Growth reshapes northwest Georgetown From the cover
The overview
Valerie Covey said commissioners two decades ago could not have anticipated the level of road infrastructure now needed in the area. County plans include widening Ronald Reagan Boulevard in the area into an eight-lane roadway. “We’re doing it now because we needed to get started,” Covey said. “We needed to make sure we had the option to buy the right of way because, if we didn’t do it now, we wouldn’t be able to—there would be too many things in the way.”
its active-adult community with 674 homes being built across nine new sections, according to Georgetown’s pipeline development map. Other developers have proposed and received approvals for large projects along Ronald Reagan Boulevard from Hwy. 195 to FM 3405 that will add more than 8,500 new homes, retail space, parkland and a school site. Precinct 3 Williamson County Commissioner
Georgetown’s growth is pushing outward into its once lower-density edges. This is especially true of northwest Georgetown, where new construction is separated only by a road from farmland. When the Sun City neighborhood launched in 1994, its 7,000-acre site sat entirely on “rolling ranch land,” according to the Sun City Community Association’s website. Today, Sun City has more than 17,000 residents and continues to expand
Housing hotspot There are at least a dozen neighborhoods under construction or in the planning phase along this stretch.
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New neighborhoods These are the neighborhoods bringing the most houses to the Ronald Reagan corridor. Heirloom • Number of units: 2,000 (single-family),
Zooming in
Another housing community, Nolina, has over 1,300 single-family houses from builders like Tay- lor Morrison and Perry Homes under construction or planned, according to its website. Some homes on the property are ready for move-in. The Parmer Ranch neighborhood opened its rst phase in 2021 and plans to have about 1,000 homes. Its amenity center opened this spring, and the community is still adding new builders like Coventry Homes as of this year, according to the neighborhood’s website. The Somerset Hills development will bring single-family homes as well as apartments and condos. Over 600 multifamily units total are planned for the project, according to the city's development map.
Georgetown City Council approved the Heirloom mixed-use project in August, annexing the site into city limits. It will bring about 3,000 residential units across single-family homes, townhomes and apartments; a future Georgetown ISD school site; dedicated parkland; and more than 200,000 square feet of retail and commercial space. Kimble said the project will o er more accessi- ble, a ordable housing, in contrast to the “larger lot” and “higher-end” homes that have been typical of the area. “I think what we’re seeing [in the] demand for communities right now is a whole lot more about running the full gamut of product types, which brings di erent demographics [and] di erent kinds of vibrancy,” Kimble said.
1,000 (multifamily) • Status: in planning Woodside East & West
• Number of units: 1,170 (single-family) • Status: under construction, in planning Somerset Hills • Number of units: 384 (single-family), 608 (multifamily) • Status: in planning Parmer Ranch • Number of units: 952 (single-family) • Status: under construction, in planning
SOURCE: CITY OF GEORGETOWN COMMUNITY IMPACT
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