CO-NP November 7, 2002 1 of 33B-2 Planning Commission: February 22, 2022 PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: February 22, 2022 - February 8, 2022 – Postponed to February 22, 2022 on the consent agenda by the Planning Commission. [J. Shieh – 1st; G. Cox – 2nd] Vote: 11-0 [C. Hempel abstained from Items B-15 & B-16. S. R. Praxis absent]. January 11, 2022 – Postponed to February 3, 2022 on the consent agenda at the request of the neighborhood. [A. Azhar – 1st; J.P. Connally -2nd] Vote: 11-0 [C. Hempel abstained on Items B-4 and B-5]. December 14, 2021 – Postponed to January 11, 2022 on the consent agenda by the Planning Commission. [A. Azar – 1st; R. Schneider – 2nd] Vote: 11-0-1 [P. Howard off the dais. J. Shieh absent]. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: To approve the Applicant’s request for Mixed Use land use. BASIS FOR STAFF’S RECOMMENDATION: Staff supports the applicant’s request for Mixed Use land use because the property has frontage along Gunter Street and along Airport Blvd. Airport Blvd is an Activity Corridor where Mixed Use land use is appropriate. The property is in the Oak Springs sub-area of the planning area. The plan supports mixed use along Airport Blvd. Sections from the East MLK Combined Neighborhood Plan: 2 2 of 33B-2 Planning Commission: February 22, 2022 3 LAND USE DESCRIPTIONS EXISTING LAND USE ON THE PROPERTY Single family - Detached or two-family residential uses at typical urban and/or suburban densities. Purpose 3 of 33B-2 Planning Commission: February 22, 2022 1. Preserve the land use pattern and future viability of existing neighborhoods; 2. Encourage new infill development that continues existing neighborhood patterns of development; and …
ZONING CHANGE REVIEW SHEET CASE: C14-2021-0125 Austin Sports Facility DISTRICT: 3 ZONING FROM: SF-3-NP TO: CS-MU-CO-NP ADDRESS: 1138 1/2 & 1140 Gunter Street SITE AREA: 0.834 acres PROPERTY OWNER: GSTF, LLC (Michael Orsak) AGENT: Brown & Ortiz, PC (Caroline McDonald) CASE MANAGER: Heather Chaffin (512-974-2122, heather.chaffin@austintexas.gov) STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff supports the Applicant’s request for rezoning to CS-MU-CO-NP with the condition that the following land uses be prohibited: Automotive Repair Services Automotive Washing—of any type Commercial Blood Plasma Center Drop-Off Recycling Collection Facilities Equipment Sales Funeral Services Laundry Services Outdoor Sports and Recreation Vehicle Storage Limited Warehousing and Distribution Alternative Financial Services Automotive Sales Bail Bond Services Construction Sales and Services Equipment Repair Services Exterminating Services Kennels Off-Site Accessory Parking Pawn Shop Services Veterinary Services Adult Oriented Businesses Transportation Terminal For a summary of the basis of staff’s recommendation, see case manager comments on page 2. PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION / RECOMMENDATION: February 22, 2022: February 8, 2022: To postpone to February 22, 2022, as requested by Planning Commission, on consent. January 11, 2022: To postpone to February 8, 2022, as requested by Planning Commission, on consent. December 14, 2021: To postpone to January 11, 2022, as requested by Planning Commission, on consent. CITY COUNCIL ACTION: TBD ORDINANCE NUMBER: B-031 of 58 ISSUES: The Applicant agreed to prohibit Cocktail lounge land use as requested by the Neighborhood; that land use is already prohibited in the requested CS zoning category, so no additional conditional overlay is required. A petition with 16.95% of property owners’ signatures within a 200-foot radius of the rezoning tract has been filed in opposition to this rezoning request. Please see Exhibit C- Opposition Petition. CASE MANAGER COMMENTS: The subject property is located approximately 200 feet north of the intersection of Airport Boulevard and Gunter Street and has frontage on both streets. The property is currently zoned SF-3-NP and developed with two single family residences. The property immediately south of the rezoning tract is zoned CS-MU-CO-NP and is also developed with a single family residence. The property immediately northeast of the subject property is zoned SF-3- NP and developed with a single family residence; further north are undeveloped lots zoned CS-MU-CO-NP and residential properties zoned SF-3-NP. These properties all have frontage on Gunter Street. Immediately northwest of the property, with frontage on Airport Boulevard are properties zoned CS-MU-NP that are developed with Restaurant-general and Automotive repair land uses. Across Gunter …
