West End Mixed-Use Rezoning

At a glance

What: A 43.16-acre mixed-use Specific Plan (SP) rezoning of various properties running from 30th Avenue South and West End Avenue to Natchez Trace and south to 31st Avenue South (BL2026-1446, Proposal 2026SP-004-001), with its building-material restrictions bill (BL2026-1447) and a related bill cancelling a Planned Unit Development overlay on 1.56 acres at West End Avenue (BL2026-1445, Proposal 2005P-035-001).
Where it stands: All three passed third reading on September 1, 2026 with 30 yes, 0 no and Council Member Capp abstaining.

BL2026-1446: Changes ORI, ORI-A, MUL-A, SP and MUG-A zoning to SP. The Planning and Zoning Committee approved it with amendments. Council Member Cash moved passage on third reading and offered Amendment No. 2, adopted by voice vote with Capp abstaining. Council Member Allen offered Amendment No. 3, adopted by voice vote with Capp abstaining. Passed as amended 30-0-1 (absent: Porterfield, Bradford, Sepulveda).
BL2026-1447: The Planning and Zoning Committee approved it with an amendment. Cash offered Amendment No. 1 (voice vote, Capp abstaining); passed as amended 30-0-1.
BL2026-1445: Cash moved passage; 30-0-1, Capp abstaining (absent: Bradford, Druffel, Sepulveda).

Council Member Cash requested the public hearing on each bill. On BL2026-1445 no one spoke; on BL2026-1446 and BL2026-1447 citizens spoke both for and against (names and arguments are not in the minutes).
Cash moved each bill on second reading with third reading deferred to the September 1 Council meeting. For BL2026-1446 Cash offered Amendment No. 1, adopted by voice vote, and then moved passage as amended; every vote was by voice with Capp abstaining. All three bills were referred to the Planning and Zoning Committee.

BL2026-1445 (cancelling the PUD overlay at 2609 West End Avenue, 1.56 acres, zoned MUG-A, about 197 feet southwest of Natchez Trace) was approved by the Planning Commission and passed first reading with Capp abstaining.
BL2026-1446 (SP rezoning of 43.16 acres, partly within a PUD overlay) was approved with conditions and disapproved without conditions by the Planning Commission. It passed first reading with Capp abstaining.
BL2026-1447 (building material restrictions; the bill's caption notes it requires certain materials to be restricted in construction of buildings) had the same Planning Commission result and passed first reading with Capp abstaining.
All three were set for the next available public hearing.

First reading of BL2026-1445, 1446 and 1447, Capp abstaining.

Third reading of BL2026-1445, 1446 and 1447, each 30-0-1.

Public hearing; second reading of all three bills with third reading deferred to September 1 (Capp abstaining).