East Riverside/Oltorf: Creek Setbacks and Adopted Yard Rules

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

Riverside and Parker Lane adopted front-yard and garage tools, with important excluded parcels and subdistrict exceptions. Parker Lane also has a specific creek-related building exclusion. Where a property is zoned under the East Riverside Corridor regulating plan, that regulatory framework must be checked before relying on the older neighborhood ordinances.

Applies to: Planning-area membership alone is insufficient: use the NP ordinance exhibits, current zoning and the ERC boundary where applicable.

Restrictions traced to adopted documents

Parker Lane Tract 221 has a building exclusion

Ordinance 20061116-056 prohibits a building within 150 feet of the centerline of the tributary of Country Club Creek identified for Tract 221. That is an adopted tract restriction, not the plan’s proposed 35-foot residential height transition.

20061116-056, Part 5 (PDF p. 3).

Parker Lane’s parking exception is narrower than all yard rules

Part 4 adopts §25-2-1603 front-yard impervious-cover/parking placement and §25-2-1604 garage placement. Its Burleson Heights/Terrilance exception applies to the separate front/side-yard parking restriction in Part 4(3). Part 1 and Exhibit A exclude listed properties from this original adoption.

20061116-056, Parts 1 and 4 (PDF p. 3).

Riverside’s adopted selection

Ordinance 20061116-057 Part 4 adopts front-yard impervious-cover/parking placement, garage placement and front/side-yard parking restrictions. Its Part 1 exclusions must be checked before applying that selection to a parcel.

20061116-057, Parts 1 and 4 (PDF p. 3).

Use the corridor regulations where they govern

The City’s East Riverside Corridor resources are the starting point for the regulating plan and amendments. A height recommendation in the 2006 neighborhood plan does not replace the applicable subdistrict and bonus rules.

The proposed housing use matters

Which garage rule applies to single-family, two-unit and three-unit projects?

Plan documents

Reading plans, amendments and PDF page references

Apply the ordinance to the parcel

Planning-area membership alone is insufficient: use the NP ordinance exhibits, current zoning and the ERC boundary where applicable. See how this review handles original ordinances, amendments and HOME.

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