RESTRICTIVE COVENANT AMENDMENT REVIEW SHEET DISTRICT: 3 AGENT: Drenner Group PC (Leah Bojo) CASE: C14-02-0183(RCA) 1118 Tillery Street ADDRESS: 1118 Tillery Street SITE AREA: 3.781 acres PROPERTY OWNERS: Theodore and Mary E. Lopez CASE MANAGER: Heather Chaffin (512-974-2122, heather.chaffin@austintexas.gov) STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff supports the Applicant’s request to amend the restrictive covenant by removing Tracts 1, 2, 4 and 5. For a summary of the basis of staff’s recommendation, see case manager comments on page 2. PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION / RECOMMENDATION: CITY COUNCIL ACTION: TBD ORDINANCE NUMBER: 1 of 27B-4 C14-02-0183(RCA) 2 ISSUES: The subject property is developed with plant nursery land use and was rezoned from SF-3 to CS-MU-CO-NP as part of the Govalle Neighborhood Plan in 2002-2003. No changes to this zoning are currently proposed. This public restrictive covenant (RC) was created concurrent with the rezoning and states that if use of the property as a plant nursery use is discontinued for 90 consecutive days, the owner of the property will not object to the City of Austin rezoning the Property to SF-4A-NP. The RC applies to 5 tracts, and the Applicant is requesting to remove 4 of these tracts from the RC. Please see Exhibit C- Redlined Restrictive Covenant. A petition against the restrictive covenant amendment (RCA) has been submitted to staff and is included with this report. Under state law, a Valid Petition can be filed in opposition to a rezoning but cannot be applied to an initial zoning of a property or an RCA. The petition submitted to the City will not affect the number of votes required to approve the RCA. (Please see Exhibit E- Petition). CASE MANAGER COMMENTS: The subject property is located on the west side of Tillery Street between Govalle Avenue and Goodwin Avenue. North of the subject property is another CS-MU-CO-NP property that is subject to the same RC and includes residential and nursery land uses. Further north is a residential area zoned SF-3-NP. East of the property, across Tillery Street, is a residential area zoned SF-3-NP. West of the property is a residential area zoned SF-3-NP and the Austin Community College Eastview Campus, which is zoned P-NP. To the south are residential properties zoned SF-3-NP. Other land uses and zoning categories in the area include undeveloped, religious assembly and townhouse-condominium (zoned MF-3-NP, SF-3-NP and MF-3-NP, respectively). Please see Exhibits A and B- Zoning Map and Aerial Exhibit. At the time …
ZONING CHANGE REVIEW SHEET CASE: C14-99-0069.01 - 200 S Congress Avenue DISTRICT: 9 ZONING FROM: LI-PDA-NP TO: LI-PDA-NP, to change conditions of zoning ADDRESS: 220 ½, 210, 208 and 200 S. Congress Avenue SITE AREA: 0.575 acre (25,047 square feet) PROPERTY OWNER: Bathaus Management, LLC (Sherry Matthews) AGENT: Drenner Group, PC (Leah M Bojo) CASE MANAGER: Wendy Rhoades (512-974-7719, wendy.rhoades@austintexas.gov) STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends limited industrial services-planned development area-neighborhood plan (LI-PDA-NP) combining district zoning. For a summary of the basis of staff’s recommendation, see pages 2 - 3. SMALL AREA PLANNING JOINT COMMITTEE ACTION / RECOMMENDATION: February 9, 2022 Approved an amendment to LI-PDA-NP district zoning as Staff recommended, with additional conditions to: 1) prohibit drive- through as an accessory use; 2) require ADA access from South Congress Avenue; 3) reduce the amount of impervious cover; and 4) explore public access through the site to the hike-and-bike trail after business hours. [B. Greenberg, J. Thompson – 2nd] Vote: 5-0. P. Howard, J. Mushtaler – Off the dais February 2, 2022 Small Area Planning Joint Committee meeting was cancelled. PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION / RECOMMENDATION: February 22, 2022 February 8, 2022 Approved a postponement to February 22, 2022. Vote: 11-0. [Commissioner Shieh – 1st, Commissioner Cox – 2nd; Commissioner Connolly not present for passage of the consent agenda; Commissioner Praxis was absent. 