{"id":324569,"date":"2026-06-05T20:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:01:10","slug":"hutto-city-council-approves-residence-inn-hotel-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324569\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutto City Council approves Residence Inn Hotel development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Hutto City Council approved a planned unit development for a Residence Inn Hotel at a meeting June 4.<\/p>\n<p>More details<\/p>\n<p>The Hutto Planning and Zoning Commission considered a request on May 5 to establish the Hutto Residential\/Residence Inn PUD on a 2.9-acre tract at 328 Ed Schmidt Boulevard, seeking a height increase to 55 feet, reduced parking at 0.9 spaces per guest room, and allowance for a blank north facade.<\/p>\n<p>The commission voted 3-1, recommending approval with these modifications in addition to an amendment requesting an update from the applicant on parking negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Koontz, director of development services, spoke at the meeting and provided updates on the request to reduce the required parking standard and height of the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Council unanimously approved the ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>In other news<\/p>\n<p>Interim City Engineer Patricia Davis provided an update on capital improvement projects, including the city&#8217;s new justice center. The preliminary site layout is completed and construction is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2027. Completion is expected in 2028.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/pflugerville-hutto\/government\/2026\/02\/05\/hutto-city-council-advances-justice-center-project-with-156m-design-agreement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In February,<\/a> council approved a $1.56 million design contract with PBK Architecture for the justice center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hutto City Council approved a planned unit development for a Residence Inn Hotel at a meeting June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,50548,51200,116076,116077],"class_list":["post-324569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-hutto-city-council","tag-hutto-development","tag-hutto-residence-inn","tag-residence-inn-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}