A park and a stormwater project
The city is developing a concept plan involving two proposed detention basins at Adams-Hemphill Park as part of the Guadalupe Street flood-risk-reduction project.[1]
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North University 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 20040826-056 recorded in the source, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as NORTH UNIVERSITY.
Adams-Hemphill Neighborhood Park sits at the intersection of recreation and flood-management planning. The city’s concept work shows how a park can be asked to serve both everyday neighborhood use and a broader infrastructure purpose.
1 linked sources · CheckedThe city is developing a concept plan involving two proposed detention basins at Adams-Hemphill Park as part of the Guadalupe Street flood-risk-reduction project.[1]
The concept includes a field, perimeter walking trail and basketball court, alongside other proposed features. These are design elements to follow through the project process, not a guarantee of completed amenities.[1]
The city proposes streambank stabilization along Hemphill Branch while preserving the historic appearance of retaining walls. Its project page explains the relationship between erosion, infrastructure and planting.[1]
The cited page describes concept planning and proposed facilities. Check its current timeline for design and construction status.[1]
The city explains that detention needs a sufficiently large low-lying site and that alternative locations were evaluated for the Guadalupe project.[1]
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The 25 most recently issued inside this boundary (page limit 25)
Austin Public Health · up to 15 most recent inside this boundary
We could not place any Austin Public Health inspection from ZIP 78705 inside this boundary. We match by geocoded street address, so this means none we can place — not none that exist.
Texas Dept. of Licensing & Regulation filings · up to 15 inside this boundary
Texas Comptroller mixed-beverage filers we placed inside this boundary
4 of 34 filers in ZIP 78705 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.
North University 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 North University boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin ordinance number 20040826-056 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 1,739 building permits that it has geocoded inside the North University planning-area boundary, the earliest dated September 12, 1978 and the most recent September 30, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $147,386,043. 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 code 78705 has a centroid inside the North University 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.