“Did you know that many UT students are renting windowless rooms in the brand-new buildings in West Campus?” I have asked many architects in Austin this question. Most of them answer with a mix of surprise and incredulity: “You can’t do that; it’s illegal”—just as I did when I learned of this issue myself last fall.
Unfortunately, we were all wrong. It is perfectly legal.
The depressing reality is that the city of Austin has been issuing building permits for several years to construct windowless rooms in West Campus. For example, 44 percent (222 rooms) of the bedrooms in the Ion Austin building have
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