Kirk Watson
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first heard Mar 2026
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They just don't want the property developed at all under any zoning designation.
So they've dishonored themselves and acted in bad faith, and in the course of their bad faith performance they have convinced the city council to make this a discussion item
And convince Councilmember Fuentes to propose making multifamily residential use a conditional use.
Adding a conditional use permit mandate strips away our byright entitlements and denies equal treatment to the property owner.
It injects severe unpredictability into a project that city staff and the Planning Commission have already thoroughly vetted for safety.
A conditional use requirement would force a redundant second public hearing process down the road, and this would add six to twelve months of holding costs, drive up engineering fees, and ultimately make the housing built on this site more expensive, thereby diminishing the current value of the property.
This council has consistently and courageously voted to streamline the housing process, remove administrative bottlenecks, and build more homes for Austinites, forcing a standard medium density multifamily project to go through a discretionary CUP process that no one else in the neighborhood has to undergo.
would actively move us backward from those housing goals and would deny our clients right to equal treatment.
We want to be collaborative partners with District two.
If there are specific tangible concerns regarding heights, setbacks, or site design, we are fully open to addressing those directly through standard site plan regulations or targeted conditional overlay restrictions today.
We're e we're even willing to consider a deed restriction if there's something that's missing that you all need.
However, we ask that you support the cl the planning commission's nine in favor, zero opposed with two abstaining recommendation, and approve this zoning with multifamily residential remaining a permitted by right use.
Thank you very much for your time and I am happy to answer any questions.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
Now we'll hear some from uh a representative in opposition and you'll have up to five minutes.
No.
Um you have five minutes which is m more than what's normally allowed, which is two minutes, but the way we've g we've set up these hearings on things like this is to give you five minutes.
You you can speak on eighty seven.
We can speak on eighty seven, but if you're the representative, you get five minutes, which is again more than what is typically allowed.
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