Blackland Neighborhood is being threatened by commercial development intruding in the residential area. Blackland Neighborhood is part of the Historic African American Cultural Heritage District.
The owner of Este Restaurant and his property development group are trying to re-zone 2108 East 22nd Street from single family residential to commercial. They will build a restaurant facing East 22nd Street. The lot, and all of East 22nd Street, is currently zoned residential.
Neighbors will be protesting the change before City of Austin Commissions, Zoning and Platting, and Planning. We need your help.
Please help protect the Blackland Neighborhood from unjust commercialization because once one lot is rezoned “commercial”, dominos will fall and this part of the Historic African American Cultural Heritage District will disappear.
Please contact the City and ask them to stop destroying neighborhoods:
· Contact all of City Council: https://www.austintexas.gov/email/all-council-members
· Contact Zoning and Platting Commission: mailto:bc-scott.boone@austintexas.gov
· Contact Housing and Planning: mailto:danielle.love@austintexas.gov
You can copy and paste the text below into the city’s form as “your“ message
The City of Austin should reject re-zoning 2108 East 22nd Street, in the Blackland Neighborhood from “residential” to “commercial”. Re-zoning will place a restaurant deep in a residential neighborhood, increasing noise, vehicle traffic, and pedestrian traffic from early morning to late night. The proposed restaurant has very limited onsite parking, so patrons and employees will consume on-street parking from morning to night. This will have a “domino” effect. The city must stop helping developers commercialize historic areas and reject any re-zoning not supported by residents.
No neighborhood should be treated this way. The Blackland Neighborhood deserves extra consideration because it was carved out by the infamous “1928 Master Plan”.