City Rezoning of Jimmy Clay and Roy Kizer Golf Courses
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C14-2026-0032 - City-Initiated Rezoning of Jimmy Clay Golf Course and Roy Kizer Golf Course - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 5400 Jimmy Clay Drive (Williamson Creek and Onion Creek Watersheds). Applicant Request: To rezone from family residence (SF-3) district zoning and development reserve (DR) district zoning to public (P) district zoning. Staff Recommendation and Zoning and Platting Commission Recommendation: To grant public (P) district zoning. Owner/Applicant: City of Austin (Austin Parks and Recreation). Agent: Austin Parks and Recreation (Ricardo Soliz). City Staff: Nancy Estrada, Austin Planning, 512-974-7617.
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Obtain golf course rezoning ordinance and watershed findings
Why now: The August 27, 2026 item identifies the site at 5400 Jimmy Clay Drive as lying in the Williamson Creek and Onion Creek Watersheds and names Nancy Estrada (512-974-7617) as the Austin Planning case contact.
What to do: Request the draft ordinance amending City Code Title 25 and the staff report from Nancy Estrada, and confirm whether the property's location in the Williamson Creek and Onion Creek watersheds carries impervious cover or water quality conditions that the public (P) district designation changes relative to the prior family residence (SF-3) and development reserve (DR) zoning. Without the ordinance text you cannot tell whether conditions travel with the rezoning.
Act before: After the next material record update
Verify which golf course acreage loses residential zoning
Why now: The city-initiated case seeks to rezone 5400 Jimmy Clay Drive from SF-3 and DR to public (P) district zoning, with Austin Parks and Recreation (Ricardo Soliz) as owner/applicant.
What to do: Pull the zoning exhibit for the Jimmy Clay and Roy Kizer tracts to identify exactly which acreage currently carries family residence (SF-3) and development reserve (DR) zoning, because those are the only portions that today permit residential or reserve-status development and they convert to public (P) district use if the ordinance passes. Any land swap, joint-use, or housing partnership concept with Parks and Recreation on this site should be scoped before that conversion.
Act before: After the next material record update
Ask whether golf course rezoning vote actually happened
Why now: The August 27, 2026 item for 5400 Jimmy Clay Drive carried both staff and Zoning and Platting Commission recommendations to grant public (P) district zoning, which normally makes for a routine approval, yet no disposition appears in the record.
What to do: The August 27 agenda item asked Council to conduct the public hearing and approve the ordinance, yet the matter still shows as active with no recorded outcome — pull the Council minutes and video for that item and ask the Planning Department whether the hearing was closed, postponed, or continued to a later date. If it was postponed, find out who requested it and why.
Act before: After the requested records are produced
Check if golf course land can still become housing
Why now: The city-initiated request for 5400 Jimmy Clay Drive converts family residence (SF-3) and development reserve (DR) zoning to public (P) district zoning, with Austin Parks and Recreation's Ricardo Soliz listed as agent.
What to do: If you live near Jimmy Clay Drive, the portions of the golf course land zoned family residence and development reserve would no longer allow houses or a future residential subdivision once public district zoning takes effect — ask Austin Parks and Recreation which acreage is affected and what public uses, such as maintenance yards or facility expansion, the public designation would newly permit.
Act before: After the next material record update
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C14-2026-0032 - City-Initiated Rezoning of Jimmy Clay Golf Course and Roy Kizer Golf Course - Conduct a public hearing and approve an ordinance amending City Code Title 25 by rezoning property locally known as 5400 Jimmy Clay Drive (Williamson Creek and Onion Creek Watersheds). Applicant Request: To rezone from family residence (SF-3) district zoning and development reserve (DR) district zoning to public (P) district zoning. Staff Recommendation and Zoning and Platting Commission Recommendation: To grant public (P) district zoning. Owner/Applicant: City of Austin (Austin Parks and Recreation). Agent: Austin Parks and Recreation (Ricardo Soliz). City Staff: Nancy Estrada, Austin Planning, 512-974-7617.