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A 13-page, 4-chart intelligence report on Drenner Group, P.C. — the most-active land use firm in the Austin Planning Commission and Zoning & Platting Commission record over the last ten years, benchmarked against the rest of the field. The report covers a peer-firm comparison (volume, approval, completion, speed), market share over time, attorney-level deep dives, district concentration, the joint distribution of postponement chain length and outcome, two file-level case studies, a forward read on the Citywide density-bonus transition, and buyer-specific decision frameworks.
Drenner Group appears in roughly 1 of every 7 agent-attributed Austin entitlement hearings over the 2016-2026 window — 919 hearings total (certified 10-year, agent-deduped). No other named firm in the dataset has comparable volume. Reporting on Drenner first is a function of where the data points loudest, not editorial preference.
No. The editorial posture is conservative, descriptive, and quantitatively grounded. The report does not characterize the firm's competence, ethics, or intentions. It describes what the public record shows about the firm's volume, case mix, attorney concentration, and procedural patterns. Drenner attorneys are themselves on the Austin Development Watch subscriber list and are welcome to purchase the report.
The data is parsed from publicly-published Planning Commission and Zoning & Platting Commission meeting minutes at austintexas.gov. The structuring, canonicalization, agent deduplication, and outcome-classification work is the value-add ADW has built on top of the public source.
A hearing counts as Drenner-attributed if any agent of record on the case is one of eight individuals associated with the firm (Amanda Swor, Leah Bojo, Dave Anderson, Nick Raffaele, Charley Dorsaneo, Jewels Nickells, Jewels Watson, plus the deduplicated Dan Anderson legacy record). Parser variants like "David Anderson" / "Dan Anderson" / "Drew Raffaele" / "Nick Raffaele" are collapsed to canonical records. Page 2 of the report disclosures methodology in full.
Total hearings (the certified 10-year figure is 919, agent-deduped; Edition 4.1 states 638 and is superseded pending re-issue as Edition 4.2), per-year totals, per-district totals, top action-type totals, and per-attorney totals are exact counts traceable to specific EDIMS documents. Per-attorney-per-year cells and unique case-number counts are estimates within a ±15-20% band, marked as estimates in the report body. Approximately 9% of historical hearings in 2016-2018 have no district tag; this limitation is acknowledged in the methodology.
The report invites corrections. Email [email protected] with the case number and the specific error and the next edition of the report acknowledges the correction. Any reader who identifies a parser error is credited (anonymously if preferred) in the next edition's methodology note.
Executive summary (one page), scope and methodology (one page), volume and market share with the 10-year curve and 2019 inflection analysis (two pages), recent-period lens with pre-COVID / COVID / post-COVID / DBC-era breakouts (one page), outcome distribution vs market baselines (two pages), attorney-level deep dives on Swor, Bojo, Anderson, Raffaele, the three trace-volume names, and the Stephen Drenner historical footprint (three pages), district concentration (one page), postponement chain analysis (one page), three historical inflection points (one page), and a tactical decision framework — "what this means for your case" (two pages).
The report is not legal advice. It is not file-specific recommendations. It does not characterize the firm's competence, ethics, or intentions. It does not cover Council-stage outcomes (PC and ZAP only). It does not cover Drenner's privileged work, client list, business operations, or non-public activity. And it does not predict future cases. The Diligence tier (The Deal Desk) handles probabilistic forecasting; the report handles descriptive analysis.
The current Edition 4.1 release ships as the report PDF. A certified case-level Excel appendix — regenerated against the Edition 4.0 record — is planned as a companion; if a pivotable working file (by district, framework, owner type, hearing body, or year) would be useful to you, email [email protected].
A single-buyer license for the report PDF. The license permits internal use by the named buyer and the buyer's immediate working group at one firm or organization. Citation is permitted with attribution to "Austin Development Watch, The 10-Year Records — Vol. I: Drenner Group (Edition 4.0, July 2026)."
Yes — the license expressly covers the immediate working group at the buyer's firm. Sharing outside that working group, posting to public file shares, and reselling are not permitted. Resale or distribution beyond the working group requires Enterprise licensing.
Yes — the Enterprise subscription tier ($14,990/yr, contact for terms) includes five named seats with white-label data extracts permitted for client decks. For firm-wide one-time licensing of the report specifically, email [email protected] for custom pricing.
Yes. Founder's Annual Pro subscribers ($1,496/yr) get the report at the Pro-member price of $299 — email [email protected] from your subscription address and we send the $299 checkout link. Diligence and Enterprise subscribers receive the report included free, emailed to the subscription address on release.
Refund available within 7 days of purchase if the report does not meet your reasonable expectation, provided the file has not been forwarded externally. Full policy at refund.html.
Fulfillment is automated: within a few minutes of your payment receipt, an email arrives with a signed download link to the report PDF. If anything doesn't arrive, reply to your receipt or email [email protected] and Michael will send it directly.
Standard PDF, 13 pages, printable. Tested on Mac Preview, Windows Edge / Acrobat, and iOS Mail preview.
Yes. Edition 4.1 (August 2026) is the current release, reconciled to the certified 10-year record. Editions are refreshed as the certified record advances; existing buyers receive corrective re-issues of their edition at no charge.
The Austin Development Watch subscriber list reads at roughly 22 land use attorneys, 35-40 developer principals, 25 institutional brokerage seats, 15 engineering professionals, and 8 capital partners working in the Austin entitlement market. We do not disclose specific buyer identities. The buyer profile for this report skews toward outside counsel facing Drenner across the table, in-house counsel selecting representation, CRE underwriters pricing entitlement timing risk, and capital partners evaluating Austin development funds.
Email [email protected]. Reply within one business day. Phone calls available for institutional buyers — email to schedule.
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