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East Austin Creative Office Plan Looks for a Little Extra Height in Govalle

A potential office building development at an East Austin industrial site in the Govalle neighborhood is headed to tomorrow’s meeting of the city’s Planning Commission, seeking a change of use from industrial to commercial and a Planned Development Area (PDA) rezoning for the roughly 1.42-acre property at 4927 East Fifth Street.

The change, which is recommended by city staff and on the agenda of tomorrow’s Planning Commission meeting, would allow an office project here to rise to a maximum height of 75 feet on an eastern portion of the tract near the corner of East Fifth Street and Spencer Lane, with roughly 64 percent of the remaining land on the western side of the tract limited to 60 feet in height. The site is surrounded on all sides by other commercial properties, making this land a relative slam dunk for office use — and it’s only the latest of several developments proposed in even this immediate area of Govalle, with both the Eclectic at Fifth Street mixed-use project and the potential redevelopment of the Borden Dairy Company only a few blocks removed from here.