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Originally Posted by micahinsa
That parking garage is really going to be an eyesore.
Especially with it backing up to the creek like this. Ugh.
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To add to and sum up others' points in reply to yours:
A. It won't really look like a garage because of the cladding that has yet to be put on.
B. It doesn't "back up" the creekwalk at all, but instead has an active street-front.
C. There's a street separating the garage from the creekwalk.
B+C. To the extent that the garage actively fronts (different, and more accurate, framing than "backs up to") the creekwalk, it is still separated from it by a road.
D. You're complaining about this structure, rather than complaining about the substantially worse structures (or lack thereof) that currently face phase 1.1 of the creekwalk? This garage will be the ONLY urban structure adjacent to the creekwalk. Maybe the historic house across from Travis Street counts, but I'd argue that given its current surroundings it is not yet an urban structure. Every other parcel save for Fox Tech is either a parking lot or a suburban-style multifamily apartment.
E. Phases 1.2 and 1.3 are the most urban setting for the creekwalk, and even they will simply fit in between blank walls (perhaps eventually filled with privately commissioned murals?) on the sides of buildings. Is this garage worse than those blank walls what with its active uses facing the creek?