Contents

1 The Site

1.1 INTRODUCTION

Between 2006 and 2016, the City of Austin has grown on average 2.83% per year. 1 Because of this tremendous growth, Austin was

ranked as the number one best market for real estate development as of 2017. This means that Austin’s real estate is more valuable than ever and that open land is harder to come by.

However, there are still large tracts of land that are undeveloped in Austin, especially in the Northeast portion of the city within Austin’s Extra Territorial Jurisdiction (ETJ). This report serves as a site analysis for a relatively undeveloped 6,718.5-acre area of land that is located just southeast of Pflugerville. The primary landmark within the site is the Austin Executive Airport. The site is located adjacent to State Highway 130, US Route 183, and US Route 290. Although the site is currently zoned primarily for agriculture use, the City of Austin has designated a portion of the site area as a future neighborhood center in their 2039 Imagine Austin Plan. Figure 1 shows the location of the study site in relation to the rest of Austin.

This report will be divided in 10 chapters. The first chapter will cover the history of the study site. The next six chapters will discuss the existing conditions of the site. The final four chapters will provide an analysis of the site’s development potential and present various scenarios about how this development might proceed.

1 Grisales, “Report: Austin’s Booming Economy No. 2 in Nation in Growth.”

Figure 1: Location of Study Site as Compared to Austin