Most of the attention surrounding Council Member Ora Houston’s proposal to create five new Capitol view corridors in East Austin has centered around how it would impact the Travis County hospital district’s plans to redevelop the site of University Medical Center Brackenridge, which is supposed to provide a key source of revenue for indigent health care here.

Less noticed: Houston’s proposed corridors, if approved, would also impose significant new height restrictions on the rumored site of the new Trump hotel that’s also reportedly planned for Austin, a Statesman mapping analysis found.

The New York Times first reported in October that the Trump Organization has plans to build a 33-story hotel in Austin, which were subsequently confirmed by President Donald Trump’s son, Eric, in an interview in February.

Some sleuthing by the American-Statesman found that the Trump Org’s reported business partner has filed plans to build a 24-story hotel at 12th Street and Red River, which is currently home to a Brick Oven Pizza. Neither Trump’s company or the local partner would comment on whether these projects were one and the same.

From Statesman reporter Shonda Novak:

[Alan Nalle, an Austin businessman who owns the land where the project is planned] said he doesn’t know who the ownership is behind the entity leasing his land. He said his point of contact for the entity is Brett Norwich. Nalle referred other questions to Norwich, an entrepreneur who invests in real estate in Texas and elsewhere.

Norwich is chief executive of Global Management Resources LLC, or GMR, a developer working with the Trump Organization on the hotel, according to a pitch for the project detailed in a 16-page document distributed to Chinese investors in recent weeks, the Times reported.

In September, Norwich filed for personal bankruptcy protection, listing more than $11 million in business-related debt. The filing said that GMR had no assets of value and that his projects had failed over the past two years.

Nalle said that Norwich is “absolutely current on every obligation to me.”

Reached by phone Friday [Oct. 21,2016], Norwich told the Statesman he would discuss the Austin hotel project only if the Statesman didn’t report on his bankruptcy filing. When the Statesman refused, Norwich ended the phone conversation.

But, as you can see below, two of Houston’s five proposed view corridors would almost entirely cover the lot where Brick Oven currently sits, likely imposing significant height restrictions to preserve Capitol views.

FWIW: CM Houston's East Austin Capitol View Corridors proposal would impact rumored site of Trump Hotel in Austin – https://t.co/HXJRi7p0yspic.twitter.com/9e3C1Dqgmj

— Nolan Hicks (@ndhapple) March 1, 2017

Houston’s office was not immediately available for comment.

At this point, the five proposed corridors are being studied. The council approved a measure today to first complete the study of the Rosewood Park corridor that could affect the Brackenridge hospital site, then study the other four proposed sightlines.

Based on those studies, the council would decide at a future date whether to create any additional Capitol view corridors, which limit the height of any new construction that may block a sightline to the Capitol.