Brooke Elementary School Rezoning at 3100 East 4th Street

Context: The matter is listed as active with 'Next step: Unknown' despite a July 23, 2026 City Council public hearing item to approve the rezoning ordinance for 3100 East 4th Street.

Recommended: Request from the city clerk the full disposition of the July 23, 2026 public hearing — whether the hearing was closed, how many readings were granted, and whether the ordinance was postponed — because the matter is still shown as active with no recorded next step. Without that record you cannot tell a client whether the zoning is final or whether further readings and conditions remain open.

Context: The July 23, 2026 council item requests rezoning from public-neighborhood plan to general commercial services-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan, with staff contact Jonathan Tomko, AICP, at 512-974-1057, but the overlay's conditions are not stated in the item text.

Recommended: Get the exact conditional overlay conditions and any vertical mixed use building affordability terms attached to the general commercial services zoning at the former Brooke Elementary site from planner Jonathan Tomko before you model unit counts or ground-floor commercial. The agenda language names the overlay but does not list the prohibited uses or trip limits, and those conditions travel with the land to any future buyer.

Context: The July 23, 2026 item lists Austin Independent School District as owner/applicant with Armbrust & Brown, PLLC (Richard T. Suttle, Jr.) as agent, and describes the item as 'Former AISD Brooke ES Redevelopment' without identifying a developer.

Recommended: Ask Austin Independent School District and its agent Richard T. Suttle, Jr. of Armbrust & Brown whether a buyer or development partner is already under contract for the closed campus, and what sale or lease proceeds the district expects. The public record shows a school district hiring a private land use law firm to seek general commercial services zoning, but never names who will actually build.

Context: The rezoning request converts the site from public-neighborhood plan zoning to general commercial services-mixed use-vertical mixed use building-conditional overlay-neighborhood plan, per the July 23, 2026 council item, with staff contact Jonathan Tomko at 512-974-1057.

Recommended: Ask planner Jonathan Tomko for the list of uses the conditional overlay blocks at 3100 East 4th Street — general commercial services zoning otherwise opens the former school site to uses like auto repair, bars and outdoor storage, plus apartments above ground-floor retail under the vertical mixed use designation. Once the ordinance is adopted, those permitted uses run with the land regardless of who buys it.