1 of 16B-5 C14-99-0069.01 2 CITY COUNCIL ACTION: March 3, 2022 Scheduled for City Council ORDINANCE NUMBER: ISSUES: The Applicant is in agreement with the Small Area Planning Joint Committee’s recommendation to prohibit drive-through uses as an accessory use. The Applicant also reports that ADA access will be provided from the South Congress doors and an elevator will be installed inside the building. In addition, the Applicant is amenable to providing access through the site to the Butler hike-and-bike trail during business hours, but cannot commit to after-hours access at this time. The Applicant is still evaluating a reduction in impervious cover. Section 25-2-2-282 (A) (Land Use Commission Public Hearing and Recommendation) of the Code requires that the case be reviewed by SAPJC before the public hearing at PC and does not provide for any exceptions. There are no known issues at this time and staff has not received any written or emailed comments in favor of or in opposition to this rezoning case. CASE MANAGER COMMENTS: This tract is approximately 0.575-acre in size and located on the west side …
City of Austin Housing and Plannin g Department P.O. Box 1088, Austin, TX 78767 -1088 (512) 974-3100 ♦ Fax (512) 974-3112 ♦ www .c ity o fau s tin .o rg/ h ou s in g MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: DATE: RE: Todd W. Shaw, Chair & Planning Commission Members Maureen Meredith, Senior Planner, Inclusive Planning Division Heather Chaffin, Senior Planner, Current Planning Division Housing and Planning Department February 15, 2022 NPA-2021-0010.01_2317 E. 2nd Street (2400 E. Cesar Chavez Parking Expansion) C14-2021-0121_2317 E. 2nd Street Staff requests a postponement of these cases to the April 12, 2022 Planning Commission hearing date to allow the applicant additional time to decide how to move forward with the applications. The postponement request was made in a timely manner and meets the Planning Commission’s policy. Attachments: Plan Amendment Map Zoning Map The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and will provide reasonable modifications and equal access to communications upon request. 1 of 3B-6 The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and will provide reasonable modifications and equal access to communications upon request. 2 of 3B-6 The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and will provide reasonable modifications and equal access to communications upon request. 3 of 3B-6
City of Austin Housing and Plannin g Department P.O. Box 1088, Austin, TX 78767 -1088 (512) 974-3100 ♦ Fax (512) 974-3112 ♦ www .c ity o fau s tin .o rg/ h ou s in g MEMORANDUM TO: FROM: DATE: RE: Todd W. Shaw, Chair & Planning Commission Members Maureen Meredith, Senior Planner, Inclusive Planning Division Heather Chaffin, Senior Planner, Current Planning Division Housing and Planning Department February 15, 2022 NPA-2021-0010.01_2317 E. 2nd Street (2400 E. Cesar Chavez Parking Expansion) C14-2021-0121_2317 E. 2nd Street Staff requests a postponement of these cases to the April 12, 2022 Planning Commission hearing date to allow the applicant additional time to decide how to move forward with the applications. The postponement request was made in a timely manner and meets the Planning Commission’s policy. Attachments: Plan Amendment Map Zoning Map The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and will provide reasonable modifications and equal access to communications upon request. 1 of 3B-7 The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and will provide reasonable modifications and equal access to communications upon request. 2 of 3B-7 The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and will provide reasonable modifications and equal access to communications upon request. 3 of 3B-7
