St. John/Coronado Hills: Different Yard Tools and Buffers

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

St. John and Coronado Hills adopted different design-tool selections. Their ordinances also require directional buffers on particular tracts. The combined neighborhood plan is not a basis for applying Coronado Hills’ garage rule or a commercial-tract buffer to every St. John home.

Applies to: St. John Ordinance 20120426-101 and Coronado Hills Ordinance 20120426-102, with their own tract maps and subsequent changes.

Restrictions traced to adopted documents

St. John’s original residential tool selection

Part 4 adopts the front-porch setback provision and mobile-food-establishment regulations. It does not include §25-2-1603 or §25-2-1604 in that selection. Separate current use-specific Code requirements still need to be checked.

20120426-101, Part 4 (PDF p. 9).

St. John: buffers and a Delmar access prohibition

The conditional-overlay provisions prohibit Tract 4 access to Delmar Avenue. They require a 25-foot buffer on Tract 7’s northern edge and on the western edges of Tracts 13 and 58, subject to their specified improvement exceptions.

20120426-101, Part 8(B)–(D) (PDF p. 14).

Coronado Hills adopts all three tools

Part 4 adopts porch setbacks, front-yard impervious-cover/parking placement and garage placement. Its conditional-overlay provisions require a 25-foot buffer on Tract 105’s eastern edge and along the southernmost 470 feet of Tract 112’s northwest edge.

20120426-102, Part 4; Part 9 (PDF p. 4).

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

St. John Ordinance 20120426-101 and Coronado Hills Ordinance 20120426-102, with their own tract maps and subsequent changes. See how this review handles original ordinances, amendments and HOME.

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