Austin ISD Former Brooke Elementary Rezoning at East 4th Street
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C14-2025-0125 - Former AISD Brooke ES Redevelopment - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 3100 East 4th Street (Colorado River Watershed). Applicant Request: To rezone from public-neighborhood plan (P-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 and 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. Owner/Applicant: Austin Independent School District (AISD). Agent: Armbrust & Brown, PLLC (Richard T. Suttle, Jr.). City Staff: Jonathan Tomko, AICP, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057.
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Verify whether school site rezoning passed all three readings
Context: The record shows a single Council appearance on July 23, 2026 for C14-2025-0125 with status 'active' and next step unknown, leaving the disposition of the ordinance unresolved.
Recommended: Ask the City Clerk for the July 23, 2026 Council minutes and the adopted ordinance text to confirm whether the public hearing was closed and the ordinance approved on first reading only, postponed, or given all three readings — the matter is still shown as active with no recorded outcome. Also request any restrictive covenant tied to the conditional overlay, since the covenant, not the zoning category, usually carries the enforceable conditions for a buyer taking title from a school district.
Confirm vertical mixed-use bonus terms for East 4th school site
Context: The July 23, 2026 Council item seeks CS-MU-V-CO-NP zoning with staff and Planning Commission both recommending approval, but the conditional overlay conditions are not stated in the item description (C14-2025-0125).
Recommended: Pull the draft ordinance and conditional overlay exhibit from city planner Jonathan Tomko (512-974-1057) to see exactly which general commercial services uses, height, and trip limits the overlay strips out before you underwrite the vertical mixed use building density bonus and its affordability set-aside. The conditional overlay is the only part of this entitlement not disclosed in the agenda text, and it governs whether ground-floor commercial and upper-story residential actually pencil on a Colorado River Watershed site.
Ask school district who will buy former Brooke Elementary
Context: AISD is listed as owner/applicant on C14-2025-0125 with Richard T. Suttle, Jr. of Armbrust & Brown as agent, seeking to rezone public school land to general commercial services-mixed use, yet no developer or buyer appears anywhere in the record.
Recommended: File a records request with Austin Independent School District for the disposition agreement, any purchase contract or option on 3100 East 4th Street, and the engagement of Armbrust & Brown — the district is seeking commercial zoning on a closed campus without naming an end user. Ask whether a contract purchaser drove the CS-MU-V request and where sale proceeds go.
Get list of businesses barred at old Brooke Elementary campus
Context: The request converts the site from public zoning to CS-MU-V-CO-NP, and the July 23, 2026 item lists city staff contact Jonathan Tomko, AICP, at 512-974-1057 but does not spell out the conditional overlay limits.
Recommended: Call planner Jonathan Tomko at 512-974-1057 and ask for the conditional overlay condition sheet, which names the specific general commercial services uses prohibited on the closed campus and any daily traffic cap on East 4th Street. Without it you will not know whether uses like automotive repair, outdoor storage, or bars remain allowed next to your block once the school zoning is removed.
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C14-2025-0125 - Former AISD Brooke ES Redevelopment - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 3100 East 4th Street (Colorado River Watershed). Applicant Request: To rezone from public-neighborhood plan (P-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 and 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. Owner/Applicant: Austin Independent School District (AISD). Agent: Armbrust & Brown, PLLC (Richard T. Suttle, Jr.). City Staff: Jonathan Tomko, AICP, Austin Planning, 512-974-1057.