MEMORANDUM ************************************************************************ TO: Todd Shaw, Chair Planning Commission Members February 22, 2022 Heather Chaffin, Senior Planner Housing and Planning Department C14-2021-0190 3000 East Cesar Chavez Notification Error FROM: DATE: RE: ************************************************************************ The notice for public hearing of this rezoning request was mailed with the incorrect address for the property. As a result, the request cannot be heard at the February 22, 2022, Planning Commission meeting. The case will be renotified for the March 8, 2022, agenda. 1 of 2B-8 From: Aneil Naik Sent: Monday, November 29, 2021 12:51 PM To: Chaffin, Heather <Heather.Chaffin@austintexas.gov> Cc: Amanda Swor Subject: RE: C14-2021-0083 (Trinsic - Cesar Chavez) - Status? Afternoon Heather. I’m following up on this case. I’d like this item to be placed on the next possible available agenda. We will be requesting an indefinite postponement. Please let me know if you need anything further. Thanks, ANEIL Aneil Naik, Senior Project Manager Drenner Group, PC | 200 Lee Barton Drive | Suite 100 | Austin, TX 78704 512-807-2900 office | 512-587-5447 cell | | www.drennergroup.com 2 of 2B-8
Planning Commission: February 22, 2022 NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN AMENDMENT REVIEW SHEET DATE FILED: July 26, 2021 (In-cycle) NEIGHORHOOD PLAN: Montopolis CASE#: NPA-2021-0005.01 PROJECT NAME: Alpha .95 PC DATE: February 22, 2022 February 8, 2022 January 25, 2022 November 9, 2021 October 12, 2021 September 28, 2021 2404 Thrasher Lane ADDRESS/ES: DISTRICT AREA: 3 SITE AREA: 0.95 acres OWNER/APPLICANT: Alpha Builders (Gino Shvetz) AGENT: *Husch Blackwell, LLP (Nikelle Meade) *New agent as of November 9, 2021 CASE MANAGER: Maureen Meredith STAFF EMAIL: Maureen.Meredith@austintexas.gov TYPE OF AMENDMENT: Change in Future Land Use Designation PHONE: (512) 974-2695 From: Single Family *Revised on November 10, 2021 from Higher Density Single Family to Mixed Use land use. To: *Mixed Use Base District Zoning Change Related Zoning Case: C14-2021-0128 From: CS-NP To: CS-MU-NP *Revised on November 10, 2021 from SF-6-NP to CS-MU-NP NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN ADOPTION DATE: September 27, 2001 1 1 of 37B-9 Planning Commission: February 22, 2022 ACTION: CITY COUNCIL DATE: To be scheduled PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: February 22, 2022 - February 8, 2022 – Postponed to February 22, 2022 on the consent agenda by the Planning Commission. [J. Shieh – 1st; G. Cox – 2nd] Vote: 11-0 [C. Hempel abstain on Items B-15 & B-16. S. R. Praxis absent]. January 25, 2022 - Postponed to February 8, 2022 on the consent agenda by the Planning Commission. [J. Shieh – 1st; C. Hempel – 2nd] Vote: 10-0 [P. Howard, J. Mushtaler and S. R. Praxis absent]. November 9, 2021 – Approved the applicant’s request for an indefinite postponement on the consent agenda. [C. Hempel – 1st; G. Cox – 2nd] Vote: 9-0-1 [C. Llanes Pulido abstained. Y. Flores, S. R. Praxis and R. Schneider absent]. October 12, 2021- Postponed on the consent agenda to November 9, 2021 at the request of the neighborhood. [R. Schneider – 1st; J. Shieh – 2nd] Vote: 9-0 [A. Azhar, J. Paulo Connolly, and C. Hempel absent]. September 28, 2021- Postponed on the consent agenda to October 12, 2021 at the request of the neighborhood. [A. Azhar – 1st; R. Schneider – 2nd] Vote: 10-0 [G. Cox and J. Shieh absent. C. Hempel recused from Item B-10]. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Recommended for applicant’s request for Mixed Use land use. BASIS FOR STAFF’S RECOMMENDATION: The property is a 0.95-acre vacant tract of land with CS-NP zoning and Commercial future land use. To the north is a single-family home zoned SF-3-NP with primary frontage …
C14-2021-0128 1 ZONING CHANGE REVIEW SHEET CASE: C14-2021-0128 – ALPHA .95 DISTRICT: 3 ZONING FROM: CS-NP TO: CS-MU-NP, as amended ADDRESS: 2404 Thrasher Lane SITE AREA: 0.95 acres PROPERTY OWNER: Alpha Builders Group, Inc. (Gino Shvetz) AGENT: Husch Blackwell, LLC (Nikelle Meade) CASE MANAGER: Wendy Rhoades (512-974-7719, wendy.rhoades@austintexas.gov) STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends general commercial services-mixed use-conditional overlay- neighborhood plan (CS-MU-CO-NP) combining district zoning. The CO would be for a maximum of 10 residential units. For a summary of the basis of staff’s recommendation, see page 2-3. PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION / RECOMMENDATION: February 22, 2022 February 8, 2022 Approved a