New development planned for the intersection of Pecan and Heatherwilde[/caption]

The Pflugerville City Council unanimously approved rezoning plans during their Aug. 9 meeting, for a mixed use development known as the Commons at Heatherwilde and Pecan, that developers hope will soon get underway.

Revisions to the zoning plans for the 45 acre development bordered by Heatherwilde Boulevard, Pecan Street, and Old Austin Pflugerville Road in northwest Pflugerville, will allow for a maximum of 30 additional residential units, 175 single-family attached townhomes, and an additional 200 multi-family and mixed use structures from the previous Planned Unit Development (PUD) plans that the council approved last summer.

Among the changes to the PUD are a reorientation of roads and civic spaces. Previous plans called for all development streets to be public, while the new plans call for only one main public road with a limited number of arterial private roads servicing the community. Civic spaces that were once broken into small chunks and placed throughout the development are larger and more evenly distributed in the modified plans.

The development, described by Mayor Jeff Coleman as the “Triangle of Pflugerville," referring to  a popular mixed-use development in Central Austin, will be a compact community consisting of retail and commercial space intermingled with a variety of residential units to create what Commons at Heatherwilde and Pecan developer and property owner Cid Galindo describes as a “walkable urban” environment.

Galindo hopes that the development’s first project, a 250 unit apartment project, will break ground in early 2017.