Holly: Zoning Conditions and Parcel Amendments

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

Holly’s adopted zoning conditions need to be separated from the neighborhood plan’s height proposals. Later parcel ordinances can preserve or replace those conditions. A recent example confirms that a commercial designation can still carry a prohibited-use clause.

Applies to: The examples below concern the identified parcels. They do not establish a Holly-wide height or unit limit.

Restrictions traced to adopted documents

A signed parcel ordinance preserves a use prohibition

Ordinance 20180809-095 rezoned 2715 East Fifth Street and 420 North Pleasant Valley Road. Part 2 prohibits cocktail-lounge use on Tract 2; Part 4 keeps the property subject to Holly’s original Ordinance 011213-44. The tract map is essential to applying that condition.

20180809-095, Parts 1, 2 and 4; Exhibit A (PDF p. 2).

What is still unresolved in the original height proposals

The previous page quoted proposed height limits from the plan. This review has not verified those limits in a complete signed copy of Ordinance 011213-44 and its relevant amendments, so they are not presented here as restrictions. For 2730 East Cesar Chavez, the City’s 2024 staff report identifies commercial off-street parking as a conditional use under that ordinance; it is a parcel example, not proof of a neighborhood-wide height rule.

Plan documents

Reading plans, amendments and PDF page references

Apply the ordinance to the parcel

The examples below concern the identified parcels. They do not establish a Holly-wide height or unit limit. See how this review handles original ordinances, amendments and HOME.

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