Planning Commissioners voted unanimously to recommend rezoning an industrial site in East Austin's Govalle neighborhood to enable taller residential development on the Colorado. The site at 20 Strandtman Cove near Airport Boulevard is zoned LI (light industrial) and currently houses a warehouse for foundation materials. The owner sought Planned Development Area (PDA) zoning to permit residential structures up to 120 feet and to build a proposed 945-unit housing complex. City staff supported the request with an expanded conditional overlay restricting many commercial uses, which the developer accepted. Neighborhood contact team representatives largely opposed the plan, citing height concerns and unease. The negotiated agreement would include 10 percent of units at 80 percent of local Median Family Income (around $133,800 in 2025) and a one-time $250,000 donation from the developer to the Guadalupe Nei
Planning Commissioners have voted unanimously to recommend a rezoning for an industrial site in East Austin's Govalle neighborhood that could lead to another tall housing development on the Colorado. The site, located at 20 Strandtman Cove near Airport Boulevard, is currently zoned LI, or light industrial, and houses a warehouse for foundation materials. The request was to change that to Planned Development Area (PDA) zoning that would make it possible to build residential structures up to 120 feet in height.
Alice Glasco, a consultant working on behalf of the owner, said during the hearing that they intend to redevelop it into a 945-unit housing complex. Staff had supported their request with the addition of an expanded conditional overlay prohibiting a wide range of commercial uses, which Glasco said the developer was amenable to. Representatives of the contact team for the neighborhood plan, a kind of overall planning document that covers many Austin locales, spoke mostly in opposition to the plan during the hearing.
Candace Fox, a co-chair of the contact team, said that although they had had some fruitful negotiations with the developer, the height of the proposed buildings remained a sticking point, along with a more general unease about the nature of the development. She raised the specter of DB90, the controversial zoning plan Mayor Kirk Watson described in May as an "unhappy experience."
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