South Shore Apartments Planned Unit Development at 1404 East Riverside Drive
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C814-2025-0111 - 1404 East Riverside PUD - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 1404 East Riverside Drive (Lady Bird Lake and Harpers Branch Watersheds). Applicant Request: To rezone from East Riverside Corridor (ERC) district zoning (Corridor Mixed Use subdistrict) to planned unit development-neighborhood plan (PUD-NP) combining district zoning. The ordinance may include exemption from or waiver of fees, alternative funding methods, modifications of City regulations, and acquisition of property. Staff Recommendation: To grant planned unit development-neighborhood plan (PUD-NP) combining district zoning. Planning Commission Recommendation: To be reviewed on May 12, 2026. Owner/Applicant: South Shore Apartments Owner LP. Agent: Drenner Group, PC (Amanda Swor). City Staff: Jonathan Tomko, AICP, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057.
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Get draft ordinance text before third apartment zoning hearing
Why now: The item was posted three times (May 21, May 28, and July 23, 2026) with a caption authorizing fee waivers, modifications of City regulations, and property acquisition, and the Planning Commission recommendation shifted from 'to be reviewed on May 12, 2026' to a recommendation to grant.
What to do: Obtain the current draft ordinance and PUD land use plan from the case manager and compare the modification list against what was posted for the May 21 and May 28 settings; if the requested code modifications or fee waivers changed between postponements, confirm with staff whether renotification of the public hearing was required. Ask staff to identify the specific superiority findings the city is relying on, rather than assuming the earlier posted version still controls.
Act before: After the next material record update
Pull waiver list for Riverside Drive apartment development plan
Why now: The ordinance caption for this case expressly contemplates exemption from or waiver of fees, alternative funding methods, modifications of City regulations, and acquisition of property, on a site being rezoned out of the East Riverside Corridor Mixed Use subdistrict.
What to do: Request the planned unit development backup exhibits showing exactly which East Riverside Corridor Mixed Use subdistrict standards — height, density, setbacks, impervious cover — the applicant is asking to modify, plus the fee waivers, alternative funding, and property acquisition flagged in the ordinance caption. If any of that acquisition or infrastructure obligation touches adjacent frontage or shared drainage, you want to know before the ordinance text is finalized rather than after.
Act before: After Council adopts the rezoning ordinance
Ask why East Riverside apartment rezoning stalled three times
Why now: The same item appeared on Council agendas May 21, May 28, and July 23, 2026 with an unchanged staff and Planning Commission recommendation to grant planned unit development-neighborhood plan zoning, and case manager Jonathan Tomko is listed at 512-974-1057.
What to do: Request the postponement memos and any applicant- or council-initiated postponement requests for the three Council settings of this Riverside Drive planned unit development, and ask the case manager what changed between hearings. Both city staff and the Planning Commission recommended granting the zoning, so three trips to Council without resolution is the story — and the paper trail gets harder to reconstruct once an ordinance is adopted and the case file is closed.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Check drainage and height limits for Riverside apartment plan
Why now: The case rezones 1404 East Riverside Drive from East Riverside Corridor Mixed Use subdistrict zoning to a planned unit development in the Lady Bird Lake and Harpers Branch Watersheds, with a caption allowing modifications of City regulations.
What to do: Ask the case manager for the planned unit development site plan showing proposed building height and impervious cover, and how they compare to what the current East Riverside Corridor zoning would allow — this site drains to Lady Bird Lake and Harpers Branch. A planned unit development replaces the standard corridor rules with negotiated, site-specific ones, so any drainage or height commitments you care about need to be written into the ordinance before Council votes, not after.
Act before: After Council adopts the rezoning ordinance
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C814-2025-0111 - 1404 East Riverside PUD - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 1404 East Riverside Drive (Lady Bird Lake and Harpers Branch Watersheds). Applicant Request: To rezone from East Riverside Corridor (ERC) district zoning (Corridor Mixed Use subdistrict) to planned unit development-neighborhood plan (PUD-NP) combining district zoning. The ordinance may include exemption from or waiver of fees, alternative funding methods, modifications of City regulations, and acquisition of property. Staff Recommendation and Planning Commission Recommendation: To grant planned unit development-neighborhood plan (PUD-NP) combining district zoning. Owner/Applicant: South Shore Apartments Owner LP. Agent: Drenner Group, PC (Amanda Swor). City Staff: Jonathan Tomko, AICP, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057.
C814-2025-0111 - 1404 East Riverside PUD - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 1404 East Riverside Drive (Lady Bird Lake and Harpers Branch Watersheds). Applicant Request: To rezone from East Riverside Corridor (ERC) district zoning (Corridor Mixed Use subdistrict) to planned unit development-neighborhood plan (PUD-NP) combining district zoning. The ordinance may include exemption from or waiver of fees, alternative funding methods, modifications of City regulations, and acquisition of property. Staff Recommendation and Planning Commission Recommendation: To grant planned unit development-neighborhood plan (PUD-NP) combining district zoning. Owner/Applicant: South Shore Apartments Owner LP. Agent: Drenner Group, PC (Amanda Swor). City Staff: Jonathan Tomko, AICP, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057.
C814-2025-0111 - 1404 East Riverside PUD - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 1404 East Riverside Drive (Lady Bird Lake and Harpers Branch Watersheds). Applicant Request: To rezone from East Riverside Corridor (ERC) district zoning (Corridor Mixed Use subdistrict) to planned unit development-neighborhood plan (PUD-NP) combining district zoning. The ordinance may include exemption from or waiver of fees, alternative funding methods, modifications of City regulations, and acquisition of property. Staff Recommendation: To grant planned unit development-neighborhood plan (PUD-NP) combining district zoning. Planning Commission Recommendation: To be reviewed on May 12, 2026. Owner/Applicant: South Shore Apartments Owner LP. Agent: Drenner Group, PC (Amanda Swor). City Staff: Jonathan Tomko, AICP, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057.