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Planning Commission approves rezoning request for former Rosewood Elementary after neighborhood debate
Summary
The Austin Planning Commission voted to rezone the former Rosewood Elementary site to CS‑MU with conditions after hearings in which neighbors pressed for limits on commercial uses, traffic mitigation and historic protections.
The Austin Planning Commission on Tuesday voted to approve a land‑use plan amendment and a rezoning request that would unify zoning across the former Rosewood Elementary School site and allow commercial‑mixed uses while limiting building height and certain uses.
Staff told the commission the site — roughly 1.62 acres at 2406 Rosewood Avenue, 2407 Soul Wilson Avenue and adjacent parcels in the Rosewood neighborhood planning area — is currently split between civic and single‑family designations and recommended a rezoning to CS‑MU with a conditional overlay and neighborhood plan (CS‑MU‑CO‑NP) that would limit building height to 40 feet and prohibit a list of particularly disruptive uses.
The change was proposed by the prospective buyer and developer, who seeks to adaptively reuse the 1930s-era school building as a multi‑tenant commercial space with a small amount of new housing along Bedford Street. Richard Settle, representing the applicant, told commissioners the…
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