Christ Church Rezoning at Medina Street and East 2nd
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C14-2024-0017 - Christ Church Planning - NORTH - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 206 Medina Street and 1010 East 2nd Street (Waller Creek Watershed). Applicant Request: To rezone from family residence-neighborhood plan (SF-3-NP) combining district zoning to general commercial services-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (CS-MU-V-CO-NP) combining district zoning. Staff Recommendation: To grant neighborhood commercial-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (LR-MU-V-CO-NP) combining district zoning. Planning Commission Recommendation: To grant general commercial services-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (CS-MU-V-CO-NP) combining district zoning, as amended. Owner/Applicant: Christ Church of Central Austin. Agent: Thrower Design, LLC (Ron Thrower and Victoria Haase). City Staff: Jonathan Tomko, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057.
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Compare April and September rezoning postings for Medina Street property
Why now: The same case, C14-2024-0017, was posted for public hearing twice — April 9, 2026 and September 10, 2026 — with differing property descriptions and an unspecified "as amended" commission recommendation.
What to do: Pull both Council agenda postings and the draft ordinance and check whether the property description shift from "206 Medina Street" in April to "206 Medina" in September reflects a clerical change or an altered tract, and ask the planner in writing whether notice was re-mailed for the second hearing. Ask, too, what the Planning Commission's "as amended" conditions actually say — the governing condition text is not in the record you have, and a rezoning ordinance adopted on unpublished conditions is hard to interpret after passage.
Act before: After the draft ordinance and conditional overlay conditions are produced
Obtain amended commercial zoning conditions for Medina Street church site
Why now: Case C14-2024-0017 shows staff recommending LR-MU-V-CO-NP while Planning Commission recommended CS-MU-V-CO-NP "as amended"; city staff contact is Jonathan Tomko, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057, on both the April 9 and September 10, 2026 postings.
What to do: Call the assigned city planner and request the Planning Commission's amended conditional overlay language and the draft ordinance before you underwrite this site or a comparable one nearby. The agenda only says the commission approved general commercial services with mixed use and a vertical mixed use building "as amended" — the prohibited-use list, height and trip caps that define what you can actually build are not in the posted text, and staff is recommending the far smaller neighborhood commercial category instead.
Act before: After Council adopts a rezoning ordinance for the site
Ask why church rezoning sat five months between Council hearings
Why now: Case C14-2024-0017 appeared on City Council agendas on April 9, 2026 and September 10, 2026 with identical staff (LR-MU-V-CO-NP) and Planning Commission (CS-MU-V-CO-NP) recommendations, applicant Christ Church of Central Austin, agent Thrower Design LLC.
What to do: Request the postponement record and any applicant correspondence explaining why this church-owned rezoning was set for public hearing in April and again in September with staff and commission recommendations completely unchanged. Also ask staff to explain the three-district gap between its neighborhood commercial recommendation and the Planning Commission's general commercial services recommendation — that split usually signals a negotiated conditional overlay that never got written into the posted agenda.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Review which commercial uses would be allowed at Medina and East 2nd
Why now: Case C14-2024-0017 would rezone 206 Medina and 1010 East 2nd Street from SF-3-NP to CS-MU-V-CO-NP, while staff recommends only LR-MU-V-CO-NP; contact Jonathan Tomko, 512-974-1057.
What to do: Ask the city planner for the list of uses the conditional overlay would prohibit at the church property: the applicant is seeking general commercial services, which covers far more intense businesses than the neighborhood commercial category staff recommended, plus a vertical mixed use building on land currently zoned for single-family homes. If the overlay's prohibited-use list is not tightened before Council votes, the allowed uses run with the land regardless of what the church says it plans to build.
Act before: After Council votes on the rezoning ordinance
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C14-2024-0017 - Christ Church Planning - NORTH - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 206 Medina and 1010 East 2nd Street (Waller Creek Watershed). Applicant Request: To rezone from family residence-neighborhood plan (SF-3-NP) combining district zoning to general commercial services-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (CS-MU-V-CO-NP) combining district zoning. Staff Recommendation: To grant neighborhood commercial-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (LR-MU-V-CO-NP) combining district zoning. Planning Commission Recommendation: To grant general commercial services-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (CS-MU-V-CO-NP) combining district zoning, as amended. Owner/Applicant: Christ Church of Central Austin. Agent: Thrower Design, LLC (Ron Thrower and Victoria Haase). City Staff: Jonathan Tomko, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057.
C14-2024-0017 - Christ Church Planning - NORTH - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 206 Medina Street and 1010 East 2nd Street (Waller Creek Watershed). Applicant Request: To rezone from family residence-neighborhood plan (SF-3-NP) combining district zoning to general commercial services-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (CS-MU-V-CO-NP) combining district zoning. Staff Recommendation: To grant neighborhood commercial-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (LR-MU-V-CO-NP) combining district zoning. Planning Commission Recommendation: To grant general commercial services-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (CS-MU-V-CO-NP) combining district zoning, as amended. Owner/Applicant: Christ Church of Central Austin. Agent: Thrower Design, LLC (Ron Thrower and Victoria Haase). City Staff: Jonathan Tomko, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057.