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Manor Council approves concept plan to bring Manor Downs land into city for industrial development, with conditions
Summary
The City of Manor approved a seven‑lot industrial subdivision concept plan for the Manor Downs property, annexing parcels from Austin’s extraterritorial jurisdiction and accepting a donated nine‑acre park. Council members and residents pressed for tree protections, traffic study follow-up and preservation of historic features.
The Manor City Council on Tuesday approved a subdivision concept plan that would convert about 146.92 acres of the Manor Downs property into seven industrial lots and bring the land into the city from the City of Austin extraterritorial jurisdiction.
The concept plan, presented by Michael Burrell, the city’s development services director, calls for six industrial lots and one lot the developer will convey to the city for public use as a roughly nine‑acre park that council members said could be used as a music venue or community gathering space. Burrell told the council the developer’s first phase would build about 849,000 square feet of industrial space and that the developer had negotiated a Chapter 380 development agreement that provides a multiyear tax abatement in exchange for the…
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