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Item 7 Thursday, October 22, 2026 No vote recorded
Asks Council to authorize negotiating and executing a Place-Based Enhancement Affordable Space economic development agreement with Waverly North, LLC to provide and maintain no-cost nonprofit office space for housing stability services. The total amount would not exceed $864,210 over a 10-year term, with the $864,210 contingent upon future appropriations to the Economic Incentive Reserve Fund.
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Item 22 Thursday, October 22, 2026 No vote recorded
Asks Council to authorize a contract amendment with El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission for continued administration of the I Belong in Austin program, which aims to reduce residential displacement and prevent homelessness. The amendment would add $2,250,000, raising the total contract amount to no more than $24,050,000, with funding available in the Austin Housing Operating Budget.
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Item 48 Thursday, October 22, 2026 No vote recorded
The Mayor will recess the Council meeting to hold a Board of Directors' meeting of the Austin Housing Finance Corporation, after which Council will reconvene. The item is listed as having no fiscal impact.
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Item 26 Thursday, October 8, 2026 Passedunofficial This is the procedural pause where Council members swap hats: the Mayor recesses the regular meeting so the same group can sit as the Board of Directors of the Austin Housing Finance Corporation, the city's affordable housing arm. Once the AHFC board wraps up its business, Council reconvenes and picks up the regular agenda. The item itself carries no fiscal impact f0 any spending decisions happen in the AHFC items taken up during the recess.
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Item 27 Thursday, October 8, 2026 Passedunofficial Conduct a public hearing and consider a resolution approving the development by Elm Ridge Preservation, LP, or an affiliated entity, to be known as Elm Ridge Apartments, located at or near 1190 Airport Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78702, for the acquisition and rehabilitation of a multifamily residential development to be partly financed through private activity bonds issued by Austin Housing Finance Corporation. Funding: This item has no fiscal impact.
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Item 28 Thursday, October 8, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a historic landmark designation for the James Harvey and Pearl Caldwell House at 400 West 37th Street, just north of campus in the Waller Creek watershed. The owner is asking to add an "H" historic overlay to the property's existing family residence and neighborhood conservation zoning, which brings demolition and exterior alteration review through the Historic Landmark Commission. City staff, the Historic Landmark Commission, and the Planning Commission all recommend granting the change. A public hearing is part of the item.
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Item 29 Thursday, October 8, 2026 Passedunofficial C14-2025-0089 - 1120 and 1122 S Capital of Texas Highway - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 1120, 1120 1/2, 1122, and 1220 South Capital of Texas Highway Southbound (Eanes Creek Watershed). Applicant Request: To rezone from limited office (LO) district zoning and neighborhood commercial (LR) district zoning to neighborhood commercial-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-density bonus 90 (LR-V-CO-DB90) combining district zoning. Staff Recommendation and Zoning and Platting Commission Recommendation: To grant neighborhood commercial-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-density bonus 90 (LR-V-CO-DB90) combining district zoning. Owner/Applicant: AREIT City View LLC. Agent: Drenner Group, P.C. (Leah M. Bojo). City Staff: Jonathan Tomko, AICP, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057. A valid petition has been filed in opposition to this rezoning request.
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Item 31 Thursday, October 8, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a rezoning request for a cluster of properties at the corner of Chicon Street and Rosewood Avenue in East Austin, in the Boggy Creek Watershed. The applicant wants to add the DB90 density bonus designation to the existing commercial-mixed use zoning, a tool that allows taller buildings in exchange for income-restricted units. Both city staff and the Planning Commission recommend granting the change.
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Item 44 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This item authorizes an agreement with Family Endeavors, Inc. (doing business as Endeavors) to keep three City-owned buildings ready to open as emergency shelters when Austin calls a cold weather activation. Staying on standby year-round is the point — when a hard freeze or ice storm hits, the sites can take in unsheltered Austinites without a scramble. The initial 12-month term starts October 1, 2026, at up to $900,000, with two optional 12-month extensions at up to $900,000 each, for a total not to exceed $2,700,000. The first year's funding comes from the Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Social Services Budget of Austin Homeless Strategies and Operations; later years depend on future budgets.
