Austin Neighborhood Plans: Adopted Zoning and NCCD Restrictions

Find the applicable neighborhood ordinance

Choose the planning area, then match the property to the ordinance’s tract table and exhibits. Combined planning areas often contain different zoning selections on either side of a boundary.

Start with zoning, then trace the adopted conditions

1. Find the parcel’s current zoning designation and any CO, NP, NCCD, historic or regulating district.
2. Open the signed zoning ordinance and locate the property in its address table and exhibits.
3. Read the clause for the proposed use. A duplex provision, a secondary-apartment provision and a three-unit provision can have different scope.
4. Check later parcel and district amendments, then apply the controlling City Code provisions and relevant state-law requirements.

A council ordinance adopting a neighborhood plan as policy does not automatically turn every recommendation in that plan into a zoning restriction. Plan policies can inform rezoning and discretionary reviews; they are not an independent numerical cap on an otherwise permitted house.

What this ordinance review establishes

The guides quote or summarize identifiable adopted provisions, with PDF page references. They are a starting list of conditions to investigate, not a consolidated determination of every parcel’s current entitlements. A tract condition is not neighborhood-wide, and a later ordinance can retain, replace or remove it. Where adoption could not be verified, the guide says so instead of presenting the plan proposal as a restriction.

For HOME, the City’s CI2026-0002, p. 2 gives a hierarchy: §25-2-773 controls a conflict with base zoning; an applicable combining district or regulatory overlay controls a conflict with §25-2-773; nonconflicting rules apply together. Read any more specific ordinance conflict clause as well.

PDF page links use the viewer count. The signed ordinances remain the source; a staff recommendation or draft amendment is not proof of adoption. This pass does not exhaustively consolidate every subsequent rezoning, variance, private restriction or state-law change for every address.

Garage placement depends on the housing use

The neighborhood ordinances adopt particular Code tools; those tool selections differ by area and sometimes by subdistrict. Under the City’s May 29, 2026 interpretation, CI2026-0001:

• Single-family use in an NP area that adopted garage placement follows §25-2-1604.
• Duplex/two-unit use follows §25-2-1604 in an opted-in NP area and §25-2-773(C)(3) elsewhere.
• Three-unit use follows §25-2-773(C)(3) regardless of the NP tool selection.
• Small-lot single-family use follows §25-2-779.

A separate NCCD garage setback still needs to be applied under the conflict rules above. Choosing three units does not eliminate general NCCD setbacks, height or coverage restrictions.

Official plan documents remain available

Each guide retains links to its original plan and available amendment records. Use the City neighborhood-plan library for those documents and the NCCD ordinance directory for conservation districts. A historical amendment chart is an index through its stated date, not proof that no later ordinance exists.