Protestant Episcopal Church Application

Context: The July 23, 2026 agenda item for the Protestant Episcopal Church Council of the Diocese of Texas property proposes zoning from interim-single-family residence standard lot to community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay, with staff and Zoning and Platting Commission both recommending grant, but the record shows no stated outcome.

Recommended: Request the drafted ordinance, the Zoning and Platting Commission recommendation packet, and the July 23 hearing minutes to confirm whether the public hearing was closed and how many readings the ordinance received. The agenda language describes approving an ordinance but discloses no conditional overlay terms, so it is an open question what restrictions, if any, will bind the property and successors.

Context: The July 23, 2026 item on 11819, 11809 and 11809 1/2 South Interstate Highway-35 Service Road Northbound seeks community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay zoning on 7.71 acres in the Onion Creek Watershed, with staff contact Sherri Sirwaitis and agent HD Brown Consulting listed.

Recommended: Ask city staff Sherri Sirwaitis (512-974-3057) or agent Amanda C. Brown for the conditional overlay's prohibited-use list and any trip or height caps, plus the Onion Creek Watershed drainage and floodplain constraints on the 7.71 acres. The mixed-use combining district would allow residential on land currently restricted to interim single-family, but the conditional overlay is what determines whether your intended commercial or residential program is actually permitted — and none of those conditions appear on the agenda.

Context: The applicant on the July 23, 2026 item is the Protestant Episcopal Church Council of the Diocese of Texas through Michael Hilfinger, with HD Brown Consulting (Amanda C. Brown) as agent, and the matter remains listed as active with no recorded disposition.

Recommended: Request the staff report, neighborhood notification materials, and any restrictive covenant or contract disclosure tied to this case, and ask Michael Hilfinger, the Diocese's Director of Real Estate and Facilities, whether the 7.71 acres is under contract or being marketed. A church filing through a real estate director and an outside consultant to convert interim single-family land to commercial mixed-use raises the unresolved question of who the end user is — and the agenda never states the conditional overlay's terms or the hearing's outcome.

Context: The July 23, 2026 item proposes rezoning 11819, 11809 and 11809 1/2 South Interstate Highway-35 Service Road Northbound in the Onion Creek Watershed from interim-single-family residence standard lot to community commercial-mixed use-conditional overlay, but the agenda text lists no overlay conditions.

Recommended: Contact city staff Sherri Sirwaitis (512-974-3057) and ask for the written list of uses the conditional overlay prohibits on this 7.71-acre tract. Without that list, the community commercial and mixed-use designation would open land now zoned for single-family homes to retail buildings and apartments along the northbound Interstate 35 service road, and the conditional overlay is the only thing narrowing what can operate there.