Austinist: Million SqFt Strip Mall Deal For Pflugerville Toll Roads

me

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:06:19 -0600

Same old crap that will dry up and blow away when gas goes up to $10 a gallon.

apv

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:07:48 -0600

Does this mean we can tear down barton creek square? Brick. By. Brick?

M1EK

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:22:37 -0600

John, Pflugerville has tons and tons of zoning. The ugly stuff you see is the result of, not the absence of, their zoning codes. Most towns in this country (including, still, Austin) have zoning codes which effectively mandate that kind of neighborhood. And at the same time, most of the neighborhoods people today are desperately trying to get into could not be legally built under the current zoning code. And please, nobody, bring up Houston. They've got a set of rules which are just as restrictive or moreso - they just don't call them "zoning".

damnation's delights

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:39:30 -0600

The very idea of 'Pflugerville' needs to not exist. Same for some place called 'Round Rock'.

John

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:39:19 -0600

Tim's not kidding - the majority of Pflugerville is absolutely hideous, with little to no zoning creating a sprawling mess of ugly houses (mostly 1-side brick, ugh) stacked on top of each other, with an occasional Sonic or Walgreens to break up the monotony. Feh.

Ashley

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:29:18 -0600

How exciting! Just what we all need. Another Old Navy, Home Depot, Petsmart, Best Buy, Chili's, Borders and whatever other generic store that is probably a mile down the road from this construction site that I failed to mention.

Aaron

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:22:54 -0600

Limestone Shilli, LIMESTONE!!!!!!!!!

Tim

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:57:39 -0600

This is the town that has suburban housing laid out in a grid for as far as the eye can see? This is the town that for all intents and purposes is ONLY big box retailing and suburban houses? What are they talking about? Probably they were just talking because they were trying to distract us from the fact that for some reason a city is paying a bunch of businesses it already has to open new stores. In Austin we sue them and they still open the stores. In Plfugerville they pay the store to open.

M1EK

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:47:45 -0600

I literally just two days ago was trying to explain to somebody contemplating a move from central Austin to Pflugerville that P-ville's "cute downtown" might not last for long as P-ville goes whole hog on strip malls. Argh.