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Item 64 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This resolution keeps Austin Water's GoPurple pilot incentive program running through Fiscal Year 2026-2027, paying developers of new commercial, mixed-use, and multifamily projects to install alternative onsite water reuse systems or connect to the city's reclaimed "purple pipe" network. It matters because those systems recycle water for things like cooling and irrigation instead of drawing on drinking water supplies, and the incentives target both market-rate projects and affordable housing developments that are exempt from GoPurple's reuse requirements. The program is funded at $4,000,000 from Austin Water's Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Operating Budget, capped at $1,500,000 per affordable housing project and $500,000 per project for everything else.
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Item 66 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This ordinance waives or reimburses right-of-way fees for The Bloom at Lamar Square, a 100-unit deeply affordable housing development on Lamar Square Drive, in an amount not to exceed $541,314. Right-of-way fees cover the developer's use of public space like sidewalks and street lanes during construction, and waiving them lowers the project's costs. The item puts a specific dollar figure on the city's contribution to getting these 100 units built just off South Lamar.
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Item 80 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial Verbena Flats LP wants to build a multifamily development near 1017 W Slaughter Lane in far South Austin, and it's asking Council for a resolution supporting its application for federal 4% non-competitive housing tax credits, financed through the private activity bond program. State rules effectively require a nod from the local governing body, so this public hearing and resolution are a procedural gate the project has to pass through to compete for that financing. The item has no fiscal impact and commits no City funding.
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Item 81 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Results pendingunofficial This is a public hearing and ordinance on floodplain variances for 1120 Denfield Street, where a property owner wants to convert an accessory structure into a dwelling unit that sits inside the 100-year floodplain of Tannehill Branch Creek. City Code normally restricts building homes in that zone, so Council has to sign off case by case, weighing added housing against the realities of where Austin's creeks rise. The item has no fiscal impact.
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Item 83 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This ordinance reopens the 2002 Circle C settlement agreement — the deal that resolved fights over how the Save Our Springs Ordinance applies in that part of far southwest Austin — for roughly 246 acres near where southbound Mopac meets SH 45. The amendment allows more residential and multifamily units on the tract, reworks development and parkland rules, and changes traffic control and access requirements, including dropping the owner's obligation to build the South Bay Extension. The land sits in the Barton Springs Zone, which is why the SOS settlement governs it in the first place. The item has no fiscal impact.
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Item 86 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a neighborhood plan amendment for three adjoining properties on Nuckols Crossing Road in Southeast Austin, switching their future land use designation from Single Family to Multifamily Residential. The future land use map guides what zoning the city supports on a site, so the change is the first step toward allowing apartment-style development where the plan currently calls for houses. City staff and the Planning Commission both recommend granting the Multifamily Residential designation. The land sits in the Williamson Creek watershed, and the applicant is KB Nuckols, LLC.
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Item 87 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a rezoning case for three properties along Nuckols Crossing Road in Southeast Austin, in the Williamson Creek Watershed. The owner, KB Nuckols, LLC, wants to shift the land from standard single-family lots to MF-3, a medium-density multifamily category that opens the door to apartment-style housing on the site. City staff and the Planning Commission both recommend granting the change with a conditional overlay attached, a tool that lets the city layer on site-specific limits.
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Item 90 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a public hearing on terminating a restrictive covenant tied to a 1980 zoning case on two properties along Springdale Road, just off East MLK Jr. Boulevard in the Fort Branch watershed. Restrictive covenants like this one layer extra conditions on top of a property's zoning, so lifting it clears the way for multifamily development on land owned by David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. Both city staff and the Planning Commission recommend granting the termination.
