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Originally Posted by Jdawgboy
Highland can easily be developed as part of the fabric of the city. Roads can easily be built through it to connect to the surrounding grid.
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But it very likely won't be. We already know all the streets that will be added (they're all in the master plan), plus there's no surrounding grid to tie into (again, it's surrounded by two highways and the rail line).
Again, it won't be a bad place, and density is good, but it's not like it'll be a nice walk there from (for instance) North Loop(the neighborhood), Windsor Park, etc.
It may be the "original core of the city" by the new definition that uses the highway loops, but remember, it was built in the 70s. It was developed as a suburb.
Edit: Since we keep conflating the threads, we can look at the NBG master plan. Which calls for a little more "griding" of the streets in the domain property. Page 4.10
ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/npzd/Austingo/nbg-np.pdf