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Originally Posted by The ATX
Your sentiment is appreciated. But how would such an ordinance/zoning requirement be worded or implemented?
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A city that calls itself the "live music capital of the world" and "keep Austin weird" can, and simply must, do much better at managing growth while protecting and cultivating the very things that made it popular to begin with. There are so many surface lots just begging to get redeveloped in the downtown core, but yet it's somehow trendy to just mow down existing structures instead of creating new hot spots from the ground up. (The area all around the ARCH should be booming with cranes, if not for misguided politics)
This particular project's "annexation" to the Rainey St lot(s) is simply unnecessary. The hotel/residential tower can be built on the lot that fronts East street without any need to cross the alley whatsoever.
I'll withhold any further knee-jerk overreaction until we see more mature plans and renderings, and hope for the best with this spot. Something human-scaled along the lines of a Banger's renovation/expansion would be nice.