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Item 91 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a rezoning request for two lots at 301 and 309 East Wonsley Drive in North Austin, shifting from low-density multifamily (MF-2-NP) to neighborhood commercial with a mixed-use designation and a conditional overlay (LR-MU-CO-NP). The change opens the door to small-scale neighborhood retail \u2014 the applicant's name for the case is Wonsley Grocery & Kitchen \u2014 alongside residential use, with the conditional overlay attaching limits on what can go there. Both city staff and the Planning Commission recommend granting the requested zoning. The property sits in the Little Walnut Creek and Buttermilk Branch watersheds.
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Item 93 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a rezoning request for two properties near 49th and Rosedale in the Shoal Creek watershed, shifting them from single-family (SF-3) to the city's highest-density multifamily category with a conditional overlay (MF-6-CO). The owner and applicant is Austin ISD, and both city staff and the Zoning and Platting Commission recommend granting the change. A valid petition has been filed in opposition, which raises the threshold of council support needed to approve the rezoning.
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Item 97 Thursday, September 24, 2026 Passedunofficial This amends the city's interlocal agreement with Integral Care to keep housing services flowing to Austinites living with HIV, extending the arrangement through September 30, 2027. Housing stability is closely tied to staying in medical care, so the contract acts as a bridge for a population that can lose both at once. The amendment adds $172,392
u2014 bringing the total agreement to no more than $942,048
u2014 with the new funding coming from Austin Public Health's Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Special Operating Budget.
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Item 19 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial When developers opt to pay a fee instead of building affordable units under the Citywide Density Bonus Program, that money lands in a City fund — and this resolution sets priorities for how it gets spent, specifically a target income level for those affordable housing investments. It's a question of who the dollars serve, not how many dollars come in: the item doesn't change the total amount of fee-in-lieu collected. For Austinites watching density bonus deals reshape their neighborhoods, this is the follow-the-money piece.
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Item 22 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This amends the City's agreement with The SAFE Alliance, which runs the City-owned domestic violence shelter, to add one-time funding through the term ending September 30, 2026. The shelter is a key piece of Austin's safety net for people fleeing abusive situations, and the added dollars go toward keeping its doors open and operating. The amendment adds up to $200,000, bringing the total agreement to no more than $12,425,000, with the money coming from Austin Public Health's Fiscal Year 2025-2026 operating budget.
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Item 31 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This is a public hearing and ordinance amending City Code Section 25-2-656, the Citywide Density Bonus (DBC) combining district rules, on how developers meet their affordability obligations \u2014 specifically whether an applicant can write a check instead of building income-restricted rental units on site. It matters because it shifts where the affordable homes actually land: inside the new building versus funded elsewhere through the city's fee-in-lieu pot. According to the item, certain projects in the program would provide on-site affordable housing rather than paying the fee, which could reduce fee-in-lieu collections over time, offset by the on-site units the development delivers.
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Item 33 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Postponedunofficial This is a public hearing and ordinance amending the Montopolis Neighborhood Plan to redraw the future land use map for 400 Vargas Road and 6520 Lynch Lane, switching those parcels from Commercial to Mixed Use. The future land use map is the guiding document neighbors and staff point to when new projects come forward in Montopolis, so a change here shapes what can be proposed on this East Austin site near the Colorado River. Both city staff and the Planning Commission recommend granting the Mixed Use designation, which was requested by the property owners through their agent, Thrower Design.
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Item 34 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Postponedunofficial This is a rezoning request for two tracts in East Austin at 400 Vargas Road and 6520 Lynch Lane, in the Country Club East and Colorado River watersheds. The owners want to add the DB90 density bonus designation to both tracts \u2014 a tool that lets a project build taller and denser in exchange for including income-restricted units \u2014 and to shift Tract 1 from community commercial to general commercial services. City staff and the Planning Commission both recommend approval, with a conditional overlay attached to Tract 1 that limits certain uses.
