919 Travis is a newly finished mixed-use building on the Near Southside. It’s one of the earliest results of the Near Southside’s new award-winning form-based zoning code. Most everything in the Near Southside is zoned either T4 or T5, which indicate things like maximum setback, minimum and maximum heights, and so forth. There is a qualifier on some T4 zones, though – the “-N” qualifier, which indicates “neighborhood” zoning. A T4-N zone prevents single-use non-residential. It’s an important part of keeping the district from becoming entirely, say, medical office space. Another T4-N zone that everybody ought to be familiar with is the area centered on Oleander Walk – development there shows the T4-N zoning at work, in the form of all-residential developments like Texana Townhomes and Oleander Place or residential-including mixed-use like the in-progress Frank Building at Henderson & Oleander.

919 Travis is located in a T4-N zone, and as a result it is a medical office on the first floor and an apartment of around 1,200 square feet on the second floor. It was developed by Moss & Jordan Associates and designed by Terry R. Cunningham Architects.

It’s a good example of the kind of small-scaled infill that will slowly but steadily bring life back to the Near Southside, as it approaches a “critical mass” of development that would lead to larger-scaled projects.