Austin neighborhood field guide
Get to know the local places, then explore what the public record says: construction, restaurant inspection scores and beverage receipts, with dates and sources beside the data.
Allandale is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas boundary dataset. The saved source records its planning status as future planning area. These mapped categories differ from colloquial neighborhood names. Districts people name in conversation, like South Congress, Rainey Street or the Sixth Street entertainment district, are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area or straddle two. This boundary is a single polygon in the city's file, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as ALLANDALE.
Beverly S. Sheffield Northwest District Park gives an Allandale outing a clear starting point. Its playscape planning and recently renovated aquatic facility tell different chapters of the same community space. Use the city’s dedicated park and pool pages to distinguish long-term improvements from the facilities and access available for your visit.
4 linked sources · CheckedThe city adopted the park’s vision plan in February 2022. Its playscape project page records the community process and later design work, making it a useful guide to how this long-established gathering place is changing.[2]
The aquatic facility originally opened in 1956. The city’s renovation project connects the recent work to that history, while the separate pool listing describes a 50-meter recreational pool, a wading pool and a diving board.[3][4]
The city lists the pool at 7000 Ardath Street. Use that facility address for directions instead of the center of a large neighborhood boundary, particularly when arranging a meet-up or choosing a pool entrance.[3]
The city maintains separate project pages for the playscape and aquatic facility. The playscape page includes the adopted vision plan and community-engagement material; the pool renovation page documents that project’s history and updates.[2][4]
No. The saved planning-boundary snapshot labels Allandale as a future neighborhood planning area. That mapping category does not describe neighborhood quality or promise a planning schedule.[1]
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Boundary drawn from City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas, as last modified September 22, 2021. Markers are placed from geocoded street addresses, so a record whose address we cannot geocode is listed below but not pinned. The panels under the map are the full text equivalent.
The 25 most recently issued inside this boundary (page limit 25)
Austin Public Health · up to 15 most recent inside this boundary
Texas Dept. of Licensing & Regulation filings · up to 15 inside this boundary
Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage filers we placed inside this boundary
14 of 65 filers in ZIP 78756, 78757 placed inside this boundary. Each venue’s figure is its own gross receipts over its own filing months — there is deliberately no area total, because this is a sample, not a census.
Allandale is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary dataset. Its status in the saved source is future planning area. Inclusion in this file does not by itself mean a neighborhood plan was adopted. Well-known districts such as South Congress, Rainey Street and the Sixth Street entertainment district are not separate areas in this dataset; they sit inside a planning area, or straddle two. The Allandale boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin Development Services has issued 7,194 building permits that it has geocoded inside the Allandale planning-area boundary, the earliest dated March 1, 1978 and the most recent September 28, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $453,831,949. Declared value is the figure the applicant put on the permit application, not market value or finished cost. Counted from the city's Issued Construction Permits dataset (3syk-w9eu), building permits only, over every issue date in that dataset. The boundary test needs a mapped coordinate, and about one building permit in seven (13.8% as published on 2026-07-26) carries no location, so those rows cannot be placed in any neighbourhood and are not in this figure.
ZIP codes 78756, 78757 have centroids inside the Allandale boundary. We match ZIP codes to planning areas by testing each ZIP's centroid against the boundary polygon, so a large ZIP can overlap an area without its centre landing inside it. Use the boundary, not the ZIP, as the authority.
