Chestnut: Impervious Cover, Uses and the East 12th NCCD

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

Chestnut’s original zoning ordinance includes an 80% impervious-cover cap on listed tracts and restrictions on commercial uses. Properties along the mapped East 12th Street NCCD need the corridor ordinance as well. The plan’s proposed dwelling-size guidance is not an independent house-size limit.

Applies to: Chestnut ordinance tract numbers and East 12th Street NCCD subdistricts are different maps; check both where they overlap.

Restrictions traced to adopted documents

The adopted cover limit has a tract list

Ordinance 001207-47 limits impervious cover to 80% on Tracts 1, 2, 6–9, 11–16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24 and 30. This is a conditional-overlay provision, not a neighborhood-wide allowance to pave 80% of a residential lot. Other applicable cover limits still matter.

001207-47, Part 9(1) (PDF p. 4).

Commercial use restrictions were actually adopted

Part 9(2) prohibits uses including hotel-motel, convenience storage and several automotive uses on its specified tracts; Tract 6 has a separate list in Part 9(3). A commercial designation alone does not establish that a proposed business is permitted.

001207-47, Part 9(2)–(3) (PDF p. 4).

East 12th Street NCCD is a separate mapped check

Where the property lies in the East 12th Street NCCD, use Ordinance 20220915-085 and the corridor restriction guide. Its Part 7 specifically addresses conflicts with the neighborhood zoning ordinances; corridor membership cannot be inferred from the neighborhood name alone.

Plan documents

Reading plans, amendments and PDF page references

Apply the ordinance to the parcel

Chestnut ordinance tract numbers and East 12th Street NCCD subdistricts are different maps; check both where they overlap. See how this review handles original ordinances, amendments and HOME.

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