The Record’s online poll from May 31- June 14 asked readers whether they think a proposed purpose-built student housing development in downtown that was recently denied a conditional use permit would be beneficial.
A purpose-built student housing project proposed for a whole block of Guadalupe Street downtown got a thumbs down from the Planning and Zoning Commission on May 28.
The commission held a public hearing for a conditional use permit to allow the construction of a five- to seven-story student housing development on Guadalupe Street between San Antonio Street and Martin Luther King Drive. The 75 Sylvan development would have had 171 units with 545 bedrooms and 0.75 parking spaces per bedroom, with a fee-in-lieu of parking payment of $844,600 to the city.
