This House is Illegal (It's too small!)

Cedar Park has long been known as a great place to raise a family, but what happens when you artificially restrict housing available for new families? This is one reason why I started my block walking in the Cedar Grove neighborhood today.

Cedar Grove was one of the last neighborhoods built before the 2017 zoning overhaul which limited the size of new housing to 1500 sqft or larger. Up until this point roughly 10% of all new homes built in the city were smaller than 1500 sqft, a great size for a family just starting out. Since that time we’ve gone from children being ⅓ of the population 10 years ago to about ¼ today. Some of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city, Town Center, Forest Oaks Village, Carriage Hills, would not be allowed to be built today. We can easily roll back to the pre-2017 building standard if we wanted.

Housing affordability and choice is one reason my wife and I chose to call Cedar Park home 25 years ago and this is one topic I plan to address if elected.

An illegal 1450 sqft house