The Austin Housing Finance Corporation (AHFC) formally releases this Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to identify a preferred developer team to include a developer, project architect, and engineer to develop 30 to 50 units of attached and detached housing to be sold by AHFC as long-term affordable owner-occupied housing held within its Community Land Trust The property, located at 5901 Drowsy Willow Trail, is an approximately 2.7-acre piece of vacant land located in the Dove Springs neighborhood of southeast Austin. The property was purchased by AHFC in 2021 using general obligation bonds approved by City residents in 2018. The property is level, rectangular in shape, and fronted on the north by Village Square Drive and the east by Nuckols Crossing Road. The property is bordered on the west by the Villages at Pleasant Valley condominiums and on the south, across an urban creek, by single family homes. The southern half of the property is within a Critical Water Qualify Zone, and the 100- and 500-year floodplain to a lesser degree. These environmental features limit the developable area of the property and informed AHFC's development concept for this property. The property currently has a Planned Unit Development zoning district designation that was approved in 1979, which are the entitlements under which the neighboring multifamily condominium property was developed. The existing zoning regulations permit the development of no more than twenty-four dwelling units on this property. Given this limitation, it is anticipated the property will need to be rezoned prior to development. AHFC has submitted Zoning and Neighborhood Plan Amendment applications to begin rezoning the property to a zoning category compatible with the proposed development concept.
Any questions related to this RFQ must be sent by email to AHFC's Authorized Contacts identified below: Sarah Ramos Procurement Specialist Sarah.Ramos@austintexas.gov Travis Perlman Project Coordinator travis.perlman@austintexas.gov
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