AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin City Council has 100 items on its agenda Thursday...
...Brodie Oaks redevelopment: Approved
While Austin City Council finally approved zoning for the Statesman property on Lady Bird Lake, it did not make its way to the Brodie Oaks development on South Lamar and Highway 290.
The increasingly empty shopping center, which was home to Toys-R-Us, is in the early stages of becoming a small skyline in south Austin under the proposed plan.
“This is not the Statesman. We’re seeing this real active green space, we’re seeing the mixed-use, we’re seeing open areas, we have three parks,” Rich DePalma, who is on the parks board, said earlier this year.
The board signed off on the zoning changes.
The proposal is for nearly 40 acres, the entire footprint of the current mall area, including 1,700 residential units, an Imagine Austin activity center, three parks and a trailhead to the Barton Springs greenbelt, according to developers.
It will also include hotel rooms and retail spaces. The buildings will be capped at 275 feet tall.
“We anticipate somewhere around 200 units of affordable housing here, over 11 acres of public parkland,” Rebecca Leonard, the chief executive officer of Lionheart Places LLC, the developer, said.
Council approved on first reading Thursday the proposed planned unit development (PUD), but postponed a separate item that will look at amending a city subchapter of the Save Our Springs initiative relating to the property.
Two amendments added to, and approved, on first reading include:
An Austin Energy substation will be evaluated so it doesn’t sit on parkland
Council will discuss further who will pay for the Barton Creek Greenbelt trails and bring some funding options back to council...
Source:
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/aust...cost-thursday/
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