One motion, ten items: the Planning Commission recommends the DB-90 rezoning on N Lamar at Beaver and sends six files to three later dates (provisional)

The Planning Commission sat on Tuesday, October 13, for a quarter of an hour and took all ten of its public hearings on a single consent motion. No commissioner pulled an item for discussion. The motion, by Commissioner Skidmore and seconded by Commissioner Ahmed, carried without objection; no vote count was stated, and none is printed (provisional — transcript). The split, counted from the certified store: 4 recommended / 6 postponed / 0 denied. The file to carry out of the room is the DB-90 rezoning on N Lamar at Beaver (C14-2026-0030, with NPA-2026-0026.01, D4), recommended on consent. The six postponements set three dates: October 27, November 10 and December 8. No Zoning and Platting Commission sat this week.

AN Lamar at Beaver: recommended on consent (provisional — transcript). The rezoning asks for CS-V-CO-NP to CS-V-CO-DB90-NP for Tracts 1, 2, 3; SF-3-NP to LODB90-NP for Tract 4; the plan amendment, Single Family to Mixed Use land use. Staff recommended both. Commissioner Ahmed read both as consent items, no commissioner asked to pull them, and the consent motion carried without objection. Public comment was taken on the consent items; the transcript copy on file does not reproduce it, and it is not characterised here. Next stop is Council; no Council outcome is asserted.

(Citation: official Swagit voice-to-text transcript of the October 13, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, video 403811 — provisional, no approved minutes yet; posted agenda EDIMS id=482781, item 4. Request: Single Family to Mixed Use land use. Staff Rec.: Recommended. Agent of record: Drenner Group, PC (Leah M. Bojo). Disposition: recommended on consent; carried without objection, no vote count stated.)

(Citation: official Swagit voice-to-text transcript of the October 13, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, video 403811 — provisional, no approved minutes yet; posted agenda EDIMS id=482781, item 5. Request: CS-V-CO-NP to CS-V-CO-DB90-NP for Tracts 1, 2, 3; SF-3-NP to LODB90-NP for Tract 4. Staff Rec.: Recommended. Agent of record: Drenner Group, PC (Leah M. Bojo). Disposition: recommended on consent; carried without objection, no vote count stated.)

BThe read, flagged as a read: a DB90 request on a major corridor, including a single-family tract stepping to LO with the same DB90 combining district, cleared the Planning Commission as a consent item. At this commission, a staff-recommended DB90 file of this shape can move on the consent calendar rather than as a contested discussion item; for an underwriter that is a timeline fact. It is not a forecast for Council, and not a forecast for the density-bonus tier requests waiting for October 27 (Woodward's GR-DBC30 and 2020 West Anderson Lane's GR-DBC45-NP). D4's decade baseline reads 470 hearings, 50.2% of decided approved against 46.6% postponed.

CTwo more D4 files recommended on consent (provisional — transcript). C14-85-149(RCT) (Foundation Communities Inc. North Prosper Center), a request to terminate a public restrictive covenant tied to the North Lamar Area Study that limits the property to a church and daycare; and SPC-2024-0302C (Toyota of North Austin), a conditional use permit for a building over 100,000 square feet at 8400 Research Blvd Service Road. On the Toyota file, the Wooten contact team and the applicant both said on the record that they had agreed conditions on noise and traffic; this desk does not hold the text of those conditions.

(Citation: official Swagit voice-to-text transcript of the October 13, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, video 403811 — provisional, no approved minutes yet; posted agenda EDIMS id=482781, item 10. Request: To terminate a public restrictive covenant associated with the North Lamar Area Study that requires that the use on the property be limited to a church and daycare.. Staff Rec.: Recommended. Agent of record: Foundation Communities, Inc. (Walter Moreau). Disposition: recommended on consent.)

(Citation: official Swagit voice-to-text transcript of the October 13, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, video 403811 — provisional, no approved minutes yet; posted agenda EDIMS id=482781, item 11. Request: Construction of a building over 100,000 square feet. Staff Rec.: Recommended. Agent of record: Pam Madere and John McIntyre. Disposition: recommended on consent.)

DSix postponements, three dates (provisional — transcript). October 27: the 1221 S IH-35 pair (NPA-2026-0021.03 + C14-2026-0040, D9), LR-NP and SF-3-NP to CS-NP, at the applicant's request, its fourth setting to come. November 10: the Wesley pair (NPA-2026-0009.01 + C14-2026-0028, D1), SF-3-NP to LO-NP, on a staff postponement, staff's posted recommendation being to recommend. December 8: Wickersham Retail (C14-2026-0016, D3), GR-MU-CO to GR-MU-CO, to change conditions of zoning, staff not recommended, where neighbourhood speakers opposed a gas station; and 1405 East Riverside Drive (C14-2024-0147, D9), an East Riverside Corridor subdistrict change with height up to 160 feet through a density bonus program — both at the applicant's request. The read: an applicant postponement is a fact and its reason is not; none was stated in the consent reading, so none is inferred. Model the December files as a year-end Planning Commission hearing at the earliest.

(Citation: official Swagit voice-to-text transcript of the October 13, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, video 403811 — provisional, no approved minutes yet; posted agenda EDIMS id=482781, item 2. Request: Single Family to Neighborhood Mixed Use land use. Staff Rec.: Recommended. Agent of record: BOZ Enterprises Unlimited (Hasan Lewis). Disposition: postponed to November 10, 2026, staff request.)

