Let's say you're building an office building on top of a parking garage in a pedestrian-heavy area of downtown. Though some projects manage to get away with not doing it for various tricky reasons, for a building of this variety Austin's land development code typically requires parking garages to be screened from the street by a "pedestrian-oriented use." Here's what the code considers pedestrian-oriented:
There's room for argument, but we think by far the easiest one of these uses to accomplish is the first, an art gallery. It . . .
