In 2001, the Austin City Council adopted the Montopolis Neighborhood Plan, which called for sustaining its single-family zoning in the heart of Montopolis.

In 2018, the report, “Uprooted: Residential Displacement in Austin’s Gentrifying Neighborhood and What Can be Done About It,” commissioned by the Austin City Council and completed by University of Texas experts, recommended that the city make strategic, anti-displacement investments in Montopolis to protect it from further gentrification.

Montopolis already has the highest concentration of multi-family, commercial, and industrial zoning of any planning area in the city.

On March 12, 2026, the City Council stood with Montopolis and denied a zoning change from single-family to commercial mixed use where the developer planned to build a nine-story mixed-use development. The 1.9 acres, known as the Montopolis-Fairway Zoning case, includes properties at 6202, 6204 Caddie Street; 6205, 6211, 6215 Fairway Street; 1600, 1604, 1606, 1608, 1612, and 1614 Montopolis.

While the community celebrated the victory, the land remains vulnerable to a new development that would continue to put the adjoining neighborhood at risk: at the May 7 City Council meeting, Mayor Watson instructed the City Manager to draft amendments for zoning ordinances under the HOME Initiative that will override neighborhood plans. We must act fast.

We’re asking city council to keep the neighborhood safe from more development, gentrification, and displacement by purchasing the land.

Please join us by signing this petition to make sure city leaders hear us, and Montopolis — the last “affordable” single-family neighborhood in Austin — can still be home to working class residents.

PROTECT SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSING AND PURCHASE THE PROPERTY AT MONTOPOLIS–FAIRWAY.

Thank you!