Call to order the meeting of the Austin City Planning and Zoning Commission for Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. One item on the agenda tonight, an open public hearing, but first we need to approve the minutes from our last meeting, which was May 12th.
Uh those minutes were in the packet for this uh month's meeting, so if no one has any additions or corrections to those minutes, we need a motion and a second to approve them as written. >> I motion to approve. >> [snorts] >> Second.
>> Thank you. We have a motion from Commissioner Mayor and a second from Commissioner Burrows to approve the minutes from May 12th as written. All in favor of the motion, please say aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> All opposed, no. That motion carries. Those minutes are approved.
Open public hearing for a request for a platting from the Port Authority. Holly? >> Uh yes, so this is being brought on behalf of the Austin Port Authority. So, we have actually a little bit of a
it's the scheduling was a little bit off so that you will be reviewing it before the Port Authority. And then the council will give a final uh make a final decision. You're making a recommendation to council.
Uh the uh location is the I-90 Business Park, which is essentially being established with this plat. The uh current land use and zoning classification, it's undeveloped. It's an I-1 light industrial district. North and west of this area is uh zoned
I-2 and I-3 industrial. East is R-1 single-family residential and um our county. South is B-2 commercial. The uh petitioners requesting to plat this property, well the city is requesting essentially to plat this property for infrastructure improvements
and commercial development. Uh the site is approximately 25 acres adjacent to 14th Street Northeast and north of I-90. Yeah, let's see. Uh, the area is approximately 25 acres. Um, it will be platted into 11 lots. Uh,
two lots will be out lots for uh, storm water ponds. And then it will also add public right-of-way. Um, there are no conditions of approval. This was developed uh, and designed per city staff criteria.
So, if the Planning Commission has any um, suggestions or questions, those could be added uh, if there are any changes to be made. Uh, and this is a preliminary and final plat uh, recommendation to council.
Now, pull up the map and I think uh, our city our city engineer's here to uh, provide any additional details. And I understand that there were some uh, updates that he would like to share with you. >> I'll just take your mouse.
>> Okay, sure. >> Would you like me to go through it, Mr. Byrum, or did Okay. Um, so this view right here is a good overlay of the project um, being it's a it's a 25-acre parcel located north of the Quick Trip Truck Stop near 14th
Street Northeast. And uh, as we look at this neighborhood, the first thing that we looked at when developing this parcel and we've talked about it for the last few years is trying to create a connection across the southerly part of this property for 12th Avenue Northeast, getting 12th Avenue
connected over to 14th Street. Also, when you look at this area, the the depth of these lots here that would come out to 12th Avenue are not very deep. So, they lend themselves towards smaller one-acre parcels um, generally.
Then when you look at these lots up in here, they are much deeper, so they lend themselves toward bigger lots. So when we when we looked at laying out this development, we looked at creating larger, deeper lots here along 14th Street, and then shallower, smaller lots
here along 12th Avenue. So that's just a little precursor before we get into the actual plat itself. Um going to skip to the second one in your backup material. Uh zoom out just a bit.
So here you can see again that general L-shaped property with smaller one-acre lots here fronting what will be a new 12th Avenue roadway, and then larger five-acre lots, three of
them to be exact here, that will be fronting 14th Street. Um and now getting into a bit of the detail. Here on these larger five-acre lots, we have some designated easements for
drainage ponds that would be constructed as part of these parcels. We've the drainage evaluation has been done to determine the sizing of necessary ponds for commercial development here on what would be lot one,
lot two. There is a a pond here in the southwest corner, and then in lot three, there is again an extension of a pond that would occur here, also in the southwest corner. As I mentioned, these lots along a
future 12th Avenue Northeast are smaller in nature and and meet that one-acre lot size for development. If if a develop if a business came in that wanted two lot two acres, we could just look at combining two of these lots together to make a two
or three-acre lot as needed. Uh we've designated an outlot here, a lot A, in the very southwest corner of the development, and outlot B in the southeast corner of the development. Those would be also before retention ponds.
So, in total, we have nine developable lots and two outlots that will hold retention ponds. Also, as part of the plat, we looked at platting out what will be 12th Avenue Northeast. We currently have some existing an
existing bike trail and uh overhead power lines that run through some outlots that are here along the south side, and also some easements here. So, some of that public infrastructure that would normally fall
within the right-of-way is currently in place on some easements and some outlots to the south. So, we would look to incorporate two of those outlots into this plat of right-of-way for 12th Avenue. Uh and then we are also working with what
we call a sliver of property located right here along the west side, um adjacent to 14th Street. This sliver of property will be incorporated into the 14th Street right-of-way uh for so that these properties will
have direct access across this sliver onto public right-of-way to ensure that they have uh right-of-way access for the properties. So, that is how we've deciphered and looked at uh the best in our minds, the best possible layout
for lot sizes for commercial development. And then, um as was standard with any plat, there are multiple folks that need to sign off and agree to this. Um since this document was sent
out, some of these signatories have changed a little bit. Um being this is generally Port Authority property, they will be a primary signatory to this here under Port Authority. City approval will still also occur here as part of the city approval process.
