North Lamar Transit Center & South Congress Transit Center Station Areas
North Lamar Transit Center & South Congress Transit Center Station Areas
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Have you received a Notification of Filing and Community Meeting Notice for a neighborhood plan amendment in your area? Read below to learn more about the Station Area Vision Plans for the North Lamar and South Congress Transit Centers, and how the City is proposing to update the Future Land Use Map (FLUM) to support Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD). See the tabs to learn more about the vision plans and the related neighborhood plan amendments for each station area, and attend our Virtual Community Meetings to learn more, ask questions, and give feedback. Here is when the Virtual Community Meetings will be held:
North Lamar Transit Center Station Area Vision Plan and related Neighborhood Plan Amendments:
Neighborhood Plan Amendment Cases: NPA-2025-0017.01, NPA-2025-0017.02, NPA-2025-0007.01, NPA-2025-0018.01, and NPA-2025-0026.01
Meeting date and time: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm.
This meeting has concluded. You can see the video recording at this link, and the meeting presentation is in the documents section: "NLTC NPA Community Meeting Presentation 2025-03-04.pdf".
South Congress Transit Center Station Area Vision Plan and related Neighborhood Plan Amendments:
Neighborhood Plan Amendment Cases: NPA-2025-0001.01, NPA-2025-0020.01, NPA-2025-0020.02, and NPA-2025-0022.01
Meeting date and time: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm.
This meeting has concluded. You can see the video recording at this link, and the meeting presentation is in the documents section: "SCTC NPA Community Meeting Presentation 2025-03-05.pdf".
The meetings will be recorded and posted to this website the day after each meeting. For more information, please contact Tim McCarthy at (512) 974-8092 or at tim.mccarthy@austintexas.gov . Also, if you’re interested in receiving a briefing for your neighborhood, please reach out to us via email at ETOD@austintexas.gov to arrange a visit. Help us ensure that every voice is heard!
WELCOME to the engagement hub for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) planning at the North Lamar Transit Center and the South Congress Transit Center station areas! We invite you to review the information on this page about the planning process, community engagement, and the draft plans. Please help us to finalize the plans by submitting comments in the comments tab.
Planning for Station Areas
Station area planning is a community-driven approach to crafting a vision for the area surrounding a transit station. Station Area Vision Plans establish a framework for the future development of the 1/2 mile-radius areas surrounding the transit stations and the interface with the transit stations themselves.
To support implemention of the Project Connect transit system, the City and CapMetro have partnered to develop station area vision plans that support equitable transit-oriented development in the vicinity of Project Connect stations. The first set of station areas identified for future planning – North Lamar Transit Center and South Congress Transit Center – were identified because these areas are existing transit hubs that will benefit from station area planning and can serve as protoypes for equitable station area planning in other similar locations. By coordinating with existing planning efforts already underway and funded, the City can quickly begin applying the objectives outlined in ETOD Policy Toolkit in these areas.
The station area planning engagement process kicked off with a series of workshops involving community members near the North Lamar and South Congress Transit Centers in the spring of 2023. A second round of engagement took place in the fall of 2023.
The initial draft plans based on this engagement are available for your review in the Documents section of this page, to the right. The plans will undergo further updates and finalization following this third round of engagement in the fall of 2024. Staff will continue to find opportunities to share station area information with the community at future engagement events. Click the following links to read the summaries of Round 1 and Round 2 of engagement for the station area vision plans.
Please refer to the project timeline on the right for updates to engagement and public hearing dates. For more information on how to participate, please see the How to Participate tab. We want to hear from you!
We appreciate your participation in the three open house events held on November 13 , 14 , and 16, where we shared the with the community. If you were unable to attend these events, we encourage you to download the draft plans and share your thoughts during this comment period, which will help us refine the plans before we finalize them in early 2025.
For your convenience, we have included the presentation and recording of the joint virtual meeting linked below:
Here is the link to the Spanish audio version.
Here is the link to the English audio version.