A Planning Commission hearing regarding the transformation of two park-and-ride sites in Austin was postponed after community advocates expressed concern. The North Lamar and South Congress transit centers are set to be redeveloped under Capital Metro’s Project Connect. The city aims to alter the future land use maps (FLUMs) for surrounding areas, which are integral for neighborhood planning. Changes proposed could disrupt existing neighborhood plans, raising alarms among local residents who usually participate in such planning processes.
The postponed plan revolves around the North Lamar and South Congress transit centers, which Capital Metro intends to redevelop as part of the Project Connect plan enacted by voters in 2020.
Typically, these plans were, and are, formed with involvement from neighborhood residents and their organizations. FLUMs are another kind of overlay... that set intentions for what kind of zoning and development will happen in an area over a longer period of time.
The city wants to ensure that the station area plans’ vision of future land use does not conflict with any pre-existing neighborhood plan's future land use map.
Capital Metro provided some details about those redevelopment plans, which would see the parking lots built up into parking garages sharing space with affordable housing, retail, and public plazas.
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