Collette said building upwards would make room for larger-scale ... to some of the building heights in the area, it limits us to our floor-to-floor, making construction costs kind of increase ...

No changes were made in the Business zone, where building heights are already limited at two and a half stories, or in Residential zones. As far as the heights of new residential construction ...

Although masonry unit brick and block construction is a prominent collapse risk, the generally accepted horizontal collapse zone (CZ) is considered at 1.5 times the building’s height.

Construction of apartment buildings nearly double the height of the famed University of Texas Tower could soon be allowed just west of the sprawling downtown campus under recommended land use ...