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Old Posted Jan 31, 2016, 1:28 AM
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Originally Posted by The ATX View Post
The latest plan has the three tallest buildings capped at 7-stories and placed along MOPAC.

http://communityimpact.com/austin/de...sign-unveiled/
Personally, outside of downtown, adjacent to downtown districts, and ancillary districts that have the ability to, as they densify, be catalysts for dense, urban, high rise development in a cohesive manner, I prefer density to be primarily in the 3-8 story range. I tend to view scattershot high rises along highway corridors to be unsightly urban blight that generally does not age well. If you aren't willing to go all in on density in a large scale way, human scale density is much more appropriate.
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