postponement to February 22, 2022. Vote: 11-0. [Commissioner Shieh – 1st, Commissioner Cox – 2nd; Commissioner Connolly not present for passage of the consent agenda; Commissioner Praxis was absent. January 25, 2022 Approved Planning Commission’s postponement to February 8, 2022 on the consent agenda. Vote: 10-0. [Commissioner Shieh – 1st, Vice Chair Hempel – 2nd, Commissioner Praxis was off the dais, Commissioners Howard and Mushtaler were absent]. November 9, 2021 Approved applicant’s request to indefinitely postpone on the consent agenda. Vote: 9-0. [Vice Chair Hempel – 1st, Commissioner Cox – 2nd; Commissioner Llanes Pulido abstained; Commissioners Flores, Praxis and Schneider were absent]. October 12, 2021 Approved applicant's request to postpone to November 9, 2021 on the consent agenda. Vote: 9-0. [Commissioner Schneider – 1st, 1 of 27B-10 C14-2021-0128 2 Commissioner Shieh – 2nd; Commissioner Praxis was off the dais; Vice Chair Hempel and Commissioners Azhar and Connolly were absent]. September 28, 2021 Approved neighborhood’s request to postpone to October 12, 2021 on the consent agenda. Vote: 10-0. [Commissioner Azhar – 1st, Commissioner Schneider – 2nd; Commissioners Cox, Praxis and Shieh were absent]. CITY COUNCIL ACTION: To be Scheduled for City Council ORDINANCE NUMBER: ISSUES: Staff has received comments in opposition to this rezoning request. For all written or emailed comments, please see Exhibit C: Correspondence Received. Natural Gas Pipeline on the Property The Austin Fire Department (AFD) used the Railroad Commission of Texas (TxRRC) GIS Viewer to identify a 12.4-inch diameter natural gas pipeline owned by the Texas Gas Service on close to the north side of the property. The pipeline is currently abandoned but could be returned to service at a future date. Please see Texas Railroad Commission’s GIS attributes table following Exhibit B. If it were to be returned to service, that process would need to comply with 49 …
CASE NUMBER: C14H-2021-0180 HLC DATE: August 23, 2021 ZONING CHANGE REVIEW SHEET PC DATE: December 14, 2021 September 27, 2021 October 25, 2021 January 25, 2022 February 8, 2022 February 22, 2022 APPLICANT: Historic Landmark Commission (owner-opposed) HISTORIC NAME: Casa McMath ADDRESS OF PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE: 2501 Inwood Place ZONING CHANGE: SF-3-NP to SF-3-NP-H COUNCIL DISTRICT: 10 WATERSHED: Johnson Creek NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN: Central West Austin Combined STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff finds that the house meets the criteria for landmark designation and thus recommends the proposed zoning change from SF-3-NP (single family residence – neighborhood plan combining district zoning) to SF- 3-NP-H (single family residence – neighborhood plan – historic landmark combining district zoning). Should the Commission choose to release the permit, the staff recommendation is to require completion of a City of Austin Documentation Package, including documentation of the site and exterior and interior architectural features. QUALIFICATIONS FOR LANDMARK DESIGNATION: Architecture, historical associations, and landscape feature HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION ACTION: August 23, 2021: Postponed to September 27, 2021. September 27, 2021: Initiated historic zoning. October 25, 2021: Recommended historic zoning for architecture, historical associations, landscape feature, and community value on a motion by Commissioner Koch. Commissioner Wright seconded the motion. Vote: 9-0 (Commissioners Castillo and Larosche absent). PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION: December 14, 2021: Postponed to January 25, 2022. January 25, 2022: Postponed to February 8, 2022. February 8, 2022: Postponed to February 22, 2022. February 22, 2022: DEPARTMENT COMMENTS: The house is beyond the bounds of the Comprehensive Cultural Resources Survey (1984) and has never been included in a city survey. CITY COUNCIL DATE: ACTION: ORDINANCE READINGS: ORDINANCE NUMBER: CASE MANAGER: Elizabeth Brummett PHONE: 512-974-1264 NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS: Austin Independent School District, Austin Lost and Found Pets, Austin Neighborhoods Council, Central West Austin Neighborhood Plan