Bethany Cemetery Historic Landmark Zoning at 1308 Springdale Road
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C14H-2025-0117 - Bethany Cemetery - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 1308 Springdale Road (Fort Branch and Tannehill Branch Watersheds). Applicant Request: To rezone from public-neighborhood plan (P-NP) combining district zoning to public-historic landmark-neighborhood plan (P-H-NP) combining district zoning. Staff Recommendation, Historic Landmark Commission Recommendation, and Planning Commission Recommendation: To grant public-historic landmark-neighborhood plan (P-H-NP) combining district zoning. Owner: Bethany Cemetery Association (Sue Spears). Applicant: Historic Landmark Commission (owner-approved). City Staff: Kalan Contreras, 512-974-2727.
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Request adopted ordinance text for Springdale Road cemetery landmark zoning
Why now: The August 27, 2026 City Council item directed a public hearing and approval of an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 for 1308 Springdale Road, yet the matter is still listed as active with the next step unknown.
What to do: Ask city staff contact Kalan Contreras (512-974-2727) for the ordinance amending City Code Title 25 for this property and the accompanying backup, then confirm in writing whether the August 27 public hearing closed and the ordinance was adopted. Without that document you cannot tell clients what alteration or permitting review the historic landmark designation triggers, or whether any procedural step remains open.
Act before: After the requested ordinance and backup are produced
Verify cemetery rezoning adds only historic overlay, not development rights
Why now: The applicant request is to rezone 1308 Springdale Road from public-neighborhood plan (P-NP) to public-historic landmark-neighborhood plan (P-H-NP), with the owner listed as Bethany Cemetery Association (Sue Spears).
What to do: Confirm that the Springdale Road cemetery request layers a historic landmark designation onto the existing public and neighborhood plan base zoning rather than converting the site to a developable district — nothing new becomes buildable there. Underwriting adjacent land on the assumption that this rezoning signals a use change at the cemetery parcel would be a mistake.
Act before: After the next material record update
Ask why unanimously recommended cemetery landmark zoning remains unresolved
Why now: The August 27, 2026 item for C14H-2025-0117 lists three concurrent recommendations to grant and names the Historic Landmark Commission as owner-approved applicant, yet the matter's status is active with next step unknown.
What to do: Press the city clerk and staff for the August 27 disposition on this item: staff, the Historic Landmark Commission, and the Planning Commission all recommended granting the designation, and the Historic Landmark Commission itself was the applicant with owner approval — an unusual posture that normally produces a clean approval. Find out whether Council acted, postponed, or continued the hearing, and why the record shows no outcome.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
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C14H-2025-0117 - Bethany Cemetery - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 1308 Springdale Road (Fort Branch and Tannehill Branch Watersheds). Applicant Request: To rezone from public-neighborhood plan (P-NP) combining district zoning to public-historic landmark-neighborhood plan (P-H-NP) combining district zoning. Staff Recommendation, Historic Landmark Commission Recommendation, and Planning Commission Recommendation: To grant public-historic landmark-neighborhood plan (P-H-NP) combining district zoning. Owner: Bethany Cemetery Association (Sue Spears). Applicant: Historic Landmark Commission (owner-approved). City Staff: Kalan Contreras, 512-974-2727.