By LYNETTE HAALAND, Four Points News

At a March 29 City of Austin Zoning and Platting Commission meeting, a moratorium was placed on MileStone Community Builders in their project at the end of Milky Way Drive to build 68 homes. River Place homeowners presented their issues and got support from ZAP. In general, sources tell Four Points News that the Commissioners were “not happy that MileStone changed the rules to serve themselves after years of debate and rulings that were made. They voted unanimously to put a moratorium on MileStone immediately.”

So the project has been halted for now.

For more than six years, residents who live in the 25 homes on Milky Way Drive in River Place have voiced their concerns about proposed development at the end of their street but time has come for construction to begin at the 42 acres to make room for some 68 housing units.

Since early this year, the developer MileStone Community Builders has been prepping the site at the end of the cul-de-sac on Milky Way Drive with a construction office and its first roads. (Story posted in February.)

But now the project is halted.

The 42-acre site at the end of Milky Way Drive has was rezoned for single-family condos with conditions. Austin City Council voted in favor of it on October 31, 2019.   GOOGLE MAPS