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re: Lincoln Properties: Talk to the Hand
M1EK,
I think the area around Burnet and Anderson has higher residential density than that around the Triangle. After all, the Triangle is surrounded by state agency buildings and land.
There have been plans in the works as explained by Council Member Brewster McCracken, to encourage a "compact city" re-development of the Northcross area. Something walkable, with condos and retail.
Imagine: A nice two-bedroom condo for your mom or mother-in-law. A couple of neighborhood restaurants, a dry cleaners, a grocery, a movie rental store, some offices for dentists, lawyers, and massage therapists. With added housing, these new businesses would not put old ones at risk.
We desperately need more housing within the city limits of Austin, both for families and for single people, couples, and seniors. Many of the apartments in our area are getting VERY old.
To try to keep Allandale etc. in its original suburban condition is to encourage urban sprawl. The better option is to encourage neighborhood-oriented commercial development. Stores that don't necessarily attract people from far away. Stores that we can get to in a few minutes. The less driving, the better!
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