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Environmental Commission backs staff recommendation for South Lamar redevelopment, adds conditions for affordability and green measures
Summary
The commission recommended that City Council approve the SOLA mixed‑use redevelopment exception (SP20240397C) on South Lamar with additional conditions: increase affordable housing target to 25%, add bird‑friendly design, create a community garden option, and strengthen native planting and green practices.
City staff and the applicant presented a redevelopment‑exception site plan for the SOLA mixed‑use project at 2728 South Lamar (SP20240397C) during the Environmental Commission’s May 6 meeting. Mike McDougall, environmental policy program manager for Austin Development Services, said the site lies in the Barton Springs Zone and that the redevelopment exception (LDC 25‑8‑26) resets a site’s watershed impervious‑cover limit to the existing amount while imposing additional water‑quality and sedimentation requirements.
McDougall said the project reduces impervious cover from about 3.8 acres to 3.4 acres, proposes sedimentation/filtration water‑quality ponds for the entire site, and must pay a Barton Springs mitigation fee. He reported the…
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