Contact Team, Friends of Austin Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Empowerment Foundation, Preservation Austin, SELTexas, Save Barton Creek Assn., Save Historic Muny District, Sierra Club, Austin Regional Group, TNR BCP - Travis County Natural Resources, Tarrytown Alliance , Tarrytown Neighborhood Association, West Austin Neighborhood Group 1 of 43B-11 BASIS FOR RECOMMENDATION: Historical Associations: The house was owned and occupied by Hugh and Frances McMath from the time of its construction until their deaths, and it remained in the McMath family until this year. Hugh McMath was a professor of architecture at the University of Texas who specialized in the study of Mexican architecture and was prominent in integrating Mexican schools …
Figure 21. Patio 1 of 71B-11 Figure 22. Retrofitted lighting is not hardwired and does not meet code 2 of 71B-11 Figure 23. Garage has rotten fascia 3 of 71B-11 Figure 24. Interior of garage exhibits extensive rot resulting from site grading and drainage challenges 4 of 71B-11 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places REGISTRATION FORM NPS Form 10-900 Austin Air-Conditioned Village Historic District, Austin, Travis County, Texas Architects and Designers The following architects and designers are presented in order of prominence relative to the Austin Air-Conditioned Village. Ned A. Cole helped select Austin as the site of the experiment through his role as chairman of the National Association of Home Builders air-conditioning subcommittee, served as project manager for the construction, and designed seven of the houses. H. D. Powers designed five houses, J. Eugene Wukasch designed two, and Fred Winfield Day, Jr., W. R. Coleman, and Oran Vaughan each designed one home in the Village. While some found more critical acclaim in their careers than others, collectively their work is representative of mid-century residential design in Austin’s middle class, suburban neighborhoods. Ned Ansel Cole (1917–2008) Ned Ansel Cole was born in Ferris, Texas. He earned a degree in architecture with honors from the University of Texas at Austin in 1939 and subsequently began building houses and teaching in the architecture department. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1941, Cole served in the South Pacific building infrastructure on Guam and in the Philippines.215 Cole returned to Austin after World War II and with three other veterans founded Fabricon, Inc. The firm designed and produced innovative prefabricated wall storage units that would serve as a centerpiece of Cole’s residential architecture. The founders constructed their factory building in modular sections in a rented garage, before the ultimate site of the facility at 4601 East Fifth Street in Austin had been selected and obtained. The hand-cast concrete block cornerstone of the building reads, “Fabricon, built by four soldiers with their bare hands, 1 June 1946.” In place of traditional site-built, load-bearing walls, the Fabricon wall units turned room dividers into organized storage with built-in sliding doors and drawers. An Austin Statesman article characterized the units as a modern space-saving measure in contrast with outmoded storage methods—“Room-consuming closets, cabinets and trunks are completely out.” 216 Cole’s role in the company was designing …
Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? - The New... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/arts/design/marcel-breuer-geller-h... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/arts/design/marcel-breuer-geller-house-demolition.html Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? The Geller house embodied the optimistic, now-vanished values of postwar suburbia: technological progress and a lifestyle built around children’s needs. CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK By James S. Russell Feb. 6, 2022 Updated 4:21 p.m. ET LAWRENCE, N.Y. — “Are people going to care about one little house?” asked Elizabeth Waytkus, who had been alerted some weeks ago to the possibility that a once-celebrated house by the architect Marcel Breuer would be demolished. She is the executive director of Docomomo US, a nonprofit organization that promotes the preservation of modern structures. People did