Austin rezonings
Every rezoning case filed with the City since the 1990s, read from the Planning Department's case record and the City's layer of zoning ordinances, mapped to the parcels each one rezoned, and searchable by district, direction, status and year.
What the record will hold
- The zoning before and the zoning asked for, as the Planning Department recorded them on each case, and the zoning each adopted ordinance produced, as the City's GIS recorded it.
- The parcel each adopted ordinance rezoned, as the City drew it, with the ordinance number and a link to the signed ordinance.
- Cases withdrawn, expired or denied, each marked by its status, alongside what the Council passed.
- Austin's combining districts, the conditional overlay, mixed use, vertical mixed use and neighborhood plan suffixes, kept as part of each change rather than stripped from it.
- The council district and the planning area, from the City's own layers.
- A direction for each change on the Land Development Code's floor area ratios, with a table dated to the HOME amendments of 2023 and 2024.
Austin rezones at about Atlanta's pace, a hundred to two hundred cases a year since 2010, most of them single sites of an acre or two, with the occasional mass rezoning by one ordinance. The case record runs back to 1971 and the ordinance layer to 1958, but the zoning before and after is readable from 1999 on.
The Planning Department's zoning cases table and the Geospatial Services team's zoning ordinance and zoning review case layers on the City of Austin Open Data Portal, the Clerk's signed ordinances, and the Land Development Code for the districts. The portal's terms place its datasets in the public domain unless a dataset's metadata says otherwise, and ask that the City be acknowledged. The published record will be licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 with the Department and the City credited as the source; the ordinances are quoted and linked, not republished.