Central East Austin: NCCD Heights and Zoning Conditions

Last reviewed September 17, 2026 · City of Austin planning documents · Kimbrough Gray · KiliGray Homes

Central East Austin has overlapping neighborhood-plan and corridor NCCD regulations. The East 11th and East 12th Street ordinances have different height schedules and conflict clauses. The 2026 Block 16 amendment is an example of why an older neighborhood plan cannot supply the current building envelope.

Applies to: Match the address to the NP tract, NCCD subdistrict and any Urban Renewal Plan area. These boundaries are not interchangeable.

Restrictions traced to adopted documents

The neighborhood zoning ordinance imposes tract-specific use lists

Ordinance 011213-42 Part 9 makes uses conditional or prohibited on different tract lists. For example, convenience storage is conditional on the Part 9(2) tracts but prohibited on the Part 9(3) tracts. A mixed-use label does not resolve that difference.

011213-42, Part 9(2)–(3) (PDF p. 7).

East 12th Street: adopted subdistrict height limits

Ordinance 20220915-085 sets 60 feet in Subdistrict 1, 50 feet in Subdistrict 2, and 35 feet in Subdistricts 2a and 3. Its Part 7 expressly says the more restrictive provision controls when this ordinance conflicts with the named Central East Austin, Chestnut or Rosewood neighborhood zoning ordinances.

20220915-085, Part 6(F); Part 7 (PDF p. 11).

East 11th Street Block 16: the 2026 amendment changes the envelope

Ordinance 20260205-051 allows at most 40 feet in Block 16’s northernmost 40 feet beside Juniper, 50 feet in the remainder of its northernmost 75 feet, and 60 feet elsewhere on the identified property. Part 6 expressly gives this new section priority over conflicting NCCD, NP, base-zoning and other City Code provisions.

20260205-051, Part 6 (PDF p. 2).

Check the Urban Renewal Plan too

The companion 20260205-050 Urban Renewal Plan amendment addresses Block 16. The NCCD corridor guide explains the separate setback, frontage and conflict provisions. “The strictest rule always wins” would miss a newer ordinance’s express priority clause.

Plan documents

Reading plans, amendments and PDF page references

Apply the ordinance to the parcel

Match the address to the NP tract, NCCD subdistrict and any Urban Renewal Plan area. These boundaries are not interchangeable. See how this review handles original ordinances, amendments and HOME.

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