The Planning and Zoning Commission approved a request last night to change the zoning of five acres located on RR150 between the Valero station and the PAWS animal shelter east of I35 from agricultural to retail services so that it could become the location for, among other things, the city’s second Sonic drive-in restaurant.
The other Sonic is also located along RR150, near the intersection of Wetzel in the Plum Creek area.
John Patton, director of development for Austin Sonic, Inc., told the P&Z commissioners, the newer drive-in will be slightly larger than the original. The development must still receive additional approvals from P&Z as well as the City Council so Patton did not offer a construction timetable. He did say, however, the Sonic would be located at the PAWS end of the property and that Walgreen’s was looking to locate a store between the drive-in and the Valero.
Patton also predicted that entire plot of land between Hill Street and the correctional center would be developed, primarily by restaurants, sooner than commissioners might have anticipated. He did mention the possibility of multi-family units going into that section of land as well, but the City Council has been hesitant about placing multi-family units that close to I35 unless they are truly mixed-use, i.e. retail on the ground floor with apartments or condos on the second and third stories.
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