Dawson: Adopted Use Restrictions and Housing Options

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

Dawson’s implementing ordinance primarily changes permitted and conditional uses. It does not turn the neighborhood plan’s preference for lower-intensity residential interiors into a universal new height or unit-count cap. Commercial and industrial tract conditions deserve particular attention along the corridors.

Applies to: Ordinance 011206-10 identifies affected tracts and zoning portions. Match the proposed use to those conditions and later amendments.

Restrictions traced to adopted documents

Industrial uses may require conditional approval

General warehousing/distribution and basic industry are conditional uses on the LI-CO-NP portions of Tracts 15 and 18. Part 5 also makes selected warehousing, maintenance and electronic-prototype uses conditional on its listed commercial/industrial tracts.

011206-10, Part 5(3)–(4) (PDF p. 5).

Service stations and drive-in uses have specific conditions

Part 5 makes service stations and drive-in services conditional on Tracts 1–6, 11, 13–15, 17, 18, 21–28, 30 and 32. Part 3 separately permits the secondary-apartment special use through its Code sections; that older pathway should not be conflated with HOME’s two-unit or three-unit use.

011206-10, Part 3; Part 5(5)–(6) (PDF p. 4).

Plan documents

Reading plans, amendments and PDF page references

Apply the ordinance to the parcel

Ordinance 011206-10 identifies affected tracts and zoning portions. Match the proposed use to those conditions and later amendments. See how this review handles original ordinances, amendments and HOME.

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