Plan for Little Woodrow's bar on Burnet Road faces opposition from neighbors – Austin American-Statesman

Residents along fast-changing Burnet Road in North Central Austin are fighting a plan to bring a bar to the area, and so far they haven’t found many allies in City Hall. The owner of Little Woodrow’s, a popular chain of nine bars in Austin and Houston, hopes to install a fifth location amid new storefronts and across the street from a four-story AMLI apartment building that opened in 2010, but he needs the City Council to approve a zoning change first. City officials say rezoning the property, previously a real estate office, to allow a bar is appropriate for a commercial area such as that, and the City Council has given the move preliminary approval, with a final vote tentatively scheduled for Jan. 31.