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[JoninATX]

By Dave Wilson

[JoninATX]

Austin City Council begins zoning changes in West Campus to boost housing, development

Isaiah Williams, Senior News Reporter
February 3, 2025

City Council has initiated the process for removing height limits for buildings in the “Inner West Campus” and Dobie areas. This change will allow taller buildings, potentially increasing the availability of housing units. Height limits will also be increased in other parts of West Campus to allow for more residential developments.

“By increasing building heights, you utilize your property more and provide more housing units on that same property,” said Paul Ray Books, a senior planner with the city of Austin. “To allow more properties to participate, would encourage more high-density, pedestrian-oriented development and affordable housing within the neighborhood.”

https://thedailytexan.com/2025/02/03...g-development/

[JoninATX]

The Republic - 710'ft



By DavidTexan

Opening up this summer with the entire building 50% leased.

[JoninATX]

The Waterline - 1,022'FT








By Urbannizer

Currently sitting at just over 820'ft, this summer Austin will claim the tallest building in Texas, over taking Houston JP Morgan Chase Tower by 20'ft

[TheHorseman]

From what I heard is Austin is a traffic nightmare. Do they have anything in mind to develop infrastructure? If they had a robust subway/bus system it might look attractive as a relocation.

[Plutonic Panda]

From what I heard is Austin is a traffic nightmare. Do they have anything in mind to develop infrastructure? If they had a robust subway/bus system it might look attractive as a relocation.

Oh, they had an amazing proposal which would’ve included a subway tube through downtown and they skill it back massively. Very sad to see. Austin needs a world class metro system that is grade separated and not glorified street cars or some goofy light rail line like the red line they have or whatever color it is.

They are planning a bunch of freeway improvements, which will help a little bit.

[TheHorseman]

Oh, they had an amazing proposal which would’ve included a subway tube through downtown and they skill it back massively. Very sad to see. Austin needs a world class metro system that is grade separated and not glorified street cars or some goofy light rail line like the red line they have or whatever color it is.

They are planning a bunch of freeway improvements, which will help a little bit.

Amazing. Even as the capital of Texas they don't have the resources for such a project? Build a robust infrastructure and everything else will fall into place. No one seems to want to bite that bullet.

[Plutonic Panda]

Amazing. Even as the capital of Texas they don't have the resources for such a project? Build a robust infrastructure and everything else will fall into place. No one seems to want to bite that bullet.

Yeah, the same thing happened in Nashville, Tennessee, but that was completely turned down sometime ago. They just passed a new initiative, which I think comprises mainly of bus service. I don’t pay attention too much to what happens in Austin so maybe JoninATX in fact, check me here on this and provide some more insight onto exactly what happened. But if I recall correctly, the overall transit plan with scale back a lot. A lot of what was supposed to be grade separated is now gonna be pretty much running on the street mixed in with cars or it’s going to be bus service instead of rail. And they were supposed to include a downtown transit center, which would’ve included a subway tube but that has been completely axed.

[JoninATX]

Unfortunately earlier plans that would have included a subway line as been scraped do to high inflation. Although the light rail part of the project is still happening.







Here's the link that breaks down all the info of Austin new light rail.
https://www.austinmonitor.com/storie...detailed-maps/

[Plutonic Panda]

That looks cool. I just wish they would wait until they can properly fund the downtown section even if that means waiting longer to do it right the first time around.

If I recall correctly, even Dallas scrapped its plans for a downtown subway. I get that inflation as a thing but bring it back to the voters and let them decide whether or not they want to pay more and get it done quicker, wait so it can be done the right way the first time, or just value engineer the project to get it done. I support the will of the people. But as I said, I personally wish they would do it the right way whether that means paying more now or waiting a little bit longer.

[JoninATX]

That looks cool. I just wish they would wait until they can properly fund the downtown section even if that means waiting longer to do it right the first time around.

If I recall correctly, even Dallas scrapped its plans for a downtown subway. I get that inflation as a thing but bring it back to the voters and let them decide whether or not they want to pay more and get it done quicker, wait so it can be done the right way the first time, or just value engineer the project to get it done. I support the will of the people. But as I said, I personally wish they would do it the right way whether that means paying more now or waiting a little bit longer.

I agree. I wish they would have stuck with the original plans. Longterm it would had benefit the city better.

[JoninATX]

Austin snowday January 2025

By Kxan news Austin