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Item 35 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Postponedunofficial This item amends the East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood Plan to redraw the future land use map for a cluster of properties near Waller Creek \u2014 112 and 206 Medina Street, 1005 and 1010 East 2nd Street, and 105 San Marcos Street \u2014 shifting them from Single Family, Recreation and Open Space, and Civic to Mixed Use. The future land use map guides what kinds of development the city expects on a site, so a change here sets the stage for a mix of homes and commercial uses on land currently mapped for houses, open space, and civic purposes. The request comes from Christ Church of Central Austin, represented by Thrower Design, and both city staff and the Planning Commission recommend granting the Mixed Use designation. A public hearing is part of the item.
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Item 36 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Postponedunofficial This is a rezoning case for three properties in the Waller Creek Watershed near East 2nd Street \u2014 112 Medina, 1005 East 2nd, and 105 San Marcos \u2014 owned by Christ Church of Central Austin. The applicant asks to go from single-family neighborhood plan zoning (SF-3-NP) to general commercial services with mixed use and a DB90 density bonus (CS-MU-CO-DB90-NP), which the Planning Commission recommends as amended. City staff recommends a smaller step up instead: neighborhood commercial with mixed use and a vertical mixed use building designation (LR-MU-V-CO-NP), so the council is choosing between two different scales of development on the site.
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Item 37 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Postponedunofficial A rezoning case for two East Austin properties at 206 Medina and 1010 East 2nd Street, in the Waller Creek Watershed, owned by Christ Church of Central Austin. The applicant asks to shift from single-family residence zoning (SF-3-NP) to general commercial services with mixed use and vertical mixed use building designations (CS-MU-V-CO-NP), which opens the door to commercial and residential development on land currently zoned for houses. City staff recommends a lighter-touch neighborhood commercial designation (LR-MU-V-CO-NP), while the Planning Commission backs the applicant's broader commercial request as amended \u2014 so Council is choosing between two different visions for how intensely the site gets used.
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Item 39 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Postponedunofficial This is a rezoning request for two lots at 301 and 309 East Wonsley Drive in North Austin, in the Little Walnut Creek and Buttermilk Branch watersheds. The owner wants to shift the property from low-density multifamily (MF-2-NP) to neighborhood commercial with a mixed-use designation and a conditional overlay (LR-MU-CO-NP), which opens the door to small-scale neighborhood retail alongside residential use. City staff and the Planning Commission both recommend granting the change, with the conditional overlay in place to limit what can go there.
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Item 44 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Postponedunofficial This is a rezoning request for two AISD-owned properties at 2117 W. 49th Street and 4709 Rosedale Avenue in the Shoal Creek Watershed, shifting them from single-family (SF-3) to the city's highest-density multifamily category with a conditional overlay (MF-6-CO). Both city staff and the Zoning and Platting Commission recommend granting the change, which opens the door to significantly more housing on land owned by the school district. A valid petition has been filed in opposition, meaning neighbors have formally organized against the request \u2014 a step that raises the vote threshold Council needs to approve it.
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Item 45 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Postponedunofficial This is a zoning case for four properties along South Capital of Texas Highway Southbound in the Eanes Creek Watershed, where the owner wants to shift from limited office and neighborhood commercial zoning to a neighborhood commercial designation that allows a vertical mixed use building with a conditional overlay and DB90 density bonus. DB90 lets a project build taller and denser in exchange for including income-restricted housing, so the outcome shapes how much residential the site can hold alongside commercial space. Both city staff and the Zoning and Platting Commission recommend granting the change. A public hearing is part of the item.
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Item 46 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This is the third and final reading of an ordinance that changes the future land use map in the Brentwood/Highland Combined Neighborhood Plan for three properties along Guadalupe Street just north of the Triangle, shifting them from Higher Density Single Family and Multifamily Residential to Mixed Use. The FLUM designation is the neighborhood plan's blueprint for what a site can eventually become, so it sets the stage for the companion rezoning on the same tract. City staff recommended denying Mixed Use and going with Multifamily Residential instead, but Council approved the first two readings 9-1 and 11-0.