care, it turns out. She has received an outpouring of dismay and grief at the news that the 1945 Bertram and Phyllis Geller House in Lawrence, at the southwestern edge of Nassau County, had been demolished without warning on Jan. 26 by the current owners, Shimon and Judy Eckstein, who Waytkus said had assured her only three weeks earlier that they had admired it and had no plans to take it down. It was a handsome composition of three cedar-sided single-story wings, that zigzagged among the trees and shrubs of a spacious site, each wing topped with a low-sloped roof that gave the house an undulating silhouette. The house had been significantly, but not irreversibly, altered, according to pictures on a real estate website. The living room stonewall and fireplace is all that remains of the Geller House since its demolition in January. An Rong Xu for The New York Times Her question makes a larger point, however. The Geller house was rapturously covered by the press at its debut because it appealed to an America that was obsessed with making a better life after enduring sacrifices of World War II and the grinding bleakness of the Great Depression. It was “among the most famous houses of the period,” said Barry Bergdoll, a Breuer expert, who teaches architectural history at Columbia University and was the chief curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art. Yet it had fallen into a kind of obscurity, well known mainly to aficionados. Preserving individual houses is difficult and expensive, explained Waytkus, first because they are private. Docomomo’s modest resources are mostly focused on the preservation of commercial, cultural, and civic buildings because they are generally accessible to the …
Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? - The New... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/arts/design/marcel-breuer-geller-h... Marcel Breuer, who helped shape 20th century architecture and design, at the Geller House in 1945. Ezra Stoller/Esto With the rise of the Nazis, Breuer, who was Jewish, would move several times, finally settling in Cambridge, Mass., in 1937, where he practiced and taught with his Bauhaus colleague Walter Gropius at Harvard. Gregarious and charming, “Lajko” became close friends with many clients, including the Gellers, who would hire him to design another house in Lawrence, in 1967. (For this reason the original Geller house is now known by preservationists as Geller I.) The house has been added to but remains largely the way it was built. In a series of houses with Gropius, Breuer would soften the crisp cubic forms, white plaster or metal surfaces, and dramatic cantilevers of his Bauhaus work. Geller was designed as Breuer was parting ways with Gropius and moving to New York. In this house, Breuer more fully merged his stylistic tendencies with American building techniques. The conventional wood construction was clad in vertical cedar siding that gave a sleek planar feeling. Inside, he used thin panels of varnished plywood and contrasted them with expanses of saturated paint colors in the mode of Modern artists. Jackson Pollock made one of his early drip paintings — sold long ago — for the house. Breuer anchored this lightweight architecture to the earth with a living-room wall and massive fireplace of fieldstone. Low stone walls projected into the landscape to demarcate places for play and relaxation. You could argue that the old-fashioned masonry harkens to traditions Americans cling to — or that the stone is simply a sensual counterpoint to the sleek planes of the rest of the design. Many of the ideas Breuer had refined in Geller would appear in a house he designed that was built in MoMA’s garden in 1949, broadcasting its ideas to an international audience. “Both the Geller and MoMA houses were intended to be replicable,” said Bergdoll, “a house that a local contractor could build.” 3 of 4 2/6/22, 6:59 PM 1 of 2B-11 Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? - The New... https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/06/arts/design/marcel-breuer-geller-h... A Marcel Breuer house in the MoMA Garden, 1949. Both the Geller and MoMA houses were intended to be replicable around the country. Ezra Stoller/Esto While many other architects, including …
