North Lamar/Burnet Development Thread

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Posting here as it’s before 183.

New Apartments Seek to Heal the Sprawl on Shoal Creek Boulevard

The site, a roughly 3.1-acre assembly of two adjacent warehouse properties at 8640 and 8700 Shoal Creek Boulevard owned by local firm Karnak Holdings, successfully added a Planned Development Agreement (PDA) overlay to the properties’ current Light Industrial zoning status, allowing their redevelopment as an apartment project by major Texan multifamily builder OHT Partners.

Despite a few compatibility setbacks imposed by the presence of single-family homes within the limit of 540 feet — hey, there’s that absurd code again — the planned apartment building at this site will be able to rise to a maximum height of 75 feet thanks to this zoning tweak, with current city documents indicating approximately 330 new residences are expected here. The project secured the support of the North Shoal Creek Neighborhood Association by designating 10 percent of the apartments as affordable at 80 percent of the region’s Median Family Income, along with providing sidewalk improvements along the site’s frontage. Considering what this area looks like now, we’re not surprised to see the neighbors getting on board.