Planning commission backs developer request for two downtown towers after debate over contamination and height
The Austin Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend an applicant’s request to increase entitlements for a full‑block downtown redevelopment on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, approving a move to allow taller towers and higher FAR despite neighborhood concerns about subsurface contamination and compatibility with nearby historic Judges' Hill properties.
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The Austin Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend the applicant’s requested downtown density‑bonus entitlements for a full‑block redevelopment on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (the Jack Brown Cleaners site), after staff presentations, an applicant rebuttal and more than an hour of public testimony and commissioner questions.
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