The Bee Cave Planning and Zoning Commission heard presentations Jan. 21 from developer Christopher Milam on proposed plans for The Backyard in Bee Cave, 13801 Bee Cave Parkway, and The Terrace in Bee Cave, 13500 Bee Cave Parkway.

According to site plans, The Backyard will be overhauled to include six movie and television production sound stages, three office buildings, a 125- to 150-room hotel with freestanding casitas near the hilltop, a 6,000-person standing capacity amphitheater with terrace and treehouse VIP seating, a 2,000-person standing capacity amphitheater, restaurants, shops, two parking garages, water features and nature trail system.

Site plans for The Terrace, proposed as grounds for Supernature Studios in October, will include four sound stages with attached office space, a mill, two office buildings, three residential condominium buildings with a parking garage below, three free-standing parking garages as well as restaurants and retail in the residential and office buildings overlooking preserve land.

According to the plan, the developers' goal is to begin construction on both The Backyard and The Terrace in the fall.

TIm O'Connor, owner of The Backyard, said he partnered with Christopher Milam, developer of the Supernature Studios proposal, and John Paul DeJoria, founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems hair products and The Patron Spirits Company, for a segment of the project.

Milam will be the lead on both projects, which will probably be filed as two separate rezoning applications, said Lindsey Oskoui, Bee Cave Planning and Development director.