South Shore Apartments Land Use Change at 1404 East Riverside Drive

Context: The same item, NPA-2026-0021.01, was set before City Council on 2026-05-21, 2026-05-28, and 2026-07-23 with no recorded disposition, and names Maureen Meredith of Austin Planning as the staff contact.

Recommended: Request the public hearing notice and postponement record from Austin Planning staff contact Maureen Meredith covering the May 21, May 28, and July 23 Council settings, and confirm whether the public hearing was opened, continued to a date certain, or closed and renoticed at each. Ask, rather than assume, whether any re-notification obligation was triggered — if the file is thin, that gap is easier to raise before adoption than after the ordinance is signed.

Context: The item amends Ordinance No. 20050929-Z001 for the Greater South River City Combined Neighborhood Plan to change only the future land use map designation for 1404 East Riverside Drive, with applicant South Shore Apartments Owner LP represented by Drenner Group, PC.

Recommended: The proposed amendment only moves the future land use map designation from Specific Regulating District to Multifamily Residential — it does not by itself change the height, setback, or shoreline standards that a regulating district imposes. Pull the companion planned unit development zoning case for 1404 East Riverside Drive and confirm which regulating-district standards are being carried forward before you underwrite unit counts or tower placement on the Lady Bird Lake frontage.

Context: NPA-2026-0021.01 appeared 2026-05-21 (Planning Commission recommendation listed as "to be reviewed on May 12, 2026"), 2026-05-28, and 2026-07-23, all with a staff recommendation to grant and agent Amanda Swor of Drenner Group, PC.

Recommended: Staff and the Planning Commission both recommended granting Multifamily Residential land use, yet the item has been carried across three Council dates from May into late July without resolution. Ask the Drenner Group agent and Council offices who requested each postponement and what is being negotiated off the dais — the May 21 posting still showed the Planning Commission recommendation as pending from a May 12 review, so the recommendation firmed up between settings.

Context: The applicant is South Shore Apartments Owner LP seeking Multifamily Residential land use at 1404 East Riverside Drive in the Lady Bird Lake and Harpers Branch Watersheds, with staff contact Maureen Meredith at 512-974-2695.

Recommended: The land use change is being sought by South Shore Apartments Owner LP for the site at 1404 East Riverside Drive, which signals redevelopment of the existing complex rather than construction on vacant land. If you live or lease nearby, ask Austin Planning staff for the companion planned unit development application to see proposed building heights and phasing along the Lady Bird Lake shoreline before Council acts.