Update: A portion of Monday evening's Lakeway City Council meeting will be dedicated to hearing the latest on the City Center proposal, according to a release. While public comment is encouraged, Council will take no action.

Friday, Mayor Joe Bain wrote in his blog, "My goal is to have any new changes to the project to ZAPCO at least a week in advance of the next meeting [April 4] so they can have time to study it.  I will also publish that info for public consumption."

Original post: At a special-called meeting of the city of Lakeway's Zoning and Planning Commission on March 15, members voted 4-2 to delay any final recommendation to the City Council regarding rezoning 63 acres for a proposed mixed-used development called Lakeway City Center.

After listening to three hours of concerns and support from more than two dozen residents, ZAPCO members ultimately voted to take more time to gather feedback from homeowners as well as further study the revised planned unit development project presented to the commission by city staff.

Commissioner Don Kotrady motioned to delay any decision until ZAPCO's next meeting April 4.

"The fact that we just got some of this information this morning, I haven't had the time to examine it as much as I would like to even though I thought I was up-to-date. I don't feel a great urgency to make a decision tonight, Mr. Chairman," Kotrady said in his closing remarks.

ZAPCO held a first meeting to publicly discuss the City Center project March 7. Since then, based on feedback, city staff worked with the developer, Legend Communities, to refine the proposal's scope, including eliminating sections of the development labeled "flex space;" instead of committing to specific uses, such as "office" or "live/work/residential."  Here is a look at the project as it existed March 1.

City staff also told those at the meeting, 507 planned condos and single-family residences would be reduced to 298 total.

Legends had also asked for several variances to narrow some residential streets and for less impervious cover—changes that go against city zoning ordinances but could be accepted as part of the PUD.

One decision ZAPCO did approve is that no matter what form a future City Center PUD takes, the developer must pay the cost of bringing Main Street, and related infrastructure all the way from Lohmans Crossing Road on the west side of the planned project to connect with the Oaks at Lakeway shopping center. That would involve taking advantage of a 90-foot wide city right of way through a section of land currently owned by Stratus Properties.

ZAPCO members received a verbal commitment at the meeting for the road build-through from Legends principal Haythem Dawlett. A proposed performing arts center was also discussed, with the possibility of removing it from the PUD and reducing the size of the structure would replace it.