City Council members hope that a series of amendments to a planning tool can increase housing affordability and the quality of life for University of Texas students, with the possibility of bringing a much-needed grocery store to the West Campus area.
On Thursday, Council will consider a resolution that calls for a series of changes to the University Neighborhood Overlay, a density bonus program that has been amended seven times since it was first passed in 2004 in an effort to add more housing to serve UT students.
The resolution calls for ordinance changes that would require windows in all bedrooms, make all bedrooms “functionally equivalent” whether they are priced affordably or at market rates, expand the UNO to more areas of the campus to allow some increases in building heights, take steps to increase commercial activation of ground-floor square footage and make assorted improvements to aid pedestrian and bicyclists.
The city would also take steps to improve the AHOST portal for students to find affordable housing, allow students additional flexibility and support during move-in dates and extend the required affordability period for existing affordable units within the overlay.
The city manager is expected to deliver the final language of the ordinances by next spring.
Nice to get a new project announcement during the boom wind down. Here's a UT version of the article with renderings if the Statesman article gets paywalled:
Before actually looking at the comment and seeing it was McCombs, my first thought glancing at these photos was "wow, that's a ton of retail space, that will be great around campus" -- oh well.
Two other brief thoughts after actually looking more closely:
1. I'm guessing the upper half of the building will have a brick facade? The bottom half looks to be limestone, which would fit the general burnt orange/white aesthetic with brick and limestone that UT's done with a few other recent campus buildings.
2. If the timeline for construction on the graduate school of business is any indicator, this will be 3+ years down the road, but does anyone know the eventual plans for McCombs' current building? The press release from UT doesn't mention anything about it.
Before actually looking at the comment and seeing it was McCombs, my first thought glancing at these photos was "wow, that's a ton of retail space, that will be great around campus" -- oh well.
Two other brief thoughts after actually looking more closely:
1. I'm guessing the upper half of the building will have a brick facade? The bottom half looks to be limestone, which would fit the general burnt orange/white aesthetic with brick and limestone that UT's done with a few other recent campus buildings.
2. If the timeline for construction on the graduate school of business is any indicator, this will be 3+ years down the road, but does anyone know the eventual plans for McCombs' current building? The press release from UT doesn't mention anything about it.
Future home of the School of Social Work. The current location of the school is being razed for the new Texas football practice facility.
Do you mean next to the UCC where the taco stands currently park themselves? I believe that lot is owned by the church itself.
Yes. Although, (again based on the rendering) it looks as if the building footprint might not use the entirety of the parking garage footprint either. The northern end of the parking garage creeps into that northwest corner of the block.
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