Real estate
BY GRACIE WARHURST
Home Edition
2026
Welcome to Community Impact’s 2026 Home Edition. Our annual Home Edition takes a deeper dive into local market trends and statistics, featuring expanded residential real estate coverage. This year’s edition includes stories on new developments in and around Georgetown, as well as a closer look at local historic homes and the organization working to help preserve them. This is also a great opportunity for businesses to connect with an audience actively making home decisions. We want to thank all of our advertisers for investing in us as we deliver hyperlocal news. Thank you to our readers for trusting us and seeing the value we bring to the local community. Whether you are looking to buy your rst home or make some needed upgrades to your current one, Community Impact is here to help you navigate the real estate landscape. We hope you nd this issue a valuable resource.
What's inside
Learn about a 43-acre multifamily project approved near Shell Road (Page 24)
Denise Seiler General Manager dseiler@ communityimpact.com
Read how rst-time homebuyers are driving the market (Page 27)
Discover how Ark Roofer aims to build trust with customers (Page 33)
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City leaders share details of unied development code update maintaining quality, the code will also normalize integrating diverse housing products into sin- gle-family neighborhoods, Schroeder said. This includes townhomes, duplexes, fourplexes and courtyard homes, which will be incorporated into a new, mixed-density residential category designed for smaller parcels of land.
Georgetown will update its unied development code this summer for the rst time since 2003, aiming to modernize regulations in response to the city’s massive growth, Mayor Josh Schroeder said. What residents should know The most signicant citywide change will be allowing accessory dwelling units, which include structures like casitas or backyard cottages, Schroeder said. Restrictions are written into the code, limiting properties to one ADU per residence and enforcing rules regarding how far the ADU can be from a property, parking and utility connections. “People don’t need to freak out about it and think every neighbor around them is going to be adding ADUs tomorrow because there are a lot of restric- tions and limitations,” Schroeder said. What else? To address housing aordability while
May: Residents will receive a state-mandated notice in the mail regarding the zoning changes July 21 and 28: Public meetings to gather community feedback Aug. 11: Final approval of the ordinance Nov. 1: Code changes go into eect Next steps management, Schroeder said. “If you’ve got a ton of those happening, it’s an indication that ... something’s wrong in your code,” Schroeder said. Moving forward, PUDs will be reserved strictly for truly unique, original developments, ocials said.
These municipal changes will not override any existing homeowner associations’ rules or deed restrictions, Schroeder said. Something to note The new code also aims to cut down on the number of planned unit developments and special use permits for commercial and industrial projects by updating zoning categories to include more relevant acceptable uses, Schroeder said. PUDs, a special zoning designation approved on a case-by-case basis, require lengthier council approval processes and additional city sta
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