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Originally Posted by wwmiv
I'm fine with 5-8 stories, maybe even 10. I think 5-8 story buildings are great and I wish we had way more of them. But once you get higher floor counts, it just is so much more disconnected. Now, if you had, ya know, eight to ten 5-8 story buildings clustered around two or three 15+ story buildings, and then transitioning outward to 2-3 level buildings and then suburbia after that, I would be 100% okay with that. Unfortunately, that's impossible in the parcel of land we're discussing.
A equivalent location where I actually do think would be worth a huge fight to densify with maybe one or two 10+ story buildings surrounded by a bunch of 5-8 story buildings to fill up all those empty parking lots at the southeast corner of 2222/MoPac, but... you're right: inner neighborhoods are privileged to a degree in Austin. However, that's the case in a lot of places and simply has to do with the attendant underlying political geography: rich people tend to live in inner ring old build suburbs and rich people tend to hold a lot of political power.
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You mean north of the cemetery and south of 2222? Yeah, I can see that.
Though the neighborhoods would probably fight it on issues of transportation. The Mopac/2222 intersection there is already a bit funky, and between shoal creek and the cemetery you'd end up with all the trips entering/exiting onto northland.
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