(Citation: official Swagit voice-to-text transcript of the October 13, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, video 403811 — provisional, no approved minutes yet; posted agenda EDIMS id=482781, item 3. Request: SF-3-NP to LO-NP. Staff Rec.: Recommended. Agent of record: BOZ Enterprises Unlimited (Hasan Lewis). Disposition: postponed to November 10, 2026, staff request.)

(Citation: official Swagit voice-to-text transcript of the October 13, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, video 403811 — provisional, no approved minutes yet; posted agenda EDIMS id=482781, item 6. Request: Single Family to Commercial land use. Staff Rec.: Applicant postponement request to October 27, 2026. Agent of record: Husch Blackwell, LLP (Lindsey Walker). Disposition: postponed to October 27, 2026, applicant request.)

(Citation: official Swagit voice-to-text transcript of the October 13, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, video 403811 — provisional, no approved minutes yet; posted agenda EDIMS id=482781, item 7. Request: LR-NP and SF-3-NP to CS-NP. Staff Rec.: Applicant postponement request to October 27, 2026. Agent of record: Husch Blackwell, LLP (Lindsey Walker). Disposition: postponed to October 27, 2026, applicant request.)

(Citation: official Swagit voice-to-text transcript of the October 13, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, video 403811 — provisional, no approved minutes yet; posted agenda EDIMS id=482781, item 8. Request: GR-MU-CO to GR-MU-CO, to change conditions of zoning. Staff Rec.: Not recommended. Agent of record: Land Answers, Inc (Jim Witliff). Disposition: postponed to December 8, 2026, applicant request.)

(Citation: official Swagit voice-to-text transcript of the October 13, 2026 Planning Commission meeting, video 403811 — provisional, no approved minutes yet; posted agenda EDIMS id=482781, item 9. Request: East Riverside Corridor (ERC-Neighborhood Mixed Use Subdistrict) to East Riverside Corridor (ERC-Corridor Mixed Use Subdistrict), to include the entire lot in the hub boundary, and to increase the maximum building height up to 160 feet through participation in a density bonus program.. Staff Rec.: Applicant postponement request to December 8, 2026. Agent of record: Drenner Group, PC (Leah M. Bojo). Disposition: postponed to December 8, 2026, applicant request.)

EThe commission's own business, and what is not on file. The September 22 minutes were approved on the consent motion; this desk has not yet reconciled them, so September 22 outcomes keep their transcript label. The 2027 calendar was approved without objection: second and fourth Tuesdays, with a single December meeting in 2027 and no consent-only meeting (provisional — transcript). This desk holds no record of the Community Development Commission's October 13 meeting; Woodward (C14-2025-0051, D3) remains set for the Planning Commission on October 27, eleven settings in the certified store and none a merits vote. The Barton Springs Zone SOS Amendment (C20-2026-008), which the record carried to October 13, is not on the posted agenda; its next setting is not located.

FThe desk's own calls. No call was logged against the October 13 docket, so there is nothing to grade. The ledger's October 15, 2026 scoring pass wrote all three October 6 calls as misses (the base-rate prior, 0.2895, read not consent; every file was recommended or approved) — the grade last week's issue printed provisionally. The two October 20 calls were set to be heard October 20; outcomes publish when the record posts. As it stands: 31 scored calls, a Brier score of 0.3826 at 29.0% accuracy against an observed consent rate of 71.0%. Published because it is measured, not because it is good.

(Citation: ADW entity database, gate-certified recompute of October 15 — 9,276 hearings, 7,822 agent-attributed, verify_publish PASS, data through 2026-10-13; ADW prediction ledger, read and not written.)

The read for the underwriting desk: a consent-only night is the commission sorting its docket — the files it treats as settled for now, and the files it is willing to let wait. Four left with a recommendation and six with a date, and the dates now hold most of what this sitting did not decide. Every October 13 fact here comes from the meeting's automated transcript; the minutes will settle it.

(Citation: posted agenda of the October 20, 2026 Zoning and Platting Commission, EDIMS id=483305, item 2 — forward docket, no outcome exists. Request: CH-CO to LI. Staff Rec.: Not recommended. Agent of record: Jackson Walker L.L.P. (Pamela Madere).)

(Citation: posted agenda of the October 20, 2026 Zoning and Platting Commission, EDIMS id=483305, item 3 — forward docket, no outcome exists. Request: W/LO to GR. Staff Rec.: GR-CO. Agent of record: none listed (owner-applicant).)

Next on the calendar: October 20, ZAP (agenda posted) — Park 290 Logistics Center (C14-2026-0054, D1), CH-CO to LI, staff not recommended, and Howard Plaza (C14-2026-0046, D1), W/LO to GR, staff recommending GR-CO, its public hearing closed in September (certified — approved minutes); preview only. October 27, Planning Commission — the record carries six files, including the density-bonus tier requests and the 1221 S IH-35 pair (provisional — transcript). Monday, November 2 — ZAP special called meeting, November 3 being Election Day (provisional — transcript). November 10 — the Wesley pair and Nirvana Retirement Complex (SPC-2026-0116A) (provisional — transcript). December 8 — Wickersham Retail and 1405 East Riverside Drive (provisional — transcript).

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