We've got title opinion completed by our city attorney, Byrum, as well as uh generally certif- uh sur- surveyor certificates, county auditor, and recorder. Um so, those are all have been slightly edited from this
version to make sure we've got the proper names. As for instance, getting our our city administrator changed from Clay Clark to, you know, acting city administrator, and some of those minor edits have occurred um this past week as we've been working
to finalize this document. So, with that, I open it up to any questions that you might have. >> I got a question on the what's behind the property and between the property and and the and the subdivision that's I guess that's to the east.
>> Let me go back to the first map view that we were looking at. Shows [clears throat] a wider view. >> I actually have the the GIS map pulled up if you want that. >> No, this should be okay. >> Okay. >> And just a little more.
>> Talking on the east side? >> Yeah. So, this property here uh that's what you're questioning, right? So, that property is currently located outside of the city limits. And
uh I I I I don't know offhand what those properties are currently zoned. But, they are outside of the city limits, so we do not have jurisdiction, of course, over their zoning or use. >> We do actually have um we have uh some
extraterritorial subdivision authority within 2 mi of the city limits. So, if it was further subdivided those properties that are adjacent the city would have some uh input. >> And the only reason I ask is again, I don't I you know, that that
subdivision there to the east, I mean uh if it's if it's an area that they're going to expand to, I mean I I I I don't know if they you do they know that it's going to be an industrial you know, plotted piece of property there or you know, I mean, so that you'd end up having a
different kind of a neighbor. >> There I I think a couple of the members of the port authority actually live in that area. Um but, I don't know um how much it's been >> Okay. And then >> discussed. >> You're talking Nature's Ridge third addition?
>> Right. Yeah. >> One One comment to that is this property you got annexed to the city probably 5 years ago and it came in as industrial. So, everyone has known for a period of time that if there was a strong potential that it would be
developed as such. >> Got it. >> The zoning is not changing. >> And then you you said that on the street that with the bike trails on the bike now it's currently just a bike trail. Will the bike trail just turn into a sidewalk? Is that Is that how it's going to be like it is over by the
um recycling center? >> Yeah, it'll serve both purposes. It'll serve as just a pedestrian route. Sidewalk {slash} bike trail will stay existing just how it is. And the road will be constructed to the north of it. >> Okay. >> I had a question about the
infrastructure that's going in, Steven. I don't know if it's pertinent to whether or not we approve the plat, but just out of curiosity, the sewer tie-ins, I assume they'll go to the west and tie in in the industrial system that's there. >> Um
they're generally in a approximately this area right here. The current terrain splits. So, from here it flows west toward 14th Street and again from this high point it flows east toward
17th Street. So, both systems, both sanitary and storm water, will will from that high point will flow east and west. They'll go both directions. >> Okay, the other the only other thing I had was when I was looking [clears throat] at the drawings I got a
little confused. You probably already noticed this, but uh the plat drawings by the surveyor and then when you look at the engineering drawings for the drainage work, uh the the engineering drawings, the lot numbers are all different. And they even
labeled 12th Avenue as 12th Street. So, I just wanted to point that out, but you probably already knew that. So. >> Yeah, working with the Port Authority, they wanted this numbering system, which is more current than the
the drainage plans that were constructed a couple of years ago. So, that and then the error on the avenue versus street, of course, yes. >> But what we're approving is the plat drawing anyway, right? So, it doesn't Okay. Any other questions, commissioners? >> I would note that you would be approving
or recommending for approval the plat drawing with the corrections that Mr. Lang mentioned with regard to the some of the names and signatories on the plat. I think that were those were >> Administrative edits.
>> Yeah. >> Any more questions? Anybody ready to make a motion? >> Motion. >> I'll make a motion to recommend the council with um as presented with the administrative um edits. >> [clears throat]
>> Get a second? >> Second. >> All right, thank you. We have a motion from Commissioner Norman and a second from Commissioner Burrows to recommend the council to approve this platting request uh contingent on the administrative edits.
Any further discussion? All right, all in favor of the motion, please say aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. >> All opposed, no. Motion carries. Anything else for us? >> Uh no. No, I don't have anything else. >> All right. Any other business from any of the commissioners? Anything else you
got in your mind? If not, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. We have a motion from Commissioner Swenson and a second from Commissioner Narmont to adjourn. All in favor of the motion, please say aye. All opposed, no.
We're adjourned.