A garden built around ponds
The city describes water lilies, lotus, koi and turtles around Mayfield’s ponds, with heritage plants maintained by community volunteers. The peacocks are a recurring part of the park’s identity.[2]
Austin neighborhood field guide
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West Austin Neighborhood Group 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 20100923-102 recorded in the source, and the city last modified it on . The dataset stores the name as WEST AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP.
Mayfield Park provides a distinctive West Austin destination: cottage gardens, stone-edged ponds and the peacocks that appear throughout the city’s description. Its adjacent preserve adds trails and habitat with different rules from a typical neighborhood park.
3 linked sources · CheckedThe city describes water lilies, lotus, koi and turtles around Mayfield’s ponds, with heritage plants maintained by community volunteers. The peacocks are a recurring part of the park’s identity.[2]
Austin’s account dates the cottage to the late nineteenth century and records Allison Mayfield’s 1909 purchase as a family retreat. Later additions shaped the garden setting.[2]
The city explains that preserve land protects habitat, natural features and ecosystems. Its rules differ from general parkland, including restrictions on bikes and dogs.[3]
The city highlights its peacocks, cottage gardens, ponds and preserve trails. These features make it a specific destination beyond the broader West Austin label.[2]
No. West Austin Neighborhood Group is one specific named area in the saved city dataset. Use the polygon map rather than the broad phrase “West Austin.”[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
11 of 37 filers in ZIP 78703 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.
West Austin Neighborhood Group 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 West Austin Neighborhood Group boundary is a single polygon in the source file. The city last modified it on September 22, 2021.
City of Austin ordinance number 20100923-102 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 10,311 building permits that it has geocoded inside the West Austin Neighborhood Group planning-area boundary, the earliest dated October 27, 1978 and the most recent September 29, 2026, for a combined declared construction value of $878,218,271. 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 78703 has a centroid inside the West Austin Neighborhood Group 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.