East Cesar Chavez: Adopted Use Limits and Small-Lot Provisions

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

East Cesar Chavez’s zoning ordinance contains detailed use restrictions and an existing-small-lot provision. Its plan illustrations of corridor height transitions do not supply a parcel’s legal height limit. For a commercial or mixed-use project, identify the tract’s permitted, conditional and prohibited uses first.

Applies to: Ordinance 001214-20 and subsequent zoning changes; other mapped regulating districts may apply to a particular address.

Restrictions traced to adopted documents

The use list can constrain a commercial concept

Part 7(1) prohibits adult-oriented businesses and pawn-shop services on its specified Tract 1/2 properties and Tracts 3–47. Part 7(2) prohibits basic industry, general warehousing/distribution and other listed industrial uses at the identified East Sixth and East Fourth properties.

001214-20, Part 7(1)–(2) (PDF p. 5).

Existing-small-lot relief is limited to the stated use

Part 4 provides a 2,500-square-foot minimum area and 25-foot minimum width for single-family use on an existing legal lot. Its 65% impervious-cover allowance is limited to lots of 3,500 square feet or less. This original clause is not a general subdivision standard or permission to put two or three HOME units on such a lot.

001214-20, Part 4 (PDF p. 5).

Plan documents

Reading plans, amendments and PDF page references

Apply the ordinance to the parcel

Ordinance 001214-20 and subsequent zoning changes; other mapped regulating districts may apply to a particular address. See how this review handles original ordinances, amendments and HOME.

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