Penize LLC Automotive Sales Rezoning on Middle Fiskville Road
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C14-2025-0099 - Middle Fiskville Automotive Sales - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 10602, 10604, 10606, and 10608 Middle Fiskville Road (Walnut Creek Watershed). Applicant Request: To rezone from family residence-neighborhood plan (SF-3-NP) combining district zoning and neighborhood commercial-neighborhood plan (LR-NP) combining district zoning to general commercial services-neighborhood plan (CS-NP) combining district zoning. Staff Recommendation and Planning Commission Recommendation: To grant general commercial services-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (CS-CO-NP) combining district zoning. Owner/Applicant: Penize, LLC (Kanton Labaj). Agent: Husch Blackwell, LP (Nikelle Meade). City Staff: Sherri Sirwaitis, 512-974-3057.
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Obtain draft ordinance text for Middle Fiskville rezoning conditions
Why now: The April 23, 2026 item states the applicant sought CS-NP while staff and the Planning Commission recommended CS-CO-NP for property in the Walnut Creek Watershed, and the matter remains active with no recorded disposition.
What to do: Request the draft ordinance and staff report for this rezoning to confirm the conditional overlay conditions are reduced to written ordinance language, and ask the case manager whether converting family residence (SF-3-NP) lots to general commercial services requires an accompanying neighborhood plan amendment. If Council ultimately grants the applicant's unconditioned request instead of the recommended conditional overlay, the record will diverge from both the staff and Planning Commission recommendations — document that gap now while the item is still open.
Act before: After the next material record update
Check which commercial uses the Middle Fiskville overlay would cut
Why now: The April 23, 2026 Council item shows the applicant requested CS-NP while both staff and the Planning Commission recommended CS-CO-NP for 10602–10608 Middle Fiskville Road, with Sherri Sirwaitis listed as city staff contact.
What to do: Staff and the Planning Commission did not endorse the straight general commercial services zoning that was requested — they recommended adding a conditional overlay, which typically strikes specific uses and can cap trip generation. Get the conditional overlay's exact prohibited-use list and any traffic cap from case manager Sherri Sirwaitis (512-974-3057) before you underwrite an automotive sales layout across all four lots, because site plan assumptions like outdoor display, service bays, or auto repair may not survive the overlay.
Act before: After the conditional overlay conditions are published in draft ordinance form
Ask why Middle Fiskville car lot rezoning has no outcome
Why now: The single logged appearance is the April 23, 2026 Council hearing on C14-2025-0099 for 10602–10608 Middle Fiskville Road, with agent Nikelle Meade of Husch Blackwell and owner Penize, LLC (Kanton Labaj), and no disposition in the record.
What to do: The rezoning was set for a public hearing and ordinance approval on April 23, 2026, yet the case is still listed as active with no recorded vote — ask the City Clerk whether it was postponed, to what date, and at whose request (applicant, neighborhood, or Council). Also ask staff why both staff and the Planning Commission declined the requested unrestricted general commercial services zoning and what specific uses the conditional overlay would remove.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Learn what car sales zoning allows next to Middle Fiskville homes
Why now: The April 23, 2026 hearing item describes rezoning 10602–10608 Middle Fiskville Road from SF-3-NP and LR-NP to CS-NP, with staff recommending a conditional overlay (CS-CO-NP) and Sherri Sirwaitis listed as staff contact.
What to do: Four adjacent properties at 10602, 10604, 10606 and 10608 Middle Fiskville Road would shift from single-family and small neighborhood commercial zoning to general commercial services — the category that permits vehicle sales lots and heavier commercial activity. Call case manager Sherri Sirwaitis at 512-974-3057 and ask for the proposed conditional overlay conditions, since the overlay is the only mechanism that would limit lighting, hours, outdoor display, or auto repair on those lots.
Act before: After the next material record update
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C14-2025-0099 - Middle Fiskville Automotive Sales - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 10602, 10604, 10606, and 10608 Middle Fiskville Road (Walnut Creek Watershed). Applicant Request: To rezone from family residence-neighborhood plan (SF-3-NP) combining district zoning and neighborhood commercial-neighborhood plan (LR-NP) combining district zoning to general commercial services-neighborhood plan (CS-NP) combining district zoning. Staff Recommendation and Planning Commission Recommendation: To grant general commercial services-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan (CS-CO-NP) combining district zoning. Owner/Applicant: Penize, LLC (Kanton Labaj). Agent: Husch Blackwell, LP (Nikelle Meade). City Staff: Sherri Sirwaitis, 512-974-3057.