Multifamily Concrete in Cedar Park, Texas

Houses still dominate: about 73% of Cedar Park's housing units are single-family detached. But 6,110 units (about 21%) are in buildings of five or more, 2,679 of them in buildings of 50 or more, and about 33% of occupied homes are rented (Census Bureau, 2020-2024 survey estimates). The City's report adds 1,258 units in existing mixed-use projects on 30.91 acres: Latitude at Presidio, The Alden, Quest MU and Vera Cedar Park.

What is planned next

Land zoned for mixed use but not yet built totals 138.86 acres, which the City estimates at 7,566 units using assumed densities. The largest tracts are Indigo Ridge North at Whitestone and Sam Bass (50.00 acres, 3,000 units) and the Bell Boulevard Redevelopment between Park and Buttercup Creek (16.91 acres, 1,300 units). Under review or in development are The Carlo at Vista Ridge, 377 units on 6.20 acres, and Whitestone Oaks Apartments, 96 units on 4.83 acres.

Why new apartments go mixed use

Cedar Park's Multifamily Residential (MF) district covers only the tracts already zoned MF when its zoning chapter took effect, and no new MF zoning is permitted after that; the chapter was adopted on November 9, 2017. New apartments can still come through the Mixed Use (MU) district, as upper floors in a mixed-use building or as a complex, mainly on infill parcels and corridors being redeveloped. The Urban Residential district covers attached townhomes, on their own lots or as condominiums.

Apartment communities on the tax rolls

Four of the City's ten largest property taxpayers in FY2023 were apartment and mixed-use communities: Latitude at Presidio ($99,310,314 in taxable value), The Alden at Cedar Park ($93,500,000), Cypress Gardens Apartments ($82,749,910) and Muir Lake Apartments ($82,164,151).

Inside city limits, no development may take place and no building permit may be issued until a site development permit is in hand. The exceptions include single-family homes and their accessory uses, but none is granted for building a retaining wall. Plan review costs $0.04 per square foot of impervious cover up to 50,000 square feet, with lower rates above that, and inspection fees run from $125.00 to $500.00, rising with the area of impervious cover.

Flatwork and right-of-way permits

Driveways, sidewalks and ADA ramps outside single-family work take the City's $35 flatwork permit. A Right-of-Way Use Permit costs $100.00 for application review and asks for proof of liability insurance, a cost estimate and one-year fiscal security; it stays valid for 180 days from approval. Any sidewalk, drive approach or other concrete in TxDOT right-of-way inside the city needs an approved TxDOT permit before work starts.

Working next to occupied buildings

Right-of-way work begins with a pre-construction meeting with the City inspector, booked at least 48 hours ahead. It runs Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., or 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. within 100 feet of a dwelling, and never on Sunday, which shapes pour days beside apartment buildings that are already lived in.

Sidewalks and Type II driveways

A site plan that needs full review by the Development Services Committee must include concrete sidewalks or shared-use paths on every adjacent and internal street. Public sidewalks need a 5-foot minimum width on local and collector streets and 6 feet on arterials. An apartment entrance is a Type II driveway in the manual's terms: a concrete approach for any use besides a one- or two-family home.

Most homes here are newer: the median year built is 2005. For single-family lots, the manual allows one driveway approach per property, 12 to 25 feet wide (18 feet desirable) and at least 50 feet from an intersecting street, and the driveways together can't take up more than 70% of a lot's road frontage. Besides apartment work we build retaining walls, curb and gutter and commercial parking lots, and residential driveways and patios.

Beyond the city limits, Heritage Concrete Austin takes on concrete driveway repair in Brushy Creek and concrete resurfacing in Jonestown.