A postwar beginning
The neighborhood association’s history dates Crestview’s development to 1947 on the former Richcreek dairy farm. Richcreek Road preserves the family name in the street network.[3]
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Crestview is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin Neighborhood Planning Areas boundary dataset. The saved source records its planning status as plan approved. 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, with ordinance 20100624-033 recorded in the source, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as CRESTVIEW.
Crestview’s neighborhood association traces its development to former farmland and the postwar growth of Austin. Street names and the neighborhood’s creek help connect today’s area to that earlier landscape.
3 linked sources · CheckedThe neighborhood association’s history dates Crestview’s development to 1947 on the former Richcreek dairy farm. Richcreek Road preserves the family name in the street network.[3]
The same history identifies Hancock Creek, also called Hancock Branch, along Arroyo Seco through Crestview and Brentwood before it reaches Shoal Creek.[3]
Austin records the Crestview/Wooten Combined Neighborhood Plan’s adoption on April 1, 2004. Its resources include a future land-use map and implementation chart.[2]
The city adopted a combined Crestview/Wooten plan. This site still keeps their mapped areas and civic data on separate neighborhood pages.[2][1]
The neighborhood association identifies it as another name for Hancock Creek, which follows Arroyo Seco through Crestview and Brentwood before reaching Shoal Creek.[3]
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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
6 of 100 filers in ZIP 78757, 78752, 78756, 78751, 78731 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.
Crestview is one of 65 named areas in the City of Austin neighborhood-planning boundary dataset. Its status in the saved source is plan approved. 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 Crestview boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin ordinance number 20100624-033 is recorded against this planning area in the city's Neighborhood Planning Areas dataset, with planning status plan approved.
City of Austin Development Services has issued 4,703 building permits that it has geocoded inside the Crestview planning-area boundary, the earliest dated January 1, 1978 and the most recent September 29, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $367,837,359. 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.
No ZIP code centroid falls inside the Crestview boundary, so we search the 5 nearest instead: 78757, 78752, 78756, 78751, 78731. 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.