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Council District 6

Austin council district · 169 unique cases
306
Hearings (10-yr)
169
Unique cases
57.0%
Approval (of decided)
33.8%
Postponement
2016–2026
Active
38
Since 2024

Hearings by year

Council District 6: hearings by year2016: 50, 2017: 46, 2018: 42, 2019: 34, 2020: 20, 2021: 27, 2022: 28, 2023: 21, 2024: 11, 2025: 22, 2026: 5255050’1646’1742’1834’1920’2027’2128’2221’2311’2422’255’26

Outcome distribution

Council District 6: outcomesApproved: 150 (49%), Postponed: 89 (29%), Denied: 24 (8%), No decision: 43 (14%)49%29%8%14%Approved 150Postponed 89Denied 24No decision 43

Versus the field

Postponement rate vs the fieldCouncil District: 34%, Field median: 42%Council District34%Field median42%
Approval rate 57.0% — above the field (48.7%) by 8.3 pts.

Hearing timeline

Hearing dateOutcomeDistrictAgentFirm
2026-08-04ApprovedD6
2026-08-04ApprovedD6
2026-07-21ApprovedD6Jim WittliffLand Answers, Inc.
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Most active firms here

Drenner Group 34McLean & Howard 28Thrower Design 21Armbrust & Brown 14Shaw Hamilton Consultants 11Big Red Dog Engineering 10

Most active attorneys here

Jeffrey Howard 28Ron Thrower 21Amanda Swor 20Richard T. Suttle 12Leah Bojo 11Shaw Hamilton 11

Recent cases

C14-2026-0035C14-2026-0049SPC-2026-0076AC14-2026-0021C14-2026-0023C14-2025-0056C14-2025-0070C14-2008-0224(RCT)
District coverage: 85% of hearings carry a mapped council district; the remaining 15% are untagged in the source record and excluded from district rollups.
Coverage note. Hearing counts on this page are FLOORS, and percentages are ESTIMATES computed over the hearings we hold. Measured against the City's own meeting record, the certified store carries 6,712 of the 6,728 hearing items its source documents describe since 2016 — 99.8% — with coverage weakest in 2020 (98.7%). A firm's true hearing count is therefore at least the number shown, and a rate is the rate within the held sample rather than the full population. Coverage is measured, not assumed, and this note is derived from that measurement on every rebuild. A second step sits between these rates and the population: of the 6,667 hearing items read from the minutes, 5,513 (82.7%) state a disposition this record can classify and 1,154 do not. Unclassified items carry no outcome and are absent from every rate above, so a rate is computed over the classified part of a sample, not over the sample and not over the population. THIS LIMITS COMPARABILITY BETWEEN FIRMS. The unclassified items are not spread evenly: engineering and surveying practices carry about 75% of the named ones (Southwest Engineers, LJA Engineering, Perales Engineering, Stantec Consulting Services among them), because subdivision dispositions are recorded in grouped consent motions rather than per item. Those firms' rates therefore rest on a smaller classified subset than a zoning practice's, and a high approval share at the top of the table may reflect which of a firm's matters could be classified rather than how its matters went. WE MEASURE OUR OWN ERROR AND IT IS NOT UNIFORM. Re-reading every minutes block against the stored disposition found 8.2% disagreement across 3,073 independently-written rows before correction — 6.03% in 2017-2019, 11.73% across the remote-meeting years 2020-2022, 6.12% in 2024-2025 — and about 1.56x as high on Zoning and Platting as on Planning Commission. All of it has been corrected against the minutes and logged; the shape is published because where a record is weakest is a fact about the record.
Austin Development Watch · every figure traces to a certified record · hearing data through 2026-08-25 · Council outcomes through 2026-05-28 · gate-certified · generated 2026-08-31