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Item 47 Thursday, September 10, 2026 Passedunofficial This is the third and final reading of a rezoning for three lots at 7003, 7005, and 7007 Guadalupe Street in the Waller Creek Watershed. The owner, Purple Square One LLC, is asking to move the properties from a mix of multifamily and townhouse/condo zoning to general commercial services with a conditional overlay, keeping the equitable transit-oriented development and density bonus designations that come with being near a transit corridor. The change opens the site to a broader range of commercial uses and greater density along Guadalupe. Council approved first reading 9-1 in July and second reading 11-0 in August.
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Item 12 Monday, August 17, 2026 No vote recorded
This item authorizes a one-year service agreement with the Austin Housing Finance Corporation to run various city housing programs during Fiscal Year 2026-2027. The arrangement puts AHFC in charge of managing and operating housing efforts on the city's behalf. The agreement carries an amount not to exceed $90,506,483, drawn from the city's operating and capital budgets.
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Item 23 Monday, August 17, 2026 No vote recorded
During this meeting, the Mayor recesses Council to convene the Austin Housing Finance Corporation's Board of Directors, then reconvenes Council once the AHFC board wraps up. It's a routine procedural step that lets the same folks switch hats to handle the city's housing finance business. The item has no fiscal impact.
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Item 12 Friday, August 14, 2026 No vote recorded
This item authorizes a one-year service agreement with the Austin Housing Finance Corporation to run various city housing programs during Fiscal Year 2026-2027. The agreement carries a not-to-exceed amount of $90,506,483, with funding available in the City's Operating and Capital Budgets. It's the mechanism that keeps Austin's housing programs operating day to day.
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Item 23 Friday, August 14, 2026 No vote recorded
During this meeting, the Mayor recesses Council to hold a Board of Directors' meeting of the Austin Housing Finance Corporation, then Council reconvenes afterward. It's a routine procedural switch that lets the same officials wear a different hat to handle AHFC business. The item has no fiscal impact.
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Item 12 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Passedunofficial This item authorizes a one-year service agreement with the Austin Housing Finance Corporation to run the City's various housing programs during Fiscal Year 2026-2027. The AHFC handles the day-to-day management and operation of these programs on Austin's behalf. The agreement is set at an amount not to exceed $90,506,483, funded through the City's Operating and Capital Budgets.
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Item 23 Wednesday, August 12, 2026 No vote recorded
During the council meeting, the Mayor recesses so the council can meet as the Board of Directors of the Austin Housing Finance Corporation, then reconvenes as City Council afterward. This procedural step lets the same officials handle AHFC business, the city's affordable housing arm, in a separate session. The item has no fiscal impact.
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Item 27 Thursday, April 23, 2026 Passed 10-0
This item greenlights an agreement with The Salvation Army to run operations and maintenance at the Austin Shelter for Women and Children, using federal Emergency Solutions Grant dollars. The deal covers a nine-month term starting January 1, 2026, and keeps a key shelter for women and kids experiencing homelessness up and running. The cost is not to exceed $313,922, which comes from the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Austin Homeless Strategies and Operations Special Revenue Budget.
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Item 39 Thursday, April 23, 2026 Passed 10-0
This resolution would have the City Manager give the Community Development Commission a heads-up whenever a rezoning application comes in for a property that already has multifamily housing on it. The idea is to loop the Commission in early enough that it can weigh in with recommendations before Council makes a call. For renters living in those buildings, it's a chance to have an advisory body flag concerns as zoning changes move through the pipeline.
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Item 47 Thursday, April 23, 2026 No final action
This is one of those procedural pit stops in the meeting — the Mayor will pause regular Council business so the same folks can switch hats and meet as the Board of Directors of the Austin Housing Finance Corporation, then gavel back into Council mode once they're done. It's a routine handoff that lets the city's affordable-housing financing arm conduct its own business. The item itself has no fiscal impact.
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Item 53 Thursday, April 23, 2026 No final action
Council is holding a public hearing to gather your input on community needs for the City's Fiscal Year 2026-2027 Action Plan, which doubles as Austin's official application for federal funding through HUD. This is the part of the process where residents get a chance to speak up about where those federal dollars should go. The item itself has no direct fiscal impact.
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