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Votes at a glance: planning commission actions, March 11 meeting
Summary
Summary of formal motions and recorded outcomes from the March 11 Planning Commission meeting, including rezoning, an appeal reversal, adoption recommendation for the ACT plan, and committee appointments.
This summary lists formal motions and recorded outcomes taken by the City of Austin Planning Commission at the March 11 meeting.
1) Consent agenda: Motion to close public hearing and approve the consent agenda and minutes. Motion by Commissioner Haney; second by Commissioner Maxwell. Outcome: motion passed (commission closed public hearing and approved consent items); tally not specified in transcript.
2) Manor Road plan amendment and rezoning (MPA-2024-008 & C14-2024-017, 2967 Manor Road): Motion to approve staff recommendation on the plan amendment and rezoning while denying the applicant's waiver request for mandatory ground-floor commercial. Mover: Commissioner Anderson; second: Commissioner Haney. Outcome: approved; recorded tally: unanimous 9-0.
3) Avalon Point appeal (SP-2022-0218 / Avalon Point, 2610 Hume Place): Motion to reverse the director's denial of three UNO/BCM waivers (pedestrian lighting, pedestrian clear zone, tree spacing) and allow the applicant to resubmit amended waiver documentation. Mover: Chair; second: Commissioner Maxwell. Outcome: approved 9-0.
4) Austin Core Transportation Plan (ACT): Motion to recommend adoption of the ACT plan as an attachment to the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan, as amended to incorporate Urban Transportation Commission and Design Commission recommendations (including mandatory street trees and inclusion of green-infrastructure costs in base project estimates). Mover: Chair; second: Commissioner Barrera Ramirez. Outcome: approved 9-0.
5) Working group appointment (ETOD and station-area vision plans working group): Motion to create/appoint the planning commission working group composed of Chair Hempel, Commissioners Maxwell, Woods, Barrera Ramirez, Johnson and Chair Cohen (and one additional commissioner slot approved for the meeting). Outcome: approved unanimously.
Notes: Several other motions and amendments were proposed during the ACT discussion (including a motion to convert Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Streets to two-way vehicle flow); that particular conversion motion failed 6-3. Where exact vote tallies were not read into the record, the summary records the commission's stated outcome and notes when the transcript did not provide a numeric tally.
